Withyfield Cottage

Withyfield Cottage can be rented for vacations/holidays
Withyfield Cottage can be rented for vacations/holidays

Located on a working dairy farm on the edge of the South Downs National Park, this unique roundwood timber, straw bale and cedar shingle holiday cottage is the perfect spot to escape and unwind.

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Recycled Post and Beam Houses

Recycled post and beam houses like this one often include a mix of reclaimed timbers and locally harvested sustainable wood.
Recycled post and beam houses like this one often include a mix of reclaimed timbers and locally harvested sustainable wood.

We’ve discussed building with recycled wood in great detail in previous blog posts. Use the search bar on the right side of the page to find other articles. This blog post is about using reclaimed/recycled wood and locally harvested wood for the post and beam frame. This includes using standing dead trees that are still solid and blowdowns from storms.

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An eco building named Speckled Wood

Speckled Wood is a roundwood timber-frame eco building. It was built in 2012, at Swan Barn Farm in Haslemere, on the borders of West Sussex and Surrey, by the National Trust’s Black Down countryside team and volunteers, led by Head Ranger David Elliott.

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Paha Wakan (Sacred Mountain) Build

Free natural building workshop June 2014 in Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Free natural building workshop June 2014 in Pine Ridge, South Dakota

“Texas Natural Builders will be building a timber framed cordwood home called Paha Wakan (The Sacred Mountain), originally designed by Kelly Hart and modified by TNB, on the Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation in South Dakota starting June 1, 2014-August 31, 2014.

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