Chestnut Cottage
We decided to add cord wood and multi coloured bottles in these walls, giving a great variety of textures and colours.
The windows are glazed with toughened glass, and give views of the pigs, chickens and goats at Ida Darwin Farm Shop, Cambridge. This structure is open to everybody who shops there.
The cottageĀ has a living turf roof, with the turf sitting on soil, a flexible membrane liner and then underlay on the tanalised planks. The upstand around the perimeter of the roof holding all of this in, is made of oak.
We experimented with a lot of different building techniques with this structure. Take a look inside:
@BBCCambs @ArtisanStructur inside the Hobbit house in #Cambridge at Darwin nurseries pic.twitter.com/1RHheAIErR
— Julia (@Juliacgreenaway) May 11, 2016
Do you want to have a hobbit house of your own? There are many ways of replicating aspects of this design, to create a totally bespoke hobbit house for you!
Also, you may like to read our blog about the build
Ida Darwin Farm Shop, Cambridge
Opening times: please visit when the farm shop is open for business, check up to date opening times here.