Modern house with stone walls, glass windows, and multiple balconies set on a grassy hill, under a blue sky.
Open-concept kitchen and dining area with wooden cabinetry, a large wooden dining table with benches, and a living space with a sofa and TV; large windows allow natural light.
Modern house with stone and wood exterior, large glass windows, set in green lawn and rolling hills, under a clear blue sky.
Modern bedroom with large glass doors showing green trees and hillside outside, a bathtub on the tiled floor, a bed with colorful striped duvet, and soft lighting with orange accents.
A landscape view of rolling green hills, trees, and fields with a modern house and buildings nestled among the greenery, and power lines and hills in the background.
Interior of a modern house with large windows and wooden beams, featuring a colorful patterned sofa and a woven hanging lamp, overlooking a green landscape.

Moonstone

Modern house with large glass windows and multiple levels illuminated at dusk, surrounded by outdoor landscaping and a curved walkway.

Within an AONB in the middle of the open countryside in the Cotswolds, this contemporary, sustainable, family home has been designed based around a Dutch barn shape that steps down sloping site.

A thermally massive house that optimises passive solar gain, the building faces due south and contains large overhangs for solar shading during the summer months.

1m thick external walls, packed full of insulation result in a U-value of just 0.06W/m2K, and assist in the ensuring calculated heat losses for the house of just 6.6kW, which is about the same as a typical one bedroom flat. 

Split view of an outdoor balcony with a round table and four chairs, and an indoor dining room with a wooden table and polka-dotted chairs.
A modern living room with large windows overlooking a green landscape, featuring a red velvet armchair, a purple sofa with matching pillows, two brown leather chairs, a purple rug, a leafy plant on a gray coffee table, astrophotography equipment, and a mounted sword on a blue wall.

Winner of The Daily Telegraph and Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Best Eco Home’ in 2010, this 1,550m2 house has a heating demand on a property 20 times smaller.

The house is a mix of ultra-high efficiency and ‘eco’ features, which surpass PassivHaus standards on many levels.

In addition to the ultra low U-values of the exterior fabric, all of the rain water and sewerage is recycled and reused on site, the heating and hot water is generated on site by the sun, and the super airtightness with limited cold bridging enables the recovery of any heat through an MVHR system.