Underhill House, in the Cotswolds AONB, was the very first Passivhaus building certified in England, and was filmed for Channel 4’s Grand Designs Cotswolds, Gloucestershire.
Helen and Chris Seymour-Smith, an architect, and an architectural designer, of Seymour-Smith Architects, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, took a derelict 300-year-old stone barn and built a new house into the hillside beneath and behind it.
Designed to safeguard an important local environment, the AONB designation, a prominent and beautiful location at the top of a hill in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, made the prospect of obtaining planning permission for any development of the barn a daunting prospect.
Construction photos are below of England’s first certified Passivhaus it was filmed for Grand Designs in 2010, and Sparrow Crane Hire was very happy to be involved in this exciting project.
