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Cob cottages. They can contain numerous nooks and crannies and can be sculpted into any shape imaginable. Other handcrafted finishes include cabinetry exposed beams and moldings. The front cob house features hand sculpted details along the wall and floors.

It is erected in a way that allows maximum daylight inside thanks to the well placed windows. A number of cob cottages survive from mid 19th century new zealand. Traditionally english cob was made by mixing the clay based subsoil with sand straw and water using oxen to trample it.

Volunteers answering your calls. Everything that an ugly boxed plain inhuman house in the suburbs is cob cottages are not. The front cottage was constructed using a naturally made material known as cob while the rear studio was built using the straw bale construction method.

English soils contain varying amounts of chalk and cob made with significant amounts of chalk are called chalk cob or wychert. The interiors are beautifully planned with the use of soft toned colors for a warm feel. The earth was mixed with sand and straw crushed stone and flint or chalk could also be used depending on the district.

Cob is an old english word meaning lump or rounded mass. Cob cottage this two story mushroom shaped cob house built in 1999 on mayne island british columbia is a sustainable abode worth drooling over. Cob cottages are those cute little hansel and gretel cottages from the fairy tale books.

Cob cottages and cob houses are the vernacular style of building of the south west of england especially in the counties of devon and somerset.