Releases, progress and the occasional long read about bricks.
Eight homes on the orchard side of the site, from the three-bedroom Shippon to the four-bedroom Granary, are now on the site plan.
· CraftMost housebuilders subcontract every trade. We keep a core team on the payroll, and it shows in the joints.
· Kiln MeadowTwenty homes, a restored kiln, a new green and a footpath link to the village. Here is what we agreed with the parish.
· LandscapeTrees take longer than houses. That is why the landscaping at our sites starts on day one.
· SustainabilityWe asked twelve households at Barrow Leaze to share a year of meter readings. The illustrative results are here.
· The RopewalkPlot 2, a two-bedroom Bothy, is furnished and open Friday to Tuesday.
· Orchard Reach
Phase two at Orchard Reach is the part of the field we were most careful with. The eight homes sit between the new lane and the retained orchard, so most of the gardens end at a row of old cider trees rather than a fence.
Prices for the released plots are on the site plan now. The show home on plot 9 is open Thursday to Monday, and Hollie Brennan can walk you through the plots that are still in the ground.
· Craft
We build about thirty homes a year, which is small enough to know every bricklayer by name. Eleven of them are employed by us directly, the longest-serving for twenty-two years.
It costs more. In return we get consistent joints, a recessed bed that throws a proper shadow, reveals that are a full brick deep and window sills that are set, not stuck. A buyer will never read that in a brochure, but they will see it every evening when the light comes across the front of the house.
· Kiln Meadow
The consent for Kiln Meadow covers twenty homes, six of them offered as affordable homes through a housing association partner, plus the restoration of the brick kiln and a new public green around it.
We also agreed to build the footpath link to Coldwyn green before the first home is occupied, not after the last. Registered buyers will see the full site plan before plots are released in spring 2027.
· Landscape
At every site we plant the structural landscaping before the first foundations go in: hedges, orchard gaps and street trees. By the time the first families move in, the planting has had two growing seasons.
At Orchard Reach that meant forty-one new trees grafted from the old orchard's own varieties, planted in the winter before the diggers arrived.
· Sustainability
Twelve households at Barrow Leaze shared a full year of meter readings with us. Across the group, the median annual heating and hot water cost was lower than the same households told us they paid in their previous homes, which were mostly older and gas-heated.
These are a small number of homes, with different sizes and habits, so treat them as an illustration rather than a promise. The full anonymised table is available from the sales team.
· The Ropewalk
The first show home at The Ropewalk is a two-bedroom Bothy on plot 2, furnished with pieces from makers within twenty miles of Quenby Cross.
Marcus Ede runs the sales office from the ground floor of plot 1 until the terrace completes. Appointments are not essential, but they mean you will have the house to yourself.