New build

New build, Tinwell

The front of a new stone house at Tinwell, with three gables, a timber canopy over the front door and curved stone walls beside the steps

Where: Tinwell, Rutland
Work: New build
Managed: Foundations to final fixtures

A new house at Tinwell, in Rutland, built from the ground up and finished ready to move into. Every stage was managed in full, from the foundations to the final fixtures.

It is a stone-fronted house with three gables, a timber canopy over the front door and a slate roof with solar panels set into it, and the garden was built with it: curved stone walls, wide steps and paved terraces down to a lawn.

The photographs follow the build in order: the plot cleared, the foundations dug and poured, the walls going up, the roof going on, and the finished house and garden.

What we did

Clearing the plot
Foundations and groundworks
Blockwork and stone facing
Roof, with solar panels
Internal finishes
Garden walls, steps and terraces

Wide curved stone steps leading up to a paved terrace with a dining table

The paved terrace with garden furniture, a lawn and countryside beyond

A plastered room with a window and a vaulted ceiling with exposed roof timbers

A room with blockwork walls, a window and roof trusses overhead

A curved timber-slatted wall inside the house, before finishing

The previous house on the plot, with its roof being stripped

Blockwork walls with steel reinforcement waiting for the floor

A flat roof with round rooflights between pitched slate roofs

A curved stone garden wall under construction round the rear terrace

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How it was built

From the cleared plot to the finished house.

Stage
The plot is cleared

An excavator clearing the plot, with the neighbouring houses beyond.
Stage
Foundations

The trenches dug and set out for the footings.
Stage
Concrete

A boom pump placing the concrete for the foundations.
Stage
Walls

Blockwork rising from the foundations, with the reinforcing steel in.
Stage
Roof

The roof, with solar panels set into the slope.
Stage
The finished house

The house and its terraces from the lawn.