There are options for all budgets when it comes to timber cladding. Untreated softwood boarding sits at the cheaper end of the price spectrum and could cost as little as £25 per m2.

The carefully set out movement restraints provide a further layer of detail and the galvanised steel gable flashings are designed to tuck in behind the cladding to provide slim, crisp verge details.

The cladding plays with the eye, strobing with the grassland beyond – the colours echoing the sparse tree presence. Timber framed and super-insulated, windows are framed and accentuated internally ...