Welcome to Woodlands…
Experience the passive house difference: uniquely high indoor air quality and thermal comfort whatever the weather!
Woodlands is an award-winning, new-build oak-frame certified Passivhaus with high ceilings and a multitude of exposed beams. The house features many large windows to the floors which, together with roof windows over the double-height hall, flood it with daylight providing a sense of airy openness. Click on the image below for a 3-dimensional ‘dolls house’ tour of Woodlands.
Designed and built to the Passivhaus standard, Woodlands has a remarkably even temperature irrespective of the season or time of day, only getting a bit warmer on record-breaking days when it is very hot outside, and even then it remains cooler and pleasant inside. Sleeping is no problem even on hot and humid nights.
And in winter, the house has a constant and steady warmth throughout and is completely draught-free with no ‘cold spots’ even right against the windows. (We have yet to experience a really cold winter, but the Passivhaus standard is that with a temperature of -10°C on the outside of the windows it should be 20°+ on their inside panels.)
Woodlands has excellent indoor air quality because of its imperceptible mechanical ventilation system that continuously extracts stale air and replaces it with filtered, 100% fresh, clean air that’s warmed in the winter and cooled in the summer. The ‘window opening season’ is also longer than in other houses: you can open windows, if you want, earlier in the spring and longer into the autumn/winter season.
We live in a tranquil spot, but the house is still remarkably quiet inside, as are all passive houses; with the windows closed it is difficult to hear much outdoors or to know whether it is hot or cold. Passive houses are relaxing and peaceful to be in all year round.
We love living here and feel comfortable and peaceful throughout the day and night all year round. We are sure that you, too, will love the ‘passive house experience’ of staying at Woodlands.
Passivhaus comfort goes hand-in-hand with energy efficiency. The only additional heating required in the coldest months is provided under the floors of the en-suite bathrooms and the hall and boot room and is usually only on for a couple of hours each day. Heating is otherwise provided by the sun and by retaining heat within the house.