A question for cookie or any stone lads - Georgian house construction

[GB_Groundworks]

doing some preliminary research, my mum and dad want to knock down their current house and build anew one. my mum loves georgian style houses and this is pretty much her dream house:

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but more coursed stone work but not as big as this



so my question, using cut coursed stone is going to be very expensive, is there away to use modern construction techniques and clad in authentic stone or will it look naff?

gi



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[cookiewales]

giles you can build a lovely modern georgian house useing modern building techniques i learnt in germany using stone as cladding is the way to go have lots of expertice in this sort off build am sure me and you and your mum and dad could bounce some good schemes off each other.take a look at this firm www.ecostein.net/index.html i used them in ireland on 6000 sq ft plus house they are the bees kneese give us a call giles or i can pop over am only in york cheers cookie



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[lutonlagerlout]

i've worked on a few flint and stone restoration jobs giles and they are mind bogglingly expensive.
the stone masons were on 250 per day 15 years ago
the last set of drawing i saw for a new house with flint insets basically had a normal 100mm cavity with 100mmblock inside then a 225 block and flint wall outside
by the time its plastered the wall is nearly 18 inches thick,
you could get it costed ,but I dont know if it would be a financial goer
it would be a legacy though,thats for sure
A lot of older houses maybe just had the front elevation in the most expensive finish and the sides and rear in brick or rendered

I like those 3 storey georgian houses where the windows get smaller and smaller as the floors go up,with big metre wide soffits

proper houses

LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

yeah mum loves the symmetry of the door in the middle and the large windows either side, we are a good 4 or 5 years off starting this we are slap bang in the middle of green belt. we are fighting the planners at the moment on a 1780's cottage we own at the bottom of our hill by the river, applied to knock down and rebuild but they're not playing ball haha. so thats first, plus building a couple of big footballers homes as teh day job, me doing the groundworks side but cookie as your a rugbby bloke you'll be my dads best friend haha. spent 8 hours today in the 3cx got the 1st and second team pitched cleared fingers crossed for saturday. so boring haha.

proposed that has been refused to replace similar existing cottage, existing cottage walls are about 2 foot thick window boards and bays you can sleep on haha





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[Mikey_C]

will you be opting for the knock all the walls down except 2 courses of one and call it an extension to get planning, it work for a mates dad, when planning said they wouldn't allow new builds!!

[cookiewales]

will you be opting for the knock all the walls down except 2 courses of one and call it an extension to get planning, it work for a mates dad, when planning said they wouldn't allow new builds!!

there wise to that old chestnut same as saying it blew over in a storm they can revoke planing and rebuild off old dwelling :p :;): :;):

[GB_Groundworks]

no it was being turned through 90 degrees to run parallel to the river.



existing cottage