Stuart Blakley
Stuart Blakely is a Member of the Institute of Town Planners
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Package Kit Homes
Package suppliers aim to take some of the stress out of self-building; so what do you get when you sign up? Self-build kit homes may be a relatively recent phenomenon but they have their origins in the pattern book builders of the 18th Century. Pattern books allowed people in one country to copy the styles […] More
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Stoves
A stove is quite simply an enclosed heated space. The forerunner to the stove was a fire covered by an iron plate surrounded on three sides by bricks and mortar. The Hearth Act of 1662 taxed Irish people on the number of stoves, chimneys and hearths they owned so stoves were a status symbol, a […] More
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