Keppel Gate
Keppel Gate is situated at the end of a long no-through lane, just outside the East Devon
town of Ottery St Mary, which is one of the oldest and most historic small towns in Devon.
House and Annex – Another Ariel view.
![House and Annex title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_450-200x200.jpg)
Showing virtually the whole site, along with carefully designed curved slate rooved barn providing a screen as well as boundary between Keppel Gate and Dingle Dell.
![Ariel view from the North title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_449-200x200.jpg)
Annex in the foreground – this shows our three story annex complete with semi subterranean cider room!
![Annex in the foreground title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_448-200x200.jpg)
Aerial view from the south – You can see our solar hot water array fitted on the wall to maximise winter output with the low sun angle.
![Aerial view from the south title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_447-200x200.jpg)
This shows the two sites which are carefully screen from one another by the large open plan, curved and sloping with the ground, slate rooved barn complex.
![Keppel gate and Dingle Dell title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_446-200x200.jpg)
Rear view – the whole site from the North.
![Rear view title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_445-200x200.jpg)
View from Southwest – This shows Keppel Gates 2kw PV system installed dscreetly (perhaps not from this angle!), on the Garage roof.
![View from Southwest title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_444-200x200.jpg)
View from south East, an Ariel view.
![View from south East title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_443-200x200.jpg)
Finished.
![Finished title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_281-200x200.jpg)
Finished.
![Finished title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_280-200x200.jpg)
Living room.
![Living room title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_279-200x200.jpg)
We used lime wash finish on all the cob walls it is trueley beautiful.
![Living room title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_278-200x200.jpg)
South East.
![South East title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_273-200x200.jpg)
North Angle.
![North Angle title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_278-200x200.jpg)
Finished
![Finished title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_271-200x200.jpg)
Finished.
![Finished title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_270-200x200.jpg)
We used locally grown wheat read.
![Thatching title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_269-200x200.jpg)
Rafters go on
![Rafters go on title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_268-200x200.jpg)
50 tonne crane needed to hoist in roof trusses
![Roof trusses title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_267-200x200.jpg)
Second floor
![Second floor title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_263-200x200.jpg)
Living room fireplace, mirror image.
![Living room fireplace title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_262-200x200.jpg)
Some friends helped out.
![Some friends helped out title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_260-200x200.jpg)
These are formed in the chimney stack which provides a central thermal store in the building.
![Second floor stairs title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_259-200x200.jpg)
Stairs in cob – first time I’d tried this.
![Stairs in cob title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_258-200x200.jpg)
Study
![Study title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_257-200x200.jpg)
Halfway
![Halfway title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_256-200x200.jpg)
Second lift
![Second lift title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_255-200x200.jpg)
First cob
![First cob title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_254-200x200.jpg)
Plinth construction
![Plinth construction title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_253-200x200.jpg)
New Roof
![New Roof title=](https://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buildsomethingbeautiful_125-200x200.jpg)