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Orchard Barn traditional building
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Learning from the past how to build a greener future. Traditional building courses in Timber Framing, Restoration Skills and Greenwood Roofs. Currently (2020) we are reinstating a traditional timber frame Long House. First built in 1580 we are attempting to repair and re-use original timbers, and are sourcing oaks from local woods for the rest of the frame. If you have framing skills and live locally to Orchard Barn, Ringshall, Mid Suffolk, UK and would like to help us complete and raise the frame in 2021 we'd love to hear from you! We're also going to need help with making and fitting shingles, battens, lathes, wattle and daub and many other low carbon deep green home made building materials. Our aspiration is to close the building in by the autumn of 2021, and in the current situation that is a very big aspiration. However we do have a airy outdoor site and lots of lovely volunteers, so fingers crossed we will make it. That said, your help would be great too!
Building with Earth
Here at Orchard Barn we love building with our own clay rich sub soil and would like to widen participation in these traditional building methods.
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Orchard Barn crowd funding campaign Jan. 24
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24.1.24 our New Crowd Funding campaign is now live and can be viewed here www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/reaching-for-the-ridge-of-our Please donate to help us safely complete the shingle roof of our new Education Building Dear Viewers We've spent the last 7 years constructing/reinstating our new community building - an oak timber frame Long House (first built in 1580). Using local trees and ha...
Orchard Barn Impact Statement 22 23
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24.1.24 Please support our Reaching for the Ridge Crowd Funding campaign and enable Volunteers to safely complete the handmade shingle roof. To make a donation and support our community project please visit www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/reaching-for-the-ridge-of-our/comments#start There are some great rewards for your donations, including discounted course fee, Team Building, home grown/handma...
Orchard Barn Project Sunlight - Crowd Funding Campaign
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Volunteer run project building new community space to further our environmental education objectives. Run by OBee CIC - social enterprise established in 2007. We've worked with over 5,000 volunteers and trainees. Teaching traditional skills. We're off-grid and self sufficient. We're reinstating a Suffolk Long House (first built in 1580). Using traditional tools and techniques to hand craft each...
Light Straw Clay - homemade, natural insulation for the Long House walls!
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This summer (2023) Orchard Barn Volunteers are making and packing Light Straw Clay into the cavities between studs and enveloping the Long House in this amazingly low impact natural insulation. YES! It complies with modern Building Regs.This lovely video shows the making and packing process. It was made by Volunteer Jack Trewin when he came to stay for a month. Thank-you Jack. That said - we ur...
JP presents the Long House shingle roof project
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Where does that bit go, and why is it that shape? JP Lodge explains to Orchard Barn Volunteers how the handcleft shingles and battens they are making fit together on the Orchard Barn Long house shingle roof.
Tree to Timber animation 2015
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Cartoon story made by students at Leeds Metropolitan University. Illustrates the old school connection between tree and timber. #hewing #planing #timberframe #traditionalbuilding #lowimpact #greenman
Mid winter greetings
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A big thank-you to all our subscribers and to those of you who have watched, liked, commented on our progress. We wish you a very peaceful and restful mid winter, and a constructive and health-full new year. Here are a few of our 2021 highlights.
Orchard Barn Annual Report 20 21
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It's been a challenging but exciting year for the Orchard Barn project. We've seen an increase in Volunteers getting involved, and have been successful in being awarded funding to enable OBee CIC (the Community Interest Company who manage the project) to run free traditional building skills training for Volunteers. The main practical project is the reinstatement of the Timber Frame Long House t...
Presentation by William Clement Smith about the Long House project
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Timber Framer William Clement-Smith presented this talk by Zoom to the Suffolk Historic Building Group on Monday 17th May 2021. He starts with photos from the early days of the Orchard Barn project but goes on to cover the reconstruction (so far) of the Suffolk Long House that volunteers and trainees are framing in the car park at the barn. The video includes footage of hand conversion of trees...
Bay 4 of the Long House reveals more of its secrets. Or does it?
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We've puzzled over the internal layout of Bay 4. Was it an extension? Or was the original frame built as a 4 Bay timber frame? Did Bay 4 have an upper floor. If not, what was its original purpose? Today we answer some of these questions but they raise more! For all you timber frame detectives.
The Layup of Bay 3 of the Suffolk Long House at Orchard Barn
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William Clement-Smith talks us through the layup of Bay 3 of the west elevation of the Suffolk Long House that volunteers are reinstating at Orchard Barn. This part of the project is funded by Heritage Lottery. We have also had some help from Alfred Williams Charitable Trust and Suffolk Community Foundation. The project continues. If you are local to Mid-Suffolk and would like to get involved p...
Marking out an edge halved bridled scarf joint
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William Clement-Smith shows how to mark out a traditional timber frame joint which is used to join two lengths of timber to make a wall plate.
Tips on how to move big timber
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William Clement-Smith provides practical tips on how to safely move big timbers.
More finds from the Long House - Staffordshire pottery and a silver spoon
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During their archaeological exploration in the Long House in 2020, Claire and Roger dug up a collection of pottery and very excitingly an elderly silver spoon. Further research by Roger revealed that the spoon was made by James Payne of London in 1833, and that the pottery was both Staffordshire transfer ware and flow ware. Watch this video to gain insights into the making of transfer ware, and...
Old bottles found inside the old Long House
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Old bottles found inside the old Long House
The construction of the Orchard Barn off grid office
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The construction of the Orchard Barn off grid office
Repairing the 500 year old oak floor beam
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Repairing the 500 year old oak floor beam
A round-up of the many achievements at Orchard Barn during our 13th year 2019-2020
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A round-up of the many achievements at Orchard Barn during our 13th year 2019-2020
Making Timber Framing Pegs at Orchard Barn
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Making Timber Framing Pegs at Orchard Barn
This is a thank you video for sponsoring the fire door
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This is a thank you video for sponsoring the fire door
Help us fire up the new stove at Orchard Barn
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Help us fire up the new stove at Orchard Barn
Building a masonry stove at Orchard Barn
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Building a masonry stove at Orchard Barn
How we make Earth Mortar at Orchard Barn
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How we make Earth Mortar at Orchard Barn
HOORAY and THANK-YOU in just 42 days we raised £7,394 for the extra lift of scaffolding and towards the rainwater harvesting system. 5.3.24
23.2.24 Thank-you for your support. We reached our initial target of £3,500 within 2 weeks. The extra lift of scaffolding is now installed and work has resumed fitting shingles to the new Educational Facility (reinstated 1580 Long House. The Crowd Funding Stretch Target to reach £6,000 is live until the 5th of March. Please see link above if you'd like to make a donation and receive one of our unique rewards.
Thank-you to Heritage Lottery for funding training for volunteers on this live reinstatement of a timber frame Long House at Orchard Barn
Want to learn how to build a roof like this? We've got 4 practical courses coming up in May and June this year (2021) with spaces for up to 6 students per course. Dates now confirmed as 10-14th May, 17th-21st May, 1st-6th June and 14-18th June. orchardbarn.org.uk/courses.html
Interested in getting involved as a volunteer? Please email sarah@orchardbarn.org.uk to register your interest.
Interested in what we do? There's more information about this year on our web page orchardbarn.org.uk/annualreport19-20.html
Roger has now undertaken further research into the Thomas and Evans bottle ....... 'William Thomas and William Evans founded a business selling groceries, general provisions and mineral water in Porth, South Wales in about 1890. One of their most well-known products was the Corona brand soft drink popular from the early 20th century. The original name of the company was Welsh Hills Mineral Waters. The Corona brand was created in 1920 as the business expanded. The roots of the company were in the 19th century Temperance Movement where an alternative to alcohol was sought in order to control drunkenness in miners during the Rhondda Coal Rush. The business was acquired by The Beecham Group in 1958. Thomas Beecham (1820-1907) was a chemist and the Grandfather of Sir Thomas Beecham the conductor (1879-1961). They exist today as the world's sixth largest pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline.'
Have you seen our latest video? Published on 3.1.21 it shows how we constructed the OBee Office from natural, traditional and upcycled materials, and how solar is used to power up the office .... ua-cam.com/video/qqedmHsihb0/v-deo.html
Thank-you for your help. The meeting room now boasts a wonderful masonry stove, thick red velvet curtains, a library and museum shelves showing some of the finds from the Long House project.
The masonry stove is now finished and fired up on a regular basis.
Looking for something a bit unusual? We've got a few pieces of 500 year old oak for sale. They would make unique shelves, picture frames or outdoor sculptures. Email sarah@orchardbarn.org.uk if you would like to purchase a piece of veteran oak, each characterful item has a fascinating story to tell of bygone axe work, sweat and skilled carpentry.
Over one year later and we are delighted with the way this mammoth masonry stove performs. It really is like a giant hot water bottle that stays warm from a single firing per day! This stove is called Hestia. Thank-you to everyone involved with constructing and sponsoring her.
Update, 12th December 2020, we've now made 108 pegs. Many more to make! Please email sarah@orchardbarn.org.uk if you'd like to come along and learn how!
Lmao, grow up.
Could you explain the earth rendering?
Hi Carina, earth render is a plaster that we make from clay and sand. We've replicated what our ancestors made and applied to this cob wall. The render protects the cob wall from rain, wind and insect damage.
Great job!
You are super fortunate!! What are the wattle members though ? Also didn't quite understand what lime blast means?
BIG thanks to Jim McVittie whose help at SawFest Suffolk was invaluable and who somehow got missed off the credits list
I like it, & the soundtrack... who is the artist??
Glad you like it - the soundtrack is called Present Moment - You and Me by Elder Keden
Here's the link to make a donation - thank-you www.orchardbarn.org.uk/newcraftroom.html
Looking good Rick,hope all is well,Tim the crane.
Love your project. I made similar with Woodprix instructions.
Thank-you Romelia. Have you seen our website www.orchardbarn.org.uk ?
yeah, you make great job!
Background creaking is pegs being shaped on shave horses by Lee, Nick and Calvin!