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Footprint, Windermere
Footprint
locality:-   Windermere (?) 
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
1Km square:-   SD4199 (?) 
10Km square:-   SD49

notes:-  
Built for the National Trust, 2006-07.
A very 'green' building; built of straw bales on a foundation of old car tyres, with a shingle roof, said to be local materials. The straw bales are not quite local, but imported from Yorkshire.

Hyde, Matthew & Whittaker, Esme &Corbet, Val (photographer): 2014: Arts and Craft Houses in the Lake District: Lincoln, Francis (London):: ISBN 978 0 7112 3408 6

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