Welcome to Lambley Park
The original Lambley Park Country House was built in 1894 by a local doctor in Week St. Mary, near Bude, North Cornwall. In October 2003, Alan and Andrea Middleton bought Lambley Park with the intention of reinstating the house as a Bed and Breakfast Hotel.
On the 6th April 2004, during an extensive refurbishment
programme, a fire accidentally destroyed the entire building. It took
almost 6
years to resolve the legal battles ensuing following the fire. One of
the conditions of the settlement meant we could not disclose the names
of the companies involved - because they are household names in the UK
and they do not want their reputations tarnished. It appears that as
long as you have sufficient money you control what is seen to be
justice. We believe it is appalling that the companies involved (a large
insurance company and a large bank) are allowed to settle a claim out of
court and the public, including their existing or potential customers,
are none the wiser regarding their ruthless behaviour towards their
existing clients.
However, the funds
we secured allowed us to consider rebuilding the property. The project
is now underway and we have
included links on the right-hand side of this page to enable you to
follow the progress. We have included only a subset of the photographs
taken - there are more to view if anybody is interested. We have loaded
only low-resolution versions of the pictures.
The project includes a combination of technologies which we feel will help to make Lambley Park an ideal place to visit to gain first-hand experience, especially for self-builders wanting to see how these improvements actually work together. The technologies include:
- Air Source Heat Pumps for underfloor heating
- Revolutionary Domestic Hot-water systems (the Ecocent - supplied by Earth Save Products) - which use a combination of Air Source Heat pumps and heat recovery
- Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery
- A new roofing system utilising ceramic tiles laid upon galvanised metal racking
- Solar Photo-voltaic Panels integrated within the new roofing system, linked to the national grid
- Back-up batteries charged by the solar PV array
- Central vacuum system
- Bio-rock sewage system, requiring no power and producing pottable water
- Considering installing a vertical helix wind turbine (expected to be more productive than the solar PV installation on our site)
Links to our suppliers of products used during the project - click here.
We hope you enjoy viewing the pictures and welcome comments or enquiries regarding the project.
Alan & Andrea Middleton