Falmouth Builders has completed a new detached house built in Falmouth — a timber-frame dwelling fabricated on site, finished with a blockwork external skin, faced stonework to the front elevation, a cut roof, and a proper energy package of PV panels and an air source heat pump. This is a full new home in Falmouth, not an extension bolted onto an old footprint.
The structure is timber frame, fabricated on site. Building the frame on the plot keeps control of the setting-out, the junctions and the finish quality. On a new detached house in Falmouth that matters: levels, openings and roof geometry are decided in the yard of the job, not guessed from a kit delivered three counties away. Once the frame was up, the roof was a cut roof, not a catalogue truss pack. A cut roof is set out and cut to the building. It gives a cleaner eaves and verge, and it lets the roof follow the house rather than forcing the house to follow a standard span.
The external skin is blockwork, with faced stonework on the front elevation. Blockwork gives the timber frame a solid, weathertight wrap that suits Cornish rain and wind. Faced stone on the street elevation gives the new detached house in Falmouth a proper front: local character instead of a blank rendered box. The sides and rear stay honest block-and-finish; the face that meets the road does the work of looking like it belongs here.
Energy was designed in, not added as an afterthought. PV panels sit on the roof and an air source heat pump (ASHP) serves the heating and hot water. That pairing is the right modern spec for a new house built in Falmouth: generation on the roof, efficient heat at the plant, lower running costs for the owner. It also keeps the dwelling on the right side of current energy expectations without dressing the job up as a science project.
A new detached house built in Falmouth of this type is the work Falmouth Builders is set up for. On-site timber frame, cut roof, blockwork skin, faced stone to the front, PV and ASHP. One team, one plot, one finished dwelling. If you are planning a new house, a timber-frame build or a high-spec detached home in Falmouth or the surrounding parishes, walk the site with us before you commit the drawings to a price.
Call Falmouth Builders on 07772 556878.
