Inside the UK’s greenest Victorian home – Reclaim

They might be beautiful, but Victorian properties are also notorious for being uninsulated, draughty and damp. They literally leak energy and so score low in eco credentials. Imagine then, a Victorian house without any energy bills, constructed using natural materials that could, in principle, be dismantled brick by brick and reconstructed without wasting anything. In the leafy Manchester suburb of Chorlton, one pair of five-bedroom Victorian townhouses on Zetland Road might look no different to the others along the street, but step through the front door and you enter a planet-friendly world of design and construction.

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