A five-roomed house is being built of compressed earth on land at Hayoi, Kent, acquired for a poultry and truit farm. The walls are 18m thick, toil dug from the farm being compressed between wooden shutters. Compressed earta for building purposes is not a new material, Pliny mentioning that Hannibal's watch-towers were, built of it. It owes its introduction into this couutryj however, to. Mr St. Leo Strachey, editor of "The Spectator, who has been experimenting in its use for five or six ye'urs, and has a smallholder's house and steading of the material at Merry Downs, near Guildford. Tiie estimate for the exterior walls of •-his cottage if built of brick was £200; their cost in earth worked out at under £2O.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17128, 25 April 1921, Page 3
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123Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17128, 25 April 1921, Page 3
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