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Specifically a "cookie cutter" home for the same geography.

There is a lot of invaluable and invisible knowledge baked into decades or centuries of building tradition of each specific region.

I'm about to embark on a home building project myself. My wife keeps wanting a wood built house. In a country where there are hardly any... ...I just won't do it. no way.

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I'm going on a traditional rubble wall building course next month so I can build some stone walls that are in keeping with our house. Also been looking at sourcing stone from local quarries - which is fortunately quite straightforward as a lot of stone is quarried around here.

If anyone is interested here are the charity that is running the course: https://www.scotlime.org/en/

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