Current technologies fitted include a small wood stove for space heating, an automated pellet boiler for domestic hot water in winter, evacuated tube solar thermal collectors providing all hot water from late spring to early autumn, a 1.1 kW peak photovoltaic array, and a 600 watt wind turbine.
The house was designed to facilitate homeworking, with the ground floor being designed with separate entrances, and was the original office for the ZEDfactory, with the future potential conversion into a granny flat. The house was built using locally sourced materials and labour, and provides an alternative aesthetic to the surrounding neo-Georgian or neo-Tudor architecture. The house was designed to both provide privacy from neighbours and harvest sunlight through the obscured glass sunspace, at the same time as providing easterly views to the garden and surrounding landscape.