As part of scheme of renovation and extension, the owners, Chris and Alison Cadman, have opted for underfloor heating connected to a ground source heat pump. Alison said that above all she just wanted to be warm. Meanwhile, Chris was looking for an efficient and economical way to heat their refurbished home.
Underfloor heating was installed both upstairs and down within a barn conversion attached to the rear of the property and has been installed on both floors of the original farm cottage. Pipework buried in the field beside the house is connected to the heat pump system. This system produces a usable temperature for both heating and domestic hot water from energy available in the ground.
The new heating system, installed by the old Coefficient team, will qualify for domestic Renewable Heating Incentive payments, (RHI) which the owners will receive for the next seven years. Offsetting the cost of the installation.
According to legend: “Francis Brown, a Yeoman of Hulland Ward had misappropriated some public funds and what with hard drinking he was a very disturbed man. One stormy dark night he went out to a field to get his horse in order to start in the early hours next morning to fetch a load of coal from over Denby way. After chasing around with the halter after his horse, which is rushing to and fro in the storm, Francis Brown uttered wild threats in his drunken anger and cried “if I can’t halter thee I’ll halter the devil!” whereupon there was the vivid flash of lightning, the horse vanished in a cloud of smoke, turning into a creature with a black horned face”.
It seems likely that, in his drunken stupor, Francis had been trying to halter a cow instead of the horse. Francis Brown was terrified after this harrowing experience and the thought of the public money he had squandered on his wild living. All this brought him to his senses, he became a reformed man and built the Chapel on the side of the farm cottage in the year 1723. The Church of England chapel is still in regular use today.