Clough Williams-Ellis

Clough Williams-Ellis, more famous perhaps for his Portmeirion Village in Wales (of The Prisoner fame), also had a keen interest for earth building. In the 1920’s he co-piloted the construction of a rammed earth bungalow and an apple store in Surrey, with his soon-to-be father-in-law John St Loe Strachey.

In 1905, Ellis designed two labourer’s cottages that were principally constructed of cob and in 1919 wrote Cottage Building in Cob – A Renaissance 

…and here’s one of my favourite scripts from the man himself..