Ever thought of building a cob oven? Maybe you should, write Debbie Kingsley & Andrew Hubbard, for fossil fuel-free cooking that warms up every party, perfect for everything from pizza to roast ...

It's time for the construction industry to bring back cob, but innovation is needed to solidify the age-old material's place back within our toolkits, design collective Cella tell Dezeen in this ...

Teach yourself how to build a plastic bottle house with cob and transform trash into a home. I build houses out of trash. I was inspired by the life of Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangarĩ Maathai, who said, ...

An Anglo-French alliance is using subsoil and straw to demonstrate how low energy construction on housing projects can be made commercially viable. Thomas Lane reports Earth is one of the oldest, most ...

With property prices rising and many young people still finding it hard to get a mortgage, more and more would-be homeowners across Britain are turning to one of the oldest methods of building. Cob ...

Cob is a mixture of clay soil, sand and straw; there are hundreds of cob houses in the UK (Tony Buckingham) Families unable to afford their own homes are turning their backs on the housing market and ...

Age-old methods and recycled materials have been used to create a cob hut at a north Norfolk school, dedicated to the memory of a former pupil who took his own life. Teacher Emma Whalley said she was ...

Dingle Dell, which has a main section and an annexe, has turf roofs to increase insulation Storms and torrential rain have brought devastation to the South West in recent months. Among those counting ...

People are still talking about the stunning cob house from East Devon, first featured way back in 2011 on Channel 4's ever-popular Grand Designs show. The 'cob castle' has been built by the 'King Of ...

Storms and torrential rain have brought devastation to the South West in recent months. Among those counting the cost of the damage have been people who live in or run businesses in buildings made ...