Cedral Weatherboard, which is resistant to fire (Class O performance), weather, rot, vermin and chemicals, along with smooth brown Malvern tiles which can be used on a minimum pitch of 12.5˚, have been used on all of the company’s new executive lodges throughout its four villages in Longleat Forest, Wiltshire, Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, Whinfell Forest, Cumbria and Elveden Forest, Suffolk.
Cedral Weatherboard complements the natural timber weatherboard on elements of the facades of the four-bedroomed, two-storey luxury linked lodges. Because these were offset from one another, the external cladding materials on unprotected areas had to comply with fire regulations.
Conceived by Center Parc’s design and development department and constructed using as many natural materials as possible, the new lodges are constructed of a highly insulated, timber-frame structural panel system (SIPS), Malvern interlocking roof tiles, and a combination of natural stone with timber weatherboard and Marley Eternit Cedral Weatherboard cladding.
Steve Tingle, Center Parcs’ concept designer, said: “We had to find a material that was fire inert for parts of the external walls of the lodges and our research with Marley Eternit, for an alternative to natural timber, was accepted by the local planning authorities and satisfied the local building control offices.
“Even though it’s not quite the natural product we wanted the Cedral Weatherboard provides a very sympathetic alternative to natural timber with the benefit of being very low-maintenance.”
The Cedral Weatherboard was supplied pre-stained in a water-based wood stain and installed by Cocksedge Building Contractors and the Malvern interlocking roof tiles were installed by Ladderbridge Roofing.