Click here to return to 'About OGM' page Green Credentials Old Great Marlborough has been restored using largely recycled materials salvaged from redundant buildings or sites. For example the stone for our walls, slate for our roof and much of our flooring came from a coal mine. Other features were sourced from an old school gymnasium, a monastery and an abandoned factory, to name but a few, whilst our two large emperor beds were assembled from the original timbers from the house. More recently we have installed solar panels to heat out water and more will follow shortly to provide our electricity, thereby further reducing the house’s impact on the environment. We aim to grow as much as we can in the Old Great Marlborough gardens, both to eat and to admire and we encourage our guests both to make good use of the bountiful fruit crops and to recycle where possible, providing a compost bin for garden mulch. Sharing our Home We first came to Old Great Marlborough over twenty years ago, and have spent much of the past two decades restoring, expanding, living in and loving the house. Having raised our four children here, we are thrilled to be able to share Old Great Marlborough with our guests and to have so many different families and groups of friends enjoy the house as much as we do! As you can see from these pictures of Old Great Marlborough when we first found it, it has taken many trips to the salvage yard and many weekends spent sleeping outside in a caravan to restore it as the proper family home it once was!