clipped from: www.dailymail.co.uk Orchid House, an eco-house in a Cotswold nature reserve, will take three years to build
An innovative eco-friendly home in a Cotswold nature reserve has been sold for a world record £7.2 million for a country house.
The 'thoroughly modern manor house', modelled on a bee orchid found on the reserve, was sold off-plan last week to an anonymous buyer.
The size of an average semi, the cost works out at £3,000 per square foot.
The country home has been sold for a world record of £7.2m to an anonymous buyer
Brad Pitt has looked at the plans for Orchid House, while Kylie Minogue has stayed at the estate.
It is hoped the home will produce more energy than it uses, with an underground heat pump and geothermal heating
