Godinton House is a medieval country house near Ashford in Kent. The estate manager had previous experience of a biomass system on some ancillary buildings on the estate, and subsequently appointed MCA Consulting Engineers to design a new biomass system for the main buildings on the site. The existing heating systems were served from separate oil fired boilers, and the design of the new installation retained these as back up boilers for each building.
The new boiler was located within an existing barn, duly converted to house the boiler plant and fuel store. The boiler selected was a Hertz Bio-control 400 wood chip boiler rated at 400kW with a 15,000 litre buffer tank. Heating to all buildings was taken through a network of pre-insulated buried mains with interface units or plate heat exchangers acting as a demarcation between the new installation and existing heating systems.