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This house, in Crossway, Kent, is one of the first zero-carbon homes in the UK. It was designed by architect Richard Hawkes. Photograph: PR

If your sole experience of “green homes” is TV’s Grand Designs, chances are your idea of an eco-home looks like the one in Kent above.

But reality is a world away from the super-insulated and vaulted Crossway above, much as we love new build eco-homes.

Most of the energy-efficient and energy-generating homes of the future will look more like this Nottingham house, or this London end-of-terrace:

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Donnachadh McCarthy on the roof of his retro-eco home.

More than 80% of the homes that will be standing in 2050 are already built. So if we’re to cut the carbon emissions from our homes – households account for just over a quarter of UK greenhouse gases – retrofitting our existing abodes is where the serious change will happen.

The government is starting to recognise the importance of giving those homes eco-retrofits, but for the most part the onus falls on the nation’s homeowners.

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