The schoolhouse was next door, a long, single-room barn of a building raised on concrete stilts.

The concrete stilts that raised my house above the earth left a void just below the entirety of the floor of my home.

Villa Savoye is also built on reinforced concrete stilts, another Le Corbusier trademark and one of his "five points of architecture."

Next Tuesday's Tech TV programme will take a look at an eco-friendly house in Norfolk built on concrete stilts to resist future climate changes.