A Private House in Edinburgh
This fine turn of the century house has a southerly aspect, looking across a broad sweep of immaculately tended garden. Attached to the main house was a wing of stables and outbuildings which were converted to create a new family kitchen, a dining room, sitting room and conservatory with enough space for ceilidh dancing!
The result is a large open plan space, with the 'rooms' defined by changes in level and roof form, all looking southwards to make the most of the sun and views of the garden. The glazed north elevation and its slated roof were carefully propped, while the new glazed extension was built out to the south, doubling the original building width.
The curved conservatory roof is the principal feature of the extension, designed to keep the eaves sufficiently high to maintain views from the raised kitchen area to the south lawns. Rooflights were cut into the south inner pitch of the roof to allow sunlight to flood into the north-facing kitchen.
In the dining room, the original roof structure was opened up to create a lofty space and to expose a pleasingly irregular composition of hayloft and coal hole openings, which were then glazed. Timber partitions, which divided the boxes of the original stables, were re-used to line the south wall of the dining room.
