Native studio Mary Arnold-Forster Architects has up to date an old-fashioned in Scotland by including two slate-clad extensions designed to distinction its unique brick construction.
Referred to as Applecross Schoolhouse, the stone constructing was initially inbuilt 1875 as a house for the headmaster of the adjoining Applecross Faculty.
Whereas the college itself stays operational, the home now capabilities as a non-public residence.
Mary Arnold-Forster Architects changed an earlier extension and reorganized the home's interiors to make the most of the views of the encircling panorama.
“The unique plan of the professor's home had two primary rooms on the bottom ground and two on the primary ground, separated by a central staircase, however the home was prolonged and modified within the late 20th century,” defined the studio.
“The home was chilly and drafty; with the intention to convey it as much as present building laws, it was determined to interchange each the porch and the aspect extension,” he added.
Because the consumer is a eager cook dinner, the kitchen takes middle stage in Applecross Schoolhouse, alongside a front room.
These two areas could be mixed by a wood sliding wall, whereas a brand new set of sliding glass doorways housed in a distinguished slate-covered quantity offers entry to the backyard.
To the west, the lateral extension accommodates a utility house and toilet, with an workplace overlooking the panorama by way of a nook window.
Upstairs, the primary ground accommodates the 2 grasp bedrooms, whereas an extra workplace or visitor room occupies the attic house of the extension.
To enhance the vitality efficiency of Applecross Schoolhouse, the construction was stripped again to its unique stonework earlier than being insulated with wooden fiber and completed with lime plaster.
Each the extension and the porch have been clad in black slate tiles, referencing the roof of the present constructing whereas contrasting its lighter tiled exterior.
Inside, the slate exterior is echoed by Caithness stone flooring within the kitchen and front room, which is softened by oak for the built-in storage and kitchen staircase.
“We selected to restrict the fabric palette to present tiles and slate on the surface and Caithness stone and oak on the within,” founder Mary Arnold-Forster informed Dezeen.
“The oak staircase, balustrade, bookcase and kitchen storage wall had been detailed by us, made within the workshop of joiner Roddy Oudney and his staff and put in by native contractor Duncan McCowan,” she added.
The structure of rural Scotland additionally supplied the premise for the barn-like types of Mary Arnold-Forster Architects' personal workplace, which the studio accomplished together with a home for its founder in Dunkeld.
Different not too long ago accomplished homes in Scotland embrace the Outer Hebrides home by Izat Arundell and Cuddymoss by Ann Nisbet Studio.
Photograph by Will Scott.