Sydserf
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Robin Sutherland Download Original
An extension to a farm cottage in rural Scotland
The client needed a place apart from, but connected to, their small rural home outside Edinburgh to accommodate visits from their grown children’s young families.
The result is an exercise in doing a lot with a little. Although an extension, it has a distinct identity of its own that is sympathetic to the existing home without deferring to it.
Cedar shingle clad walls and roof are texturally and tonally alike to the existing pantiles and render. White painted window frames continue the domestic language.
With a footprint of just 32sqm, the project is extremely modest in scale but the internal volume is fully exploited to provide a spatially rich and varied interior with double height living space, an overlooking sleeping platform, vertiginous bunkroom and deep lightwell above the shower.
The interior is finished with raw plaster and polished concrete. Only the windows frames and reveals are painted.
Data
- Begun: 2014
- Completed: Jun 2015
- Floor area: 32m2
- Sector: House
- Total cost: £65,000
- Tender date: 2014
- Procurement: JCT Minor Works
- Address: 1 Sydserf, Kingston, North Berwick, EH39 5JJ, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Sutherland & Co
- Client: Private
- Structural engineer: Robert Lessels Consulting Engineers
Suppliers
- Cedar Shingles: John Brash
- Windows & doors: Velfac
- Photovoltaic and solar thermal installations: East Coast Ecosystems