Dun Aluinn Lodge
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Dun Aluinn Lodge is a former staff residence within the grounds of the category B-listed Dun Aluinn House. The client sought to improve its thermal efficiency through extension and alteration to form the high-end sister accommodation to Dun Aluin House.
The house had been unoccupied for many years, being unfit for habitation due to extensive damp and a lack of insulation. It was vandalised and the windows were boarded up.
The house was brought back into use, improving the thermal fabric by wrapping the existing external walls in insulation, and cedar cladding. The internal layout was altered to provide modern open-plan living spaces overlooking the Tay valley. A new porch extension was added to the south, with new roof canopy and patio doors to the west, opening out from kitchen/dining area onto the large new timber decking.
Timber has been used throughout the building; externally with its horizontal and vertical cedar cladding, and internally, with the 120-year-old Merbau timber flooring, which was resalvaged from an old listed church in Crieff.
Dun Aluinn Lodge is available for holiday rental at www.dunaluinn.com
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- Floor area: 165m2
- Sector: Residential
- Total cost: £210,000
- Funding: Private
- Tender date: Sep 2020
- Procurement: Traditional
- Address: The Lodge, Dun Aluinn, Alma Avenue, Aberfeldy, PH15 2BW, United Kingdom
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- Architect: Eòlas Architects
- Client: John Burke
- Structural engineer: Millard Consulting
- Main contractor: Sean Campbell Building Services
