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House Extension, Strathblane
Stirlingshire Building, Scotland
Photographs © Keith Hunter
Text from Studio Kap architects
House Extension in Stirlingshire
The house sits in a mature suburban landscape on the hillside looking
north-west across Strathblane to Dumgoyne, westerly outpost of the
Campsie Fells. The existing house, rather pretty and somewhat cottage-like
from the front, was very square in plan with a truncated pyramidal
roof. The back, unlovely but opening onto these wonderful views, appeared
unfinished or even chopped off, presenting a sheer two-storey face
to the garden.

photos © keith hunter
In extending this house two major issues presented themselves. Firstly
the finishing of a house which felt incomplete and unresolved and
secondly to take posession of a garden and by implication the wider
landscape which appeared to run away from the house downhill
to the north.
The nascent wings of the existing house were extended in the existing
idiom of rough harling under a slate roof to embrace a new realm at
the back of the house. The west wing turns back in on itself to enclose
a study and create a solid but softer edge for light entering a new
central external space. The east wing extends directly towards the
garden to enclose kitchen and dining areas. Beyond the end of the
east wing a very solid chimney and snug grows up from the ground.
Integral with a long wall and toolshed retaining an upper terrace
this is seen as integral to new hard-landscaping elements as well
as a part of the house. In the space between, floor, wall and roof
planes depart from convention to form a more deconstructed and open
connection accommodating the new garden room. Finally a new garage
and port cochere extend at the side to create a more expansive approach
to the front of the house and further contain the new raised terrace
to the rear.
Stirlingshire House information from Studio Kap architects
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photo © keith hunter
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