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Ceangal House in South Lanarkshire
18 May 2022
Design: Loader Monteith
Location: South Lanarkshire, Scotland

Photos: Dapple Photography
Ceangal House, Scotland
Loader Monteith?s Ceangal House marks a new, architecturally striking heart of a working farm in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Loader Monteith completed the new build home for a young family of five, incorporating materials from the existing buildings on site to continue the family?s long-standing connection to the land.

Loader Monteith were briefed by clients, James and Lorna Hamilton, to design a new ?outstanding home of architectural interest? to replace the original 1800?s steading buildings that had long since fallen into a state of disrepair. The architects designed a courtyard home which echoes the language of the original steading, organised in an L-shape to provide shelter from the unforgiving Scottish landscape. A new timber-clad office and guest studio lies at the western boundary, connected to the main house by a red aluminium and timber pergola.
Volume is central to the design principles in play at Ceangal House. The house is characterised by three pitched red gables increasing in volume from east to west act, which offer both visual interest and generous interiors.

Inside, these volumes accommodate a lobby, kitchen, dining, living room and reading room, with a guest bedroom contained in the first floor of the...