House for a Chemist, Seamill North Ayrshire
House for a Chemist in Scotland, Seamill North Ayrshire Property, West Scottish Real Estate Development, Architect
House for a Chemist in Seamill
3 Dec 2021
Location: Seamill, North Ayrshire, South West Scotland
Design: Brown & Brown Architects
Photos by Edmund Sumner
House for a Chemist, Seamill, North Ayrshire
?Create a whisper, not a shout? was the brief given to Brown & Brown Architects by their clients, who have raised their family on the Ayrshire coast within sight of the Isle of Arran, and feel have a deep-rooted connection to this stretch of coastline. It was very important that any new additions were visually subservient to the original house, a traditional Victorian villa of red sandstone, which had faced the elements for more than 150 years.
House for a Chemist is the refurbishment and extension of a traditional Victorian villa, on the coast of Ayrshire. A contemporary extension, of glass and blackened stainless steel, frames views across the Firth of Clyde to the Isle of Arran, and uses split-levels to respect the original topography of the site. New elements take the form of large social spaces, with the split levels allowing them to follow the contours of the site, and present a simple glazed elevation to the sea. The original house has been refurbished to create bedroom spaces, whilst retaining any original features, and re-introducing those which had been lost over the past 150 years.
The extension takes the form of a closed timber elevation fro...
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