Kyle House is a remote Scottish holiday home with a "monastically simple" interior - architecture and design

Kyle House is a remote Scottish holiday home with a "monastically simple" interior



Architecture studio GRAS has transformed a derelict cottage in the Scottish Highlands into a pared-back contemporary holiday home by slotting a series of oak-lined "boxes" inside the existing stone structure.
The Edinburgh-based firm, headed by architect Gunnar Groves-Raines, oversaw the renovation of Kyle House for preservation and hospitality organisation Wildland, which has restored several historic properties in Scotland.

The two-storey house is situated at the tip of the Kyle of Tongue and is the only inhabited property to enjoy uninterrupted views along the length of the sea loch.
The existing property most likely dates from the late 19th or early 20th century and is believed to have been built using the remains of a 2,000-year-old iron-age building that occupied a hilltop above the site. Photo is by Alexander MacLeodWhen GRAS first got involved in the project the building was an empty shell, with a tin roof sheltering a damp void inside the stone walls.
Working alongside Wildland's head of design, Ruth Kramer, the studio proposed a faithful renovation of the exterior using traditional materials including stone, lime render, lead and slate, but suggested that the interior be completely modernised.
Photo is by Alexander MacLeod"There was nothing left inside and no evidence of what had existed originally," Groves-Raines told Dezeen, "so we felt it was a blank canvas to do something different internally that was contained within the restored ex...
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