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Boath StablesThis project was the conversion of a ruinous late 18th Century ‘B’ Listed stable block to form residential letting accommodation.The building was on the Scottish Civic Trust’s ‘Buildings at Risk’ register in 1995. The stable block is one part of a symmetrical arrangement of buildings including a Hen House and a Coach House within the former grounds of an ‘A’ Listed mansion attributed to Archibald Simpson. The stable block is a low two storey construction with scots slate hipped roof. It has symmetrical arches and arch headed windows to the front elevation. Walls are constructed from coarsely squared whinstone with pinnings. Margins to openings are dressed tooled sandstone. Comprehensive renovations required the removal of all floors, roof and most internal partitions. A symmetrical arrangement of rooms was designed to coincide with existing doors and windows. The disadvantage of the small size and number of upper windows was overcome by introducing groups of paired conservation rooflights in a symmetrical arrangement on each side of the roof. A highly insulated timber framed structure was erected internally and tied to the stone structure to stabilise both elements. New stone chimneys were built to provide a fire to each sitting room; the arrangement and detail reflecting that of the Coach House. The flexible accommodation provides two independent, high quality, two bedroomed cottages which can be linked together at the sitting rooms by opening quadruple oak doors to form one 10 metre space with fires at each end. |
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