Loch Tummel House Scotland, Schiehallion Property Photos, Modern Scottish Highland Home Design
Loch Tummel House, Schiehallion, Scotland
19 Jan 2023
Location: Loch Tummel, Perth and Kinross, central-northern Scotland
Design: WT Architecture

Photos: Gillian Hayes
Loch Tummel House, Scotland
Loch Tummel House sits at the feet of mighty Schiehallion gazing out along one of Scotland?s most iconic lochs. WT Architecture worked alongside an exceptional client, and a team of talented designers and craftspeople to create this remarkable estate house and converted farm steading.
The new house replaces a Victorian farmhouse and outbuildings, on a site that has been an important place of settlement for many centuries. Buried into the hillside and set across three floors, the building contributes to the completion of a ruined walled garden fabled to have been abandoned incomplete by young men called up to fight in the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.
On arriving through the wooded hillside the house appears, but the long views down the loch are not revealed until you penetrate through to the heart of the house. This dramatic reveal is very much a nod to the classic country house arrangement, with a wink to the spacial defensive games of Lutyens castles. A series of arrival spaces to shed boots, coats and dogs lead through to a double height central dining hall from which all the other rooms in the house can be accessed.

This dining space is the social hub of the house and spills out on to...