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Sand House in Elie, Scotland
11 Mar 2020
Sand House
Architect: WT Architecture
Location: Kingdom of Fife, Eastern Scotland

This extension and re-jig of Sand House, a listed house, is located in the Scottish coastal village of Elie. The old end of terrace town house overlooks the beach and the sea, but its ground floor was a jumble of dark spaces. The new work involved taking away most of the ground floor structure of the three-storey house, demolishing a 20th century extension, and opening the living spaces up to the long narrow garden. The attractive street-facing side of the building was left untouched.

With the Sottish weather often standing in the way of being outdoors, the extension borrows a bit of garden which it encloses in glass under a simple flat canopy roof. Polished concrete benches push out in to the garden to blur the lines between inside and out. The middle of the house was opened up to let sunlight splash through to the new kitchen-living space. Meanwhile the front sitting room was remodeled as a library and TV snug.
Our clients bought this early nineteenth century, B-listed townhouse because of its closeness to the beach to the south, but its north facing side was a hotch-potch of small rooms with small windows, was dark and disconnected to the long back garden. Our brief was to create a light, usable kitchen-living space for a large family, that unlocked use of the ga...