Fabric Repairs and New Kitchen and Bathroom to an Ornate Stone Cottage  DESCRIPTION The site is rural with mature surrounding garden and hedges, the Cottage was built as a sewing school for Lady Eleanor Balfour who died in 1869. Her husband was James Balfour MP for Haddingtonshire, who died in 1845.  The listing description attributes […]

New Wheelchair Accessible WC in Category “A” Listed Church DESCRIPTION The Church occupies an urban corner site,  the Italianate design is by Sir Robert Lorimer and the nave was built 1906-7, construction was completed by Architects Lorimer and Matthew in 1927-29.  The former Baptistery was a separate space for baptism, a practice abandoned by the Second […]

Renovation of a West Lothian Steading to form an energy efficient group of houses   DESCRIPTION: Location is 19 miles South West of Edinburgh, north of the “Lang Whang”, the A70 to Carstairs, on the watershed of the Clyde and Forth river systems and the River Medway flows west forming the northern boundary (image 6). […]

Conversion of an Office, formerly Granary and Byre to a House  DESCRIPTION Newmains is a remote location 25 miles SE of Edinburgh in the Lammermuir Hills. Originally built by the Whittingehame Estate between 1835-1875 the steading has been restored from dereliction by Newmains Partnership in several phases.  The Cantilever Barn was built in 1875, the […]