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Bedrooms and formal apartments to the south elevations will overlook the formal laws
and gardens of the house, while those on the east will overlook the gravel drive, gardens
and approach to the house.
While the Historic Fabric will be painstakingly respected and reinstated this will be
a house fit for 21st century needs and wants. The degree of repair and reinstatement
required creates the opportunity to move this Victorian House to a contemporary dwelling
with very high levels of thermal insulation to roof spaces, external walls, internal floors,
ground floors and windows.
Traditional shutters will add to heat and energy conservation strategy of new and
refurbished double-glazed e-glass windows. Space heating will be by traditional warm
water radiators which can be fuelled by a combination of traditional and renewable
energy sources, including low pressure gas, solar, air source heat or ground source heat
recovery. This will be reinforced by individual room and zonal controls. In some of the
finer apartments space heating will be supplemented by open solid fuel or gas fires, within
historic fabric fire places. All utility services within the house and outbuildings will be
new, including dedicated electrical, high speed broadband, low pressure gas storage and
cold water storage.
Turning to the opportunities for Interior Design and Décor the Interior Concept is to
reinstate the Historic Fabric to allow the owner to deliver a Contemporary Scottish
Country Mansion, with the correct sense of grandeur, formality, tradition and understated
wow factor, for guests and visitors, balanced with the attraction and comforts of a warm
and welcoming home.
Externally, as with the house and interior the emphasis will be on traditional components
expected of the house and its setting, to include gravel driveway, period lamp standards,
formal grass lawns with natural stone stairs and entrance posts. The existing surrounding
woodland will be dressed, with selective tree removal to afford open views to Loch Voil.
From the house it is a very short stroll, via the path controlled by the house, to the banks
of Loch Voil. On Loch Voil there are birds such as mute swan, Canada geese oyster catches
and heron. The area is also well known for walking, rambling mountain climbing and
there is a water sports centre at nearby Locheranhead. Fishing is permitted by permit and
access is available for canoeing and small boating.