Private House, Fife

Fife’s ancient burghs, occupies a challenging site. The two storey extension is cut into a rock face, and is grafted into the client’s existing garden. A relatively modest extension of only 50m2 provides a dramatic new living room, kitchen, bathroom and WC, leaving the original house largely as sleeping accommodation.

It is both sympathetic to the qualities of the original house and deliberately modern, combining a palate of materials which is so redolent of Fife, with large silicone jointed glazing panels. The glazed gable extends the living room into the garden and affords views to a superb landscape setting in the background.