July 6 2023

A rundown mews office building in Aberdeen has reached the end of the road under plans by Diamond Property Developments and Brown & Brown Architects to replace it with a modern family home.

Spademill Studio off Spademill Lane will occupy a 0.12-acre plot at the popular west-end address, with a solid masonry ground floor topped by a lighter and more contemporary upper level.

Set behind retained boundary walls the home presents limited openings to the street for privacy, predominantly a double garage screened by a sliding shutter, allowing the home to turn south to face a private walled garden.

Articulating the proposal the architects wrote: "The form of the building is broken into distinct elements, with a clear visual hierarchy created by the ground floor plinth of stone and dark render creating a visually ‘solid’ element, in particular to Spademill Lane, before the placing of a first floor pitched roof pavilion of timber and glass atop."

Traditional stone laid in a recessed pointing pattern will sit alongside areas of dark render with single-storey portions topped by a sedum roof.  

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