August 11 2015

An abandoned RAF base perched on a cliff edge overlooking the Forth is set to become a new home for a high flier with it being offered for sale with full planning permission for £3.5m.

Plans drawn up by Italian practice Lazzarini Pickering Architetti will see the sprawling Gin Head complex turned into a 26,164sq/ft home with no less than 13 bedrooms, four living rooms and three dining rooms as well as a spa and pool.

In their design statement the practice said: “The landscape comes up and over the building, planting comes up and over voids and solids, providing between them a glorious integration of landscape and building.

“It is a building of grand spaces, expansive staircases, magnificent reception rooms, massive skylights in the pool area, great sheets of glass that look out on internal couryards offering wrap-around transparency. This is idealised 3rd millennium living, with reference to Inigo Jones, Palladio.

“Yet in spite of its awe-inspiring modernity, it is in the tradition of the big, hospitable English country house, with a grand entrance to the courtyard, followed by a precision of places and rooms for a relaxed way of living.”

Permission has also been granted to build seven separate properties within the five acre site should no single occupier wish to take on the space.

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