Dualchas Building Design

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Skeabost, Portree, Isle of Skye (2006)

Ground floor – Living, Dining, Kitchen, Bathroom, utility and lobby.

First Floor – To be developed at a later stage.

The house was built with a rural home ownership grant, which imposed restrictions on both the design and specification of the house.

The house contains two bedrooms – one at each end of the house – with the living spaces in the centre of the plan. The living space is a double height space, open to the apex. This additional height was required due to the client’s son being a professional juggler.

The house is situated on the edge of Loch Snizort Beag and the main focus of the living spaces is the large glazed sliding doors. These open up onto a larch deck, on the edge of the water.

The corner window in the main bedroom captures the view up the loch, while the other captures an intimate view of silver birch trees.

The building is timber frame construction and is clad partially in horizontal ship-lapped larch cladding, while around the main windows on the front and rear elevation the cladding is battened out further, and clad in vertical board on board larch and framed with larger pieces of larch. A local boat builder built the house, which is evident in the quality of the timberwork.