Crawton Bothy
Renovations and Conversions
Crawton Bothy
The Brief
The house comprised an existing two storey 3 bed cottage which had been previously extended forming a link to the adjacent single storey storage bothy. Our brief for this first stage was to create a family home, converting the unheated bothy from storage into living and kitchen space and included a design for the next stage of the project re-working the existing cottage and previous extension to create 5 bedrooms and a dining space.
LOCATION
Crawton, Aberdeenshire
AWARDS
Winner of Velux Open Up Your World: February 2019
YEAR COMPLETED
2018
KEY INFORMATION
Conversion of a traditional bothy in a rural, coastal location.
This project focused on the first phase of the works which was to convert the unheated bothy into
the kitchen and living space for the house.
Creating a new entrance was key, as the existing entrance was hard to find, tucked away behind the
house, the new entrance porch brings you into the centre of the bothy space dividing it into open
plan kitchen to the west and living space to the east.
Large windows in the gable of the bothy give access to the spectacular views out to sea. The roof
structure was opened up throughout, to make use of the full volume of the space, whilst maintaining
the original rafters and trusses.
New openings were formed in the bothy walls to connect into the existing extension, which has
become the dining space, centrally placed in the house, making the most of the views to the east
and the west.
The existing ground floor layout of the house involved numerous linked rooms to gain access to the
upstairs bedrooms. The design for stage two involves re-positioning of the stair and reworking the
layout to create additional rooms and bedrooms all within the existing footprint. The work to the
existing cottage and stairs will form a future project.
