Residential, West Loan

Client:
Wilcon Homes

Location:
Prestonpans, East Lothian

Budget:
£1.5m

Status:
completed / ongoing

This new build housing development in West Loan, East Lothian, comprises 31 units of varying sizes with a mixture of houses and flatted apartments. Due to the site’s historic context and its proximity to Preston Tower, planning constraints required us to develop the design along a traditional vernacular.

The masterplan uses both courtyard and pends, around which buildings of differing storey heights, roof-scapes and elevational treatments are arranged. By stepping back several of the buildings and retaining the existing stone boundary wall what could have been a hard street edge is softened.

The overall massing of the development is broken up by varying the colour of external render and through a mixture of slate and pantile roof finishes. This, together with the mixture of swept and pitched dormers give the impression that the development is less dense than it actually is.

The traditional aesthetic is further enhanced through the use of skew gables and a restrained fenestration pattern of sash and case windows.