{"id":4400,"date":"2025-08-29T10:45:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2025-08-29T15:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:07:42","slug":"pend-wraps-extension-to-historic-scottish-home-in-fluted-pink-toned-stonework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/29\/pend-wraps-extension-to-historic-scottish-home-in-fluted-pink-toned-stonework\/","title":{"rendered":"Pend wraps extension to historic Scottish home in fluted pink-toned stonework"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Whitberry<\/div>\n

Scottish architecture studio Pend has updated a heritage-listed Georgian farmhouse<\/a> in East Lothian, adding an extension<\/a> clad in fluted, blush-toned blocks of precast stone<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Named Whitberry, the Grade B-listed building had been subject to piecemeal additions over the years, which led to the home having a “cellular” interior layout that lacked a strong connection to its large rear garden.<\/p>\n

\"Front
Pend has updated a heritage-listed Georgian farmhouse in East Lothian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Edinburgh-based Pend<\/a> was tasked with extending the home with a larger kitchen, which was housed in a minimal, contemporary extension that reinstates a connection to this garden through a full-height, glazed corner and sliding doors.<\/p>\n

Taking cues from the existing home’s pink-painted frontage, as well as the reddish tones of the East Lothian sandstone used for its rear elevation, the studio finished the extension with blush-toned precast stone and details in red metalwork.<\/p>\n

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The rear extension is clad in fluted blocks of precast stone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We were conscious of the various historic additions that the property had undergone since its conception, and we were keen to use this new extension to stabilise the visual appearance of the rear elevation,” Ben McFarlane, associate at Pend, told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“Whilst the materiality of the extension took inspiration from the existing house, the form was more suggestive of the walled garden.”<\/p>\n

“A low, linear extension with a strong horizontal datum reflected the perimeter walls and allowed the kitchen extension to sit comfortably as a transitional space which belonged both to the house and to the garden,” he added.<\/p>\n

\"View
Sliding doors reinstate a connection to the garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Moving the kitchen from a previously dark area in the centre of the home into the new skylit extension allowed for the interiors to be reconfigured into three main sections.<\/p>\n

In the centre of the plan, the living room, dining room and kitchen now form an axis that visually and spatially connect the front and rear of the home, where this route opens onto a garden patio.<\/p>\n

To the east, service spaces including a laundry and utility sit alongside a separate annexe, which the clients use as a holiday rental. To the west are the home’s more private spaces, such as a formal drawing room and bedrooms.<\/p>\n