WT Architecture Ltd.

Renton Hall House Extension

Renton Hall House Extension 

WT Architecture

Renton Hall House Extension
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ARCHITECTS
Wt Architecture

QUANTITY SURVEYOR
Mcleod + Aitken

STRUCTURE ENGINEER
David Narro Associates

LIGHTING DESIGNER
Lightmedium

PROJECT TEAM
Wt Architecture

PROJECT ARCHITECT
Thomas Fitzgerald

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
William Mcnae & Son

FRAMEWRIGHTS
Carpenter Oak

KITCHEN
Inglis Hall & Co.

AREA
370 M²

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
United Kingdom

CATEGORY
Residential Architecture, Houses, Extension

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Our project at Renton Hall rescues a 200-year-old country manor that had been vacant and neglected for 10 years, along with its substantial walled garden which had been untended for a century.

A new extension draws out new living spaces into the eastern garden areas, capturing sunlight and views, reaching out toward the walled garden, and creating a conversational relationship with the existing building.

Renton Hall House Extension
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Renton Hall House Extension
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The interventions provided an architectural backdrop and framework for the client to begin the epic task of restoring the extensive derelict gardens.

The architectural expression and character of the new extension hark to vernacular topologies of ancillary stables and garden outbuildings, consciously deferential to the grand manor.

Renton Hall House Extension
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Renton Hall House Extension
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The new spaces feel borrowed from the gardens, framed by a composition of massive lime-rendered masonry walls arranged in the landscape.

Aside from these walls, the majority of the extension structure is hewn from sustainably sourced British Douglas fir, which is echoed in the doors and opening windows, and complimented by external larch cladding and screens.

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Renton Hall House Extension
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Frameless glazing details were developed meticulously to express a lightness contrasting the mass of the new lime walls. A new roof of hand-pressed zinc sails over the extension.

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Renton Hall House Extension
Ground Floor Plan
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Ground Floor Plan
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Attic Floor Plan

WT Architecture Ltd.
T +44 131 3312813
WT Architecture Ltd.
4-6 Gote Ln, South Queensferry EH30 9PS, United Kingdom