DETAILS
What An extended and renovated cottage
Where Aberdeenshire
Architect Hyve
Main contractor Sunnyside Construction
Structural engineer Graeme Craig Consulting Engineers
Doing up old houses takes time and money, but know-how is arguably just as important, reckon Sue and Jim Savege. They are no strangers to turning around the fortunes of battered old buildings. “We always seem to find ageing properties that need a bit of TLC,” says Sue. “Our last house was a run-down 16th-century farmhouse in the Lake District which needed a complete makeover. We spent seven years renovating it and adapting it to the 21st century. Before that, we had a traditional cottage in Wales to which we added a large kitchen-diner extension, so we are definitely not building and renovating newbies. We have learnt a lot along the way.”
The couple’s latest endeavour is a cottage in rural Aberdeenshire on a large country estate. “We loved the cottage when we found it,” says Sue. “Its location and its connection to the surrounding woodlands really drew us to it, and we knew that with a bit of adaptation, it could be a fantastic home for us.”
“When we moved in eight years ago, it was your traditional but-and-ben, built of dressed granite with a slate roof, with two main rooms downstairs and a loft. It had been extended several times, with a fairly ugly flat-roof addition that provided two bedrooms upstairs, and two small wings at either end of the cottage, one of which contained a very small kitchen. It was all barely insulated and the kitchen in particular was very cold.”
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