St Andrews House
A new family home on a south-facing site beside Lade Braes Walk in St Andrews.
The house replaces a twentieth-century building overlooking the Kinness Burn and is set into the sloping site using a cut-and-fill approach. This forms a robust stone base, expressed as a rubble-like plinth that anchors the building within the terrain while limiting excavation. The building reads as a single storey from Lade Braes Walk and as a two-storey house from below, responding directly to the topography and conservation setting.
Arrival is at lower level, where cylindrical columns define a sheltered threshold beneath a projecting terrace. This undercroft mediates between garden and interior before the house opens to the principal living level. At first floor, a south-facing terrace runs the length of the plan, organising daily life and opening views across the garden and towards the hills beyond.
Secondary bedrooms and service spaces are set below, partially embedded within the hillside and opening onto sheltered garden areas. A palette of rubble stone and timber gives the building a grounded presence, with openings drawing light into the plan and maintaining a close connection to the landscape.