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Two Rural Houses

Model maker: Forbes, HenryModel maker: Low, FergusArchitect: Hutton, Graeme, RSA · b. 1964

Two Rural Houses

Drummond House is known familiarly as ‘The Shed.’ It was commissioned by Mr and Mrs Peter Drummond and is situated at Balmacron by Meigle in…

Drummond House is known familiarly as ‘The Shed.’ It was commissioned by Mr and Mrs Peter Drummond and is situated at Balmacron by Meigle in Perthshire. It won the RIBA Award in 2009. The house was featured in Studio International Magazine in June 2011;(http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/drummond-house-meigle-perthshire).

Zinc House was inspired by Drummond House. Commissioned by Richard and Jackie Callison, the Zinc House at Monikie in Angus was begun in January 2013 and completed in June 2015 at a cost of £850,000. It was featured in Grand Designs Magazine in November 2016 (https://www.granddesignsmagazine.com/self-builds/42-self-build-project-zinc-clad-house).

Both houses were designed by Hutton in partnership with Leadingham Jameson Rogers and Hynd (LJRH). The projects represent Hutton’s application of the principles of “continuity and invention” where new builds in sensitive rural landscapes can be wholly contemporary yet are firmly rooted in the ethos of the traditional rural vernacular architecture of their locus.

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