Contemporary Vernacular Design

2.8Plockton, Scottish Highlands

2.8.1 Burnside, Plockton, Scottish Highlands

The Project

This is a 24-unit housing scheme in Burnside, on the edge of Plockton by Rural Design, creating a new settlement character based on the traditional white-farmhouse-and-barn vernacular of the region. Another, smaller scheme of two homes, in Plockton itself, blends in so well that you could walk by and believe it has been there for years.

The target for house building on nearby Skye is 100 houses a year, which seems phenomenal for such a small island. The Rural Design director Alan Dickson says that they haven’t been achieving that. Rural Design, like ...