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Forthcoming Project · Motherwell

A contemporary multi-generationalresidence organised around thecharacter of a traditional farmstead.

A substantial ten-suite family home combining new-build accommodation with retained and refurbished steading buildings around a sheltered courtyard in the Motherwell area.

Locality
Motherwell
Type
Luxury Residential · Rural · Multi-Generational
Status
Forthcoming
Planning
Planning progressed

Front entranceDesign visual · Motherwell

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The proposals bring together a substantial new principal residence and the retained fabric of an established rural steading. Rather than treating the historic outbuildings as separate remnants, the design uses them to define a courtyard composition linked directly into the new family accommodation.

The resulting estate is planned for multi-generational living, with generous guest and family suites, formal and informal living areas, private leisure and entertainment spaces, service accommodation and a separate garage building. The architectural language balances rural forms with a clearly contemporary family home.

02 — Visuals

From the front drive to the courtyard

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Front view across the lawn to the stone and render residence with the detached garage building to the right The sheltered courtyard: glazed ground floor, first-floor terrace and the retained steading range
Front — principal residence and garageCourtyard — glazed link and terracesDesign visuals · Motherwell

From the drive the house presents as one composed frontage — stone gables, a central glazed entrance and the garage held apart to the side. Move through to the courtyard and the plan opens: a glazed ground floor, a long first-floor terrace and the retained steading closing the far side.

The retained and re-roofed steading range in stone, with the new residence rising behind

The scheme uses the retained steading as an organising device. New accommodation completes and strengthens the courtyard rather than overwhelming it, while pitched roofs, stone elements and restrained contemporary glazing create a deliberate relationship between old agricultural forms and the new residence.

03 — Approach
Retained steading · design visual

04 — Programme

What the proposals comprise

01

Ten-Suite Principal Residence

A large two-storey family home providing three principal/master suites, five further bedrooms and two ground-floor guest suites.

02

Retained Farmstead Fabric

Existing outbuildings are retained, re-roofed and refurbished as part of the wider composition rather than being visually detached from the new house.

03

Courtyard Living

A sheltered internal courtyard and glazed-link arrangement organise the relationship between new and retained accommodation.

04

Family & Entertainment Spaces

The plans combine multiple living and dining areas with home-cinema, prayer, office and family-focused accommodation.

05

Detached Garage

A separate garage and storage building is designed in a restrained rural form to support the principal residence.

06

Landscape Integration

Terraces, balcony space and the courtyard garden extend the living environment into the rural setting while maintaining a coherent estate layout.

05 — In the Landscape

Around the courtyard

Two further design visuals

Courtyard garden with the covered workshop range and rooflights, the terrace of the main house to the left
Courtyard and workshop rangeRetained forms, new use
Front entrance from the drive: the double-height glazed gable between stone piers, first-floor balcony above
Entrance gableStone piers, glazed centre

06 — Status

Where it stands

The project has progressed through planning design and is presented by Dhalmia as a forthcoming residential development.

Lifecycle
Forthcoming
Planning
Planning progressed
Public locality
Motherwell

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