BUILD IT Magazine writes how initially, Christine considered splitting the property in two, creating a large family home for her parents at the back of the long building, with a smaller separate house at the front. “At the time, my mum and dad weren’t quite ready to move into town and I couldn’t finance the whole thing myself,” says Christine. She decided to scale the project back and started investigating the options for developing just the street-facing portion of the hall into a compact family home, while retaining a commercial element in the form of a storage and office space at the back.

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Words: Caroline Ednie

Images: David Barbour