Pier Road Estate

The porch style on these buildings echoes the sentiment, being derived from examples in the West Highlands and Perthshire.

The Design & Build developer appointed Reynolds Architects Ltd in 2008 to further enhance Simpson & Brown’s design work in order to meet Lochalsh & Skye Housing Association’s design brief & specification.

Buildings are finished in traditional harl with a cream masonry paint finish. Extra deep pre-cast cills and mullions have been specified to enhance window openings, giving them a substantial appearance. These are further enhanced by high performance, pre-finished Scandinavian windows with a look-alike sash & case design.

The colouring of the external joinery is medium green, with soffits and fascias in matt black. Roofs are finished in natural slate with a metal ridge cap.

A total of 11 houses were built at Pier Road, comprising 5 homes for affordable rent and 6 homes for Shared Equity sale. Along with high performance Scandinavian windows and doors, all homes come specified with high levels of insulation.

The larger one-and-three-quarter storey homes are fitted with NIBE air source heat pumps and the smaller single-storey homes come with NIBE exhaust air heat pumps. In both house types, heating is weather compensated with warmth supplied to rooms using a conventional wet radiator system.