Client: Broadland Properties Limited
Value: £1.7 million
Location: Avoch
Since 2000, Morrison Construction has been engaged on a range of restoration and building projects for Rosehaugh, a privately-owned estate at Avoch, north of Inverness.
Although the main house was demolished in 1959, the current owners aspired to reanimate various buildings not previously in use as dwellings, including a farm-steading, hydro-station, laundry and boathouse. As the vision was to restore all these buildings to their former glory, adapted to provide quality holiday accommodation, extensive renovation and rebuilding was undertaken.
Attaining the exacting standards of beauty, craftsmanship, and historical accuracy was vitally important across the projects. This was perhaps best demonstrated in the boathouse, where the old and the new were combined. Destroyed by a flood and lain derelict for over 60 years, the cantilevered, two-storey oak frame building required extensive work, including the cutting, shaping and lifting into place of huge oak beams to form the roof (all oak timbers being sourced from trees on estate grounds). In addition our restoration team reinstated the pink Rosemary tiled roof – unique in its Highland setting – and constructed a new wing, all in total keeping with the original building.
Bridging the ancient and the modern, in the scale of the restoration works and the exacting standards of the designs, made the project uniquely challenging. In addition to dedicated management support a team of craftsmen employing traditional methods laboured to realise the overall objectives of the client.


