
Cambo Stables, Cambo Estate
Key Facts
Client
Cambo Heritage Trust
Location
Cambo Estate, Kingsbarns, St Andrews, KY16 8QD
Value
£1,978,640
Internal Floor Area
550m2
Completion
October 2017
A light touch preserving the history and charm of Cambo Stables
Project Info
The need for buildings to meet new uses and regulations requires all sorts of interventions which can smother out the reason for keeping an existing building in the first place.
A good example is our work on the Cambo Estate stable block where we were appointed in 2011 to create a base for visitors to the estate. In broad terms it now serves that busy visitor audience with learning workshops, office accommodation, café, shop and exhibition space. Critical to our approach was consolidating the existing fabric in the lightest touch manner – leaving it with a feeling as if it is ‘as found’. Our philosophy was intervention only where required, and where necessary expressed as new. A limited palette of materials was used for new elements, with these materials rooted and derived from the existing. The building is in effect the first exhibit on display, the stories of its previous occupants etched into the fabric and revealed on the visitor journey through the building.
Cambo Stables is a particularly fine building. Externally there are rusticated quoins, some old lime harling, and inside twelve stalls integrated into a distinguished timber and cast-iron colonnade, loose boxes and tack room, with many original fittings intact. An enclosed yard to the rear backs onto the walled garden. It was that earthy magical quality enhanced by the delightful coastal light that we sought to preserve.



Testimonial
“The relationship between architect, main contractor and client was always supportive, creative and solution focused, and we would work with Page|Park again in a heartbeat. ”
Keri Ivins Cambo Heritage Trust Development Manager
Selected Awards
DIA Awards 2018 - Commendation in Best Rehab/Regeneration Category
DIA Awards 2018 - Commendation in Interior Design Award Category
Scottish Heritage Angel Awards 2018 - Commendation
Georgian Architectural Awards - Highly Comended in the Re-Use Category