Tulloch Homes confirms work to start in March on 'prestigious' £12 million Inverness housing estate
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CONSTRUCTION on a "prestigious"" £12 million housing development of luxury homes and apartments will get under way in Inverness in March.
Tulloch Homes is preparing to begin work on Drummond Hill, off Lochardil’s Stratherrick Road. The project will include what the developer has described as the "sympathetic restoration" of the site's 132-year-old former mansion which was designed by Sir Alexander Ross – the man dubbed "the Christopher Wren of the North".
The Drummond Hill development will include six executive homes, six mews houses, six town houses and 12 apartments, in addition to the conversion if the mansion with luxury apartments.
Leading Inverness solicitor William Burns, a partner in the firm of Stewart, Rule and Burns, acquired the estate land in 1886 and later commissioned Alexander Ross to build the house for his wife, Jane Fraser, and himself, with the couple’s initials still engraved above the entrance.
The pink sandstone two-storey, five-bay Italianate villa, with classical detailing, was completed in 1890 and was the last of several large villas to be built in the Lochardil area in the second half of the 19th century.
Sandy Grant, managing director of Tulloch Homes, said:“We see Drummond Hill as a special opportunity, especially given the mansion’s history. For half a century it had been used as offices and, along with the Gatehouse Lodge, we’ll offer these iconic buildings a new era of being lived in again.
“We won recognition from Historic Scotland for our refurbishment of another historic mansion, Hedgefield House, in the city several years ago and the experience gained there will benefit our sympathetic conversion of this building in to six stylish apartments.”
“The local housing market remains extremely buoyant and we’re looking forward to making a start at Drummond Hill.”
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