THE HOUSE WAS DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT MIKE GALBRAITH, THE BRAINS BEHIND BELFAST'S BIGGEST SHOPPING CENTRE, CASTLECOURT. THE TERRACE ON THE UPPER LEVEL WAS LAID WITH SLATE TILES, WHICH RESEMBLE THE LOCAL STONE, BASALT
rooms with a view
An award-winning house on the edge of a cliff has proven an idyllic retirement home for David and Freda Scott. Written by Melanie Whitehouse.
A home by the sea is a dream that many people have for their retirement. David and Freda Scott made that dream come true by not only finding the perfect plot, but by building a spec- tacular glass and zinc house that caters for their every need. ‘Scotts on the Rocks’, as they call it, is sited
at Maggie’s Leap, a famous beauty spot in Northern Ireland where the hauntingly beautiful Mountains of Mourne literally come down to the sea, and about a mile outside the town of Newcastle, home to the renowned Royal County Down golf course. Both David and Freda had been brought
up beside the sea in Donegal town and after years of living away from it were on the lookout for an ocean view plot where they could create a two storey house. They wanted a space that could be used either as a single storey dwelling for themselves or, by opening up a second level, become a larger home for entertaining family – including six young grandchildren – friends, and corporate clients. At the height of Northern Ireland’s property
boom they saw a site advertised in the Belfast Telegraph that looked ideal. “It was right by the sea and included a ramshackle, timber-framed house dating back to the 1920s with ivy grow-
A home by the sea is a dream that many people have for their retirement. David and Freda Scott made that dream come true
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