The Vision
Located at the head of the remote Ettrick Valley, Kirkhope Steading is a former Victorian corn mill that was purchased in 2021 by the Ettrick and Yarrow Community Development Company. The organisation seeks to support the economic and social development of the local community through addressing demographic and land-use issues such as housing and essential services to ensure the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys are sustainable places to live and work.
CSY were approached by the Ettrick and Yarrow Community Development Company to sensitively repair and adapt the derelict mill buildings into homes and workshops. The existing structures, formed in an ad-hoc courtyard arrangement, were typical of traditional, vernacular construction, being comprised of solid, stone walls and hipped slate roofs, and were essential to the aesthetic and historic significance of the upper Ettrick valley.