Paterson Architects

Paterson Architects Award Winning Architectural Practice based in East Lothian, and working throughout Scotland.

Paterson Architects strive to create architecture that respects the environment and is of its time and place. All projects irrespective of size or scope benefit from our exhaustive approach and creative thinking.

You can’t always get what you want…It has been an interesting few weeks at Paterson Architects.One recent project began ...
01/09/2025

You can’t always get what you want…

It has been an interesting few weeks at Paterson Architects.

One recent project began as a carefully considered single-storey, two-bedroom home designed to work within a highly constrained garden site. After much design development, our clients belatedly let us know they definitely didn’t see themselves living in a ‘bungalow’, instead preferring a ‘traditional’, two-storey home with slate roof and render walls…

It is a reminder that design is a conversation, and flexibility is a part of the process…

Working in East Lothian, where planning policy is particularly restrictive adds another layer of challenge. This can be frustrating, it continually tests both our design creativity and understanding of policy, and it certainly doesn’t guarantee a successful outcome.
But we don’t write the rules, we endeavour to work as creatively as possible within them. Helping our clients navigate the process and, where we can, to realise their ambitions.

At the very heart of our design process is the goal of following the sun to optimize natural light. By considering the s...
02/10/2024

At the very heart of our design process is the goal of following the sun to optimize natural light. By considering the sun's path throughout the day and year, we create spaces that maximize daylight, reduce energy consumption, and enhance space with lighting that changes as the day unfolds.

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…the first fully revised and expanded guide to the buildings of Lothian since Colin McWilliam’s pioneering volume of 197...
24/02/2024

…the first fully revised and expanded guide to the buildings of Lothian since Colin McWilliam’s pioneering volume of 1978, with new colour photography, maps, and plans to accompany the unrivalled coverage of the area. Lothian surrounds the capital city of Edinburgh, which has done much to influence the character of its buildings. Among these are some important medieval relics, including the internationally famous Rosslyn Chapel, the royal Renaissance palace at Linlithgow, and the ruins of great castles and tower houses.

We are delighted to have three of our projects mentioned in this new edition of, Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Scotland, Lothian.

Belhaven Hill School, Music Department
Belhaven Hill School, Common Room
Three Seton Mains

Photographs by Keith Hunter

A typical Victorian home was built with little regard for site or orientation, with public rooms to the front and privat...
18/02/2024

A typical Victorian home was built with little regard for site or orientation, with public rooms to the front and private rooms and servant space to the rear. Whilst this layout suited the relatively formal day to day life of a middle-class Victorian family, it no longer suits the more relaxed requirements of a large modern family.

Our client hopes to refurbish and reconfigure the layout of their home, and extend to the rear so as to enjoy the open aspect and views available to the west. Creating a practical multi-generational home with easy access to the extensive garden grounds.

The brief includes significant refurbishment of the existing fabric and will include stone and roof repairs, replacement windows, thermal upgrading and the installation of ASHP systems.

'I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day.' Vincent Van GoghOur lighting design ...
23/11/2023

'I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day.' Vincent Van Gogh

Our lighting design for the Bonham Hotel is now live.

Electrical Engineer: Harley Haddow
Electrical Contractor: Sinclair Scott Ltd
Lighting Controls: Helvar
Fittings: IGuzzini

In the Craigleith area of Edinburgh, our clients asked us to look at extending this 1930’s end of terrace house. The pro...
22/10/2023

In the Craigleith area of Edinburgh, our clients asked us to look at extending this 1930’s end of terrace house. The proposals included the new ground floor living space illustrated and extending the existing attic rooms with a new lateral dormer.

Bothy in the woods.The Bothy is a simple timber frame structure which can be configured and combined in a number of ways...
22/10/2023

Bothy in the woods.

The Bothy is a simple timber frame structure which can be configured and combined in a number of ways to create storage, workshop, studio or living space, on or off grid.




We are delighted to be working with Haddington Tennis Club on proposals for a new club pavilion in the towns picturesque...
04/06/2023

We are delighted to be working with Haddington Tennis Club on proposals for a new club pavilion in the towns picturesque Neilson Park.

Overlooking the four floodlit all-weather courts a simple building form is proposed, with changing rooms, kitchen, storage space, toilets and a communal multifunctional space.

Delighted that our application for façade lighting to The Bonham Hotel in the West End of Edinburgh, has now been grant...
25/05/2023

Delighted that our application for façade lighting to The Bonham Hotel in the West End of Edinburgh, has now been granted on appeal.

Our thanks to Harley Haddow for their input and technical support with the design, and also to Brodies for preparing the successful appeal.

Client: The Bonham Hotel
Planning Appeal: Brodies Solicitors
Electrical Engineering: Harley Haddow

We are delighted that planning consent was recently granted for this pair of unique and site responsive homes for our tw...
24/04/2023

We are delighted that planning consent was recently granted for this pair of unique and site responsive homes for our two clients in Borthwick, Midlothian.

Construction packages are now progressing for a site start later this year.

We are delighted that planning consent has now granted for this residential development in Gordon, Scottish Borders.Five...
09/02/2023

We are delighted that planning consent has now granted for this residential development in Gordon, Scottish Borders.

Five site-specific 3/4 bedroom family house types have been designed, and will share a simple language of render, timber cladding, and slate roofs.

Construction information packages will progress shortly.

Three primary moves aim to open up space, view's and sunlight at this existing home outside Port Seton, East Lothian.Rec...
02/12/2022

Three primary moves aim to open up space, view's and sunlight at this existing home outside Port Seton, East Lothian.

Reconfiguring the existing layout at ground floor to create a new entrance and hall space. Extending the existing structure outwards to the side with a new living area, and upwards to the rear with new bedroom accommodation.

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EH320PG

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Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm

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