The Job: A house in a local National Park (Loch Lomond and The Trossachs) needed to replace some ornate Victorian fascias. These were heavily-weathered, rotten and potentially dangerous. Due to being in a conservation area, the new fascias needed to be in keeping with the design of the old.
Our Approach: We removed a sample of the fascias’ repeated pattern and brought it back to our workshop in Doune. There, our joiners employed tried and tested methods to create a template, which we then used to carve exact full scale replicas of the originals.
Fitting the new fascias was tricky due to the high roof and the house being very close to a main road, but the scaffolding was sufficient for us to complete the work.
We’re proud of our achievement, which is a mark of our respect for those local craftsmen who carved the beautiful originals. We hope our successors will treat our own work the same way when the fascias come round to their next refit a century-or-two in the future!
What the customer said:
It was a challenging job and we’re grateful Key Square were prepared to take it on and for their beautiful craftsmanship!
