English Country Estate
This Grade II listed home located at the end of a treelined drive on a grand estate has been in the same family for more than 500 years. Our client asked us to restore the interior with its rich history in mind, while elevating it to meet the needs of the next generation.
While the property featured a mixture of Victorian and Georgian embellishments, no significant investment had been made to the interior for over a century. Working alongside architects and listed building specialists, we reimagined the layout to transition from a formal, "back of house" structure to a fresh, inviting take on the traditional English country house.
The Octagonal Atrium
We worked with an architect to reimagine the space, creating a large octagonal atrium filled with natural light, with an array of family rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms leading from it. This meant that it was still made up of primarily formal reception rooms and a ‘back of house’ area, with no family kitchen. The design is sympathetic to the home’s heritage, whilst modernising the interior to make it suitable for 21st-century living.
The design brief was to create an interior in keeping with the property’s history, while making it suitable for modern day living. We wanted the rooms to feel cosy and inviting, creating a fresh take on a traditional English country house. Much of our client’s original and antique furniture was sensitively restored along with a selection of family portraits going back generations. We worked with listed building specialists to sympathetically restore and preserve many of the original architectural features of the home, including the chimneypieces and original stone flooring, and selected a colour palette inspired by the surrounding country landscape.
The Sporting Wing & Utlilites
This 9-bedroom home sits on a sporting estate which was a consideration when designing the interior, so we created a boot room, gunroom and shoot kitchen to meet these needs.
Much of our client’s original and antique furniture was sensitively restored along with a selection of family portraits going back generations.
Emma Sims-Hilditch
