Georgian Houses

The House & Garden archive is full of beautiful Georgian houses, from grand Palladian country piles to modest urban dwellings. We've picked our favourites and pulled out some helpful decorating lessons to take from them

With a large family and frequent guests, the owner of this house in Hampshire tasked Henriette von Stockhausen with creating elegant and versatile interiors that help to tie together the original Georgian rooms and a recent extension

Californian tech entrepreneur Rose Hulse has brought a fresh perspective to the renovation of a Georgian house in the West Country, combining sensitivity to its origins with her desire to create a colourful and comfortable home for her family

On moving back to the UK after two decades spent living in Sydney, this couple wanted to create a family home which was respectful of the traditional architecture, while introducing modern decorative influences.

A lifelong passion for all things 18th-century led barrister Phillip Lucas to spend ten years restoring Spitalfields House, a 1725 townhouse once home to Huguenot weavers that now houses his impressive antique collection

Keen to take a creative approach to the renovation of their Gloucestershire farmhouse, its owners commissioned award-winning architect Alison Brooks to radically reimagine the internal space of the late-Georgian main house and an unappealing extension

In a story from our May 2013 issue, we visit Williamstrip in the Cotswolds, which has been restored, extended and modernised by the current owners with the help of architect Craig Hamilton and decorator Mark Gillette

Interior designer Tom Morris has combined traditional architecture with muted colours and a clever mix of 20th-century pieces in this classic honey-coloured Georgian house

In an extract from ‘Romantics & Classics: Style in the English Country House’, step inside the wonderful Beckside House, an eighteenth-century house in Lancashire

With a profound love of beauty and an exacting eye for detail, the owners of Jamb have made their Georgian house in Camberwell into the embodiment of their shared aesthetic

Serial renovators of historic houses on a grand scale, the dynamic design duo Peter Sheppard and Keith Day took on their greatest challenge yet with exquisite 18th-century Wolterton Hall in north Norfolk, which had lain uninhabited for almost 30 years

After decades trying fruitlessly to put down domestic roots in sub-lets and shorthold tenancies, Olivia Laing finally found the chance to create the home of her childhood dreams in a Georgian house in rural Suffolk

When a client asked for a London pied-a-terre that would cater to their social life, their work requirements and their young family, Emma Sims-Hilditch and her team put their ingenuity to work

Georgian elegance meets modern minimalism in this London family house owned by two creatives, who have employed a mix of reclaimed materials and contemporary pieces to eye-catching effect

From running an art consultancy to turning her Hampshire farmhouse into an exhibition space, Kate Anniss is always on the move – and now the gallery owner is directing her energies to creative workshops and charitable collaborations

When Bianca Fincham and her family moved to Cornwall, they spent three years renovating a beautiful Georgian house by the sea, and then moved back to London, leaving a heavenly holiday rental behind them

When he first bought his disjointed Holland Street townhouse, Kerem Ozelli was taking on a challenge. Inspired by modern art and contemporary luxuries, he set about reshaping it to his own particular vision

When Sophie Ashby moved with her family from a small rented flat in west London to this expansive house in Spitalfields, she set about filling the gracefully-proportioned rooms with a collection of beautiful things

Faced with a roof-less shell, interior designer Henry Prideaux gave this Georgian house in London back its identity, reintroducing period details and adding contemporary pieces to reflect the owners’ interests

At Pitshill – winner of a Georgian Group Architectural Award last year – Edward Bulmer’s work on the interiors celebrates the sensitively restored period details and makes space for modern life