Who owns restoration house

The walled gardens enclose a stunning parterre, topiary and other formal features, along with herbaceous borders, greenhouses, and a cutting garden.

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Looking to login? It was these connections and the uniqueness of the property that made Restoration House such a tantalising prospect. But buying the building was only the first step. Where do you begin when a house is as run down as this one was? Of invaluable use in this approach was their partnership with Richard Flegg, a builder whose attitude to restoration mirrored their own see also our feature on Master Craftsmen, June The great thing about people like Robert and Jonathan is that like me they understand that these kinds of buildings require a different approach.

As well as using traditional building techniques, where possible the owners also sought to use original materials. The window frames, of which there are many, are the originals. Rather than tear them out, which would have been far easier, they have instead been painstakingly repaired. This approach has also reaped other rewards by helping to engage and train a new generation of skilled tradesmen who have become proficient in traditional building skills.

One such person is Jonathan Hunt, who has undertaken much of the stonemasonry work involved in the restoration. Working there has been really interesting and Robert and his partner are great people to work for.

When is comes to the fixtures and fittings of the property, the owners are just as keen to restore the house to how it would have originally looked. At a time when sparse and stripped-down Puritan tastes dominated, the use of French Grey paint, of paint effect marbling and japanning provides a fascinating insight into the beginnings of the shift towards more lavish continental tastes of the kind that would come to dominate the Restoration period.

Derbyshire Life. Outside, the garden measures getting on for an acre and is made up of both a formal area, divided by box hedges and a flower and vegetable garden beyond. To the right you can see a stretch of recently discovered Tudor wall, which was recently controversially saved from demolition by Restoration House's owners, who are installing a Renaissance-style water garden on the site of what would have been a new housing development.

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