The Hill family’s Victorian manor in Warwickshire, rescued from dereliction and filled with wallpaper, craft and good food.

Hampton Manor

Hampton Manor is a Victorian house with a clock tower in the village of Hampton-in-Arden. The Hill family found it derelict, and James Hill’s parents, Jan and Derrick, did the hard work that turned it back into a hotel. James and Fjona Hill now run it as a family estate with three restaurants, a bakery and a walled kitchen garden.

Fjona leads the design across the estate, and the rooms show her appetite for colour. Bedrooms mix strong patterned wallpapers with tiled fireplaces, freestanding baths and Windsor chairs, while the library and whisky snug keep to deep reds and leather. Open shelves of handmade ceramics carry the same craft thread that runs through Grace & Savour, so the house reads as lived in rather than finished.

Owner

Fjona Hill, James Hill

Interior design

Fjona Hill

Photography

Fjona Hill

Photography

Laura Edwards

Photography

Fjona Hill, Laura Edwards

A house on the north Wales coast, renovated by its owners with a small team of local makers.

Ty Coch

Ty Coch sits at Clynnog Fawr in Gwynedd, where the Llŷn Peninsula begins. Miles and Julie renovated the house themselves with a small team of local makers, and it reads as one couple’s taste carried through every room, down to the jellyfish wallpaper Miles designed.

Much of the effort goes outside. An outdoor kitchen is the newest addition, and the beach hut and weathervane get the same attention as anything indoors. Most of the furniture and details come with a story, and the house is better for being furnished by the people who live in it.

Owner

Julie Falkingham

Interior design

Julie Falkingham

Photography

Adam Firman

Photography

Adam Firman

A wing of William Gladstone’s family home, opened to guests by his descendants and filled with the family’s art.

The West End, Hawarden Castle

Hawarden Castle in Flintshire was William Gladstone’s home, and the family still lives there. Charlie and Caroline Gladstone have turned its west wing into a five-bedroom house for guests, looking out over the gardens, the lake and the ruins of the 13th-century castle.

They designed it themselves, and it feels lived in. Walls are painted in deep, rich colours and hung with family portraits, clocks and art from David Shrigley and Julian Opie to Turner, with a vast 18th-century Don Quixote painting filling one bedroom. There are Welsh wool cushions, a bust of Gladstone in the sitting room and no televisions. Outside there’s a private woodland garden with a wood-fired tub and a pizza oven, and Gladstone’s own library is on the floor below.

Interior design

Charlie Gladstone

Interior design

Caroline Gladstone

Photography

Fran Mart

Photography

Fran Mart