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An 18th-century Grade II* listed country home. Work began with a plan of complete restoration in 2022, due to be complete summer 2025.
Continue ReadingAn 18th-century Grade II* listed country home. Work began with a plan of complete restoration in 2022, due to be complete summer 2025.
Continue ReadingA Grade II* listed country house based in the heart of Gloucestershire. We were assigned to do a full turn key project starting back in 2020 and due to be completed in 2025.
Continue ReadingSet in The Scottish Borders, a former shooting lodge on the estate of the Duke of Buccleuch, followed by a period as a hotel, the property was purchased along with a substantial amount of land and a farm to return it to its origins as
Continue ReadingBuilt circa 1760 this beautifully proportioned country house is a great example of the relaxed, timeless layered country style that is so well loved around the world. Completed twenty-seven years ago it retains its fresh, warm and inviting look and reflects the clients love of
Continue ReadingA five-bedroom, five-bathroom, new-build family home in the Jacobean revival style popularised in the 19th century by the Arts & Crafts movement. With tall chimneys, mullioned windows and gable roofs, set among the large houses and leafy suburbs of a pretty Cheshire village the property
Continue ReadingThe core of the house dates from 1750 with several later additions. The house was enlarged to service entertaining and included an Orangerie, entrance porch and hallway. Several spaces were knocked together to enlarge rooms, and the second floor was raised by one metre to
Continue ReadingThis long-neglected three-story, nine-bedroom, Grade II-listed Georgian mansion required a comprehensive but sensitive refurbishment. Mark Gillette conceived a fresh but sympathetic personality for every room in the house, sourcing the furnishings, antiques and artworks, as well as creating five modern bathrooms that remain in keeping with
Continue ReadingBuilt in 1912 between the late Art Nouveau and early Art Deco periods, the four-storey villa sits high on the hillside overlooking Lake Geneva. Having lost many of its original features during a phase of modernisation undertaken by the previous owner, Mark Gillette was appointed
Continue ReadingThis significant Grade II* Country House set in 500 acres of parkland had been in the same family for several generations before the current owners purchased the property in 2010. Having known two previous Mark Gillette projects, the owners approached Mark to undertake the extensive
Continue ReadingBuilt in 1714 for the Duchess of Hamilton, Mark was appointed to undertake a complete redesign and refurbishment of this Grade II listed townhouse in the heart of Chelsea. Spread across four floors the accommodation boasts such original features as the pickled-pine panelling in the
Continue ReadingBurley on the Hill is a 17th-century Grade I listed country house, built for the 2nd Earl of Nottingham, who took his inspiration from Sir Christopher Wren. The house was renovated in the mid-1990s and divided into six substantial private residential dwellings. A US-based couple
Continue ReadingThis magnificent Georgian Grade II* listed house in Cheshire was built around 1830. The owners wanted a complete redesign of the interior and appointed Mark to work with the architects to create a comfortable and sophisticated home. Mark Gillette designed five new bathrooms; a bespoke
Continue ReadingWhen an international oil magnate bought a duplex apartment, in The Lancasters, a recently developed 19th-century stuccoed block overlooking Hyde Park, London, he asked Mark Gillette to create an interior that would be both homely and appropriate for high level entertaining. Mark is well known for
Continue ReadingPositioned on a Liverpool city centre street often referred to as “The Harley Street of the North”, this four-storey Georgian townhouse, built circa 1784, had recently undergone a major refurbishment, converting it from its commercial use back to residential. The historic interior was largely intact,
Continue ReadingMark has recently completed a 25,000 sq ft new-build eco country house in North Yorkshire, which is owned by a private family who are philanthropists and major patrons of the arts. The six bedroom house has a ¾ circular design with basement and a garage that
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