This Victorian villa in Sunningdale, Berkshire, is set in gloriously landscaped grounds overlooking the golf course. It was built as a classic country home with a cricket-cum-polo pitch for an aristocrat who was attached to Queen Victoria’s court at Windsor Castle and needed to live a mere carriage ride away.
The internal layout of the house was previously ruined although some decorative mouldings and certain architectural features had been retained. Joanna’s brief was to return it to its original glory, unleash its joie de vivre and create a quintessential English country house that would have all the features of the ultimate, contemporary functioning family home.
