The Country Life Top 100

Britain is blessed with some of the world’s greatest architects, interior designers, garden designers and specialist craftspeople. For the fourth year running, COUNTRY LIFE selects those with a demonstrable track record in creating the perfect country home

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Architects

ADAM Architecture

Highly respected experts in traditional architecture and renowned for significant new country houses, refurbishments and considered alterations to listed properties, this practice is working on the extension of a listed house on a country estate in Berkshire and a new country villa in Hampshire.

01962 843843; www.adamarchitecture.com

ANTA Architecture

Conservation architect Lachlan Stewart leads a practice known for both new houses designed in the Scottish vernacular and for the historic restoration and repair of listed buildings, which include the renovation of the Rodel House on the Isle of Harris.

01862 850100; www.anta.co.uk

Ben Pentreath

The talented Mr Pentreath runs a small, but perfectly formed interior-design studio,​ an architectural and masterplanning practice and, with Bridie Hall, the cornucopia of decorative delights that is the Pentreath & Hall shop. Recent projects include the interior restoration of the early-18th-century Chettle House in Dorset and the interior design of the former Hardy Amies townhouse on Savile Row, W1, as a flagship store for the tailoring services of Hackett.

020–7430 2424; www.benpentreath.com

Benjamin Tindall Architects