Grade II-Listed Manor House, Somerset

A 17th-century Somerset manor house, Grade II-listed and dating to the 1650s, provided interior designer Sarah Southwell with the project she had been looking for — one that demanded sympathetic renovation as much as decoration. The house had functioned as a working farm for years; its stone mullion windows, oak front door and warren of nooks and crannies were precisely what drew Southwell and her family to it.

The dressing room and bathroom occupy one of the manor's more private rooms. A Witt & Berg 1500mm Polished Copper bath with white enamel interior sits at its centre, the warmth of the metal picking up the room's antique sliding barn door and timber floors. Wallpapered cupboard door panels — Tess Newall for Yolke — bring the same layered, character-led approach Southwell applies throughout the house.

Somerset, England