Grantly Hall is now one of the world’s top luxury hotels, set in 30 acres of glorious North Yorkshire countryside, through which the River Skell ambles. Our master-planning work secured planning consent for the conversion of the former country house into a hotel, spa and wedding venue and lead on to the major transformation and restoration of the estate into world class gardens. We worked as part of a large multi-disciplinary team through the full construction and planting process, dredging the river and repairing its numerous historic cascades, lowering the park by over a metre to its original level, fully restoring the listed Japanese strolling garden which had become incredibly overgrown, restoring all the lawns and moated island and creating substantial new flower gardens. On the east side of the Hall we created a large new flower garden, based on two historic axial views from the front door of the hall to the 18^th century bridge over the Skell and taken from the early 20^th century, directly along the garden to six domed yews near the ha-ha wall. The great planted plats of the flower garden, their outline based on plasterwork patterns in the ceiling of the great morning room in the Hall, flank an 80-metre-long rill that connects the ornamental pool in the forecourt with the contemporary seating arbour at the east end of the garden. The magnificent arbour was made for us by Kendrews Architectural Metalwork in Harrogate and is based on the gradated glazing of a Victorian cupola.