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The Regency era, depicted so glamorously in\u00a0Netflix’s\u00a0hit series\u00a0Bridgerton, refers to the period when the Prince Regent \u2013 the future King George IV \u2013 oversaw a significant shift in fashion, style, and architecture, as he ruled in place of his ailing father.<\/p>\n
Officially covering the years 1811-1820, \u2018Regency\u2019 properties have often come to include other Georgian buildings \u2013 especially those developed in the neoclassical or revival Greek, Gothic, or Indian styles \u2013 that preceded and followed the period.<\/p>\n
See inside the most beautiful Regency houses around the world…<\/p>\n
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If there is one property that epitomises the refinement of the Regency era more than most, it\u2019s this historic house that stands on the edge of Bath\u2019s famous Georgian Royal Crescent<\/a>.<\/p>\n Built\u00a0between 1767 and 1775\u00a0by architect John Wood the Younger, its fa\u00e7ade doubles as the home of the Featherington family in\u00a0Bridgerton, ensuring a mere glimpse of it transports us into the Regency world. Built in the earlier Palladian Georgian style, its columns nevertheless\u00a0borrow\u00a0heavily from Ancient Greece and Rome.<\/p>\n Bath Preservation Trust<\/p>\n The property was officially opened as a museum in\u00a01970\u00a0and restored to the tune of \u00a35 million ($6.6m) before reopening in 2013.<\/p>\n Today, you can step inside No.1 Royal Crescent and wander the rooms, which are dressed and furnished much as they would have been when John Wood finished his work.<\/p>\n Savills<\/p>\n One of the most celebrated writers of the Regency era, Jane Austen made the Georgian city of Bath her home between 1801 and 1806, shortly before her books began being published.<\/p>\n Those with\u00a0a romantic imagination can\u00a0follow in her literary footsteps with this grand three-bed duplex apartment set within a historic Grade I-listed townhouse in the World Heritage City, designed in 1818.<\/p>\n Savills<\/p>\n Previously for sale via\u00a0Savills\u00a0for \u00a31.5 million ($2m), this luxury apartment spans the ground and lower ground floors of\u00a0Sion Hill Place<\/a>.<\/p>\n With a\u00a0beautiful bay-fronted reception room for receiving guests, plus other period features, including ornate cornicing, a marble fireplace, and original shutter windows, it’s a perfect pad for living out your Bridgerton-inspired Regency fantasies.<\/p>\n Jarrold Publishing\/Spencer House<\/p>\n Though the Ton \u2013 the name given to high society in the Regency era \u2013 liked to visit Bath, most of them lived (or at least had a pied-a-terre) in London.<\/p>\n And when it came to socialising, Spencer House\u00a0was the setting for some of the period’s most extravagant parties and lavish lunches, when it was under the stewardship of the 2nd Earl of Spencer and his wife, Lavinia.<\/p>\n Jarrold Publishing\/Spencer House<\/p>\n It was in rooms such as the house’s Great Room, where balls were held, in which eligible bachelors and debutantes tried to make a love match.<\/p>\n This opulent room features a coved ceiling decorated with coffering from Rome\u2019s Basilica of Maxentius, while Roman gods are depicted in\u00a0plaster roundels that look like bronze medallions. Free guided tours of Spencer House<\/a> are\u00a0available on Sundays.<\/p>\n Will Eastwick-Field\/Knight Frank<\/p>\n Of course, anyone who was anyone in Regency England also had a house in the country, and not just any house, but a sprawling estate such as\u00a0Laverstoke Park Estate<\/a>\u00a0in Hampshire.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Grade II-listed\u00a0Palladian Laverstoke House was built in the late 18th century and was so much a part of the social scene of the time that none other than Jane Austen, who lived nearby, was a frequent visitor.<\/p>\n Knight Frank<\/p>\n Today, the estate covers some\u00a01,835 acres (743ha) with about 1,279 acres (518ha) of organically certified farmland and comes with a portfolio of 17 other buildings within the grounds.<\/p>\n You’d certainly feel as though you’d reached the upper echelons of the Ton when dining at this\u00a0table while surveying your surroundings, which all comes with\u00a0an\u00a0asking price of \u00a358 million ($76m).<\/p>\n Hugh Mothersole\/National Trust Images<\/p>\n This stately home in Berkshire, in the care of the National Trust, appeared in Series 2 of Bridgerton as\u00a0the garden of the Featherington family’s home. Most\u00a0memorably, it served as the location for Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton\u2019s first kiss.<\/p>\n Though\u00a0the property\u2019s fa\u00e7ade is very much in the Palladian style, which was popular earlier on in the Georgian era for its sense of symmetry and temple-like appearance, things begin to look very different inside.<\/p>\n Hugh Mothersole\/National Trust Images<\/p>\n In the entrance hall, you can start to see some of the neoclassical influences and more intricate interiors, which helped inform the fashions of the looming Regency era, and were popularised by architect\u00a0Robert Adam.<\/p>\n In season 3 of Bridgerton, viewers finally get to see inside Basildon, which serves as the home of the wealthy widow, Lady Tilley Arnold. You can visit Basildon Park<\/a> and wander through the grand state rooms and imagine what life might have been like at the extremely rich end of the Regency scale.<\/p>\n MattariStudio\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n Though not strictly speaking of Regency design, if the Featheringtons had a genuine US cousin (not a conman like Jack), we imagine this is the kind of place they would live.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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