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WhatHouse? Awards 2016 hat-trick winners – Millgate Homes

Posted 30 November 2016 by Keith Osborne

Success in three categories made the 2016 WhatHouse? Awards a highly successful afternoon for high-end housebuilder Millgate Homes...

There were no fewer than three Awards for luxury housebuilder Millgate Homes at the 35th WhatHouse? Awards, bagging glory in front of an industry audience for different developments the company has built on sites across the south-east of England.

This year, guest host Lord (William) Hague returned to the stage 12 years after his first appearance at the biggest event in UK housebuilding, entertaining around 1,700 senior industry figures attended the Gala Luncheon in the Great Room of the London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. He presented Millgate with a Silver for Best House for the company’s Sundridge Park development in Bromley, another Silver for Englemere in Ascot in the Best Luxury Development and Bronze for Best Development for Woolley Hall in Maidenhead.

WhatHouse? Awards 2016 judges' reportJonathan Cranley, sales and marketing director at Millgate, says: “It is a great pleasure for Millgate to have had such success at the most prestigious awards ceremony within the housebuilding industry. To win one award would be a great achievement, but to win three awards for our flagship sites, Englemere, Woolley Hall and Sundridge Park is a fantastic accomplishment in which every Millgate member of staff takes immense pride.

“These awards are dedicated to their outstanding endeavours this year. Our talented team work extremely hard to create timeless homes and it is a real privilege to have this hard work recognised by the professionals within the sector.”

The WhatHouse? Awards judges said of Sundridge Park: “The scheme’s architect, Adam Architecture, has drawn inspiration from John Nash’s Grade I listed mansion, which already occupies the site, to successfully reinvent a standard terraced house in a neo-classical style, complementing Humphry Repton’s thoughtfully curated landscaping. The quality of the detailing and the implementation of the scheme using high-quality products is apparent.”

Of Woolley Hall they said: “The 24 acres of the… Estate has been skilfully developed to create a mix of high-quality apartments and housing. These include the conversion of the Grade II listed Hall to create six grand mansion apartments, refurbished stable conversions, new mews houses and five classically styled detached villas. All of which are sensitively located within the extensive, mature gardens. [The] attention to detail runs through the development and is a credit to the designers and the developer”

Of Englemere they added: “Millgate set out to ‘break up the imposing residence into more human spaces’ and it is has achieved this. But you still know you are in something grand, with the luxury hotel-style entrance hall and the stone chequerboard flooring. The 12 acres of gardens are pastoral elegance in suburban Berkshire, studded by stone and water features. This is a worthy silver winner in a category of exceptional quality.”

Find out more about the WhatHouse? Awards 2016 here

 

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