Humorous touches and an eclectic art collection sit alongside immaculately preserved features in this handsome Regency townhouse in Bath
I have done remarkably little to this house,” says Bill Keeling, who moved from the “claustrophobia” of London to a quiet leafy street in Bath five years ago. “I find the city architecturally beautiful,” he says. The former foreign correspondent bought the Georgian townhouse from two elderly authors and has barely touched the interior since. Ripping the guts out of a house to create a temporary experience is, he thinks, the ultimate in vanity. “It’s vulgar to put in the latest form of down-lighting so it looks like an airport lounge.” The original cornicing and mouldings remain and most rooms retain fireplaces and antique grates, wooden shutters and sash windows. Polished wooden floors are adorned with handsome rugs.
“Georgian Regency is a period I love,” says Keeling, co-owner with his brother of Prestat chocolates, which are made in a west London factory. “It is a transformative part of history – the industrial revolution, the coming of the railways, the death and removal of high society. My style is eclectic,” he continues, leading me into the bright drawing room, with floor-to-ceiling sash windows and painted in classic Little Greene Tivoli Blue.
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