Benjamin Toby Pentreath

Place: Dorchester

Born: 1971

Biography:

Benjamin Toby Pentreath, known as Ben Pentreath, is an English architectural and interior designer. He runs Ben Pentreath Ltd, a RIBA chartered practice, and Pentreath & Hall, which sells home furnishings. Country Life called him one of the "best country house architects in Britain". Pentreath is responsible for much of the development since 2009 of Poundbury. He has also done other work for the Duchy of Cornwall, including a development in Truro. As an interior designer, he has worked for Princess of Wales on the refurbishment of Anmer Hall. Pentreath graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1995 with a degree in Art History and took up further studies at the Institute of Architecture. He moved to Norfolk to work for architectural designer Charles Morris, and then to New York for five years, before returning to England in 2003. He set up his Bloomsbury-based architecture and design firm in 2004. This was followed by his design store Pentreath & Hall in 2008. Pentreath married New Zealand florist Charlie McCormick in 2015. The couple live between a Georgian flat in Bloomsbury, London; the Old Parsonage in Littlebredy, Dorset; and a bothy on the Argyll coast of Scotland. He has written two books: English Decoration (2012) and English Houses (2016).