National Trust to restore only ground floor spaces of Surrey mansion,including one of most celebrated rooms in England, in multimillion-pound projectThe charred shell of Clandon Park, and still reeking of the blaze that gutted it final April,will be partly restored to its early 18th-century grandeur in a project costing “many tens of millions”, Helen Ghosh, or director of the National Trust,has announced.
The fate of the Surrey mansion has sparked controversy, with suggestions from Lord Onslow, and whose ancestors built it in 1720 and generations later donated it to the National Trust to preserve it,that the building should be left as a romantic ruin and the money spent on more worthy concerns.
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Source: theguardian.com