New plans for Clandon Park embrace a great house laid bare
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- The National Trust has announced a new approach for Clandon Park, the early 18th-century house in Surrey, designed by the innovative Italian architect Giacomo Leoni and catastrophically damaged by fire in April 2015.
The fire was the most devastating in the Trust’s history. It completely destroyed the roof, many of the internal walls and floors, along with much of the decorative interior, leaving a brick shell.
Our new plans will see most of the interior of Clandon thoughtfully conserved in its fire-damaged state, offering people a unique ‘X-ray’ view of how country houses were made.
Suspended walkways and platforms will give visitors new views and perspectives through the house where floors once were, and a new roof with public terraces and roof lights will give breath-taking views down into the house from above.
Watch the video to hear all about our plans from the experts and craftspeople working on the house.
This video is just a lot of mealy mouthed excuses for not doing the full restoration that the house deserves. These people are completely lacking in any ambition or vision. Shame on the National Trust.
Needs a slow restore
I was thinking the same thing as I was watching this- just sounds like a lot of excuses for not doing the right thing.
Have you the means to interest someone who needs to launder billions into the British restoration economy
I would’ve preferred a rebuild like Uppark just down the road which turned out fantastically.
My thoughts too.
We won't see Clandon House restored in our lifetime. The insurance proceeds are dedicated to bureaucrats salaries & pet projects. ❤️🙏
I have many memories of Clandon House before the fire - I even got married here. Personally, I don’t think these plans would encourage me back. Sorry NT.
It reminds me of a reconstructed dinosaur skeleton. That's troubling, because the actual house existed in living memory - until 2015, that is! Uppark, not far from Clandon, was rebuilt. Prior Park, near Bath, was restored twice, after two major fires (I saw the more recent one in 1991). This approach is odd.
All of the many hundreds of ruins left standing already show their skeletal remains.
What an... underwhelming plan. This place was a national treasure, and rather than restore it they choose to make an exhibition of the tragedy and destruction that took place there, hoping to attract tourists so they can all come and... enjoy the ruins and be reminded of the horrible fire, generation after generation.
So, it's going to be left a shell? RIP Clandon
Terrible plans. Restore Clandon to how it was. Everone knows you got huge pay-out from the insurance to do just that.
I think the cost was way higher than payout.that's why you do fund raising !
Look at Notre dame
@@MrDavfitOr Wentworth Woodhouse whose website is exemplary because it highlights restoration and adaptive re-use focused on benefiting local communities instead of talking heads. I wonder if the NT reached out to surrounding communities to discover their needs and vision for the property before they selected this approach?
I couldn’t agree more. That ghastly modern glass roof and internal walkway are an absolute travesty and totally at odds with the original architecture. I’m baffled by this contemporary insistence on ‘contrasting the old with the new’ and slapping tasteless modern steel and glass extensions etc. onto important historic buildings. It should be properly restored to its original specifications, or left entirely alone. This is just horrible.
Good grief! You can always rely on The National Trust to apply cliched outdated approaches. Do they think this makes them more relatable to a modern audience, or, do they think this 90s concept and architectural proposal makes them appear cutting edge?
Can modern builders even be found to carry out a full restoration? Modern Britain can't even rebuild what it once built.
My 2019 Royal College of Art thesis project was on Clandon Park and was talking about the same themes! Also, I took some pictures back then during the site visits that could be interesting to show ;)
Or can’t be bothered to restore it properly although fully insured, there are many historic houses in such stages of disrepair. Yet again the National Trust cutting corners to save money
You don't restore it because it's terribly expensive.
At first I was thinking they meant to leave a portion unrestored in order to highlight how the house was built, and I think that could have been an interesting approach. But to leave the whole thing in a state of stabilized destruction is a true tragedy.
Restore it, or demolish it. These plans are a disgrace.
I wish I'd visited before the fire. I am sad they're not restoring it to its former glory but the cost must be astronomical! Shame but thee days, money talks. 😭
This reminds me of the Hinton Ampner house restoration
yeaaaa, we had these buildings stripped down to their walls after the anglo-american bombers destroyed all our heritage, our medival cities in Germany during WWII. Nobody cared then. Fortunately things have changed now. Good luck for the project! I love it.
What absolute load of nonsense. I have always had little respect for the National Trust, as they should have stepped in more and saved many of the great estates in the 50s and 60s. and did not. This shows the lack of imagination of the people that run the organistion to spout rubbish about effectively doing nothing by showing the bear skelton as if people should be impressed with scorched brickwork, pathetic.
Clandon is one of the reasons I left the NT. I’ve never heard them issue an apology for this appalling failure of stewardship. Shame on them.
Amazing💖
Oh no this is really sad news, a lot of educated chatter spending lots of money doing very little, surely you would get a better financial return hiring craftsmen and women to bring it properly back to how it was one room at a time ..I can’t believe it’s taken ten years to come up with flowery excuses ! Also this would be a brilliant opportunity for education for people from all over the planet who want to learn about recreating dying crafts, such a wasted opportunity for dying trades.
Perhaps one day NT will be big enough to explain precisely why they are not restoring the house as they originally promised. No shame or admission of their insufficiency while they big-up their cheap and nasty downgraded plans is the snake like method we have regretfully come to expect from the National Trust.
Tragic. I'm gutted beyond words that we've lost one of the most beautiful houses in England forever. I think we all knew this was how it was going to end but it is still heart wrenching.
They have hardly a stick of furniture to put back in the place, so no wonder they are not restoring. I knew the place before the fire and I would not go and look at this because it would make me very sad.
As soon as you mentioned 'the communities that made it' I knew it was doomed to a rewriting of history.
I sadly never visited, but I remember seeing this room at 0:30 used as a dining room in the film “The Duchess” with Kiera Knightley, and thinking how utterly exquisite it was. How I wish the fire never happened and I could see it in all its glory.
Makes me weep.
Mad architects. The good thing is that these people won't be around for very long.
a visit for specialists in architecture. OK so you do not have money to restore so this will have to do.
Looks stunning. Day trip sorted!
I read over 600 items were saved from the fire and many of these will be placed in the house and paintings will be hung over some of the walls, it's not just going to be a tour of huge interior brick walls, and when finally completed with the windows in and exterior restored and the interior walkways up maybe it will be seen they got it right and will prove a huge success. Maybe
Wow! Just - Wow! What a brave and BRILLIANT initiative.
This house was gutted .. ahhh a big fire destroyed it