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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

Fire-gutted Clandon Park House to be conserved as ruin, says National Trust

Clandon Park House in Surrey two weeks after a fire
‘Raw power and poetic beauty’: interior walkways and roof lights will allow visitors to view the shell of the Palladian Clandon Park up close. Photograph: National Trust Images/Chris Lacey

Clandon Park, an elegant 18th-century stately home that was gutted in a fire in 2015, is to be mainly conserved as a ruin rather than restored to its former Palladian glory.

Plans by the National Trust, which has owned the Grade I-listed house since 1956, will allow visitors to see the “raw power and poetic beauty” of the building after the flames stripped away panelling and plasterwork and brought down floors, said Kent Rawlinson, the project director.

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