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.

@MrDavfit

Ай бұрын

Needs a slow restore

@anteeker

Ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing as I was watching this- just sounds like a lot of excuses for not doing the right thing.

@sianwarwick633

17 күн бұрын

Have you the means to interest someone who needs to launder billions into the British restoration economy

We won't see Clandon House restored in our lifetime. The insurance proceeds are dedicated to bureaucrats salaries & pet projects. ❤️🙏

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.

I would’ve preferred a rebuild like Uppark just down the road which turned out fantastically.

@AlexAlexon3897

Жыл бұрын

My thoughts too.

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.

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.

Makes me weep.

All of the many hundreds of ruins left standing already show their skeletal remains.

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.

As soon as you mentioned 'the communities that made it' I knew it was doomed to a rewriting of history.

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.

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.

Mad architects. The good thing is that these people won't be around for very long.

So, it's going to be left a shell? RIP Clandon

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?

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.

Can modern builders even be found to carry out a full restoration? Modern Britain can't even rebuild what it once built.

I do not like that kind of "approach".

@timhazeltine3256

Ай бұрын

Obviously there was no need to restore the entire building. However, a few of the state rooms were remarkable and deserve better. Sadly, the NT's approach is laden with a heavy dose of 21st century New Speak intended for the intellectual elite rather than the broader public.

Terrible plans. Restore Clandon to how it was. Everone knows you got huge pay-out from the insurance to do just that.

@MrDavfit

Ай бұрын

I think the cost was way higher than payout.that's why you do fund raising ! Look at Notre dame

@timhazeltine3256

Ай бұрын

​@@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?

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

Restore it, or demolish it. These plans are a disgrace.

This reminds me of the Hinton Ampner house restoration

Looks stunning. Day trip sorted!

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. 😭

You don't restore it because it's terribly expensive.

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

a visit for specialists in architecture. OK so you do not have money to restore so this will have to do.

This house was gutted .. ahhh a big fire destroyed it

Amazing💖

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.

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.

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.

Wow! Just - Wow! What a brave and BRILLIANT initiative.