Plans to restore the Victorian Conservatory at Wentworth Castle to its former glory have been given the green light thanks to a lottery-funded grant.The restoration project has been granted £220,000 development funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The idea is to turn the conservatory, which dates from 1877, into a gateway into the estate’s 60-acre Pleasure Gardens.
It is hoped the revamped space will also allow more space for new planting displays and help with the development of an education programme.
The Conservatory is a fragile and rare survival of a Victorian glasshouse. Reputed to have been built anywhere between 1840 and 1900, the conservatory at Wentworth is likely to have been built in the late 1880s.
It was designed, erected, heated and lighted by Crompton and Fawkes of Chelmsford, who described it as an ‘iron winter garden’ in their catalogue for 1889.
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