BURLINGTON HELPS RESTORE HISTORIC WENTWORTH CASTLE
 Natural slate roofing from the UK’s leading producer, Cumbria-based
Burlington, has been used to help restore Wentworth Castle - one of
the UK’s most important historical buildings which lies at the heart
of South Yorkshire’s Stainborough Park.
Having benefited from a £10.5 million regeneration package granted
by the Heritage Lottery Fund that has been used to not only improve
the Grade I listed Wentworth Castle but 26 other listed structures
located on the Stainborough Estate, Burlington’s Blue/Grey Kirkby
roofing slate has been used to help renew the Castle’s entire roof
covering.
With £2.5 million of the total grant being dedicated solely to the
regeneration of Wentworth Castle, Burlington’s Blue Grey Kirkby
slate was specified for the project by architects, designers and
historic building consultants, Purcell, Miller, Tritton LLR. As
architect, Stephen Elliott comments: “The Burlington slate has been
used to replace a Nuralite covering that had been laid nearly 25
years ago as a cheap measure to protect the roof, however this was
in very poor condition and was already showing signs of leaking.
“We specified Burlington for the project as they can offer slates of
the quality and finish which is in keeping with those used on
historic buildings of this kind. What’s more, Burlington’s Blue/Grey
Kirkby slate matched the original colour found on Wentworth Castle.
As a result, we have been able to restore the roof back to its
original appearance,” he added.
Installed by specialist roofing and lead work contractors, Lawson
Peel of Batley, West Yorkshire, approximately 820sq m of Blue/Grey
Kirkby slate has been used to cover over 50% of the roof space which
now features alongside traditional stone slate that was already in
place and sand cast lead. Burlington’s specialist roof ventilation
slates were also specified for the Wentworth Castle project.
The task of fitting the natural slate roofing proved particularly
difficult on this project as the roofs were pitched at a
twenty-degree angle, the maximum to which slates can be adhered.
Featuring the finest gardens in South Yorkshire and some of the best
in the country, Wentworth Castle is today home to the Northern
College for Residential Adult Education and houses teaching,
administrative, social facilities and student accommodation. Money
spent on renovating the buildings and gardens serves to reflect 300
years of landscape design and the building’s trust is predicting
some 40,000 visitors in its first year of opening. Standing as the
most important building on the Stainborough Park site, Wentworth
Castle forms a rectangular on plan and was built in four distinct
phases, each of which exhibits its own architectural and aesthetic
expression:
· Classical vernacular 'Cutler House' (north wing) built in 1670-72
for St Gervase Cutler.
· Baroque east wing built in 1710-20 and designed by Johann Bodt for
Thomas Wentworth.
· Palladian south and west wing built circa 1760 under the guidance
of Charles Ross for William Wentworth.
· Victorian extension to west wing built in 1897.
Email:
paul@wentworthcomms.co.uk
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