dodington park grade 1 listed restoration 1995 tormarton • gloucestershire

dodington Park, designed by James Wyatt in 1790, has over many decades, been altered and adapted from the original house plan and form. A major programme of restoration and modernisation was undertaken that included replacing architectural features and artefacts, cornices and skirtings, windows and doors, floors and coverings –  discovered misplaced in vaults and attics to their correct rooms and positions. The work included re-presenting the original stone scheme of the staircase hall and the extensive repair of scagiola columns in the main entrance hall. Fibre optic lighting was used extensively to minimise intrusive interior and exterior lighting. An extensive interior design scheme was undertaken to return every room,whether principal, secondary and tertiary, to their former uses and appropriate styles and all within the context of a vocabulary that was non invasive towards the original design. The Capability Brown designed landscape received similarly sensitive attention and non-obtrusive fibre optic moon-glow flood lighting gave new life to restored folly features in the magnificent landscape setting of the house