The series, which is hosted by Kevin McCloud and Dr Anna Keay, looks at a number of incredible restorations of historic buildings, and in the second episode, features our very own Mount Stewart. The show will reveal the extensive work behind the £8million conservation project to restore the 80-room house to the glory days of the Twenties and Thirties, when Charles and Edith, the 7th Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry, were in residence.
Four year labour of love
Over the past four years the building has been stabilised, redecorated, rewired and replumbed, with all 150 windows removed, repaired and replaced. The quality of restoration and craftsmanship involved was so impressive that the project won the building conservation award at the 2016 RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) Awards.
The project was only recently completed with the unveiling of the original Scrabo stone floor in the Central Hall that dates back to the1840s.