Work has been completed on part of its 600ft frontage
The South and North Pavilions were the 1st Marquess of Rockingham’s finishing touches to his ever-expanding Georgian home, near Rotherham.
The first floor was the Tower Bedchamber containing a fire grate, two pairs of bedsteads with stiff hangings, two feather beds and bolsters, blankets, coverlets, three old chairs, two stools, a small looking-glass and a small square table. “As with a lot of the mansion it was in very bad condition. It was at risk of being lost. The rain was getting in through the roof - the main issue with a lot of this building has been the roof coming to an end of its useful life.
“It’s really important in terms of preserving the building. We fixed the stonework, repaired the bridge and fixed the ironwork.”“We’re only just beginning really. We’ve used initial funding to fix the roof, but there’s not been much work on what goes on underneath.