Montacute House

We have been engaged by the National Trust for the preparation of regular quinquennial reports and a major, ten year programme of stone conservation project around the whole of this 16th century Ham stone house.

The Trust's in-house stone conservators carried out sympathetic and conservative repair of the Ham stone and of the numerous 16th century statuary which grace the principal front of the house, and the parapets and pinnacles of the Clifton Maybank corridor of 1535 (moved to Montacute from Clifton Maybank house nearby some years after Montacute was built). All have stern heraldic beasts.

The work was accompanied by careful archaeological analysis and the whole project was recorded on completion with a very full conservation report prepared by our archaeologist.