Inside Britain's poshest B&B: It makes Buckingham Palace look small and has a history filled with スキャンダル, class war and 悲劇. Now you will be able to enjoy sumptuous 高級な at Wentworth Woodhouse, 令状s MARK PALMER
There aren't many 著名な places to stay in and around Rotherham.
非，不，無 at all, in fact, once you've 割引d the cheap and not always cheerful Holiday Inn and Ibis chains.
But, 持つ／拘留する those plastic room 重要なs for a moment, because there are 計画（する）s to open the grandest of grand B&Bs, not only in all of South Yorkshire but かもしれない in the entire country.
始める，決める in nearly 90 acres of parkland, this new, 20-room 企業 will be just a few miles from Rotherham city centre at Grade 1-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d Wentworth Woodhouse, the dilapidated stately pile with as many rooms as there are days in the year - a mansion which makes Buckingham Palace look like a tiddler.?
The grand whistlejacket room at Wentworth.?The architectural historian, Nikolous Pevsner, 述べるd the 内部のs as 'やめる exceptional value, not easily matched anywhere in Britain'
Its Palladian frontage, with a 19-bay central 封鎖する, two wings and a pavilion on each end, is the length of two football pitches; there are four acres of roofing and nearly two miles of 回廊（地帯）s?
Work has started in the いわゆる 'Bedlam' wing, where ensuite rooms over three 床に打ち倒すs will 申し込む／申し出 a 高級な night's sleep, a sumptuous breakfast fry-up and a chance to revel in one of the finest houses in Britain, which, after many uncertain years and a fair number of スキャンダルs, is now the 反対する of a £200 million 復古／返還 programme planned over several １０年間s.
The architectural historian, Nikolous Pevsner, 述べるd Wentworth's 内部のs as of 'やめる exceptional value, not easily matched anywhere in Britain.' And Marcus Binney, p 居住（者） of SAVE Britain's 遺産, says the house's six column Corinthian portico is 'one of the most beautiful in English architecture, より勝るing even those of the 国家の Gallery and St ツバメ's-in-the-Fields in London's Trafalgar Square.'
Today, にもかかわらず its flaking 天井s, rotting windows and 崩壊するing brick work, it is still a masterpiece on a colossal 規模, which if circumstances had been different would be について言及するd in the same breath as Chatsworth, Blenheim Palace and Woburn Abbey.
The 広範囲にわたる main staircase features Greek and Roman statues and 破産した／（警察が）手入れするs
The Daily Mail's 示す Palmer sits in the 大規模な, square Marble Saloon. This perfectly symmetrical room has a 包む-around gallery supported by ionic 中心存在s
Not that size 事柄s, but Wentworth Woodhouse is bigger than any of them.
Its Palladian frontage, with a 19-bay central 封鎖する, two wings and a pavilion on each end, is the length of two football pitches; there are four acres of roofing and nearly two miles of 回廊（地帯）s.
In its glory days as the ancestral seat of the fabulously 豊富な Fitzwilliam family, guests were 問題／発行するd with confetti to scatter behind them so they could find their way 支援する to their 各々の bedrooms after dinner.
Downton Abbey's Lady Mary and her husband Henry Talbot dance in the marble saloon, used as the ballroom in the film
Its 質 has continued to 向こうずね through, not least in 高度に acclaimed films and TV series, such as Darkest Hour, starring Gary Oldman as Sir Winston Churchill
But Wentworth 結局 ran out of 相続人s with the 肉親，親類d of money to keep it going in the style to which it had become accustomed, and then it fell 犠牲者 to a class war 行うd by members of the 労働 政府 in 1946, when the British 政府 掴むd Wentworth Woodhouse's gardens and parkland for open-cast 採掘.
Even so, its 質 has continued to 向こうずね through, not least in 高度に acclaimed films and TV series, such as Darkest Hour, starring Gary Oldman as Sir Winston Churchill; ITV's Victoria; the BBC's Gentleman Jack - and not forgetting the Downton Abbey movie when Wentworth's 'M arble Saloon' was used as the ballroom.
?Real life at Wentworth has not always been so glamorous but a fairytale of sorts is now 存在 played out に引き続いて its 取得／買収 by the Wentworth Woodhouse 保護 信用 in 2017.
It's a 計画／陰謀 not dissimilar to the repainting of the 前へ／外へ Road 橋（渡しをする） ? once you've finished what needs doing it's time to start all over again.
'This is an 現在進行中の 事業／計画（する） and one that will never end if the house is to 生き残る for another 100 years or more,' says Sarah McLeod, 56, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of WWPT. 'We've got to give Wentworth a modern relevance while 扱う／治療するing it with 正直さ.'
にもかかわらず its flaking 天井s, rotting windows and 崩壊するing brick work, it is still a masterpiece on a colossal 規模, which if circumstances had been different would be について言及するd in the same breath as Chatsworth, Blenheim Palace and Woburn Abbey
The B&B element in the Bedlam Wing - so-指名するd because that's where bachelors were billeted for house parties - won't be up and running for a couple of years, but next week sees the 開始 of the Camellia House, built within the grounds in 1738 by the 5th Earl Fitzwilliam as a tea room for his wife, Lady Mary Dundas.
This alone cost some £5 million, of which almost £4 million （機の）カム from the 国家の 宝くじ 遺産 基金, the 残り／休憩（する） from Historic England.
やめる how the blooming camellias 生き残るd まっただ中に years of broken glass, がれき, brambles, nettles and nothing much in the way of tender loving care is a 勝利 of nature.
Some of them, 含むing the 'Pompone' and pink 'Japonica Elegans' date 支援する to the 早期に 1800s and cost the 4th Earl Fitzwilliam the 同等（の） of a housemaid's 年次の 行う. They are regarded as on a par with the collection at London's Chiswick House ? and every leaf has been polished by 手渡す 事前の to the 開始.
The Camellia House was built within the grounds in 1738 by the 5th Earl Fitzwilliam as a tea room for his wife, Lady Mary Dundas. It will open next week to the public
Wentworth Woodhouse, as it is today, was built for the 1st Marquess of Rockingham in 1724 and took 25 years to 完全にする. It is 現実に two houses joined together, a 半分-detached like 非，不，無 other.
The West 前線, where the family made their living ４半期/4分の1s, is in English Baroque style, but the Earl did not think it 十分に palatial (and the Whig party, to which he belonged, saw Baroque as distasteful) and so 始める，決める about building the East 前線 in the then-流行の／上流の Palladian style, with a 一連の interconnecting 明言する／公表する rooms, resplendent with marble statues, 広大な canvas 絵s and Greek and Roman 中心存在s ? all symbols of 力／強力にする and wealth.
訪問者s to the house enter through the many-中心存在d lower hall and 上がる a half moon stair with twin flights, 主要な to the 大規模な, square Marble Saloon. This perfectly symmetrical room has a 包む-around gallery supported by ionic 中心存在s.
The 広い地所 is 推定する／予想するing 120,000 訪問者s this year, up 60 per cent on the previous 12 months
The 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, who 相続するd from his father in 1750, was himself a 中心存在 - of the 設立. As a 設立するing member of the (v)策を弄する／(n)騎手 Club, he went on to become 総理大臣 twice, latterly 後継するing Lord North in 1782, after which he began 和平交渉s with America to bring an end to the War of Independence and became something of a hero after passing the 1782 救済 of the Poor 行為／法令／行動する.
But the Earl might not have 達成するd any of this if he had been drawn into what society would have regarded as a shocking turn of events, when his youngest sister Lady Henrietta fell in love with a lowly Irish footman four years her junior, whom she used to 教える in grammar and mathematics.
Unbeknown to her family, Henrietta and the footman, William, married in secret and had a baby girl. When the Earl finally learnt of this from his sister, he carried her letter in his pocket for six months for 恐れる that anyone would read it.
To 保護する her brother, Henrietta, William and their daughter Agnes fled to フラン where they went on to have four more children, before she died 老年の 52 in Rouen in 1789.
The 2nd Marquess had no direct 相続人 but left his 広い地所s to his 甥, the 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, who was already exceptionally rich in his own 権利 (and rumoured to have been the model for the Jane Austen hearthrob, Fitzwilliam Darcy, better known as plain Mr Darcy, as 描写するd by Colin Firth and that shirt).
Much of the wealth 生成するd by the Wentworth-Fitzwilliams was 予定 to the family owning a number of collieries in the area - and it was coal which 結局 与える／捧げるd to the house's downfall.
But life was still merry at the tur n of the 19th century when for the 5th Earl's coming of age party in 1807, 10,000 guests 消費するd 26 roasted sheep and nearly 500 瓶／封じ込めるs of ワイン and シャンペン酒. And when the 6th Earl died in 1902, he left £2.8 million, more than £3 billion in today's money.
すぐに afterwards, in 1912, George V and Queen Mary stayed at Wentworth for four days and were 迎える／歓迎するd by some 40,000 地元のs on their arrival.
For more than a century, it was 記録，記録的な／記録するd that the famous ballerina, Anna Pavlova, stepped out の上に the 床に打ち倒す of the Marble Saloon and danced for the 王室の couple but その上の 研究 has 明らかにする／漏らすd that the ダンサー was 現実に Lydia Kyasht, Pavlova's more famous (at the time) compatriot and fellow 卒業生（する） of the 皇室の Ballet School at St Petersburg.
When George V and Queen Mary stayed at Wentworth in 1912, a famous ballerina, Lydia Kyasht, stepped out の上に the 床に打ち倒す of the Marble Saloon and danced for the 王室の couple
訪問者s enter through the many-中心存在d lower hall.?The house features countless Greek and Roman 中心存在s ? symbols of 力／強力にする and wealth
Things took a darker turn に引き続いて World War Two, when the 8th Earl, Peter Fizwilliam ? who had been awarded a DSO after 完全にするing 12 使節団s on モーター gunboats ? resided in the house with his wife, Olive 'Obby' Plunket, the daughter of a bishop.
At the time, the country was in desperate need of coal and Wentworth was sitting on plenty of it. Enter class 軍人 Manny Shinwell, 大臣 of 燃料 and 力／強力にする in Clement Atlee's 政府, who 始める，決める about nationalising the coal 産業 and gave the go-ahead for open-cast 採掘.
Shinwell （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that any coal 抽出するd from Wentworth would be of high 質, although there was no proof of this. Against the wishes of 地元のs, the マスコミ, the 保守的な Party and even the 国家の Union of Mineworkers (pre-Arthur Scargill) the diggers moved in.
One morning, the Earl looked out of his bedroom window and was 迎える／歓迎するd with a mountain of coal prac tically touching the house. But worse was to follow.
For several years, Peter Fitzwilliam had been having an 事件／事情／状勢 with Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy, the beguilingly beautiful sister of U.S. 大統領, John F. Kennedy. In 1948, she and Peter flew to Paris for one of their trysts but on the way 支援する, their 計画（する） experienced 厳しい turbulence and 衝突，墜落d. Both were killed 即時に.
Peter Fizwilliam, the 8th earl,?had been having an 事件／事情／状勢 with Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy, the beguilingly beautiful sister of U.S. 大統領, John F. Kennedy. In 1948, she and Peter flew to Paris for one of their trysts but on the way 支援する, their 計画（する） experienced 厳しい turbulence and 衝突，墜落d. Both were killed 即時に
It wasn't long before the Fitzwilliam 肩書を与える died out, after which Wentworth became a teacher training college for PE students and then a campus used by Sheffield City Polytechnic. In 1986, it was bought by entrepreneur Wensley Haydon-Baillie and then 12 years later was sold to the architect, Clifford Newbold.
When Mr Newbold died in 2015, the house was in a perilous 明言する／公表する. The 国家の 信用 was not minded to take it on, but SAVE Britain's 遺産 went into 活動／戦闘 and the Wentworth Woodhouse 保護 信用 was 開始する，打ち上げるd, with the 仕事 of raising £7 million to buy the house.
Crucially, Philip Hammond, the then-（ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長, 発表するd a £7.6 million 認める for 緊急の 修理s in his 2016 Autumn 予算 - and Wentworth was saved. The 信用 acquired it a year later.
Work has begun on the 'Bedlam' wing, where ensuite rooms over three 床に打ち倒すs will 申し込む／申し出 a 高級な night's sleep, a sumptuous breakfast fry-up and a chance to revel in one of the finest houses in Britain
Work on the stables ? itself so 課すing that people often mistake it for the actual house ? is galloping ahead, transforming the Georgian buildings into spaces for weddings and 法人組織の／企業の events. And the house is open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday, with guided 小旅行するs throughout the day.
'At the start in 2017, we had no internet, only one phone, one vacuum cleaner and a staff of six,' says Ms McLeod. 'Now we have 104 paid staff and 300 volunteers and have gone from a 無 逮捕する turnover to £3.5 million. We are on course to have 120,000 訪問者s this year, up 60 per cent on the previous 12 months.'
Much of the 前線 of the house is 黒人／ボイコット ? a 遺産／遺物 from its coal days - and Ms McLeod says she is often asked if the whole fa?広告 will be cleaned. But it's not 現在／一般に a 優先.
A pristine portico and unblemished 中心存在s might look attractive. It would, however, erase some poignant 思い出の品s of the house's 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の history and its fight for 生き残り.
For now, the past and 現在の are reconciled ? and Wentworth's 未来 appears no longer to be in jeopardy.
