A stately home’s Victorian-era roof and plumbing is not fit for today’s weather patterns, the National Trust said.
An “enormous scaffold” will be erected across the front face of Cragside house in Northumberland later, as part of a £1.8m conservation project to repair and renovate the roof.
Citing the effects of climate change, property curator Clara Woolford said it was not designed for today’s “very different” weather patterns with longer, damper winters and more frequent sudden events like storms.
The project, which is expected to last two years, will use free-standing scaffolding and will pause during Cragside’s bat breeding season.
