Using a range of specialist skills, experts stabilised and preserved its original friezes, which depict plants, animals and allegorical scenes that would have been originally painted.One features the giants Gog and Magog from the story of Brutus, a legendary founder of Britain.
The team has also completely reinstated the render on the west wall, which faces out across the valley and is more exposed to weather damage. Jeremy Ashbee, English Heritage’s head properties curator, said: “Rising from a modest background to become one of the richest women of her time, and certainly the most famous woman after Queen Elizabeth I, Bess of Hardwick was also a tireless and ambitious builder, whose houses symbolised her rise to wealth and power.
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