Fire-gutted Clandon Park House to be conserved as ruin, says National Trust

Plans for Surrey stately home will allow visitors to see raw power and poetic beauty' of damaged building

Clandon Park, an elegant 18th-century stately home that was gutted in a fire in 2015, is to be mainly conserved as a ruin rather than restored to its former Palladian glory.

Plans by the National Trust, which has owned the Grade I-listed house since 1956, will allow visitors to see the raw power and poetic beauty" of the building after the flames stripped away panelling and plasterwork and brought down floors, said Kent Rawlinson, the project director.