Project Description
Stoke Park
Architect: James Wyatt
Restoration of 11 fireplaces. A variety of different fireplaces from a Georgian columned surround in the Adam style to later Regency fireplaces in the Soane taste. All fireplaces were restored in situ.
Below are pictures and description of works carried out; all completed on time and in budget.
The Main Reception
The Fireplace was very dirty with unsightly joints and repairs, inlay missing to columns. The whole fireplace was cleaned, repaired and wax finished.
Great Hall
The chimneypiece had missing foot blocks to urns on blockings.
Chimneypiece was cleaned, repaired and missing parts replaced. Internal brass work was stripped of lacquer and polished. Statuary marble hearth was repaired and re-polished.
The Long Room
The fireplace had been cleaned but had damage to some of the carvings and some unsightly stains.
The cast iron interior had rusted through the cleaning process and the brass details had been painted over.
The marble was cleaned and poulticed. Repairs were made to carvings; unsightly stains were masked. The chimneypiece was finally waxed finished. The cast iron interior was rubbed down to remove rust, grate polish applied and buffed and brass details polished.
The Entrance Hall
A tall Statuary marble chimneypiece. Stained and chipped with unsightly repairs.
Marble joints were raked and filled. The marble was cleaned, repaired where needed and wax finished. Cast iron interior was blacked and graphite finished. Modern stone hearth re-polished.
