The Prospect Room undergoing restoration – approached via a narrow, winding turret stair, the Regency interior is a very rare survival designed by Jeffry Wyatt
high up on the elevation of Wollaton Hall is this extraordinary, lifelike, carved stone head of a Negro man dating from ca.1580, the year that Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the globe
Beeston Lodge, Nottingham – designed by Wyatville in 1832 with state of the art fireproof features

Wollaton Hall & Park, Nottingham

In 2001, whilst employed by Nottingham City Council, Mel Morris was seconded to co-author a Conservation Plan for Wollaton Hall & Park. The Conservation Plan was a vast undertaking as the site encompassed Nottingham’s Natural History Museum and Industrial Museum, the Hall, a grade I listed building designed by Robert Smythson (1580-1588), and 502 acres of grade II* registered parkland. The site also contains three grade II* listed buildings and twenty seven grade II listed buildings.

The plan required a large number of sub-consultants, including architectural paint research, stone conservation and historic landscape consultants. Their involvement was co-ordinated by Mel Morris.

Following the publication of the Plan in August 2002, Mel Morris was retained as an independent conservation adviser to the project and worked with the team of consultants and conservation architects developing the successful £9 million project.

The robustness of the Conservation Plan made an important contribution to the success of the lottery bid. The first phase of work on completing the restoration of Wollaton Hall and its grounds was completed in 2007.

Gazetteer - Camellia House before restoration

Camellia House before restoration