Wentworth Woodhouse, believed to have been the template for Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice, to be saved as ‘a key part of northern heritage’
As part of Wednesday’s autumn statement, the chancellor Philip Hammond has announced that £7.6m will be allocated to saving the stately home Wentworth Woodhouse in Rotherham, the property believed to have inspired Jane Austen’s Pemberley in her novel Pride and Prejudice.
The Grade-I listed building is Europe’s largest private home, sitting on 82 acres of land and believed to have more than 350 rooms. It took 25 years to build in the 1700s and once employed 1,000 staff, including a bear keeper and a “state bed maker”.
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