Taking over at Castle Drogo was a dream come true for Mark Agnew. Perched up high on the northern slopes of Dartmoor, Drogo is one of the region's most popular National Trust properties. Trouble is, ...
Margarine Castle. It's the kind of name that would have tickled Edwin Lutyens, the sweet-natured architect of the last castle to be built in England. Margarine? How could this vast granite building in ...
Scaffolding which has enclosed the National Trust’s Castle Drogo for nearly six years has started to come down, as the project to make the castle watertight progresses, however there’s still work to ...
In March 1973 the National Trust received a letter, just one sentence long, from Anthony Drewe at Castle Drogo: "I write to enquire whether the National Trust would be interested in acquiring this ...
The project by artist and architectural designer Ed Crooks imagines fragments of unrealised proposals for the 20th-century castle in Devon Commissioned by the National Trust, ‘Holding Up’ depicts the ...
One of Devon's best known historical houses needs £10m to stop it leaking amid fears a ceiling could collapse. Castle Drogo, which was finished in 1931, has suffered for years from damp caused by ...
Scaffolding around Castle Drogo offered the ideal opportunity for a viewing platform Credit: ITV News West Country Visitors at Castle Drogo in Devon will now get the chance to see it slightly ...