Historic mansion opens more rooms

The National Trust has a six-year restoration plan

Six more rooms have been unveiled at Tyntesfield House in North Somerset.

The National Trust bought the Victorian Gothic revival mansion at Wraxall in 2002 for £30m.

Since then the huge task of cataloguing the house's treasures has begun and some of the house and the gardens have been opened to the public.

At a special preview on 14 March, the National Trust also revealed details of a six-year plan to restore the buildings and estate.

Restoration of the mansion has become the largest programme the trust has ever tackled.

Victorian servants' wing

More than 40,000 items in the house's collection spanning more than a century of life on the estate are still being catalogued five year's on.

The new rooms open for the first time to the public include the morning room, oak room and the servants' wing.

The oak room is in the core of the original 1813 house.

In the servants' wing the well preserved Victorian housekeeper's room, larders and still room have been opened to show the hierarchy of staff and how they worked.

Conservation work at the estate continues with surveys of different parts of the collection as well as the first stages of the capital works programme.