The Preservation Trust offers guided tours of the house and gardens. While not all the rooms are open, the tours help to tell the story of this great estate.
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Opening TimesTuesday to Sunday: 10.00am-5.00pm Last Admission: 4.15pm Please note, we are cashless and only accept card payments.
The house is now owned by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust whose sole purpose is regeneration of the site for the benefit of South Yorkshire. The house is now open to the public, Tuesday to Sunday, for morning tours, afternoon free-flow exploration and events.
It has the longest façade of any country home in Europe at over 600 feet in length. It is more than twice the length of Buckingham Palace; the physical footprint of the house is enormous!
Excellent walk around Wentworth , some parts slightly overgrown with nettles but nothing a stick didn't sort. When you come back into Wentworth you can make a detour to Wentworth Woodhouse (stately home) and also Wentworth Garden Centre .
Here, the area of Little Germany and the streets around Forster Square were redressed for post-Glasnost scenes. Filming also took place nearby at Wentworth Woodhouse, the home of the Earls Fitzwilliam, recently seen in Downton Abbey and Churchill biopic Darkest Hour.
The Trust bought the house in 2017 for £7 million after a five-year campaign led by Rotherham businesswoman Dame Julie Kenny DBE DL and SAVE and embarked on a programme of mixed-use regeneration which will take up to two decades to deliver and will cost over £130 million.
Lack of visitor numbers is being blamed for the decision to close the historic site near Barnsley despite more than £20m worth of investment in the last 15 years to restore its fortunes following decades of neglect. Wentworth Castle Gardeners pictured here in the late 1890s.
After General Wentworth's death in 1915, Mrs. Wentworth sold the Castle in 1917 to the new owners of Wentworth Hall, Nathan and Estelle Amster. Under a live-in lease agreement, Mrs. Wentworth was allowed to occupy the mansion until her death in 1930.