Isle of Wight County Press Online

Facelift for Farringford

By David Newble

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

 

PLANS to help restore one of the Island’s most famous historic homes to its former grandeur have been submitted to planning bosses at the Isle of Wight Council.

Farringford in Freshwater, the former home of Victorian poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, will get a major facelift transforming part of the building to what it looked like in its 19th Century heyday — if the scheme is given the green light by members of the Isle of Wight Council’s planning committee.

• Full story in the Friday, March 12, County Press.

 

Reporter: davidn@iwcpmail.co.uk

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