Case Study
St. Giles House Wimborne St. Giles, Dorset - Plasterwork conservation
Station Road, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 5DD Tel 01749 342706 Fax 01749 343627 St. Giles House Wimborne St. Giles, Dorset Plasterwork conservation St Giles House houses fine examples of 17 th and 18 th Century decorative plaster work throughout the main rooms. Exemplified in ceilings in the now restored dining rooms which were built in the 1650’s in a style suggestive of Inigo Jones. Decades of leaking roofs and dry rot had taken an extensive toll. Once the infrastructure supporting the ceilings and walls were repaired Ellis and Co commissioned Rene Rice and Lynn Humphreys to restore the plaster work. Chipped and perished 17 th and 18 th Century plasterwork has been restored throughout the House exemplified in this skylight. Restored plasterwork, joinery re