The World Of Interiors - Ambassadors Reception

From its stately saloon to its sweeping parkland, everything about Wolterton Hall in Norfolk reflected the status of Horatio Walpole, an envoy and prime minister Sir Roberts’s younger brother. Now it is home to a couple whose mission is to sensitively - diplomatically even - restore this most gracious of 42-bedroom Palladian mansions. Ruth Guilding thinks they’re really spoiling us. Photography: Christopher Simon Sykes.