National Trust lets office space at historic country house

Gourmet food supplier to the Queen takes office space at Hatchlands Park near Guildford

Article posted: 30 May 2011

Commercial property agent Kingstons, on behalf of the National Trust, has let office space in Guildford, Surrey, at an historic country house by Robert Adam.

Fish merchants and gourmet food suppliers to the Royal Kitchen, John Ross, has signed up to period offices on a five-year lease on the first floor of the East Wing of Hatchlands Park in East Clandon, near Guildford.

John Ross of Aberdeen is a family owned and operated business which as well as supplying to the royal household counts Gary Rhodes, Jamie Oliver and Brian Turner among its celebrity clientele.

Hatchlands Park is a Grade 1 listed Palladian House by Robert Adam set in substantial landscaped grounds. Once belonging to the Abbey of Chertsey, the Doomsday records show the first reference to Hatchlands was in 1086.

The interior of Hatchlands Park is Robert Adam's earliest documented work in an English country house. Built in the 1750s for Admiral Boscawen, hero of the Battle of Louisburg, the Robert Adam ceilings that decorate the house feature appropriately nautical motifs.

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