Sale by the Fitzwilliam family By 1989, Wentworth Woodhouse was in a poor state of repair. With the polytechnic no longer a tenant, and with the family no longer requiring the house, the family trustees decided to sell it and the surrounding it, but retained the Wentworth Estate's of land. The house was bought by locally born businessman Wensley Grosvenor Haydon-Baillie, who started a programme of restoration, but a business failure saw it repossessed by a Swiss bank and put back on the market in 1998.Bailey 2007:451. Clifford Newbold (July 1926 – April 2015),Rotherham Advertiser, 6 May 2015 an architect from Highgate, bought it for something over £1.5 million.English Country Houses News: Wentworth Woodhouse Newbold progressed with a programme of renovation and restoration, as described in Country Life magazine dated 17 and 24 February 2010. The surrounding parkland is owned by the Wentworth Estates.
Sale by the Fitzwilliam family By 1989, Wentworth Woodhouse was in a poor state of repair. With the polytechnic no longer a tenant, and with the family no longer requiring the house, the family trustees decided to sell it and the surrounding it, but retained the Wentworth Estate's of land. The house was bought by locally born businessman Wensley Grosvenor Haydon-Baillie, who started a programme of restoration but a business failure saw it repossessed by a Swiss bank and put back on the market in 1998.Bailey 2007:451. Clifford Newbold (July 1926 – April 2015),Rotherham Advertiser, 6 May 2015 an architect from Highgate, bought it for something over £1.5 million.English Country Houses News: Wentworth Woodhouse Newbold progressed with a programme of renovation and restoration, as described in Country Life magazine dated 17 and 24 February 2010. The surrounding parkland is owned by the Wentworth Estates.