The National Trust’s insurers are suing a contractor and a consultant over the 2015 fire that gutted 18th-century mansion Clandon House in Surrey.
The roof and upper floors of the Grade-I-listed building were destroyed in the blaze, which spread through a lift shaft and voids, resulting in a repair bill estimated at £115m. A fault in an electrical distribution board in the basement is thought to have started the fire.
Contractor Cuffe Plc and consultant Tuffin Ferraby Taylor, which worked on the design and construction of the lift shaft around ten years before the fire, were named in Zurich Municipal’s writ at the Technology and Construction Court in London.
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