Couple spend lockdown making over Irish stately home
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Couple spend lockdown making over Irish stately home Maureen O’Hare, As starter homes go, a three-story Georgian mansion on an 820-acre estate’s not bad. When Neil Watt and his partner Kris Reid moved into the top floor of Northern Ireland’s Castle Ward stately home in March 2020, it was their first home together as a couple. […] And as new lords of the manor, Watt and Reid decided to give it a makeover. […] Watt’s PhD is in women of the Irish country house and Lady Ann’s story is one he particularly enjoyed revisiting. […] John Orna-Ornstein, the trust’s director of culture and engagement, told CNN in September: “Our role is to be as open and honest as we can, to tell the full history of the places and collections that we care for.”
