After the Hussey family gave up the house and the last resident of the family died, the house was initially converted into 6 apartments.
Margaret Thatcher lived in one of them during her time as Prime Minister.
Here she was "easier to protect" than in London.

Now everything has been returned to the way it was before the conversion 😉

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Uwe Mannuß

September 18, 2022

New Scotney Castle was built as a mansion in the early 19th century by Edward Hussey after he had purchased the entire site including the ruined Scotney Castle. It has been furnished with valuable furniture and today shows how the upper class lived in the countryside in the Victorian age,

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