Unveiling Gladwell's Corner

The building gradually revealed its possibilities as the project progressed. Cory and Glenn Fuller worked closely with an experienced team of builders and craftsmen, refining the design as each stage of the restoration unfolded. Much of the original fabric has been carefully reinstated: the façade has been cleaned, previously concealed windows reopened, and internal spaces reconfigured to restore the sense of scale and light that had been lost over decades of alteration.

Inside, the ground floor now forms a welcoming gallery centred on a new oak staircase and lift, with adjoining rooms including a conservatory, study and library. Limestone floors run throughout this level, their surfaces marked with natural fossil patterns. 

The upper floors offer a series of rooms designed as individual interiors. On the first floor, which overlooks Red Lion Square, a drawing room, dining room and smaller sitting rooms present works of art within carefully considered settings, each space furnished and lit in a different style. Four new fireplaces carved from Clipsham stone by Stamford Stone provide architectural anchors within these rooms. From the second floor the view extends across Stamford’s medieval rooftops in one direction and towards the trees of Burghley Park in the other.

Inside, the ground floor now forms a welcoming gallery centred on a new oak staircase and lift, with adjoining rooms including a conservatory, study and library. Limestone floors run throughout this level, their surfaces marked with natural fossil patterns. The basement, once neglected, has been converted into an additional gallery space where the original bank vault remains as a striking architectural feature.

The upper floors offer a series of rooms designed as individual interiors. On the first floor, which overlooks Red Lion Square, a drawing room, dining room and smaller sitting rooms present works of art within carefully considered settings, each space furnished and lit in a different style. Four new fireplaces carved from Clipsham stone by Stamford Stone provide architectural anchors within these rooms. From the second floor the view extends across Stamford’s medieval rooftops in one direction and towards the trees of Burghley Park in the other.

Each member of the gallery team has contributed to the design of a particular room, selecting furniture, lighting and decorative elements to create distinct atmospheres that frame the works on view. The intention is to present paintings and sculpture within settings that demonstrate how art can shape an interior, allowing visitors to experience works not only as objects on a wall but as part of a living environment.

More broadly, the gallery has been conceived as a cultural space within the town. The hope is that the building will become a creative hub where collectors, designers and visitors can encounter art in an informal and welcoming way, and where students and young artists can engage with paintings and sculpture at close hand. It represents a significant investment not only in the building itself but in a broader vision of how fine art may be experienced today — combining scholarship, connoisseurship and interior design to create spaces that inspire as much as they exhibit.