THE lavish contents of one of Britain's most beautiful stately homes are being auctioned off in a £1m everything-must-go sale run by a Dorchester auction house.
Wormington Grange has been owned since the 1970s by John Evetts, the grandson of Lord Ismay, Winston Churchill's chief military strategist during World War Two.
Mr Evetts has sold the neoclassical Cotswolds mansion for a multi-million pounds sum as he is downsizing to a smaller property in the area.
The sale features over 1,000 items ranging in value from £50 kitchen glasses to £100,000 works of art.
Auctioneers Duke's of Dorchester say it features the 'most important' collection of country house furniture to emerge on the market for decades.