Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, she added: “We sold it in good faith after Mr Stroskin showed us very detailed plans he had had drawn up with interior decoration respecting the 18th century style, and that’s what we expected him to do. It’s totally unimaginable. We are totally thunderstruck and don’t know what to think. It was a very, very beautiful place. It needed some work done to it, not to be knocked down.”