Kłanino Palace

The palace occupies a rectangular plan formed in brick and finished with plaster, with lateral side wings attached to the main block. A single viewing tower rises above the roofline; historically the house had two towers before changes associated with the mid-twentieth century. On the east side a first-floor terrace projects from the elevation and links interior and garden levels.

Inside the house a restored Gdańsk vestibule, a Danzig-style entrance hall dated to the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, anchors the principal circulation. This vestibule contains a spiral, richly ornamented staircase and a large Baroque hall cupboard in the Gdańsk manner, and a fireplace faced with seventeenth-century Delft tiles. The spiral stair currently in place was brought from a Gdańsk tenement at Piwna 8 in 1944 for safekeeping. Another spiral stair that had been transferred to the palace in 1886 from Matzkauschegasse was later destroyed in wartime looting and ultimately returned to Gdańsk (New Schöffenhaus).

Two stained-glass panels of nineteenth-century date were discovered in the attic and have been installed in the vestibule, adding nineteenth-century color to the entrance sequence. Delft tiles also adorn the walls of the stair leading to the cellar. In the western portion of the building two banquet halls survive; one of these is finished with stucco work created by the designer responsible for the Swiss National Museum project in Bern. The former dining room now functions as the palace restaurant.

Adjacent to the main house stands an eighteenth-century stone granary, built in solid masonry and preserved in serviceable condition. That granary is attached to a former farm water tower, a practical installation that supplied piped water to the palace and wider estate until the early 1950s.

The surrounding designed landscape covers more than two hectares and contains an array of unusual tree specimens, among them Japanese thuja, ginkgo (biloba), various cypresses and Caucasian spruce. Six of the trees are legally protected as natural monuments; these include two oaks estimated to be over three centuries old with trunk girths exceeding four metres, and a lime tree (linden) of the same age with a girth approaching 4.5 metres. The park retains a formal avenue of lime trees established under von Grass ownership; entry to the grounds is marked by a nineteenth-century openwork steel gate, and the landscape includes a late nineteenth-century gazebo built with a brick-filled skeletal structure.