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I like the historic house.
A lovely piece of Victorian folly, very dear ot my own heart.
The trouble is that it seems to be in poor repair and needing a fortune spent on it.
This could have been done, given what seems to be a very large site, and could still be done.

However there are many other factors here.

Do-gooders will ignore a house falling down around them until someone decides to say enough is enough - lets knock it and redevelop it.
The fact that it doesn't seem to have been deemed worthy of listing says a lot for their prior form in looking after it.

I'd say on that on balance, the new Adams house should be given the go-ahead.
There's got to be room amongst the plethora of shiny symbols for a nice, mid-size, BRAND NEW classical palace or two in England.