Patrick Wolf and some of the UK's leading contemporary artists will take over Osterley House for a weekend this spring.

The Magic Position singer will join actors, dancers and artists at the National Trust property in March for a series of performances over two nights.

Various acts will entertain audiences in the drawing rooms, attics and stairwells of the Grade I-listed building in Jersey Road, Isleworth, with each night culminating in an intimate gig by Patrick Wolf at the heart of the house.

Other performers will include theatre-makers Reckless Sleepers, live artist Eloise Fornieles and dancer Iona Kewney.

Osterley House is one of four National Trust properties chosen to host the Night Songs festival in a collaboration between the conservation charity and experimental production company In Between Team.

Reckless Sleepers (Guido Calamosca)

The works will explore the history of the different venues and their place in modern society. They will include a new song by Patrick Wolf, written following an artistic residency at the NT property Tyntesfield.

Helen Cole, In Between Time's artistic director, said: "In Night Songs as we peer into opulent staterooms and austere servants' quarters our very presence marks the changes that have been wrought by history to enable us to be there.

"These houses once echoed with the people who worked and lived there. It is an immense privilege to have been invited to commission new contemporary art works that respond to these incredible spaces and to the stories of people that made these houses come alive."

* Night Songs, featuring Patrick Wolf, will take place at Osterley Park on March 7 and 8, from 7.30pm. Tickets, priced £25/£30, are available at www.inbetweentime.co.uk