ANNUAL REVIEW 2009-10 CONTENTS

1 Chairman’s foreword 3 Chief Executive’s review 6 Completed projects 30 Projects under development 54 Register of Building Preservation Trusts 57 AHF financial information 62 About the AHF

FRONT COVER: Bolton Percy Gatehouse (see p.20) INSIDE FRONT COVER: Causey Hall (see p.11) CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD

I wrote in my Foreword for My fellow Trustees and I have continued last year’s Annual Review to visit projects throughout the UK, and about the challenges we remain struck by the dedication of the which faced us, and many volunteers who run them. It is truly these have not lessened remarkable that people are prepared to give in the current year. up so much of their own time to try to find Nonetheless, judicious viable solutions for challenging buildings, use of our resources has enabled the AHF often in areas of economic and social to continue to offer grants and loans to deprivation, and it shows that our part of a very wide range of projects, as shown in the historic environment sector has been this publication. We are very conscious of delivering the objectives of the new Coalition the need to ensure our own stability at a time Government’s ‘Big Society’ for many years when interest rates remain at a historic low, before the term was even coined. We look severely reducing the income from our forward to a productive working relationship endowment fund. We have therefore had to with the coalition and to supporting our restrict our grant-giving but have tried to do clients in the delivery of these vital so in such a way that by phasing our support community-based projects. and helping those projects with the most pressing need, any negative impact of these This year marked the retirement of one of restrictions is reduced. The Architectural Heritage Fund’s longest- serving and most influential Trustees, The next challenge ahead is the impact Nicholas Baring. Nicholas joined the AHF’s of spending cuts from national and local Council of Management in 1987 and gave government, which are likely to affect many 23 years of exemplary service to the of our clients as they seek support for new organisation, including nine years as and ongoing projects. We are very grateful to Deputy Chairman. His wise counsel and the AHF’s four main funders – Cadw, English quiet authority was much valued and will Heritage, Historic Scotland and the Northern be missed both by his fellow Trustees and Ireland Environment Agency – for their the staff. continuing support and encouragement of our work, and also to the J Paul Getty Junior In closing I would like to thank my TOP: Ford Park Cemetery (see p.10) Charitable Trust and the Pilgrim Trust who colleagues on the Council of Management, MIDDLE: are backing our new initiative to increase and the AHF’s staff, for their support and Wellbrook Manor (see p.41) activity in tackling buildings at risk – hard work over the last year – their expertise BOTTOM LEFT: described in the Chief Executive’s Review. and enthusiasm is helping us to meet and Moat Brae House (see p.49) overcome the challenges we face.

John Townsend Chairman October 2010

1 2 Mrs Gaskell’s House (see p.13) CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REVIEW

In his foreword, In 2007, Barry Quirk, leader of Lewisham our Chairman, Council, published his review of the potential for more transfers of assets from John Townsend, public bodies, especially local government, has talked about to community groups. The Government some of the was quick to respond positively, and subsequently the Asset Transfer Unit (ATU) challenges that The Architectural was formed within the Development Trusts Heritage Fund (AHF) has faced Association, with a wide-ranging group of this year. Rather than focusing stakeholders guiding its policy and actions. I have been a member of the Asset Transfer on those, I want to highlight some Unit’s stakeholder forum since its inception, of the opportunities which we are and this year became its Deputy Chair. helping others to take advantage It is very encouraging to see the range of of and some of the success stories projects handled by the ATU, and to note which are apparent even in these the number of enquiries it receives about very difficult times. historic buildings. Clearly the financial pressures faced by local authorities may lead to the potential disposal of buildings which are seen more as liabilities than assets, and we will continue to work with the ATU and other partners to ensure that transfers take place on equitable terms for the community group and local authority alike, but there are real opportunities for communities to find viable new uses for important historic buildings in their area.

Changes in the social and political landscape mean that buildings such as libraries, town halls and courts can lose their original function, whilst remaining significant parts of the local infrastructure, and community groups are often best placed to take on these iconic structures and give them new life. The AHF has been working with English Heritage, the ATU and a number of other heritage bodies to produce guidance for local authorities and community groups considering the transfer of historic buildings, and Pillars of the Community – the Transfer of Local Authority Heritage Assets will be published this autumn.

TOP: Hestercombe Gardens (see p.12) ABOVE: Belmont House (see p.22)

3 The AHF is always happy to offer advice by Europa Nostra in Istanbul, part of the and support to the wider voluntary and European Capital of Culture programme community sector, not just to specialist for that extraordinary city. We spoke to historic environment charities, and that is an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and why our work with organisations such as the encouragingly young audience about the ATU and the Development Trusts Association role of NGOs in the historic environment is so important. Similarly our involvement in the UK, and I was keen to emphasise with Heritage Link, now renamed the the fact that our experience demonstrates Heritage Alliance under the excellent the way in which communities can take Chairmanship of Loyd Grossman, remains their destiny in their own hands, as long very close, not least through my position as as they have the right support and the the Alliance’s Deputy Chair. At a time when opportunity to build capacity where it is funding for heritage and the culture sector needed. Turkey does not, as yet, have a more generally is under serious threat, the well-developed non-government heritage role of the Heritage Alliance is even more sector but the passion and commitment we important, and I was therefore pleased to be encountered on our visit led us to hope that invited to represent the Alliance and heritage this will change over the next few years. generally on the new ‘Culture Forum’, which brings together senior representatives of Capacity building in our sector remains organisations and umbrella bodies across a key issue at home as well as abroad, and the culture sector under the auspices of something which the AHF will be focusing Arts and Business and the National on over the next three years. Following the Campaign for the Arts. The Culture Forum successful introduction of our mentoring is collating and presenting what we hope grant scheme, we have developed the idea is compelling evidence to the Coalition further by looking at a number of ‘cold spots’ Government on the importance of the – areas of England and Wales where we culture sector to the economy and to receive relatively few applications and where quality of life, hoping to influence there appear to be very few active building Government decision-making around preservation trusts and other community- the Comprehensive Spending Review. based regeneration organisations.

TOP: Although the AHF does not operate outside I was grateful to secure support for this Great Trerhew Barn (see p.29) the UK, we do provide information to scheme from our core funders in each BOTTOM RIGHT: researchers from abroad when they are country, English Heritage and Cadw, and Llanelly House (see p.52) looking at the possibility of community/ from two charitable trusts, the J Paul Getty non-government organisations (NGOs) Junior Trust and the Pilgrim Trust. This being involved in the regeneration of the will enable us to fund experienced project historic environment in their countries. organisers to work with new or dormant This year I was honoured to be one of four charities interested in taking on the representatives of the UK’s heritage sector restoration of a historic building but invited to speak at a conference organised lacking the confidence and capacity to

4 do so. Initially we are looking at the East Midlands and South Wales and we are also in discussion with English Heritage about a possible ‘generic’ approach around a building type.

In Northern Ireland we continue to work closely with the Environment Agency and to administer the grants scheme for the acquisition of historic buildings at risk. During 2009-10 we disbursed two further grants under this scheme: £110,000 to Enable NI for the former National School in Drumbee, Armagh, which will be used for the charity’s activities in providing respite care; and £125,000 to Hearth Housing Association for six properties on McMaster Street in Belfast, to be converted into affordable housing. Unfortunately I would like finally to echo John Townsend’s TOP: Nicholas Baring CBE despite considerable demand the scheme tribute to Nicholas Baring, whose sage BELOW: is currently frozen because of the financial advice and calm demeanour I have valued Bells of the Kirk of St Nicholas (see p.49) pressures faced by the Government in throughout my seven years with the AHF. Northern Ireland; we are in discussion I would also like to thank my colleagues with the Chief Executive of NI Environment on the AHF’s staff for the way in which they Agency to see if there is any prospect of are managing difficult situations on a daily releasing some funds to meet the demand. basis. It is always easier dealing with people when you are able to tell them what they The situation seems brighter in Scotland want to hear, and this year the pressures on where we are one of several organisations our own finances have meant that we have working closely with Historic Scotland to not been able to do that as often as we develop ideas around tackling buildings at would like. Despite this, our relationship with risk in a more coherent and structured way. our key clients, funders and stakeholders We continue to receive more applications remains a very good one and much of that for projects in Scotland on a per capita is down to the expertise and enthusiasm of basis than for any other part of the UK, Barbara, Diane, Gavin, Ian, and Paul. and it is encouraging to see the range of buildings and uses these involve. It also highlights the fact that the recession is clearly producing opportunities for the third sector as well as threats. Ian Lush Chief Executive The AHF is pleased to continue support for October 2010 its sister organisation, the Association of Preservation Trusts (APT), both as a major funder and through engagement with APT and its members nationally and regionally. The AHF also funded a bursary scheme for the annual APT conference which took place in November 2009 in Exeter and were glad that this encouraged some representatives of new and less experienced trusts to attend.

5 6 Strawberry Hill (see p.17) COMPLETED PROJECTS Despite the continuing financial uncertainty, it is encouraging to see 22 projects included in this section. Their end uses are as diverse as ever and demonstrate how versatile such buildings can be when imaginative solutions overcome seemingly overwhelming obstacles.

Although the difficulties in the housing and Portencross Castle. Also falling into market do not appear to be abating, there this category, and proving that size is not KEY has been a significant contribution this year an issue, is the Alms Collection House, the Many projects receive several from ‘traditional’ revolving fund building last individual structure to be repaired and different AHF grants and loans. These are abbreviated as follows: preservation trusts with five residential restored within the curtilage of St Nicholas schemes featured, including the final phase Buccleuch Church, Dalkeith; at just 2.6m FSG Feasibility Study Grant of works to regenerate four derelict buildings square, it is one of the smallest projects OAG Options Appraisal Grant in Beith by Heritage Building Preservation the AHF has ever funded. At the other CBG Capacity Building Grant Trust that have been underway for 10 years; end of the scale is the spectacular and and Shurland Hall, on the Isle of Sheppey, historically important Strawberry Hill in PAG Project Administration Grant which has been sympathetically restored Twickenham which will provide a unique by the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust backdrop for special occasions as well POG Project Organiser Grant and is attracting considerable interest from as a visitor centre. PDG Project Development Grant prospective purchasers. RPDG Refundable Project Vital in assisting us to achieve our object Development Grant Both Arnos Vale and Ford Park cemetery of helping to bring about the viable re-use Grant and loan information is as chapels are now being used for community of historic buildings at risk is the effort at the end of the financial year and recreational purposes, as are four and commitment of those volunteers (31 March 2010) but the text projects that featured in the BBC’s who give up many unpaid hours to bring often includes more recent Restoration series: Cromarty East Church, projects to a successful conclusion. developments. Greenlaw Town Hall, Pennoyers School This section salutes their efforts and accomplishments. We also acknowledge TOP: the support of other funders, large and Arnos Vale (see p.8) LEFT: small and the professionals involved with Shurland Hall (see p.18) these schemes; all are paramount to BOTTOM: their realisation. Cromarty East Church (see p.27)

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Bath Road, Brislington, Bristol Listed Grade II*; Arnos Vale ARNOS VALE CEMETERY TRUST Conservation Area LOAN: £500,000 offered March 2005, Buildings in Arnos Vale Cemetery withdrawn March 2008 LOAN: £160,000 offered September 2008, withdrawn February 2009

Professional Team Architect: Purcell Miller Tritton, Bristol Quantity Surveyor: Gleeds, Cardiff Structural Engineer: Mann Williams, Bath Project Management: Bristol City Council The Arnos Vale Cemetery site was originally the site. However in 2003, following a great Main Contractor: part of a grand Georgian estate owned by deal of interest from the local community, Ken Biggs Contractors Ltd, Bristol William Reeves, a prosperous Quaker copper Bristol City Council compulsorily purchased smelter. Situated on a steep hillside it was the site and transferred it to the Trust for £1. Total investment: £7,281,101

planned as an Arcadian Garden and Other Sources of Funding: landscaped as a Greek amphitheatre with The West Lodge was the first building to Heritage Lottery Fund: £4,800,000 terraced slopes. The four buildings within be restored, and houses the Trust’s offices, English Heritage £175,000 [pledged] the Cemetery were designed by Charles kitchen, and a museum. The East Lodge Bristol City Council (+ in kind support) Underwood and built to a very high standard, now has a reception area, shop and exhibition £1,500,000 using the best craftsmen and materials on the ground floor, two offices and Other private and public funders, available. The Doric style East and West a conference/meeting space on the second including individuals and Lodges were working buildings and were floor, and space for volunteers in the charitable trusts: £556,101 home to the Cemetery Superintendent as basement. The Anglican Chapel is used Donations in kind in excess of: £250,000 well as providing office accommodation. for funeral and wedding services as well The Nonconformist Chapel is built in the Ionic as providing space for concerts, lectures style to suit the tastes of the religious and other educational events. The dissenters. The Anglican Chapel, designed Nonconformist Chapel has been refurbished in the Corinthian style, is the grandest of for use as an educational facility. The Trust the buildings. Following the closure of the has worked particularly closely with the Cemetery in 1988, a developer purchased City Council to deliver this project.

…it was planned as an Arcadian Garden and landscaped as a Greek amphitheatre...

8 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Listed Grade II*; Bury St Edmunds Town BURY ST EDMUNDS Centre Conservation Area TOWN TRUST OAG: £2,732 disbursed February 2008 LOAN: £15,000 contracted December 2009, security – Repayment Guarantee 6 Angel Hill (St Edmundsbury Borough Council)

Professional Team Architect: David Mizon, Whitworth Co Partnership, Bury St Edmunds Structural Engineer: Stuart Armitage, The Morton Partnership Ltd, Halesworth, Suffolk Quantity Surveyor: Colin Elliot, Bury St Edmunds No 6 Angel Hill is a high-quality, fashionable consulting rooms, but had been vacant Project Management: town house thought to have been built for a number of years when the Trust Bury St Edmunds Town Trust c.1696 in a prominent position within the acquired the building. Structural repairs Main Contractor: town, opposite the main entrance gateway have been completed and the Trust may R & J Hogg, Coney Weston, Suffolk to the Abbey. It is constructed on three now convert the upper floors for residential Total investment: £78,000 storeys with cellars, and is of red brick with use, while the ground floor has been leased small-paned sash windows and a pitched by St Edmundsbury Borough Council for Other Sources of Funding: slate roof. The original dog-leg stair with use as the town’s tourist information office. Trusts own resources barley-sugar twists remains, and the principal rooms contain panelling and fireplaces from the early 18th century; reclaimed Jacobean panelling can also be found in other rooms. The lower floor was most recently used as a doctor’s

The original dog-leg stair with barley-sugar twists remains…

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…was opened in 1848 by the Plymouth Devonport and Stonehouse Cemetery Company…

Ford Park Road, Plymouth, Devon Listed Grade II FORD PARK CEMETERY TRUST LOAN: £150,000 contracted October 2009, security – repayment guarantee Ford Park Cemetery Chapel (Plymouth City Council)

Professional Team Architect: Andrew Wood, Chartered Architect and Historic Building Consultant, Plymouth Structural Engineer: Paul Carpenter, Paul Carpenter Associates, Kingsbridge, Devon Quantity Surveyor: Mervyn Kendall, Smerdon & Jones, Plymouth Project Management: Andrew Wood, Plymouth Ford Park Cemetery, designed by J R with the Victorian Chapel as the focus. Main Contractor: Hamilton and James Medland of Gloucester, This has now been given a sustainable Carrek Limited, Wells, Somerset cemetery designers of note, was opened income-earning future as a lecture space in 1848 by the Plymouth Devonport and with the latest communication aids, in Total Investment: Not known Stonehouse Cemetery Company and addition to hosting concerts and other Other Sources of Funding contained a Nonconformist and Church cultural activities as well as christenings, Heritage Lottery Fund: £463,000 of England Chapel. The Nonconformist weddings and funerals. On the east wall Landfill Communities Fund: £96,400 Chapel was totally destroyed by bombing behind the altar is a memorial in honour of Allchurches Trust: £1,000 during World War II but was rebuilt in the the city’s civilian war dead, 22 slate plaques Alan Evans Memorial Trust: £1,000 1960s, when the Victorian Church of record the names, ages and dates of death Devon Historic Churches Trust: £3,000 England Chapel became a machine store. of over 1,000 people who died during a Plymouth City Museum and The Cemetery went into voluntary liquidation series of bombing raids on Plymouth in Art Gallery: £3,000 in 1999 and the Trust was formed to take 1941. A dedication service for the restored ownership with strong support from the Victorian Chapel took place in June 2010. city council and the community. Since then The neighbouring 1960s chapel has been it has sought to reinstate the whole site, converted into a heritage centre.

10 ...arched and flat head traceried upper windows, battlements and pinnacles.

Causeway, Upper Kirkgate, Halifax, Calderdale HERITAGE WORKS BUILDINGS Listed Grade II; Halifax Town Centre Conservation Area

PRESERVATION TRUST OAG: £6,900 disbursed December 2007 Causey Hall LOAN: £80,000 contracted November 2007, security – first charge

LOAN: £50,000 contracted May 2008, security – first charge

LOAN: £120,000 contracted November 2009 security – first charge

PDG: £2,500 offered September 2008

Professional Team Causey Hall is gothic in style, constructed The second phase of works has involved Architects: in stone with a slate roof, arched and flat the refurbishment of the lower ground floor Emergency Works: Geoff Holland, Purcell Miller Tritton, York head traceried upper windows, battlements into three lettable office units with shared Phase 2: and pinnacles. It was originally built as facilities and the conversion of the former Carl Andrews, Soul Architects, Worksop a school in 1857 and once accommodated toilet wing into an attractive self-contained Structural Engineer: 400 pupils but finally closed in 1960. It was unit. A programme of external works has John Ruddy, Capstone Consulting Engineers, Ilkley subsequently used as a community facility, included the restoration of railings above Quantity Surveyor/CDMC: run by the Parish and owned by the the sunken playground and the provision Rex Proctor & Partners, Leeds Diocese of Wakefield, however, over time of walkways to meet access requirements. Main Contractor: this became increasingly uneconomic. The Trust is now actively engaged in R.N. Wooler & Co Limited, Keighley Following an AHF-funded options appraisal, marketing the property for sale and rent. Total Investment: £476,800 the Trust accepted a long lease on the property in 2007 with the Diocese retaining Other Sources of Funding office space in the building. A programme of Calderdale Council (SRB Grant): £60,000 emergency repairs to the roof and external Heritage Lottery Fund (Townscape stonework was completed in February 2008. Heritage Initiative): £160,000

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Hestercombe Gardens, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton, Somerset HESTERCOMBE GARDENS TRUST Listed Grade II PDG: £25,000 disbursed March 2009 Watermill and Barn

Professional Team Architect: Robert Battersby, Architecton, Bristol Quantity Surveyor: Martin Pickard, Trowbridge, Wiltshire Structural Engineer: Phillips Consulting Engineering, Taunton Project Management: Architecton, Bristol Main Contractor: W. Coombes & Son, Ilminster, Somerset

Hestercombe Gardens are situated on the to both buildings. The mill was used as the Total investment: £1,594,000 southern slope of the Quantock Hills near estate timber mill until 1947 but in recent Taunton. The estate is rich in history and has years a lack of resources meant that both Other Sources of Funding: been continuously inhabited since the Saxon buildings were badly neglected and in Heritage Lottery Fund: £795,000 period. The Trust has managed the site danger of collapse. The mill was particularly Viridor: £410,000 Garfield Weston Foundation: £25,000 since 2003 and has continued to restore unstable and damp due to water seeping Country Houses Foundation: £65,372 the 18th century landscape, the Victorian through its walls from the mill culvert, Friends group: £31,000 terrace and the formal gardens. The and a leaking roof. Watermill and Barn were first recorded in 1686. The mill was remodelled in the early The Trust has restored the Watermill 1890s with the addition of a water powered and Barn to provide additional facilities turbine and an extension to form a dynamo for visitors including an education room house – later converted to a piggery. and interpretation space, refreshments In 1906 Edwin Lutyens, who was at the area and toilets. The mill wheel has begun time constructing the formal gardens at turning again for the first time in over Hestercombe, made important additions 60 years. The project combines historic restoration with sustainable energy and the mill now showcases forms of energy generated on the estate in the past as well as a range of antique agricultural equipment. It also provides a contemporary space for conferences and weddings and anewgardenteaterrace.

The mill wheel has begun turning again for the first time in over 60 years.

12 Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester Listed: Grade II*

MANCHESTER HISTORIC FSG: £5,000 disbursed November 2000 PAG: £4,000 disbursed March 2008 BUILDINGS TRUST POG: £4,406 disbursed September 2001 RPDG: £14,872 disbursed September 2001 84 Plymouth Grove OAG: £2,500 disbursed March 2008 CBG: £2,100 disbursed December 2007

Professional Team Architect: Bernard Taylor Partnership, Stockport Structural Engineer: Michael Pooler Associates, Bacup Quantity Surveyor: Rawlinson Associates, Wirksworth No 84 Plymouth Grove is an Italianate villa, September 2009. Authentic lime plaster Project Management: J&J Fildes, New Mills built in 1838 in what was once a select has replaced the 1960s cement render, and Main Contractor: development on the outskirts of Manchester, the damaged capitals have been copied and Mather & Ellis Ltd, Manchester but is the only survivor from this period. replaced. The huge stone pediment at the top Elizabeth Gaskell, acknowledged as one of of the building which was in danger of falling Total investment: £773,786 the outstanding novelists of the 19th century, is now secure. The windows and shutters, Other Sources of Funding: lived here from 1850 until her death in 1865 most of which are original, were repaired English Heritage £314,800 and the majority of her literary output was by skilled joiners and the beautiful flagged Manchester University £240,000 written during that time. The house is square floors of the ground floor hall, hidden for The Bowland Trust £147,000 in plan with a small service wing on one side many years, have now been revealed. BIFFA £50,000 and remains largely as it was built. The The remains of the old servants’ quarters Oglesby Charitable Trust £5,000 Awards for All £9,786 principal rooms have retained most of their can be seen, covered by the university’s 1970s Trust’s own funds £2,000 features. The University of Manchester alterations. Some basic repairs have been bought the house to provide accommodation made to the ground floor to enable it to and a social centre for overseas students open to the public. The Trust is continuing but it eventually became surplus to to fundraise for the second phase of works, requirements. The Trust acquired the which will restore the ground floor to as it building in 2004 and has sought to find was in the time of the Gaskells and ensure a viable use for it. The first phase of work that the rest of the building is available for to restore the exterior finally began in community use.

Elizabeth Gaskell, acknowledged as one of the outstanding novelists of the 19th century, lived here…

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…is a prominent feature of the conservation area.

School Lane, Upholland, Wigan Listed Grade II; Upholland HERITAGE TRUST Conservation Area FSG: £2,406 disbursed November 2002

FOR THE NORTH WEST LOAN: £189,000 contracted April 2008, security – repayment guarantee Former Wesleyan Chapel (Lancashire County Council)

POG: £3,700 disbursed May 2008

Professional Team Structural Engineer: Charles Blackett-Ord, Appleby, Cumbria Project Management: Heritage Trust for the North West Main Contractor: Conservation Services North West Upholland’s Wesleyan Methodist Chapel materials and techniques, is now complete. and School was built in 1849 of coursed This has enhanced the Conservation Area Total Investment: £192,000 sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof. which suffers from many inappropriate It forms part of a terrace of buildings dating alterations and has helped to raise the Other Sources of Funding from the 17th to the late 19th centuries which standards in the repair of the historic fabric. West Lancashire District Council £5,000 is a prominent feature of the conservation area. A severe bulge in the front façade made the structure dangerous. To compound this, the building is on a very busy main road and the rear is ‘landlocked’ by Upholland Priory graveyard. Last used as a store, the building was unoccupied for ten years before the Trust purchased it and following an AHF-funded feasibility study to examine all options, chose to convert it into two flats. The first phase of work, the restoration of the exterior using traditional building

14 …may have been a lodge for nearby Lomeshaye House…

Nelson, Lancashire Whitefield Conservation Area

HERITAGE TRUST LOAN: £100,000 repaid January 2008, security – repayment guarantee FOR THE NORTH WEST (Lancashire County Council) SUPPLEMENTAL LOAN: £125,700 repaid Bridge Cottage July 2009, security – repayment guarantee (Lancashire County Council)

Professional Team Architect: Purcell Miller Tritton, Bristol Structural Engineer: Charles Blackett-Ord, Appleby, Cumbria Project Manager: Heritage Trust for the North West Bridge Cottage was constructed c.1895 and buildings in the Townscape Heritage Initiative Main Contractor: may have been a lodge for nearby Lomeshaye scheme and its location on the canal side Conservation Services North West House, now demolished. It has two rooms makes it a desirable property. The restoration Total Investment: £230,000 (inc. acquisition) set either side of a central staircase on each work was carried out by the Trust’s own of its two floors. The elevations are generally construction company. Other Sources of Funding: of coursed rubble stonework although the Partnership Schemes in street side is enriched with ashlar banding Conservation Areas (PSICA) (English Heritage and Pendle and carved classical column mullions to the Borough Council): £55,576 upper and lower double windows to the left of the front door. Before acquisition, the building’s condition was very poor, with large vertical cracks down both sides. The Trust purchased Bridge Cottage in November 2005 along with a quarter of an acre of adjacent land along the canal and has restored it for residential use for sale. Bridge Cottage is listed as one of the critical

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Pulham St Mary, Diss, Norfolk Listed Grade II

SCHOOL CHARITY LOAN: £150,000 contracted February 2010, OF WILLIAM PENNOYER security – first charge Pennoyer’s School Professional Team Architect: Terry Hickman Smith, Lucas Hickman Smith Architects, Wymondham, Norfolk Structural Engineer: John Alcock, Alcock Lees Partnership, Norwich Quantity Surveyor: John Wingfield, W Harker Bousfield & Partners, Wymondham, Norfolk Project Management: Terry Hickman Smith, Lucas Hickman Smith Pennoyer’s School occupies a prominent The restoration involved returning the Architects, Wymondham, Norfolk position in the centre of Pulham St Mary and Guild Chapel to a single space once more, Main Contractor: featured in the BBC’s Restoration Village in revealing several original ecclesiastical and Blackburns Construction, Harleston, Norfolk 2006. Hidden behind its Victorian red-brick architectural features including the west Total investment: £1,600,000 frontage are the substantial remains of a 15th door. The building has now become the century Guild Chapel. Built of flint with ashlar Pennoyer Centre – a high-tech heritage Other Sources of Funding: dressings, the Chapel is a simple rectangle space for social and recreational use Heritage Lottery Fund: £934,000 plan with stepped diagonal Barnack stone including an IT suite, internet café, heritage East of England Development Agency/ Investing in Communities for Norfolk: buttresses at each angle, all surviving except gallery and flexible space for meetings and £210,500 for the south-east corner which was removed social events. The building has both ground Garfield Weston Foundation: £50,000 at the time of the Victorian extension. It was and air source heat pumps to help reduce South Norfolk Council: £50,000 originally thatched but now has a roof of its carbon footprint. Clothworkers’ Foundation: £40,000 black pantiles. The flint and rubble walls Lankelly Chase: £20,000 Geoffrey Watling Charity: £10,000 had become very fragile and much of the Low Carbon Buildings Programme: £22,500 stonework around the windows and doorways Community Sustainable Energy was badly damaged. Although some medieval Programme: £23,600 render remained, the majority had been Norfolk Rural Community Council: £15,000 replaced by modern concrete. The school, Pulham St Mary Parish Council: £15,000 Plus a number of smaller grants including: which provided free elementary education Norfolk Buildings at Risk, Paul Bassham for over 300 years, closed in 1988 and the Charitable Foundation, Adnams Charity and building remained unused until the Charity the John Jarrold Trust became involved in 2006.

Hidden behind its Victorian red-brick frontage are the substantial remains of a 15th century Guild Chapel.

16 Waldegrave Road, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham THE STRAWBERRY HILL TRUST Listed Grade I Strawberry Hill FSG: £7,500 disbursed September 2005 PAG: £4,000 disbursed November 2007

POG: £15,000 disbursed January 2007

LOAN: £750,000 offered December 2006, withdrawn March 2010

Professional Team Architect: Inskip+Jenkins Architects, London Structural Engineer: Mann Williams, London Quantity Surveyor: Strawberry Hill is the most important In 1925 St Mary’s College occupied the Fanshawe LLP. London Gothic revival building of the 18th century, buildings, the oldest part becoming the Project Management: the earliest part dating from c.1690. In 1747 residence of the Principal and the remainder Fanshawe LLP. London the property was acquired by the collector, that of the Vincentian Fathers, until their Main Contractor: E.Bowman and Sons Ltd, Lincs. author and dilettante Horace Walpole, the departure in 1993. This prompted discussions youngest son of Britain’s first Prime Minister, from concerned heritage bodies about the Total Investment: £9,000,000 Sir Robert Walpole. He set out ‘to build a future of the estate. In 2000 the Friends of little Gothic castle’ and proceeded to fill it Strawberry Hill was formed, and from Other Sources of Funding Heritage Lottery Fund: £4,900,000 with a continuously growing collection of art this the Trust evolved. Restoration work English Heritage: £700,000 and antiquities. By the time of his death in commenced in 2007. The building now World Monuments Fund Robert 1797, the five acre property had increased contains a shop, two fully equipped education W Wilson Challenge: $1,000,000 to an estate of 46 acres. The Earl of rooms, museum space and a café housed Garfield Weston Foundation: £ 500,000 Waldegrave, who had inherited Strawberry in what would have been Walpole’s Great The Wolfson Foundation: £200,000 The Foyle Foundation: £200,000 Hill, decided to sell off the Walpole treasures Cloister opening onto the restored gardens. and abandon the house. ‘The Great Sale’ The new Discovery Room provides visitors of 1842 lasted for 32 days. After the Earl’s with the story of three centuries of the death his widow decided to restore the building’s history. Strawberry Hill will be house, adding a new wing containing a great a magnificent location for special occasions ballroom, drawing room and billiard room. such as weddings, civil ceremonies and When Lady Waldegrave died in 1879 the corporate events. estate was sold and passed through the hands of various owners until purchased by the Catholic Education Council.

He set out ‘to build a little Gothic castle’…

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...constructed in the early 16th century by Sir Thomas Cheyney, a prominent member of the court of King Henry VIII.

Leysdowne Road, Eastchurch, IsleofSheppey,Kent SPITALFIELDS HISTORIC Listed Grade II*; Scheduled Ancient Monument

BUILDINGS TRUST LOAN: £660,000 contracted June 2007, Shurland Hall security – first charge

Professional Team Architect: Morris Higham, Dolgellau, Wales Structural Engineer: The Morton Partnership, London and John Wardle, Kent Quantity Surveyor: Warren Marsh, Bristol Main Contractor: With its octagonal towers and battlements, itself. For many years the building was at the The Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust, London Shurland Hall is reminiscent of the great top of the English Heritage ‘at risk’ register Tudor gatehouses that still exist at Hampton in the South East; it has continued to be Total Investment: £1,800,000 Court, St James’s Palace and Sissinghurst strongly supportive of the trust’s efforts, Castle. It was constructed in the early 16th with its Chief Executive, Dr Simon Thurley, Other Sources of Funding Heritage Lottery Fund: £580,000 century by Sir Thomas Cheyney, a prominent declaring Shurland Hall to be one of his English Heritage: £300,000 member of the court of King Henry VIII. favourite buildings. Trust’s own resources: Balance of funding By the late 18th century the building was being used as a farmhouse and most of the Restoration work began in 2006, with associated structures including the great the reinstatement of the roof, floors and hall were either derelict or had disappeared. staircase, and the rebuilding of chimneys, It was converted to a gentlemen’s residence gate towers and windows. The Trust’s aim in the mid 19th century but by the end of the was to ensure the building’s appearance Second World War, the north tower and was as near as possible to that of the late much of the north wing had collapsed. 19th century. It has now restored the building The site, which is a Scheduled Ancient to a five-bedroom family house using its own Monument, includes the substantial remains workforce. Despite the difficult property of 16th-century stone and brick walls and in market, the Trust is confident of an the courtyard are the ruins of the great hall early sale.

18 …the auditorium was topped by a massive dome in burnished silver that was lit by 1,000 lights…

Mersey Square, Stockport Listed Grade II*; Mersey Square/ STOCKPORT PLAZA TRUST St Petersgate Conservation Area The Plaza LOAN: £35,000 withdrawn March 2001 POG: £2,502 disbursed June 2001

POG: £11,477 disbursed March 2010

Professional Team Architect: David Watkins, Brock Carmichael Architects, Liverpool Structural Engineer: Brian Davis, Bingham-Davis Consulting Engineers, Liverpool Quantity Surveyor: John Finch, Tweeds, Liverpool The Plaza was designed to provide 1999. The Stockport Plaza Trust was Main Contractor: entertainment never seen before in subsequently established and purchased G.F. Holding (Contractors) Ltd, Macclesfield Stockport, with a mix of cinema and live the building the following year with the performance. It was built to a very high assistance of a substantial grant from Total Investment: £3,350,000 specification, combining stylish design and Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. Other Sources of Funding: safety features. Its glazed vitreous white Heritage Lottery Fund: £2,000,000 terracotta frontage and neon lighting were The demands of today’s audiences and North West Regional Development considered to be the very latest in modern performers are very different from those Agency: £745,000 style in 1932. Internal decoration included of the 1930s. Not only have statutory duties Trust’s own resources: Balance of Funding bas-relief murals of Egyptian-themed of the owners changed, but expectations of dancing nymphs. The stalls, circle and comfort have increased immensely. Over balcony could seat 1,800 and the auditorium two phases, the Plaza has been accurately was topped by a massive dome in burnished restored to its 1930s splendour and detail silver that was lit by 1,000 lights of ever- inside and out while incorporating the changing colour. The pride of the building facilities demanded in the 21st century. The was the Compton organ that originally Plaza also features in Stockport Metropolitan accompanied films and was still in working Borough Council’s ongoing town centre order when the Plaza closed in September regeneration strategy.

19 ENGLAND

Bolton Percy, York Listed Grade II* and Scheduled THE VIVAT TRUST Ancient Monument Bolton Percy Gatehouse OAG: £3,000 disbursed March 2008 PDG: £17,927 disbursed June 2009

LOAN: £43,000 contracted January 2010, security – first charge

Professional Team Architect: Peter Pace Architects Ltd, Scrayingham, Yorkshire. Quantity Surveyor: Paul Trueman, Greenwoods Projects Ltd, Lichfield, Staffs Main Contractor: Constructed in 1467 by Thomas Pearson, The Vivat Trust was identified as being Historic Property Restoration Ltd, the Gatehouse formed the entrance to a able to offer a solution and it has taken on North Shields, Tyne & Wear courtyard in which stood a medieval manor ownership. It has renovated the Gatehouse house, a timber framed barn and during to provide holiday accommodation which Total investment: £281,000 a later period, a dovecot, stables and other will be a picturesque and popular addition Other Sources of Funding: outbuildings. The house was rebuilt in 1698 to its holiday letting portfolio. English Heritage: £82,986 and the outbuildings, with the exception of Country Houses Foundation: £65,000 the gatehouse, were demolished in the first Yorkshire Forward: £39,991 half of the 19th century when the courtyard Yorkshire Architectural & Yorkshire Archaeological Society: £1,300 was turned into a garden. The owners, the The Alan Evans Memorial Fund: £2,000 Bolton Percy Gatehouse Trust, undertook RM Burton 1998 Charitable some restoration work in the 1970s with Settlement: £1,000 a view to using the building for community RE Chadwick Charitable Trust: £250 events but the lack of heating and basic The Veneziana Fund: £1,000 Open weekend (February 2009): £500 facilities limited its usefulness and it fell into disrepair.

…the outbuildings, with the exception of the gatehouse, were demolished in the first half of the 19th century…

20 NORTHERN IRELAND

5-7 Conway Street, Belfast CONWAY MILL Listed Grade B2 LOAN: £500,000 contracted November PRESERVATION TRUST 2008, security – first charge PAG: £4,000 disbursed March 2009 Conway Mill – Phase 1 (The Old Mill)

Professional Team Architect: McAdam Design, Belfast; Consarc Design Group, Belfast Structural Engineer: McAdam Design, Belfast; Albert Fry Associates, Belfast Quantity Surveyor: JCP Consulting, Belfast Project Management: Located in the Lower Falls area of west The Conway Mill Preservation Trust was McAdam Design, Belfast; H & J Martin, Belfast Belfast, which was once the heart of the set up in 1999 to ensure the preservation city’s flax spinning district, Conway Mill of the mill complex, which was listed in Main Contractor: H & J Martin, Belfast was one of the principal linen mills in 2000. Phase I of the regeneration scheme the city until production ceased in 1972. has seen the repair and refurbishment of Total investment: £5,420,571 The complex consists of two substantial the Old Mill. This is a narrow rectangular (total project costs – Phase I & II) mill buildings, one built c.1840 just as building, 15 bays long and the equivalent the industrial production of linen was of five bays wide, on four storeys with Other Sources of Funding: Department for Social Development: beginning to take off in Belfast and the additional floor-space in the attic. The £1,779,004 other 60 years later when the industry ground floor consists of lettable storage International Fund for Ireland: £970,849 was at its height. It is typical of industrial space and a workshop unit, while the upper Heritage Lottery Fund: £950,000 structures that once dominated the city’s floors accommodate small office units, Integrated Development Fund: £730,000 environment. The constituent site an education centre, studios and a gallery Department for Enterprise, Trade & Investment: £476,040 components remain with the exception for local artists. Phase II of the project will Arts Council: £329,843 of the chimney. Conway Street Community involve the regeneration of the New Mill, Trust fundraising: £129,433 Enterprises Ltd. purchased the entire and associated buildings. Once complete, Conway Mill Preservation Trust complex in 1982 and since then the the complex will accommodate sunk costs: £55,402 buildings have been used for community, manufacturing and retail units, space for cultural and educational purposes, with youth and community activities, a museum, more than 50 diverse tenants occupying heritage exhibition and interpretation the complex at any one time. centre, shop and café.

…Conway Mill was one of the principal linen mills in the city until production ceased in 1972. 21 SCOTLAND

...’arguably the most ambitious classical house in the northern isles’...

Unst, Shetland Islands THE BELMONT TRUST Listed Category A FSG: £5,537 disbursed February 1998 Belmont House LOAN: £150,000 offered March 2004, withdrawn January 2005

LOAN: £75,000 offered March 2006 (Phase II), withdrawn August 2007

Professional Team Architect: Nicholas Groves-Raines, Edinburgh Structural Engineer: Elliott & Co., Edinburgh Quantity Surveyor: Michael Thompson, Lerwick Belmont House was built in 1775 at the unaltered and both house and grounds Project Management: Nicholas Groves-Raines, Edinburgh south end of the island of Unst, Shetland’s remained sufficiently unchanged to allow Main Contractor: northernmost island. Its first owner, Thomas sympathetic restoration. Shetland Amenity Trust Mouat, son of the Laird of Garth, set out to build a mansion which would be equal in The Belmont Trust purchased the house Total investment: £1,164,165 architectural quality to the most fashionable in 1997 and raised £28,000 for emergency Other Sources of Funding: houses then being constructed elsewhere. works. Structural work and repairs to the Total Project Funding The result is, according to the Georgian exterior of the house were completed in 2006. Historic Scotland: £463,172 Group, ‘arguably the most ambitious The second phase of restoration finished the The Pilgrim Trust: £35,000 classical house in the northern isles’; a external refurbishment, including harling, Shetland Islands Council Planning: £40,000 two-storey building connected to one-storey new windows and doors and internal floors Shetland Islands Council Community Development: £33,000 flanking pavilions, in a prominent position and staircases in the pavilions. Internal Shetland Islands Council commanding fine views over Bluemull works started at the end of 2008 and have Development: £70,253 Sound, set in gardens and grounds laid out now been completed. Belmont House will Shetland Amenity Trust: £92,000 at the same time. Belmont remained the be used as holiday accommodation, a venue Highlands & Islands Enterprise family seat of the Lairds of Garth until the for weddings, corporate events, art and Shetland: £179,500 The Manifold Trust: £5,000 mid 20th century. The house was sold in 1972 music and other appropriate uses. The The Leche Trust: £3,000 but has been unused for well over 50 years. National Trust for Scotland has agreed to The Belmont Trust Friends: £3,240 The roof was badly damaged in a storm in lend some Georgian furniture from its Shetland Development Trust: £160,000 1993 and there were ominous cracks in the collection. The Belmont Trust is entering Esmee Fairburn Foundation: £45,000 stonework. Despite long neglect, the interior into an arrangement with a development The Wolfson Foundation: £5,000 The Garfield Weston Foundation: £10,000 has survived virtually intact and almost company which will manage the business. The Gardie Trust: £20,000

22 It is an important example of a medieval Scottish stronghold, its history being linked to that of the Stewart kings.

Portencross by Seamill, West Kilbride, North Ayrshire FRIENDS OF Listed Category A; Scheduled Ancient Monument

PORTENCROSS CASTLE FSG: £7,500 disbursed July 2003 Portencross Castle PAG: £4,000 disbursed July 2007 POG: £15,000 disbursed June 2009

CBG: £6,000 disbursed September 2008

LOAN: £70,000 contracted June 2009, security – repayment guarantee (North Ayrshire Council)

Professional Team Architect: Gray Marshall Associates, Edinburgh; Portencross Castle is built on a rocky after the restoration of Charles II in 1660 and Peter Drummond, Kilmarnock. promontory that juts into the Firth of Clyde and was then occupied by local fishermen Structural Engineer: Arup Scotland, Glasgow and commands an uninterrupted view of the until the roof blew off in 1739. It remained Quantity Surveyor: islands of Ailsa Craig, Holy Isle and Arran, untouched until a flat concrete roof was Poole Dick Associates, Glasgow amongst others. It is an important example put on in 1910 to keep the structure Archaeology Advisors: of a medieval Scottish stronghold, its history watertight. The deterioration of this, Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD) being linked to that of the Stewart kings. however, brought its own structural Project Management: Prior to the succession of Robert the Bruce, problems and by the beginning of the 21st George McNeill the land at Portencross belonged to the Ross century the Castle was at risk of collapse. Main Contractor: Land Engineering (Scotland) Ltd. family but after their fall, ownership was The Castle featured in the BBC’s Restoration conferred on an ancestor of the Boyds of in 2004 and was gifted to Friends of Total investment: £1,047,339 Kilmarnock. About the time of Robert II Portencross Castle in 2005 together the present Castle was built by Robert Boyd with a donation of £50,000 from its former Other Sources of Funding: of Portencross with whose descendants owners, British Nuclear Fuels. Heritage Lottery Fund: £510,000 it remained until the 18th century. Robert II Historic Scotland: £367,442 Landfill Tax Credit and Robert III must have been frequent The Trust has consolidated the ruinous (North Ayrshire Council): £58,600 visitors to Portencross as they travelled Castle, installed a stair and an electricity Friends of Portencross Castle’s between the castles of Dundonald and supply to allow public access to all levels own funds from fundraising and Rothesay, both Stewart strongholds. and use for small public events. private donations: £55,327 The original hallhouse, which dates from Donations from other charitable trusts: £37,500 the 14th century, was extended in stages Friends of Portencross to form a four-storey building with garrets. Castle labour in-kind: £5,000 It was abandoned by the Boyds shortly

23 SCOTLAND

Beith, North Ayrshire Listed Category C; Beith Outstanding HERITAGE BUILDING Conservation Area PAG: £4,000 disbursed December 2007

PRESERVATION TRUST POG: £7,500 disbursed July 2007 1a Bellman’s Close & 4 Reform Street LOAN: £105,000 offered March 2008, withdrawn February 2009

Professional Team Architect: Page & Park, Glasgow Structural Engineer: Waterman & Co., Glasgow Quantity Surveyor: Gardiner Theobald, Glasgow Valuation Surveyor: This is the latest of four formerly derelict and with the aid of grant funding from R. & W. Hall, Paisley buildings that the Heritage Building the Beith Townscape Heritage Initiative, Main Contractor: Preservation Trust has completed in Beith. replaced the roof and rafters, reharled John Moulds Ltd., Kilmarnock The project to restore no 1a Bellman’s Close the front of the building and replaced the Total investment: £430,000 and the renumbered 4 Reform Street was windows. The Trust has now completed the final phase in a programme of work works to repair and convert the building Other Sources of Funding: that has been underway for more than into two flats for sale. As the gable wall Sale proceeds: £150,000 ten years, involving a complex of buildings had been built on an unstable bake oven, Beith Townscape Heritage Initative: £65,000 around a courtyard, with nos 17-19 Main extensive temporary support, demolition Beith Christian Action Group, Trust’s own funds, various donations: £215,000 Street, Bellman’s Inn and the Commercial and rebuilding was involved. Unfortunately Building having been restored earlier. the main contractor went into liquidation Built in 1820 as a cart shed, the building towards the end of the project so was turned into a bakery in the early 1900s. negotiations with the liquidator regarding The Trust acquired the building in 2001 retention monies are ongoing.

…the final phase in a programme of work that has been underway for more than ten years…

24 St Nicholas Buccleuch Church, 119 High Street, Dalkieth, Midlothian Listed Category A; Dalkeith Palace and ST NICHOLAS APSE TRUST Park Conservation Area

The Alms Collection House (Offertory) OAG: £1,260 disbursed July 2007

Professional Team Architect: John Sanders, Simpson & Brown, Edinburgh Quantity Surveyor: Kenneth Ferguson and Partners, Edinburgh Project Management: Kenneth Ferguson and Partners, Edinburgh Main Contractor: Mark Peaty Building Services, Earlston, Berwickshire

The Alms Collection House (Offertory) is is being passed onto the visitors to the Total investment: £31,162 at the entrance to St. Nicholas Buccleuch building and grounds of St. Nicholas Church, built in 1856 after major works to Buccleuch Church. Other Sources of Funding: Heritage Lottery Fund: £19,537 the main church, it is very small at only Historic Scotland: £11,625 2.6m square. The designer was most The Alms Collection House was the last Midlothian Council: In-kind contribution probably the famous architect, David Bryce, individual structure to be repaired and who supervised the main church. It is restored within the curtilage of St. Nicholas thought to be the only building in the Buccleuch Church, as part of the ‘grand United Kingdom specifically designed for project’, which includes: a new café, an the collection and distribution of alms. organic garden, a public seating square, It has an operational coal fire and pew the main Church, the Morton Monument, seating around the perimeter. It had been the St. Nicholas Apse and the graveyard; redundant for many years and suffering all of which have been small individual the effects of significant ivy growth before projects within the whole site, some of which repairs were undertaken to the external were carried out by the St. Nicholas Apse stonework. Internally the timber floor was Trust and others by the Church itself with replaced with stone slabs and the timber the support of the Trust. This project is dado, the sash and case window, main door an exemplary example of a co-operative and lath and plaster were repaired and conservation development through a number decorated. The only nod to modernity was of small, individual projects whose total the installation of electricity. The Trust has effect far outweighs the total sum of the installed interpretation boards, for both individual parts and is a shining example of adults and children and the History Society how to achieve an ambitious project in bite of Dalkeith is providing knowledge, which size chunks over a period of ten years.

It is thought to be the only building in the United Kingdom specifically designed for the collection and distribution of alms.

25 SCOTLAND

...it served as a courthouse and county buildings.

Greenlaw, Scottish Borders Listed Category A; Greenlaw Outstanding SCOTTISH HISTORIC Conservation Area BUILDINGS TRUST PDG: £26,408 offered June 2008 LOAN: £122,500 offered December 2008, Greenlaw Town Hall withdrawn March 2010

Professional Team Architect: Adam Dudley Architects, Edinburgh Structural Engineer: David Narro Associates, Edinburgh Quantity Surveyor: Morham & Brotchie Ltd., Edinburgh Greenlaw Town Hall is a fine example of the building structure became increasingly M & E Engineer: the Scottish Greek Revival style and was vulnerable and with no viable end use RYBKA, Edinburgh designed by local Berwickshire Architect in sight, the option of demolition was CDM Co-ordinator: John Cunningham. Erected in 1831 it served considered. The Scottish Historic Buildings Harley Haddow, Edinburgh as a courthouse and county buildings. Trust, working with Scottish Borders Project Management: Scottish Historic Buildings Trust In 1904, the town of Duns replaced Greenlaw Council stepped in to assist and identified Main Contractor: as the county town, making the Town Hall a combination of sustainable uses while Campbell & Smith Construction Group, redundant. From the early years of the last maintaining the historic significance of the Ormiston, East Lothian century the building served a variety of building, including offices in the two pavilion purposes, including a billet for Polish wings with a community hall to the rear. Total investment: £1,749,334

soldiers during the World War II, Following a remarkable fundraising Other Sources of Funding: a community swimming pool and latterly campaign, restoration work commenced Historic Scotland: £500,000 an antiques saleroom. In 2001 the building in 2009. The income generated from office European Regional became vacant and quickly fell into disrepair. rental and use of the hall will be used for Development Fund: £474,620 It featured in the BBC’s Restoration Village upkeep ensuring the long-term future of Enabling development: £255,000 Monument Trust: £200,000 in 2006. the building. Scottish Borders Council: £97,000 Individual Farm & Estate Donations: £60,000 In the 1980’s the local community began Fundraising is currently underway to (£10,000 each from 6 local estates) a campaign to save the building and the provide toilet and kitchen facilities within the Turtleton Trust: £35,000 Greenlaw Town Hall Trust was formed. hall to enable it to achieve its full potential Viridor landfill: £30,000 Public Appeal: £24,737 While research and campaigning went on, for the community. Pilgrim Trust: £20,000 Gift Aid: £17,319 Other charitable trusts: £13,250

26 ...described as “the jewel in the crown of Scottish vernacular architecture.”

Church Street, Cromarty, Ross-shire Listed Category A(S); Cromarty SCOTTISH REDUNDANT Outstanding Conservation Area CHURCHES TRUST PAG: £4,000 disbursed April 2006 LOAN: £220,000 contracted December Cromarty East Church 2008, security – repayment guarantee (Highland Council)

Professional Team Architect: LDN Architects, Forres Structural Engineer: Mott Macdonald, Glasgow Quantity Surveyor: The East Church has long been accepted as The Scottish Redundant Churches Trust Torrance Partnership, Invergordon one of Scotland’s finest post-Reformation acquired the building for £1 in 1998 from the Conservation Advisor: places of worship. An extensive repair and Church of Scotland. Repairing the ravages of Andrew PK Wright Historian: conservation project has uncovered evidence age, damp and rot has been a considerable Dr David Alston that the building dates back to at least the challenge, taking over two years and involving Archaeologist: 15th century. Soon after work began, the a wide range of specialist conservators and Highland Archaeology Services Ltd timber floor of the Church was lifted to reveal building contractors. Main Contractor: Laing Traditional Masonry Ltd., part-buried human remains. The resulting Aberdeenshire excavations uncovered a large number of The threat to the survival of the building burials and, most significantly, a carved was addressed not only by the repair of the Total investment: £1,200,000 14th-century grave slab which had been fabric but also by reconnecting with the local Other Sources of Funding: carefully split lengthways and reused to community. A crucial milestone in this Heritage Lottery Fund: £641,000 form a kerb to mark the approach to the altar. process was the participation in the BBC’s Historic Scotland: £390,122 By combining archaeological evidence with Restoration Village in 2006, when the East Restoration Fund: £54,000 documentary and map research, a much Church reached the final as ‘best runner-up’. Highland Council: £50,000 clearer understanding has been gained It will once more become a part of today’s Pilgrim Trust: £15,000 Donations: £10,000 of the development of the East Church from Cromarty, hosting concerts, recitals, Scottish Churches: £8,000 a simple low rectangle in the 15th century exhibitions and special events as well as Cromarty Trust: £3,000 to the fine, galleried, largely 18th-century, occasional services, weddings and funerals. Idlewild Trust: £2,000 ‘T’ plan structure of today. A particular By working with established attractions, the Hunter Archaeological Trust: £1,500 feature is the atmospheric interior which Church will also be a place for local people Strathmartine Trust: £1,000 Allchurches Trust: £750 contains box pews from the 18th and 19th and visitors to Cromarty to enjoy and learn Listed Places of Worship Grant: VAT reclaim centuries, some of which incorporate earlier about the past, through interpretation and on eligible work and prof. fees painted panels from 1702. living history performances with a unique insight into life in the town described as “the jewel in the crown of Scottish vernacular architecture.”

27 WALES

3 Green Street, Cardigan, Ceredigion Listed Grade II

CARDIGAN CASTLE BUILDING LOAN: £225,000 contracted August 2008, security – repayment guarantee PRESERVATION TRUST (Ceredigion County Council) PDG: £1,000 disbursed April 2009 Ty Castell

Professional Team Architect: Purcell Miller Tritton, Bristol Structural Engineer: Fenton Holloway, Bristol Project Management: Heritage & Regeneration UK Ltd., Llangeitho, Ceredigion Main Contractor: Paul Edwards Ltd., Cilgerran, Cardigan Ty Castell dates from c.1820 and was floor repairs funded by a Townscape Heritage probably built by a former owner of Cardigan Initiative grant. The letting potential of the Total investment: £410,000 Castle. The two storey building is of blue two floors is an unexpected gain and will lias rubble stone with a slate eaves roof. be an interim measure until the main Castle Other Sources of Funding: Cardigan Townscape Heritage Initiative: It abuts the grounds of Cardigan Castle project commences and the second phase £169,000 and, as such, is key to the ultimate success of works is agreed. Currently the first floor Trust’s own Funds: £16,000 of the wider £9.2 million restoration project. is being used by local community groups for The ground floor was most recently used meetings and the basement as a retail unit. as a fish and chip shop. The Trust purchased Ty Castell in August 2008 with the aid of an AHF loan and has since received funding to develop an independently viable and sustainable scheme, to bring it back into revenue earning use in the shorter term. The Trust was able to carry out external works and some basement and ground

…dates from c.1820 and was probably built by a former owner of Cardigan Castle.

28 Great Trerhew Corn Barn Llantilio Crossenny, Llanvetherine, Nr Abergavenny, Monmouthshire THE VILLAGE ALIVE TRUST Listed Grade II*

Great Trerhew Corn Barn OAG: £3,197 disbursed March 2008

Professional Team Architect: Stefan Horowskyj of Morgan & Horowskyj, Abergavenny Structural Engineer: John Cranna, Abergavenny Main Contractor: Thorteck Ltd., Cwmbran

Total investment: £243,457

The Barn at Great Trerhew Farm is a fine it in use, despite its poor condition, with the Other Sources of Funding: 16th-century structure that forms part of roof structure vulnerable to water ingress, Rural Development Fund for Wales £115,460 a large, complex farm range. It is possibly leading to movement of the gable walls. Cadw £77,308 Monmouthshire County Council £38,480 the last barn of this quality remaining in Private donations £10,770 agricultural use in the county, if not in South The Trust’s unique setup allows it to work Trust’s own resources (plus volunteer Wales. It was probably originally wholly with local landowners to preserve rural project management) £1,439 timber framed, but a date stone suggests culture and activities. It has carried out that it was extended in 1696. It now has conservation work that not only allows eight bays with two kingpost trusses, gabled the barn to continue in its major role as additions with cider mill and press, cattle a farm building, but also to allow its use stalls, stable and haylofts with a stone chaff for public functions and educational work. bin. It has significant group value, standing The BBC’s Lambing Live was filmed here alongside the listed farmhouse and other in Spring 2010. The Barn also hosted the outbuildings. It is located within a working 2010 May Day Monmouthshire Pear and farm but, due to changing farming practices, Perry Festival, which was run in partnership has only been put to low key use for storage with Monmouthshire County Council and and livestock for many years. The farmer the Welsh Perry and Cider Society; this was had little funding available for routine deemed a great success, and it is envisaged maintenance, but had endeavoured to keep that future food festivals will be hosted here.

It is possibly the last barn of this quality remaining in agricultural use in the county…

29 30 Broomloan Road Public Schools (see p.48) PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT The projects featured in this section reflect the diversity of the UK’s built heritage. Historic building conservation projects typically take many years to develop, so some of the cases here will be familiar to readers of previous Annual Reviews.

However, new projects continue to be The balance between ‘preservation’ and added; the steady level of applications for adaptive reuse is critical to a successful KEY Options Appraisal Grants (OAGs) and project; estimating the cost of the repairs Many projects receive several different AHF grants and loans. Project Development Grants (PDGs) during and alterations required for various These are abbreviated as follows: 2009-10 suggests that building preservation options will be one of the most important trusts (BPTs) and other charities are still components of the study. It should provide FSG Feasibility Study Grant able to identify buildings with restoration a charity with a clear idea of which option OAG Options Appraisal Grant potential. Coverage is uneven across the is viable, if any, and consider the project’s CBG Capacity Building Grant country and further research is needed chances of attracting funding and can help PAG Project Administration to identify why some areas are ‘cold spots’ convince the relevant authorities to back Grant in terms of BPT activity. It is certainly not a project and enable funding bodies to be due to a lack of opportunity: the Buildings approached with some confidence. POG Project Organiser Grant At Risk Registers maintained by local PDG Project Development Grant authorities, English Heritage, the Once a viable project has been identified, RPDG Refundable Project Scottish Civic Trust, Cadw and the Ulster further support is available for BPTs Development Grant Architectural Heritage Society highlight the through the PDG scheme which is intended Grant and loan information ongoing problem of redundant buildings. to assist them in covering some of the costs is as at the end of the financial of developing and co-ordinating a project year (31 March 2010) but the An OAG is an important first step in the and taking it towards the start of work on text often includes more recent process of bringing a historic building back site. As part of this scheme trusts have developments. into sustainable use. Any charity with an benefited from project administration costs, eligible project can apply for a grant as non-recoverable professional fees, or a Where a grant or loan offer is long as it meets the AHF’s criteria and contribution towards the cost of employing shown as ‘withdrawn’, this does not necessarily mean that the intends to acquire it. An options appraisal a project organiser and in some cases project is not proceeding. provides a solid grounding to a project as mentoring support. Demand for these The applicant may have been it will enable the charity to gain a proper grants remains high, so they will continue able to go ahead without it or understanding of how sympathetic repair to be limited to BPTs only. the nature of the project may and conservation might be achieved while have changed and a new meeting the needs of 21st-century users. Lending to charities involved in the application submitted. acquisition and repair of historic buildings at risk remains at the centre of the AHF’s activities. Whilst there has been a decline in the traditional revolving fund model of BPT activity in recent years, demand persists for loans to assist with project cashflow. A loan is often one part of a complex package of funding from a range of sources. It is hoped that AHF grant support in the early stages of a project will lead to an application for a loan once the project begins.

TOP: Dawe’s Twine Works (see p.39) LEFT: Severndroog Castle (see p.36) RIGHT: Old Hall Hotel (see p.37)

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2 North Norfolk Historic 2 EASTERN REGION Buildings Trust Langham Dome Benington Community 1 Heritage Trust Cockthorpe Road, Langham, Norfolk Scheduled Ancient Monument All Saints Church FSG: £2,247 disbursed February 2001 Main Road, Benington, Boston, PAG: £4,000 disbursed July 2005 Lincolnshire PDG: £8,500 offered September 2009 Listed Grade I Built in 1942-43 of concrete and metal OAG: £7,500 offered June 2009 mesh construction to contain a Link trainer and projection equipment for All Saints Church dominates the centre training torpedo bomber pilots and of the village of Benington. Grade I listed, Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire anti-aircraft gunners, the Dome, which it dates from the 13th century and was 116 High Street is 12m in diameter, has been unused modified in the 14th and 15th centuries, since 1946. The building was in poor before being restored in the 19th century. Boston, Lincolnshire condition and vulnerable to vandalism The walls are limestone, ashlar-faced Listed Grade II*; Boston Town before the Trust became involved but with coursed rubble in the core. Notable Conservation Area some minor repair work and security features include the 15th-century oak measures have safeguarded the nave roof with arch-braced collars and OAG: £12,500 disbursed November 2009 structure. The most viable end use is intermediate angels holding shields, PDG: £11,250 offered December 2009 to restore the dome, with lighting and an octagonal, late-medieval font and projection equipment reinstated so that 116 High Street was built in the early finely carved pulpit, chancel screen its original purpose can be demonstrated 18th century for William Garfit, a and choir stalls. All Saints was closed to visitors. The Trust is now developing prominent local banker. It is constructed for worship in March 2003, although the the project in several areas with the help on two storeys with a five-bay frontage, surrounding graveyard is still in use. of an AHF grant, including business and was extended to the rear in the Since then there has been damage to planning, technical advice on the late 18th and early 19th centuries. the windows and theft of lead from the building’s repair, and on the internal Banking at this time was often conducted roof leading to water ingress. The local fittings that would allow replication in private residences and the two front community concluded that the formation of the structure’s original function. of a building preservation trust was the rooms would have served this purpose only way to raise sufficient funding to while the rest of the house accommodated re-use the building. The Diocese has the owner’s family. Two panelled rooms offered to sell the freehold for £1 or offer from this date survive although there Norwich Preservation Trust 3 a long lease at a nominal sum. The study were later alterations both internally and will examine end uses revolving around externally. The building has lain empty 6-9 Ninhams Court community activity; however it is for approximately 30 years and is now recognised that a viable scheme is in a desperate condition. An options Norwich, Norfolk essential in order to secure the building’s appraisal study concluded that office Listed Grade II* use was the most viable proposition. long-term future. OAG: £5,688 offered September 2009 The Trust acquired the building in April 1 2010 and is developing the scheme 6-9 Ninhams Court has 16th-century with the aid of an AHF-funded project origins, with 17th and 18th-century organiser. The project enjoys strong additions, and was restored again in the support from English Heritage and the 19th century. However, its undercroft Heritage Lottery Fund. dates from the 15th century and forms part of an important group within the city walls, hence the building’s Grade II* 3 listing. It is constructed of painted flint rubble with brick dressings, and a pantiled roof. It is on two storeys with attics, on a complex, three-bay, ‘L’ shaped plan. In addition to its architectural history, it has further local importance as the birthplace of the Maddermarket Theatre, which started in an upstairs room, and is now of international renown. Although in residential use until relatively recently, the building has been allowed to deteriorate to the extent that it is beyond commercial repair. The Trust has been offered a long lease by Norwich City Council, subject to the study demonstrating a viable scheme. End use will essentially involve residential accommodation, but the Trust is prepared to look at all appropriate alternatives.

32 4 South Essex Building 4 Preservation Trust 269-275 Victoria Avenue

Prittlewell, Southend, Essex Listed Grade II OAG: £7,500 offered March 2010

This timber framed former hall house dates from the late 15th century and is located in the oldest inhabited part of Southend. Constructed on a half- ‘H’ shaped plan, with cross wings at the north and south ends, a tall cart entrance passes through the centre block. In medieval times this would have been the most important building in the locality, lying opposite the entrance to the historic St. Mary’s Church, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front, which is not in use and the remainder of the ground floor and upper floors are residential. The building is 5 divided into several tenancies. It has been Blisworth Historic Buildings Trust altered many times in the past and is in poor condition. All appropriate end uses The Sun Moon and Stars will be considered in the Trust’s study. The regeneration of the Victoria Avenue 64 High Street, Blisworth, corridor in the near future, will mean Northamptonshire that the project will form part of a wider Listed Grade II; Blisworth redevelopment scheme. Conservation Area OAG: £7,500 disbursed August 2009

This former public house and restaurant was built in 1797 as an inn, likely to EAST MIDLANDS have served those travelling along the Grand Union Canal as well as the local Arkwright Society 5 population, a nearby toll road and later the railway. It is built in brick with a Buildings at Risk Trust Building 17, Sir Richard hipped, slate roof, on an ‘L’ shaped plan, Mansfield Brewery Arkwright’s Cromford Mills and may have been constructed on the (The Maltings) foundations of an earlier stone building. Mill Lane, Cromford, Derbyshire During the 1980s the ground floor was Midworth Street, Mansfield, Listed Grade I; Cromford and Derwent used as a restaurant until the building Nottinghamshire Valley Mills World Heritage Site was damaged in 1988, it then became Listed Grade II increasingly neglected. Following the PDG: £25,000 offered September 2008 issue of repairs notices, a Compulsory LOAN: £458,000 offered September 2009 Purchase Order was served by South Building 17 is the largest of the Grade I Northants District Council in 2007. For Originally built in 1800, the Mansfield buildings within the Cromford Mills site. the last 20 years it has stood empty and Brewery is constructed of local stone Although its exterior is in good order, in obvious need of repair, and the Trust with a slate pitched roof. Its life as a the interior remains in serious disrepair. was formed by the village inhabitants to maltings only lasted 30 years, and little is The project will adapt the ground floor save this much-loved building and enable known of its subsequent history. In more to provide orientation and information it to become an architectural and recent times the building has had several facilities for visitors to the Derwent Valley functional asset to the local area. uses, most recently as a nightclub. The Mills World Heritage Site. It will include The study demonstrated that residential majority of the internal features have a 70-seat auditorium, a foyer and use would be the best option. However, been lost and unsuitable modifications information point to introduce visitors despite widespread support, the local made, some without consent or structural to the Arkwright story and its surrounding authority as yet has not sanctioned this advice. The building’s continued decay area. The building will also contain replica initiative and the building remains empty. was the cause of such concern that machinery, exhibition space, catering demolition was considered. The Trust facilities and commercial space for rent. has been working with Mansfield District The Society has already received strong Council on a programme of emergency support from potential funders and the repairs which should enable the proposed AHF’s grant has allowed it to develop the permanent repair and renovation work scheme further with the employment of to be conducted safely to convert the a project organiser. Brewery into a digital media centre.

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St James the Less 1 Preservation Trust GREATER LONDON St James the Less Church Brixton Community Trust Spring Bank, New Mills, High Peak, Derbyshire Railway Hotel Listed Grade II; New Mills Spring Bank Conservation Area 20 Atlantic Road, Brixton, SW8 Brixton Conservation Area OAG: £4,485 disbursed June 2007 OAG: £5,000 disbursed January 2010 1 CBG: £553 disbursed June 2007 POG: £13,000 disbursed September 2009 The Railway Hotel was built in 1880 and OAG: £1,947 disbursed February 2009 has always operated as a public house or PDG: £11,500 disbursed December 2009 Peel Centre Charitable Trust hotel. Its clock tower is a distinctive local Dronfield Hall Barn This compact, simple church was built landmark. It is constructed on a difficult in 1878 of dressed local stone with ashlar corner site intersected by railway lines High Street, Dronfield, Derbyshire dressings and forms part of a group with and built of yellow stock brick with slate Listed Grade II* the adjacent almshouses. More recently roofs and string courses of decorative encaustic tile friezes. From the 1960s OAG: £8,635 disbursed June 2009 it was used jointly by Anglican and Methodist worshippers but finally became until its closure in 1999 it was well-known as ‘Bradys’, a music and dance venue. Dronfield Hall Barn is a mid-15th century redundant in 2005. At this point the Trust The London Borough of Lambeth acquired timber-framed former manor house was formed with the aim of supporting the building by compulsory purchase at converted to a barn in the 17th century. artistic and cultural activities within the this time, and it has remained empty ever It is an ‘L’ shaped building of sandstone building, and with a lack of community since. The study identified it as a suitable construction, with a stone slate roof. The facilities in the area, it identified that this venue for a range of community-based quality of its surviving timber frame and could become an ideal resource for local activities. Although unlisted it is a key details of its carpentry show this to be people. With the support of the Diocese, element in the Conservation Area and an outstanding example of late medieval a wide range of events already takes with the recent listing of Brixton Market, craftsmanship. The barn has now been place throughout the year. The Trust this may allow its integration into a wider disused for over 10 years and is intends to restore and convert the regeneration project. deteriorating. It was gifted to the Peel building, adding some extra facilities, Centre Charitable Trust, together with to provide a small, studio-sized surrounding land, in June 2005. The versatile arts centre for the benefit of the community which will be preferred option within the study was Heritage of London Trust to create a mixed-use community disability friendly. Operations Ltd facility, including arts space, heritage interpretation and a café. The Trust is The Spotted Dog Public House now working on the preparation of bids 2 to the Heritage Lottery Fund and others. Ullesthorpe Preservation Trust 212 Upton Lane, Forest Gate, E7 Ullesthorpe Windmill Listed Grade II OAG: £6,000 disbursed August 2009 2 Windmill Road, Ullesthorpe, Leicestershire PDG: £10,000 offered December 2009 Listed Grade II PDG: £11,500 offered March 2010 The oldest part of this former public house dates from the 16th century and, Ullesthorpe Windmill is a tower mill according to a wall plaque, is the oldest constructed c.1800 which was financed secular building in East London. It is by 29 local people wishing to build a mill timber framed and weatherboarded with that would alleviate poverty by lowering a pantiled roof. Various brick-built the price of flour in the area. It ceased extensions were added between the functioning as a windmill in the 1890s early 19th and late 20th centuries. It has but the site remained in use. The project probably always been an inn and sits comprises the mill and associated on a large corner site which has been buildings: granary, stable, courtyard, adapted for car parking. Legend has it privy, bakehouse, miller’s office and that it was once the kennels for King piggeries. The Trust runs regular and Henry VIII’s dogs, and it is a well-known well-supported open weekends. The mill local landmark. The London Borough of contains most of the original wooden Newham is particularly concerned about machinery, and the Trust is confident its condition and is prepared to serve the that its listing status might be upgraded necessary enforcement notices. The for this reason in the future. It has been study demonstrated that the removal negotiating with the current owner, of modern extensions would allow viable a descendant of the original majority re-use as a residential conversion with shareholder, to acquire a 75-year lease. some sympathetic enabling development The AHF’s grant has allowed the Trust to to the rear. employ a project organiser to work on a Stage II HLF application.

34 Heritage of London Trust River Lea Tidal Mill Trust 4 Operations Ltd The House Mill and 549 Lordship Lane Miller’s House

Southwark, SE22 Three Mill Lane, Bromley-by-Bow, E3 3 Listed Grade II Listed Grade I (House Mill), Grade II 3 (Miller’s House) Heritage of London Trust OAG: £7,500 disbursed December 2008 Operations Ltd PDG: £17,500 offered September OAG: £3,000 offered December 2009 St George’s 2009/January 2010 (Royal Garrison) Church LOAN: £660,000 offered March 2010, A tidal mill has stood in this location security – repayment guarantee for many hundreds of years, perhaps even predating the Domesday Book. The site Repository Road, Woolwich, SE18 (London Borough of Southwark) was owned by Stratford Longthorne Listed Grade II This domestic dwelling was built c.1873, Abbey until the Dissolution of the OAG: £3,000 offered September 2009 with the outer walls constructed of Monasteries. The Miller’s House was innovative concrete using ‘burnt ballast’ constructed in 1776, and the House Mill The Royal Garrison Church of St George and portland cement without steel in 1802 following a fire which destroyed was built in 1863 for the Royal Artillery as reinforcement. Mr Drake of the Patent a previous structure. It was owned for part of the Woolwich Arsenal complex. This Concrete Building Company, who pioneered many years by J & W Nicholson, gin substantial structure was destroyed in 1944 its design, promoted it at the international distillers, until its closure in 1941 by a flying bomb, leaving only the roofless exhibition of the Royal Society of the Arts following bomb damage. It became apse. It continued to fulfil a key function the following year, with the Society’s increasingly derelict and was threatened to the regiment, as it contains the Royal journal noting that the finish had ‘much with demolition in the 1970s. Acquired by Artillery Victoria Cross Memorial mosaic the appearance of having been worked out the Trust in 1986, the buildings were of St George and the Dragon. A temporary of sandstone’. The building was designed restored to a basic level between 1991-95. roof was blown away in the storms of 1999, on two storeys with three large reception However, the site is under-used and leaving the structure at serious risk of rooms on the ground floor. It has been generates insufficient income for decay. It is currently sealed off from public derelict for a number of years and is maintenance. The Trust’s foremost access on health and safety grounds. The deteriorating rapidly. The London Borough objective is to reinstate the four Regiment relocated in 2007 but is keen to of Southwark has successfully served waterwheels and find suitable uses for find a long term solution and has offered a Compulsory Purchase Order and agreed those spaces within the building that are to transfer ownership to the Trust subject to hand on the property to the Trust for not utilised. The wider aspiration is to to a suitable scheme being identified. a peppercorn rent. The building will be establish a vibrant attraction, heritage The Trust wishes to carry out a single-use repaired and converted into five units for destination and a centre for business, study on the structure, which it believes social housing use. learning and the community. The site to be capable of viable but limited re-use. is set within the Thames Gateway and adjacent to the 2012 Olympic site.

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1 Ouseburn Trust NORTH EAST 47-49 Lime Street

North of England Civic Trust 2 Newcastle upon Tyne Lower Ouseburn Valley Conservation Area St Mary’s Church OAG: £5,000 disbursed May 2009 Woodhorn, Ashington, Northumberland Listed Grade I No 47-49 Lime Street is a two-storey disused warehouse to the street front, OAG: £8,256 disbursed May 2009 with a single-storey building to the rear on a steeply sloping site. By the 1898 Woodhorn Church is said to be the second edition of the Ordnance Survey oldest church on the Northumbria coast, it is named as ‘Ouseburn Canvas Works’. with the nave and some of the west Thomas Stokoe was listed as sailcloth tower pre-dating the Norman Conquest. maker at 46-49 Lime Street in 1874-75, Originally constructed between the sharing premises with a chemical 12th and 13th centuries, it was manufacturer and a potter. Stokoe’s substantially rebuilt in 1843 by B&J Green factory continued working until at least of Newcastle in the Norman style in 1915. In 1939 the premises are recorded tooled stone and ashlar with a Welsh as Marsden Mattresses Ltd. The building slate roof. The churchyard, which is now had been redundant and in dire condition closed, contains some monuments listed for many years. The Trust acquired it in their own right. The church became some years ago and hopes to convert the redundant in 1973 when converted into remaining structure as mixed workspace a museum and cultural centre. A nearby and live/work units. project combining the county archives and a coalfield museum has now rendered it superfluous. Wansbeck District Council offered to pass on ownership to the Trust if a viable future use could be identified. The study’s NORTH WEST preferred option was for the creation Severndroog Castle Building 1 of flexible spaces to promote creative Greater Manchester Building Preservation Trust enterprise, although the retention Preservation Trust Severndroog Castle of public access to the building was Tonge Hall considered to be of highest importance. There is, however, a considerable Shooters Hill, Greenwich, SE18 William Street, Middleton, Rochdale, conservation deficit. Listed Grade II* Lancashire Listed Grade II* PDG: £11,250 offered June 2009 2 LOAN: £120,000 offered September 2009, Sir William James restored sea trading security – repayment guarantee routes to the East India Company (Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council) following the Battle of Severndroog off the Malabar Coast, west of India. To Tonge Hall is a substantial late 16th- commemorate his achievements, the century timber-framed house, with a Tower was constructed in 1784 by his single cross-wing to the east and a hall widow, to the design of Richard Jupp. range that appears once to have had two After the death of Lady James in 1798 it storeys. At the rear, the frame has been was occupied by various inhabitants until encased in brick but the main front and it was bequeathed to London County the side wall of the cross-wing retain Council in 1922 along with its surrounding elaborate exposed framing with woodland. It was last used as a café but decorative quatrefoil panels, coved jetties was closed to the public by the London and projecting gables. A solid oak spiral Borough of Greenwich when it took staircase remains in the wing which also ownership in 1986. It featured on the has a parlour lined with moulded BBC’s Restoration in 2004. Its proposed panelling, most of which appears to end use is for a community café on the date from c.1700. The building ground floor. The elegant first floor room was already in a poor condition when will be used for functions, the second a devastating fire broke out in June 2007. floor room as a multi-use space for a Debris fills the ground floor and the range of activities including educational building is now considered too dangerous visits, ecology and nature watch activities, to enter. Rochdale Council successfully exhibitions etc, whilst the viewing negotiated with the owner to purchase platform on the roof, from which on the building and will pass on ownership a clear day it is possible to see across for a peppercorn to the Trust, which will seven counties, will be renovated and undertake emergency works and repair made secure. The Trust is negotiating the shell. English Heritage has awarded a 30-year lease and the project was a grant of £207,000 towards this work. awarded £595,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund in March 2010.

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Heysham, Lancashire Listed Grade II; Heysham Conservation Area LOAN: £90,000 repaid November 2006; security - repayment guarantee (Lancashire County Council) FSG: £3,460 disbursed October 2005 POG: £12,000 disbursed December 2008 LOAN: £126,000 contracted July 2009, security – repayment guarantee (Lancashire County Council)

Heysham Village is a settlement dating back to Anglo-Saxon times and was developed as a fishing community and tourist attraction in the 19th century. 22 Main Street is part of a traditional early 17th-century longhouse with an attached barn. It is built into the rocky hillside and is of one storey, with an attic. The adjacent former barn, now 24-26 Main Street, was acquired by the trust in 1998 and became a heritage centre. Upon the owner’s death the Trust was able to purchase No 22 with the aid of an AHF acquisition loan. An options appraisal identified four potential uses and the 3 Trust concluded the most suitable was to Heritage Trust for the North West Heritage Works Buildings retain the building as a dwelling, whilst Lomeshaye Bridge Mill Preservation Trust the remaining bay of the barn would be Old Hall Hotel used to extend the exhibition space in the Whitefield, Nelson, Lancashire Heritage Centre. The Trust has organised Whitefield Conservation Area High Street, Sandbach, Cheshire several sessions for volunteers to Listed Grade I participate in the restoration scheme. PDG: £15,000 offered June 2009 LOAN: £400,000 offered March 2010, OAG: £5,100 disbursed February 2010 security – repayment guarantee (Pendle Borough Council) The Old Hall Hotel is situated on the Heritage Trust for the North West High Street in the centre of Sandbach. The Presbytery Lomeshaye Bridge Mill, a steam-driven It was built in 1656 for Sir John Radclyffe, two-storey cotton spinning mill, was built who secured Sandbach's market charter in 1841 at the birth of the cotton industry from Queen Elizabeth I. It became a Macleod Street, Nelson, Lancashire in the area. Occupying a site adjacent coaching inn in the 18th century, serving Whitefield Conservation Area to the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, it is the Liverpool to Lichfield route. The LOAN: £145,000 offered September 2009, constructed of dressed stone over rubble building is timber framed at the front and security – repayment guarantee stone masonry with a slate roof; together partly timber framed and partly brick at (Pendle Borough Council) with the weaving sheds the site once the back. It has three storeys with four housed 1,286 looms. Two further storeys gables on the front elevation with restored The Presbytery has a prominent role were added in 1891 by the Ecroyd’s, barge-boards and finials. The roofs are in the local townscape. It was built in 1897 a prominent local family responsible for of stone flags. Interior features include at the same time as St Joseph’s Catholic the creation of much of Whitefield, and three Jacobean fireplaces, a left-handed Church, which occupied the adjacent site remained in cotton production until 1935 spiral staircase, a priest hole, oak on Macleod Street. The Church was after which it was used for finishing and panelling and an original oak baluster rebuilt in the 1960s but has since been dying cotton and garment manufacture. staircase. The Sandbach Old Hall Action demolished. Following the removal of Although not listed, it is recognised as Group was formed by concerned local the church building and the Presbytery’s a significant building in the Conservation residents in 2007 and has played an partial destruction by fire, it is now little Area and has been designated a ‘critical important role in raising awareness of more than a shell of external walls project’ within the Whitefield Townscape the poor condition of the building with without a roof. There are vertical Heritage Initiative. The Mill will be the local authority; threats of statutory structural cracks and it is currently converted to provide a mix of business intervention led to some repair work held together by scaffolding. The Trust start-up units with on-site meeting being carried out. The study suggested intends to carry out shell repairs to the facilities, receptionist and post room restaurant and bar use with three-storey building and then sell it on services, secure storage and archive accommodation above, although it to a local housing association. space. The weaving sheds will be adapted acknowledged that potential grant to provide a number of manufacturing funding for the project was limited. units and at least 25 parking spaces. Shortly before the study was completed, The trust will retain ownership. a commercial organisation purchased the building and plans to re-open it as a pub/restaurant.

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Barnstaple Building Preservation Trust The Old Catholic Church (St Mary’s)

High Church Street, Barnstaple, North Devon Listed Grade II OAG: £5,392 disbursed July 2009

The former St. Mary’s Catholic Church was constructed between 1844-1855 and, according to ‘The Tablet’ of 1846, was designed by Gideon Boyce of Tiverton. In the Romanesque style, and once part of a complex of similar form, it is of rubble construction with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Internally the roof is of arch-braced design, with a simple Romanesque circular pulpit. A new church was constructed alongside between 1981-1985 to house a growing congregation. At this time, consent to demolish was refused and the old church Historic Chapels Trust 1 finally closed in 1984. In 1991 repairs Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes to make the building wind and watertight SOUTH EAST were undertaken, and masonry in danger of falling has subsequently been Whinney Heys Road, Blackpool, Lancashire Old Fort 2 removed; however the building has Listed Grade II* Old Fort deteriorated steadily over a number OAG: £4,390 offered December 2009 of years. The Trust was established to Old Fort Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, find a viable new use and commissioned The Shrine was built in 1957 to the West Sussex an options appraisal study; however, designs of Francis Xavier Velarde, a Scheduled Ancient Monument this proved inconclusive and the building Liverpool-based church architect. It is remains at risk. constructed in Portland stone, with a OAG: £7,500 offered June 2009 copper-clad roof and traceried windows following a contemporary geometric Lord Palmerston (Prime Minister 1855-58) 2 pattern. The exterior is dominated by a is best remembered for his aggressive central carved relief and figurative corner foreign policy at a time when the United pinnacles by the local sculptor David John. Kingdom was at the height of its power. Internally many of the architect’s original The realisation that a French army under fittings survive. It was attached to the Napoleon III could land on the south coast adjacent convent of Marie Reparattrice, within hours meant that two new forts which closed in 1999, and spot listing in were built to supplement existing the same year saved the building from fortifications. The Fort at Shoreham was demolition. The shrine was finally completed in 1857 on a spit of shingle declared redundant in 2001 and the Trust that overlooked the harbour and its acquired the building in 2002. The interior approaches, however its six guns were has suffered badly from water ingress, never fired in anger. During the Second and a first phase of works which involved World War a battery of six-inch guns the full repair of the roof covering and and a searchlight battery were installed. overhaul of rainwater goods has been The coastguard tower was constructed carried out. However, the Trust needed to in the 1950s on top of (and incorporating undertake an assessment of potential end elements of) the west magazine, but it uses and has therefore commissioned an has been redundant for approximately options appraisal study. eight years. It is a visible and recognisable local landmark and retains the affection of residents who wish to see it re-used. Shoreham Port Authority, the site’s owner, has welcomed the Trust’s interest and has offered a 99 year lease for the whole site, subject to an appropriate community-based use being identified. The Trust is carrying out a study to look at all appropriate options.

38 4 Bibury Community Trust 3 Industrial Buildings Preservation Trust Arlington Mill Dawe’s Twine Works (The Ropewalk) Bibury, Gloucestershire Listed Grade II 94 High Street, West Coker, Somerset Listed Grade II* LOAN: £178,500 offered February 2010, security – first charge FSG: £2,665 disbursed January 1998 SUPPLEMENTAL FSG: £500 withdrawn The popular Cotswold village of Bibury February 2008 was described by William Morris as 4 CBG: £1,750 offered October 2007 “the most beautiful village in England”. Cornwall Building OAG: £7,500 offered March 2008 Bibury dates back to the Iron Age, there Preservation Trust LOAN: £110,000 offered December 2009, are the remains of a hill fort above the Old Duchy Palace security – repayment guarantee village, and the local church has Saxon (South Somerset District Council) origins. Built in the 17th century as a Quay Street, Lostwithiel, Cornwall cloth mill, Arlington Mill is situated Listed Grade I The Ropewalk is of timber-framed opposite Rack Island, named because construction, mostly open-sided, on this was where the cloth produced by PDG: £15,000 offered June 2009 a single storey with an attic floor, and the weavers in the nearby Arlington Row Bridgwater-made double Roman tiles. cottages was hung out to dry. Rack Island The Duchy Palace was built by Edmund, It may be the most complete example is now managed by the National Trust, Earl of Cornwall in c.1292 as the of a 19th-century rural twine works, as are the cottages. During the 18th administrative centre of his estate. and retains almost all of its machinery. century Arlington Mill was converted for It contained spacious living The Trust completed a feasibility study use as a corn mill and remained in accommodation but was never used in 1998 and a Compulsory Purchase productive use until the 1950s. It was as a residence by the Earls of Cornwall; Order was subsequently served by the restored in the 1960s and remains one instead it contained a strong room, wine supportive local authority. The building’s of the few near intact corn mills in the cellar, a ‘tinners’ gaol’ and was the venue condition remained poor, however, being Cotswolds. Attached to Arlington Mill of the County Court and Stannary Court, held up by hawsers and scaffolding, for is Weavers Cottage, which had been latterly being used as the Tinners’ a number of years. The scheme was occupied until recently. The Mill itself is Convocation Hall. It is probably the reinvigorated following an appearance rundown and vacant. The Trust intends largest secular medieval building to on the BBC’s Restoration Village in 2006 to convert the Mill to provide five survive in Cornwall. In 1852 it was and the AHF was able to offer further live/work units, with Weavers Cottage acquired by the Duchy of Cornwall and support including an exceptional offer providing another. then sold on to the Restormel Lodge of of an additional grant to update the the Freemasons in 1878. By 2008 this feasibility study. The first stage organisation wished to dispose of it due of restoration was undertaken by the to its inability to meet repair costs. The Carpenters’ Fellowship in April 2010. Bristol Buildings Preservation Trust Prince’s Regeneration Trust purchased This entailed the gradual levelling of Lower Lodge the building in February 2009 to prevent it the entire building, ‘knitting and rigging’ being sold on the open market. It allowed the structure to ensure it was brought Cornwall BPT two years to develop a Ashton Park School, Ashton, Bristol up to the correct level. The Coker Rope funded project; however, a failed HLF Listed Grade II*; Bower Ashton and Sail Trust will run the project as application necessitated a revised Conservation Area a visitor attraction when completed, approach and the two organisations will showing how twine, rope and sailcloth OAG: £5,995 disbursed March 2010 now be working in partnership. were manufactured. PDG: £7,500 offered March 2010

Originally built as a Gatekeeper’s Lodge for the Ashton Estate in c.1805 for Sir John Hugh Smyth, this small construction is built of limestone ashlar, battlemented in Tudor style. It was originally the beginning of the scenic route to the house designed by Humphrey Repton. It has only three useable rooms, and was probably never inhabited full-time. Ashton Park School was built in the estate grounds approximately 50 years ago, although the original house still stands. The Lodge has suffered from a lack of maintenance ever since. The roof has partially collapsed, and there are signs of movement throughout the structure, caused largely by water ingress. It is also adjacent to a busy main road. The study demonstrated that ancillary office accommodation for the school would be the most beneficial re-use, and the Trust is continuing to develop the project. English Heritage and Bristol City Council have been particularly supportive of the scheme. 3

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Somerset Building 2 Preservation Trust WEST MIDLANDS Castle House Birmingham Conservation Trust 3 Taunton Castle, Taunton, Somerset Listed Grade I; Castle Green Brandwood End Conservation Area Cemetery Chapels

OAG: £10,500 disbursed February 2010 King’s Heath, Birmingham PDG: £19,700 offered March 2010 Listed Grade II

Castle House forms an integral part OAG: £7,500 disbursed June 2009 of the Inner Ward of Taunton Castle, originally the medieval castle of the Situated in the Birmingham suburb of Bishops of Winchester. Parts of the King’s Heath, Brandwood End Cemetery building date from the 13th century with was one of several serving the 1 major alterations and additions in the metropolitan area, and the first to be established following the Local Poltimore House Trust 1 16th and 17th centuries, and it contains a small Adamesque library dating from Government Act of 1894 which passed Poltimore House 1785. The Castle itself, which is located the responsibilities of burial boards to in the centre of the town, is now the local authorities. Built in 1898 to the Poltimore, Exeter, Devon county museum. Despite the outwardly designs of J. Brewin Holmes, the twin Listed Grade II* solid appearance, there is evidence of Chapels, Anglican and Nonconformist, are the only cemetery chapels in the area OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2007 structural movement and penetrating to utilise liberal and exuberant terracotta PDG: £8,000 offered September 2009 damp; the internal layout is also detailing, making them unique and LOAN: £50,000 offered December 2009, complicated and lacks modern services. distinctive. They were closed to save on security – repayment guarantee The Trust proposes to restore the building the cost of upkeep and repair. This began (East Devon District Council) and has recently been awarded a Stage I grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. the inevitable decline into neglect and one of the chapels was gutted by fire in 1995. Poltimore House was built around an The Vivat Trust is the proposed end-user. The surrounding cemetery is still in use existing Tudor house in the 17th century and fulfils a secondary function as a by Sir Coplestone Bamfylde. The ‘L’ shaped public open space and haven to wildlife; house now forms the rear and east Tone Mill Trust it is a Grade II listed park. The Friends ranges of a large mansion that has of Brandwood End was set up as a undergone considerable alteration and Tone Mill lobbying group and has encouraged the expansion, principally in the late 17th local authority to bring in the Trust to and 19th centuries. The house was the Wellington, Somerset seek a solution. The study demonstrated residence of the Lords Poltimore until Listed Grade II* that a scheme could be viable if some the 1920s. During the Second World War OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2009 enabling development took place on it became a convalescent home for US adjoining land, but a firm commitment airmen, and later, an annexe of the Royal As early as 1503 the Tone Mill site may is awaited from the local authority. Devon and Exeter Hospital. After its sale by have been used for the processing of the Regional Health Authority in the 1970s, cloth, being the location of the Bishop’s it was used as a private nursing home fulling mill, within the flood plain of the which closed in the 1980s. It then endured River Tone. By 1754 Thomas Were and years of savage vandalism and looting. Sons had built a dye works on the site The Poltimore House Trust acquired the which was then taken over by Thomas Fox. building in 2000 and proposes to transform By 1929 it had expanded to its current the house into a centre for creativity, configuration and Fox Brothers continued business innovation, education and to use the site until the late 1990s. training. The first phase of works, The mill buildings contain an array of to make the building watertight, will custom-built machinery, providing a commence in late 2010, thanks to a unique chronology of technological substantial grant from English Heritage. innovation. The building appears to have The AHF grant has allowed the been abandoned at short notice and, employment of a graduate intern to astonishingly, the production lines could, undertake research for fundraising and with modest outlay, be brought back into grant applications, developing public use; however, the listed buildings are in relations, marketing and a website. urgent need of repair. A developer now owns the whole Tone Mill site and the trust is negotiating the acquisition of the historic elements. It proposes to restore this example of unique industrial heritage to working order, to function once again processing cloth commercially, and as a heritage attraction. 3

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40 5 The Shrewsbury and Newport 4 Canals Trust Wappenshall Warehouse and Wharf

Wappenshall, Telford, Shropshire Listed Grade II LOAN: £395,000 offered January 2008, withdrawn February 2009 OAG: £7,500 offered June 2009

The construction of the canal network in Telford between 1768 and 1792 allowed the transport of raw materials and goods to serve the development of the Industrial Revolution. In 1797 this network was extended to Shrewsbury and in 1835 a new section of canal was constructed from Wappenshall in Telford to Norbury Junction on the main line of the Shropshire Union Canal in Staffordshire, connecting the local to the national network. The Wharf complex consists of a large three-storey warehouse, a smaller two-storey warehouse, the East Basin and part of the canal, which has been filled in, and a large parking area. The Trust was offered an AHF loan to purchase the complex and secure its future, but Telford and Wrekin Council subsequently Vivat Trust acquired the site and has given the Trust YORKSHIRE a long lease. The Trust is conducting an Pell Wall Hall AND THE HUMBER options appraisal to evaluate all appropriate uses, but has obtained Market Drayton, Shropshire Buildings at Risk Trust 5 Listed Grade II planning permission for a canal museum Victoria Cottage and heritage centre on the site. OAG: £5,000 disbursed December 2009 23-25 Lowgate, Sutton, Kingston upon Hull Pell Wall Hall was the last completed Listed Grade II country house designed by Sir John Vivat Trust Soane, built in 1828 for Purney Sillitoe of LOAN: £155,000 offered February 2010, The Wellbrook Estate Staffordshire, an iron merchant, at a cost security – first charge of £20,976. With its accompanying lodge, Built in the mid 17th century, the Stockley Hill, Peterchurch, Herefordshire stable and walled kitchen garden it forms property originally comprised three Listed Grade I a particularly important group of buildings. Extensively altered and cottages on two storeys, with the OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2009 enlarged from 1872 to 1910, it later bedrooms located in the roof space. LOAN: £576,000 contracted March 2010, became a school. The Pell Wall Later additions to provide a bathroom security – first charge Preservation Trust acquired it in 1995 for and porch were incorporated when the £1, repaired the historic fabric, and sold building was made into a single dwelling. Wellbrook Manor is cited by Pevsner it as a restored shell in 2003. However it It is of brick construction with a pantile as being one of the best examples of a subsequently passed through the hands roof, although it is thought to have 14th-century hall-house in Herefordshire. of several owners, none of whom tackled originally been thatched. It is now in It was built on an ‘H’ plan with cross-wings, the ongoing maintenance issues. In a very poor condition, having lain empty originally on one-storey with rubble walls addition there was major lead theft and for a number of years. The Trust has and timber framing. A first floor was a number of minor break-ins which recently acquired Victoria Cottage from added in the 16th century and the building undermined the earlier good work. Hull City Council and will restore and was further altered in the 1920s, surviving When the most recent owner went into convert it to provide a one-bedroomed today as a ‘T’ plan domestic dwelling. liquidation, the Vivat Trust became unit for let and a two-bedroomed unit The estate, which comprises the Manor involved with the encouragement of for sale. House, Home Farm House, associated English Heritage and Shropshire Council. barns and outbuildings, a semi-detached However, as the study was being cottage, gardens and orchards, was completed, a new purchaser emerged 4 bequeathed by the last owner, the late and the sale has now been completed. Mrs Joan Griffith. The study demonstrated that a mix of holiday letting and community facilities would be commercially viable; a proposed artistic use celebrating the life of Mrs Griffith will also be incorporated. The Trust has since moved its operational base here.

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Historic Chapels Trust 1 Wainsgate Baptist Church

Wainsgate Lane, Wadsworth, Hebden Bridge, Calderdale Listed Grade II* OAG: £6,448 disbursed May 2009

The Chapel and adjoining Sunday School are situated near Hebden Bridge, centre of the early Yorkshire Baptist movement. The first chapel was founded in c.1750, although the current range of buildings, the third on the site, were built in 1859. Both Chapel and schoolroom are constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings in a robust classical manner, with slate roofs. The interior possesses a curved gallery dating from 2 the time of its construction and was enhanced in the 1890s with an octagonal pulpit made from coloured marble, barley Kirklees Historic Buildings Trust 2 North Craven Building 3 twist oak communion rails and stained Preservation Trust glass by Powell Brothers of Leeds. The Wellhouse Farm Barn Sunday School is built on two floors and 4, 6 and 8 Chapel Street Wellhouse Lane, Mirfield, West Yorkshire possesses a large, first-floor hall with Listed Grade II several ancillary rooms. Although once Settle, North Yorkshire home to a thriving congregation, the OAG: £3,000 disbursed May 2009 Settle Conservation Area chapel had been virtually unused for a LOAN: £228,000 offered December 2009, FSG: £500 disbursed February 1994 number of years and the Trust acquired withdrawn March 2010 LOAN: £40,000 repaid 1986 it in 2005. It has subsequently decided LOAN: £98,750 repaid August 1997 to develop the existing uses by upgrading A date stone over the main entrance LOAN: £52,500 offered June 2009, the kitchen and toilet facilities and to the Barn indicates it was constructed security – repayment guarantee converting the school rooms into in 1576. It was originally attached to the (North Yorkshire County Council) office/studio accommodation, thereby adjoining house as a single property bringing in additional income to allow although the two were separated, possibly Having lost much of its traditional for a more viable future. in the late 18th century. Construction is manufacturing base, the economy of the of coursed rubble with dressed stone and small town of Settle now depends on the a stone slate roof. The Moravian Church tourists who come to this south western 3 established several settlements, usually corner of the Yorkshire Dales. The Trust with farms attached, in the 1750s, and the acquired Nos 6 and 8 Chapel Street; a Wellhouse complex was taken on at about house, former shop and separate cottage, this time. The building suffered partial in 1984 and converted them for use as collapse in the mid 1990s. Three shores the Museum of North Craven Life. No 4 were subsequently applied to the east Chapel Street, acquired in 1990, is a one elevation but further structural failure up, one down cottage dating from the occurred in 1999. The roof and upper floor 19th century, and adjoins 6 and 8 which of the northern end collapsed, leaving are 17th-century with 19th-century walls standing to eaves level only and additions. The buildings, of local stone with no support. Although two further random rubble, are currently used as shores were applied to the east elevation, offices, housing and a store for the more deterioration occurred in 2004. museum collection. The Trust will The Trust was invited to find a solution establish a learning resource centre by by the local authority and its study amalgamating the ground floor areas of recommended reinstating the barn 6 and 8 Chapel Street to house some 200 as domestic accommodation. Kirklees important items relating to the social life, Metropolitan Borough Council has since dialect and history of the region, which the offered a substantial grant and loan Trust recently had the unique opportunity facility to the trust to enable the project to purchase from a private collection. to proceed.

42 North Craven Building South Yorkshire Buildings 4 List of other projects Preservation Trust Preservation Trust supported in 2009-10 The Folly 1-2 Market Place

Settle, North Yorkshire Thorne, Doncaster Arkwright Society Listed Grade I Listed Grade II; Thorne Conservation Area Ashford Bobbin Mill LOAN: £216,000 offered 1999, withdrawn OAG: £8,940 disbursed November 2009 Buxton Road, Ashford, Nr Bakewell, LOAN: £210,000 repaid September 2000 PDG: £15,000 offered September 2009 Derbyshire LOAN: £584,000 contracted February 2010, Listed Grade II security – repayment guarantee 1-2 Market Place were originally a single (North Yorkshire County Council) house dating from the mid-17th century. FSG: £5,000 disbursed June 2005/ The property was largely remodelled in February 2010 Built in 1679 by a tanner called Richard the 1750s and there were further Preston and originally named Tanner Hall, alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries, Beckery Island Regeneration Trust the Folly is an imposing three-bay when the property was divided into two Baily’s Factory and mansion with mullion windows, spacious shop units. It represents one of only two The Mill House ground and first floor rooms, several remaining groups of historic buildings Beckery Old Road, Glastonbury, Somerset inglenook fireplaces, and a remarkable within the medieval core of the town. Listed Grade II Carolean staircase. When Richard Preston The building has deteriorated at an died in 1703, the building passed to the alarming rate over the last few years. OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2007 Dawson family, who owned it for over The fine mid-18th century oak staircase PAG: £4,000 offered April 2008 250 years. It first came on the market has been vandalised and large areas during the 1970s but the Trust was of roof have been removed, causing Birmingham Conservation Trust unsuccessful in an attempt to purchase it. complete saturation of the structure. For the next decade or so, it was subjected Structural collapse in September 2007 Newman Brothers Ltd to unsympathetic alteration by a number precipitated action by English Heritage (Coffin Furniture Manufacturers) of owners. In 1994 English Heritage gave and Doncaster Council, which issued 13-15 Fleet Street, Birmingham permission for the building to be divided an urgent works notice to the owner. Listed: Grade II*; Jewellery Quarter into two and, with the help of an AHF loan, The Trust was subsequently engaged Conservation Area the Trust was able to purchase the larger by the local authority to carry out the LOAN: £310,000 withdrawn December 2002 part. The nature of the space, and the work and the owner has since agreed POG: £10,000 disbursed August 2008 fact it already offered disabled access, in principle to transfer ownership to POG: £5,000 disbursed December 2009 made the Folly an obvious home for the the Trust for £1. The preferred option is Museum of North Craven Life. When a phased scheme involving the division the owners of the North range decided of the building into three town houses, Buildings at Risk Trust to sell in 2009, they offered the Trust first with three cottages at the rear. Before Falcon Pottery refusal to purchase. Another AHF loan commencing restoration, the Trust Old Town Road, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent has facilitated the process. The North has sought to overcome funding Listed Grade II range will become a service area for difficulties for what is a traditional the Museum enabling it to provide ‘revolving fund’ scheme. OAG: £11,756 disbursed April 2009 improved facilities. LOAN: £743,400 offered December 2008, withdrawn April 2009

4 The Claremont Fan Court Foundation Claremont Belvedere Claremont Drive, Esher, Surrey Listed Grade II*; Scheduled Ancient Monument OAG: £12,500 offered June 2008

Cullompton Walronds Preservation Trust The Walronds Fore Street, Cullompton, Devon Listed Grade I; Cullompton Town Centre Conservation Area FSG: £5,875 disbursed November 1997 LOAN: £55,000 repaid June 2006, security – first charge CBG: £1,827 disbursed March 2009 OAG: £9,145 disbursed June 2008 PDG: £1,854 disbursed March 2009 PDG: £4,000 offered January 2009

Cumbria Building Preservation Trust 37-39 Main Street Sedbergh, Cumbria Listed Grade II OAG: £4,375 offered June 2008

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Cumbria Building Preservation Trust Groundwork London Heritage Trust for the North West 3 Prince Charlie’s House 2 Station Buildings Lytham Hall 95 Stricklandgate, Kendal, Cumbria Windsor Walk, Denmark Hill, London SE5 Ballam Road, Lytham, Lancashire Listed Grade II; Kendal Conservation Area Listed Grade II; Camberwell Grove Listed Grade I Conservation Area OAG: £5,108 offered June 2008 POG: £4,525 disbursed November 2003 LOAN: £115,000 offered September 2007, PDG: £21,500 offered September 2008 1 The Dickens House and the Dickens security – first charge 4 House Fund Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire The Charles Dickens Museum Heritage Trust for the North West Manor Farm House The Charles Dickens Museum Higherford Mill The Green, Helpringham, Lincolnshire 48 & 49 Doughty Street, London WC1 Gisburn Road, Barrowford, Nelson, Lancashire Listed Grade II*; Helpringham Conservation Listed Grade I/II; Bloomsbury Listed Grade II; Higherford Conservation Area Area Conservation Area FSG: £4,150 disbursed April 2001 CBG: £978 disbursed August 2008 LOAN: £15,000 offered December 2008, LOAN: £350,000 repaid March 2002; OAG: £10,890 offered December 2008 security – first charge security – repayment guarantee (Lancashire County Council) Mid Essex Historic Buildings Trust 2 Friends of Abbeydale Picture House POG: £7,000 disbursed November 2006 The Woodrolfe Granary Abbeydale Picture House LOAN: £95,500 contracted January 2009, security – repayment guarantee Woodrolfe Road, Tollesbury, Essex 387 Abbeydale Road, Sheffield (Lancashire County Council) Listed Grade II Listed Grade II FSG: £4,650 disbursed November 2004 FSG: £7,500 disbursed June 2005 Heritage Trust for the North West OAG: £2,477 offered June 2008 CBG: £2,386 disbursed March 2009 Long Street Methodist Church Long Street, Middleton, Manchester Morecambe Winter Gardens Great Torrington Buildings Listed Grade II*; Middleton Conservation Area Preservation Trust Preservation Trust The Victoria Pavilion The Town Hall OAG: £5,000 offered December 2005 (or Morecambe Winter Gardens) High Street, Great Torrington, Devon Heritage Trust for the North West 208-214 Marine Road Central, Listed Grade II; Great Torrington Morecambe, Lancashire Conservation Area The Bothy Listed Grade II*; Poulton Conservation Area Bank Hall, Bretherton, Nr Chorley, Lancashire FSG: £4,920 disbursed August 2004 LOAN: £80,000 contracted January 2008, Listed Grade II* CBG: £1,588 disbursed June 2007 security – first charge Supplemental FSG: £2,500 disbursed POG: £12,000 offered June 2007 OAG: £7,500 disbursed May 2006 August 2006 PAG: £4,000 disbursed December 2008 PAG: £4,000 disbursed May 2008 Heritage Trust for the North West CBG: £5,250 disbursed February 2009 RPDG: £25,000 withdrawn July 2008 St Mary’s Church CBG: £1,750 offered February 2009 POG: £15,000 disbursed June 2009 CBG: £7,500 disbursed February 2009 CBG: £3,000 disbursed October 2009 Manchester Road, Nelson, Lancashire 5 CBG: £1,975 disbursed September 2008 Listed Grade II; St Mary’s Conservation Area Norwich Preservation Trust LOAN: £164,500 repaid February 2004, security Gybson’s Conduit – repayment guarantee (Co-operative Bank) Anchor Quay, Norwich, Norfolk POG: £15,000 disbursed February 2005 Scheduled Ancient Monument; City Centre PDG: £11,500 offered September 2008 Conservation Area OAG: £3,000 disbursed April 2009

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Renewable Heritage Trust Ulverston Ford Park Community Group West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust Howsham Mill – Phase II Ford House Lye and Wollescote Howsham, North Yorkshire Ford Park, Ulverston, Cumbria Cemetery Chapel Listed Grade II Listed Grade II Cemetery Road, Lye, West Midlands Listed Grade II OAG: £4,230 disbursed November 2005 FSG: £5,000 disbursed August 2005 PAG: £4,000 disbursed January 2008 LOAN: £220,000 contracted December 2005; OAG: £5,725 disbursed July 2007 LOAN: £50,000 offered December 2006/ security – first charge RPDG: £12,255 disbursed September 2008 October 2007, security – first charge POG: £15,000 disbursed February 2008 CBG: £7,500 offered March 2008 PAG: £4,000 disbursed November 2006 PAG: £4,000 offered September 2007 Sneath’s Mill Trust CBG: £1,451 disbursed November 2006 POG: £15,000 disbursed January 2009 Sneath’s Mill CBG: £10,000 disbursed September 2007 LOAN: £350,000 offered June 2008, security – RPDG: £25,000 withdrawn February 2008 first charge Lutton Gowts, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire 7 Listed Grade I Vivat Trust West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust OAG: £7,500 offered September 2008 North Lees Hall Cruck Barn Foster, Rastrick & Co Foundry Birley Lane, Hathersage, Derbyshire Lowndes Road, Stourbridge, West Midlands South Yorkshire Buildings Listed Grade II; Stanage Edge Listed Grade II*/II; Stourbridge Branch Canal Preservation Trust Conservation Area Conservation Area (part) 42-44 King Street OAG: £5,000 offered June 2007 OAG: £8,458 offered March 2006 Thorne, Doncaster 6 Thorne Conservation Area Vivat Trust Wiveliscombe Town Hall Trust 8 POG: £15,000 disbursed January 2008 Hadlow Tower Wiveliscombe Town Hall PAG: £4,000 disbursed February 2007 Hadlow Village, Tonbridge, Kent Wiveliscombe, Somerset LOAN: £170,000 contracted March 2007, Listed Grade I; Hadlow Conservation Area Listed Grade II, Wiveliscombe security – first charge Conservation Area Supplemental Loan: £75,000 contracted April PAG: £4,000 disbursed February 2005 2009, security – first charge POG: £15,000 disbursed February 2005 OAG: £5,000 disbursed March 2008 LOAN: £100,000 contracted May 2005, CBG: £2,530 disbursed December 2008 Suffolk Architectural Heritage Trust security - repayment guarantee OAG: £1,665 offered March 2009 Wingfield House (Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council)

Market Place, Saxmundham, Suffolk Vivat Trust Listed Grade II; Saxmundham Conservation Area Norman Arch and Cottage Abbey Grounds, Cirencester, Gloucestershire OAG: £5,870 offered December 2008, Listed Grade I increased by £500 March 2009 OAG: £3,000 disbursed March 2008 Theatre Royal Onward PDG: £25,000 offered September 2008 Theatre Royal Corporation Street, Hyde, Cheshire Listed Grade II FSG: £3,500 disbursed November 2002 CBG: £3,534 disbursed December 2008 OAG: £12,500 offered September 2008

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2 4 Glenarm Buildings 2 Preservation Trust Seaview Hall

New Road, Glenarm, Co Antrim Glenarm Conservation Area OAG: £3,666 disbursed December 2009 CBG: £1,923 disbursed May 2009 List of other projects supported in 2009-10 Seaview Hall was built as a National School in 1888 on a portion of land 4 adjacent to the Church of the Immaculate The Friends of Lissan Trust Conception and was originally divided Lissan House & Yard Falls Community Council 1 into separate sections for boys and girls. The building became redundant when Cookstown, Co Tyrone Former St Comgall’s a new school was built in 1972 and Listed Grade B1 Primary School although initially used for a variety FSG: £7,500 disbursed December 2002 of community activities, has now fallen PAG: £4,000 disbursed October 2007 Divis Street, Belfast into disuse as it no longer complies POG: £15,000 disbursed May 2007 Listed Grade B1 with current licensing requirements. RPDG: £15,000 disbursed June 2007 It is structurally sound but is showing OAG: £6,400 offered March 2010 CBG: £1,308 disbursed June 2008 signs of neglect due to its redundancy CBG: £5,000 disbursed June 2008 and poor maintenance. The Trust has St Comgall’s school was built in 1932 benefited from the advice of an AHF- to the design of R. S. Wilshire, whose Old Belmont School Preservation Trust appointed mentor and has completed buildings are recognised as significant an options appraisal which showed that Belmont Tower (Former Belmont in creating modern light and airy learning the most viable scheme would be to Primary School) environments. It retained the square create a coffee shop (for which a tenant shape of an earlier school on the site, 82 Belmont Church Road, Belfast has already been identified) and small having a central quadrangle with arched Listed Grade B1 tourist information facility, with one loggias on three sides, and classrooms self-catering holiday unit. The Trust is FSG: £4,941 disbursed July 2001 on two levels. The main hall completes actively fundraising for the project. PAG: £4,000 disbursed October 2002 the square and forms the front block of RPDG: £23,000 disbursed October 2002 the building. The enclosed grass LOAN: £180,000 repaid April 2005, security courtyard is a defining feature. In 1969, – repayment guarantee (Ulster Bank) the school was the scene of a gun battle 3 LOAN: £75,000 offered September 2007, between the Ulster Special Constabulary Lisburn City Centre security – repayment guarantee and a small group of republicans who Management Ltd (Ulster Bank) took up position in the building to prevent 32-36 Castle Street CBG: £1,750 disbursed May 2009 incursions into the Falls Road. The bullet holes can still be seen in the walls. Lisburn, Co Antrim Following the school’s closure in 1988, Listed Grade B it was used as a training and employment 3 centre, finally closing in 1999. It then OAG: £4,000 offered March 2010 suffered from sporadic vandalism, culminating in a fire in 2000. Falls This property, known as Castle Arcade Community Council acquired the building and formerly the rectory for Lisburn from the Catholic Church in 2002. Since Cathedral, is in the historic centre of then it has been listed Grade B1 and Lisburn on Castle Street, which dates holding repairs have been carried out back to the establishment of the city in to keep it watertight. the 17th century. It is a late 19th-century three-storey terraced house which, along 1 with the adjoining former Masonic Hall, forms an important outlook on the approach to the Castle Gardens, the Town Hall and Castle House. The rear of the property extends to form an enclosed courtyard stepping down from three storeys to two storeys. The rear wall forms a boundary with the grounds of the Cathedral, while the yard is accessed from a covered coach entrance. The original internal room layout remains, but water ingress through defective parapets and gutters has taken its toll. Part of the ground floor fronting Castle Street is occupied by Art Act, a charitable artists collective gallery and arts promotion space.

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Alba Conservation Trust Brough Lodge Trust Cockburn Conservation Trust Riddle’s Court Brough Lodge Leith Theatre

322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh Fetlar, Shetland Ferry Road, Edinburgh Listed Category A; Edinburgh World Listed Category A Listed Category B; Leith Conservation Area Heritage Site POG: £1,500 withdrawn March 2009 OAG: £7,500 offered March 2009 OAG: £12,500 offered March 2008 PAG: £2,000 disbursed November 2007 PDG: £10,000 offered March 2010 CBG: £5,555 disbursed February 2008 Leith Theatre is part of a town hall and PDG: £3,830 offered December 2009 library complex completed in 1929-32 The Riddle’s Court buildings are in in the Art Deco style, with characteristic a prominent position at the west end Built c.1820 on the summit of a low hill curved loggia, and a fine classical interior. of Edinburgh’s Lawnmarket on the Royal commanding the Ness of Brough, Brough There are two main buildings: the Mile, close to Edinburgh Castle. They are Lodge is a castellated villa sited in a D-shaped library and Registrar’s office the remains of two three-storey ‘L’ plan carefully laid out designed landscape and a nine-bay rectangular building houses built by Baillie John McMorran centred on an iron-age broch on which incorporating the Theatre (formerly the c.1590. The north wing of the east house a contemporary observation tower was town hall) and the Thomas Moreton Hall, was demolished in the late 19th century built for Arthur Nicolson, who enclosed which is available for public hire. The and the south wing now forms the north the Fetlar lands for sheep and cleared Theatre, which consists of a 1,500-seat of Riddle’s Close. Riddle’s Close and the tenants. It remained in the family capacity auditorium and ancillary rooms, Court were reconstructed for the until acquired by the Trust in 2007, but was closed for public performance in renowned Scottish urban planner and has been unoccupied since 1988. The 1983. The other parts of the site remain educationalist Patrick Geddes, who Trust has carried out an options appraisal in use. The whole complex is owned by owned the buildings, as University Halls, and concluded that the future use most the City of Edinburgh Council. The Trust in 1892-93. The City of Edinburgh Council likely to prove viable is as a centre for has undertaken an options appraisal and has been the owner since 1947 and residential courses. An application to the identified a potential ‘anchor tenant’: reconstructed the buildings as education Heritage Lottery Fund was unsuccessful Dance Base, Scotland’s National Centre rooms in 1964. A number of very fine but the Trust is now taking a phased for Dance. It has secured a grant from historic interiors have been retained, approach to the project, with emergency the Scottish Arts Council to refurbish including 17th-century plasterwork works to make the building wind and and equip the Thomas Moreton Hall as ceilings, a painted beam ceiling and watertight as a first phase. a dance studio. In the short term, Dance a painted ceiling by the celebrated Base will hire this part of the building 19th-century Edinburgh decorator, for a two year period. The Trust intends Thomas Bonnar, together with to phase the repair and refurbishment 1 timber-panelled rooms with decorative Burgie Castle Preservation Trust of the Theatre, allowing funding to be fireplace surrounds. The Trust is working Burgie Castle raised in achievable packages. with the Friends group to enable Riddle’s Court to continue its educational use and Near Forres, Moray develop as a multi-functional learning Listed Category A; Scheduled Ancient centre. The proposals include office space Fife Historic Buildings Trust Monument for the existing tenants, the Workers’ The Station House Educational Association. OAG: £15,000 offered March 2010 Forth Place, Burntisland, Fife Burgie Castle is a well-preserved square Listed Category B; Burntisland 1 tower which once formed part of a larger Conservation Area ‘Z’ plan fortified house, now demolished. Burgie was the seat of the Dunbars of PDG: £15,000 disbursed April 2009 Grange and Burgie Castle was built by Alexander Dunbar for his son Robert. Burntisland Station, opened in 1847, The six-storey tower, which dates was the first rail ferry terminal in from 1602, is remarkably undamaged. Scotland. The Station House is a two- Unusually the roof is intact and this has storey, eight-bay construction with single ensured the survival of its unique interior storey pavilion porches, office and waiting detailing, including plasterwork, cornices, room building. It has a classical façade fireplaces, panelling, windows and doors. with a columned portico. It was later It is a building of exceptional significance. altered and extended to adjoin the Forth Under the management of Highland BPT, Hotel, which has since been demolished. emergency works to stabilise the tower From 1850 trains were transported from were undertaken in 2008. The building the adjacent dock on what was the first is now out of imminent danger of collapse roll-on roll-off train ferry in the world. but the stabilisation works are only a In 1890 a new station was built to the rear temporary solution and there remains of the Station House, which linked to the an urgent need for a scheme of newly built Forth Bridge. Last in use as permanent repairs to secure the future offices for Forth Ports plc, it has been of the monument. vacant for nearly a decade. The AHF provided a grant to develop a detailed scheme for conversion to business start-up units and a community facility.

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1 Glasgow Building Preservation Trust Glasgow Building 1 St Margaret’s Church Preservation Trust Broomloan Road 110 Polmadie Road, Oatlands, Glasgow Public Schools Listed Category B 71 Broomloan Road, Govan, Glasgow OAG: £12,500 disbursed April 2009 Listed Category B PDG: £30,000 offered December 2009 OAG £7,500 offered September 2009 St Margaret’s Church was built between 1897 and 1902 and remained in use until There are two separate school buildings 1984. By 1990 it had changed hands on the site, the first designed by several times and was added to the Alexander Watt, opened in 1875, followed Scottish Civic Trust’s Buildings at Risk by another in 1894 by H & D Barclay. Register. The church currently stands They formed the biggest Board School isolated in an area which has seen in Govan. Both are owned by Glasgow City large-scale clearance of housing and Council. The earlier building is in ashlar industry. The Trust has completed an on two storeys and has a continuous Maybole Castle Community Trust 2 options appraisal and this recommended range of 17 mullioned windows on the the provision of space for both community ground floor. The later building is in red Maybole Castle and business use which appears to be sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, High Street, Maybole, Ayrshire viable when anticipating the radical Doric ground floor mullions and Ionic Listed Category A changes planned to take place in this part columned first floor mullions. The ground of Glasgow. The need for a community floor has two arched girls’ and infants’ OAG: £5,000 offered September 2009 facility has been identified in regeneration entrances. It has a central hall and an plans for the area, where a new adjoining single-storey building with a Built as the town house of the Earls neighbourhood is to be created. The Trust chimney which comprised a swimming of Cassillis, Maybole Castle is the oldest is proceeding with discussions with pool, workshop and laundry. The school inhabited house in the town and a Glasgow City Council, a local housing buildings closed in 1997 and are now significant local landmark. The original association and the development derelict with all windows and doors part of the castle is thought to date from company which owns the building. boarded up and many slipped roof tiles. 1540 and is typical of a Scots ‘L’ shaped They continue to deteriorate rapidly with tower house. There is a great hall on the water ingress the main problem. first floor, dining rooms and bedrooms above and vaulted cellars and kitchen Glasgow Building Preservation Trust below. Several changes have taken place Gartnavel Royal over time and the layering of history is Hospital Chapel Glasgow Building Preservation Trust evident; the most significant alterations Pollokshaws West Station occurred between 1805 and 1812 when Shelley Road, Glasgow it was extended and gentrified. Water Listed Category B Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow ingress and dry rot have damaged the Listed Category B upper floors which are no longer in use. OAG: £7,500 disbursed November 2008 Some plasterwork and the timber stair PDG: £7,500 offered March 2009 OAG: £3,000 offered December 2007 have been removed. Work was undertaken PDG: £12,500 offered September 2009 PDG: £30,000 offered March 2010 as recently as 2008 to repair the roof, but PDG: £10,000 offered December 2009 the Castle remains on the Scottish Civic Built c.1847, Pollokshaws West Station Trust ‘At Risk’ register. An adult education The chapel, built in 1904 and designed by consists of one two-storey and one group used the ground and first floors J. J. Burnett in the Arts and Crafts style, single-storey building, either side of the until 2004, and since then the building sits in the grounds of Gartnavel Royal railway line. It is one of only two surviving has been used as a heritage centre and Hospital, originally the City Lunatic pre-1850s railway buildings in Glasgow. family research facility for those with Asylum. The building consists of a single The buildings have been vacant since links to the area. The single-project storey at the gable closest to the hospital 1998, with the windows boarded up and Trust has been offered a 175 year lease and two-storeys at the opposite end, with the interiors stripped back to basic shells by the owner. a bell tower. The interior has an arched, by Railtrack as part of a programme of ribbed ceiling and a nave separated by repairs to its surviving listed building 2 an arched arcade. The chapel was stock. First Scotrail lets redundant redundant by 1999 and has subsequently station buildings to community-based suffered from vandalism and a lack of organisations under its Adopt a Station maintenance, leading to water ingress scheme. It is via this scheme that the and outbreaks of wet and dry rot. The station came to the attention of a local Trust has completed an options appraisal charity, South West Community Cycles. study which found that the best use for The Trust carried out an options the building would be as a therapy appraisal which demonstrated that centre and offices for Cancer Support the buildings could be converted into Scotland, which currently occupies a base for the charity’s Bike Access premises within the same NHS site as project which is designed to provide safe, the chapel. The Trust now intends to affordable cycling to children and adults acquire the chapel, begin fundraising in south-west Glasgow. Further AHF and undertake urgent repairs. support is helping detailed proposals to be developed.

48 North East Scotland Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust 5 Preservation Trust Moat Brae House Boyndie Kirk 3 Dumfries Boyndie, Banff, Aberdeenshire Listed Category B 3 Listed Category B North East Scotland OAG: £7,500 offered December 2009 Preservation Trust OAG: £4,500 offered March 2010 Former Sail-making Works Moat Brae House is a Greek Revival villa and Cottages Boyndie Kirk, properly known as built in 1823 on two-storeys with a raised St Brandon’s Kirk, was built in 1773 basement, with five bays. It is attributed Back Green, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire and was the Church of Scotland Parish to the Dumfries architect Walter Newall. Listed Category B; Scheduled Ancient Church for the village until its closure The interior features a square central Monument in 1996. It was sold to a private owner hall with a circular first floor gallery in 1998 and converted into an art gallery. and a cupola. The plasterwork features OAG: £2,200 offered September 2009 A serious fire in 2000 left the building Greek Revival ornament, with a Doric a burnt-out, roofless shell. It is now frieze in the entrance lobby. The house Portsoy harbour developed as a busy owned by Aberdeenshire Council is notable for its association with J. M. trading port in the 17th and early 18th following a Compulsory Purchase Order. Barrie who visited the house as a boy century. The buildings at Back Green, It is a simple rectangular church, harled and who said that the games he played which are owned by the Trust, are situated with tooled ashlar margins and dressings. in the garden on the banks of the River to the east of the Burn of Durn, which There are six plain square-headed Nith were the inspiration for Peter Pan. flows into the Moray Firth. The site was window openings regularly spaced in the Last used as a nursing home, it closed originally developed to manufacture thread south elevation and round-headed gallery in 1997 and has since suffered years from flax. The area of ‘green’ was utilised window openings in each gable. A bellcote of neglect and vandalism. It has become for bleaching flax. In the early 19th century is situated at the west gable with a ball something of a cause célèbre since its the site contained two groups of buildings finial at the east. There is a single-storey, previous owner, a housing association, – the one to the seaward side operated two-bay vestry at the rear and a gabled threatened to demolish it. An action as a rope-making business while the porch, dated 1922, projects from the west group was formed and this has become manufacture of sails took place within gable. A recent inspection showed the the Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust. The the eastern range, adjacent to a row of property to be in a stable condition. Trust acquired the building in September cottages. The ropeworks fell into decline 2009 with the help of an interest-free and have been lost. The sail-making lofts loan from SAVE Britain's Heritage. and three cottages, while derelict, remain Proposals are being developed for 4 intact. Since the loss of the pantiled roof The OpenSpace Trust a variety of uses, making the most of structure over the sail-making lofts the East Kirk of St Nicholas the house’s Peter Pan connection. floors have collapsed. The shell now remains with the wallheads protected 5 Back Wynd, Aberdeen – Phase I by the use of lime mortar haunching. Listed Category A The roofs of the cottages remain, although these are severely damaged, allowing LOAN: £175,000 offered September 2009, water ingress. The Trust has been offered security – first charge a supplementary options appraisal grant to update a previous study completed The Kirk of St Nicholas (known as Mither in 2001. Kirk) is recorded as having been on the site since 1157. By medieval times it was so well used it had to be enlarged with 4 the creation of St Mary’s Chapel. By 1500 it had been expanded to create the largest burgh church in Scotland. The building was divided into two separate sanctuaries in 1596. The West Kirk dates from 1755 and was built by the Aberdonian architect, James Gibbs. It remains largely as he designed it, is in good condition and is still the Civic Church for Aberdeen. The East Kirk was rebuilt in 1837, and again in 1879 following a fire. Although unused for a number of years it is structurally sound and watertight but the interior is an empty shell as the floors have been removed to enable an archaeological excavation. OpenSpace plan to transform the building into a new multi-purpose facility, including a health and well-being centre, life skills training kitchen, IT learning centre, a café, social enterprise retail units, office, meeting and training space, an events venue and a chapel. Phase I of the project involves the repair of the exterior of the building.

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2 1 Scottish Historic Buildings Trust 2 Ham Girnal and the former Barrock Free Church

Barrock, Highland Listed Category B OAG: £7,500 offered June 2009

Ham Girnal, in the far north of Scotland, is often referred to as the ‘Great Girnal’ as it was one of the largest grain stores in the Highlands. It was purpose-built in local Caithness flag stone as a three- storey grain store in the first half of the 1 The Prince’s Regeneration Trust 18th century before being converted to a Paton’s Mill corn mill in the late 18th century. Around List of other projects the turn of the 19th century an additional supported in 2009-10 Johnstone Mill, 1 High Street, storey was added, a kiln was erected and a mill lade was constructed. It has Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1 Listed Grade A not been used for over 100 years and is Clackmannanshire Heritage Trust derelict. Plans are being developed to Tullibody Old Kirk OAG: £7,500 offered September 2009 create a ‘cultural hub for the performing arts’ for a variety of organisations, with Menstrie Road, Tullibody, Alloa, Paton’s Mill was the first Scottish mill the primary user being the Royal Scottish Clackmannanshire to adopt an Arkwright-type scale of Academy of Music and Drama. About a Listed Category A production. It was constructed in 1782 mile away, Barrock Free Church, built OAG: £3,000 offered March 2007 at the same time the new town of in 1844 and also B listed, has been vacant Johnstone was being laid out, and was 2 since 1964, apart from some storage use. Creetown Building Preservation Trust therefore fully integrated in its planning. It may be developed in conjunction with It is the oldest surviving cotton mill in the Ham Girnal project as a performing St Joseph’s Church Scotland and the last to retain its industrial arts venue. Hill Street, Cretown, Dumfries & Galloway use. It remains the only Category ‘A’ listed Listed Category B building in Renfrewshire. Paton’s acquired the complex in 1896 and it was last used PDG: £9,500 offered March 2009 to manufacture shoelaces until its closure Strathclyde Building in 2004. The mill has a distinctive white Preservation Trust Four Acres Charitable Trust harled exterior on five and six-storeys, Old Gaol and Courthouse Former Dowanhill Church with dual-pitched slate roofs. A water (Cottier Theatre) (Final Phase) tower housing stairs was added at a later date and a chimney constructed in 1880. 5 Bolgam Street, Campbeltown, 93-97 Hyndland Street, Glasgow The interior retains its wooden floors Argyll and Bute Listed Category A; Glasgow West supported by cylindrical cast iron columns. Listed Category B Conservation Area Other buildings were added to the complex OAG: £5,500 offered September 2009 RPDG: £25,000 disbursed June 2003 over the years. It has proven difficult to PAG: £4,000 disbursed January 2005 protect the site from vandals and, whilst The old Gaol and Courthouse is a POG: £15,000 disbursed April 2007 the options appraisal was underway, large two-storey, three-bay building with LOAN: £500,000 contracted September 2005, fires on two separate occasions have terraced frontage and a courtyard to the security – first charge caused significant damage. It is not yet rear surrounded by two-storey ranges. clear whether a viable project can be Dating from the mid-18th century but Glasgow Building Preservation Trust salvaged from the burnt-out remains of possibly incorporating some earlier British Linen Bank Tenement the structure. structure, it was remodelled in 1852. It retains many features of note and is 162-170 Gorbals Street, Glasgow 1 particularly remarkable for a rare timber Listed Category A pegged oak roof in the south range. OAG: £11,481 disbursed April 2009 The building is in an advanced state of disrepair and is at significant risk of Glasgow Building Preservation Trust partial or total loss. Structural timbers have suffered from rot and safe lintels Hutcheson Hall are missing in a number of locations. 158 Ingram Street, Glasgow Complicated ownership is an issue in Listed Category A; Glasgow Central finding a suitable new use. The ground Conservation Area floor of the south range has been occupied by a café since the 1930s, and OAG: £3,000 disbursed November 2009 this led the local authority to split it into two when it disposed of the building in 1992. Ownership of the main part of the complex is uncertain. Further discussions are required with the local authority and with potential funders to ensure a viable scheme can be developed.

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Govan Workspace Ltd Kirkintilloch Town Hall Mavisbank Trust Govan Old Parish Church Preservation Trust Mavisbank House Kirkintilloch Town Hall 866-868 Govan Road, Glasgow Loanhead, Midlothian Listed Category A; Scheduled Ancient Union Street, Kirkintilloch Listed Category A Monument Listed Category B; Peel Park Outstanding Conservation Area FSG: £5,000 disbursed May 2002 OAG: £12,000 offered March 2008 RPDG: £12,750 disbursed February 2005 OAG: £5,715 disbursed May 2007 POG: £15,000 withdrawn March 2007 Highland Buildings Preservation Trust CBG: £608 disbursed January 2006 CBG: £5,000 withdrawn February 2010 30 Princes Street CBG: £500 disbursed March 2009 CBG: £11,885 disbursed April 2009 Penicuik House Preservation Trust Thurso, Caithness CBG: £8,115 disbursed June 2009 Listed Category B; Thurso Conservation Area Penicuik House 4 Penicuik, Midlothian OAG: £7,500 offered September 2007 The Knockando Woolmill Trust Knockando Woolmill and Croft Listed Category A; Scheduled Ancient Monument Highland Buildings Preservation Trust Knockando, Aberlour, Moray Townlands Barn Listed Category A FSG: £5,000 disbursed November 2003 POG: £14,524 disbursed March 2007 High Street, Cromarty FSG: £7,173 disbursed May 2001 LOAN: £500,000 contracted May 2008, Listed Category A; Cromarty Outstanding PAG: £4,000 disbursed August 2008 security – bond and floating charge over Conservation Area POG: £15,000 disbursed August 2008 share portfolio RPDG: £25,000 disbursed September 2007 FSG: £7,500 disbursed June 2005 CBG: £20,000 disbursed October 2008 POG: £15,000 disbursed July 2007 Tayside Building Preservation Trust LOAN: £350,000 offered December 2008, RPDG: £25,000 offered September 2007 Seamen’s Chapel security – repayment guarantee CBG: £20,000 offered October 2007 (Moray Council) 15 Candle Lane, Dundee PAG: £4,000 disbursed December 2008 Listed Category B; Dundee Central Lewis and Harris Buildings Conservation Area Highland Buildings Preservation Trust Preservation Trust St Mary’s Church FSG: £5,000 disbursed September 2004 Lady Matheson’s Seminary OAG: £2,300 offered September 2008 Grey’s Place, Main Street, Lybster, Caithness (formerly the Industrial Female School) Listed Category B Keith Street, Stornoway, Western Isles Traill Hall Community Trust OAG: £12,500 offered December 2008 Listed Category B; Stornoway Outstanding Traill Hall Conservation Area 3 Stangerhill Bridge, Castletown, Highland Buildings Preservation Trust FSG: £7,500 disbursed March 2005 Nr Thurso, Highland Merkinch Welfare Hall PAG: £4,000 offered June 2006 Listed Category B POG: £15,000 disbursed December 2008 Grant Street, Inverness, Highland OAG: £12,500 offered June 2008 Listed Category C(s) PDG: £18,500 offered November 2008 RPDG: £25,000 offered March 2009 The Vivat Trust OAG: £12,500 offered December 2008 Bona Lighthouse Lochend, Highland Listed Category B OAG: £3,000 offered March 2009

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1 Cadw Sir Gaerfyrddin Cyf Cylch y Llan Buildings Navigation Colliery Preservation Trust St Deiniol’s Church Crumlin, Caerphilly Listed Grade II*/II Llanuwchllyn Bala, Gwynedd Listed Grade II*/II OAG: £8,685 disbursed December 2009 PDG: £5,500 offered March 2010 OAG: £5,280 offered March 2009

Built between 1907-1911, Navigation The parish church of St Deiniol, Colliery was a show-pit of the period Llanuwchllyn was erected in 1873 with high quality buildings and up-to-date in ‘mixed Gothic’ style to replace its machinery. It was one of the earliest medieval predecessor. It incorporates collieries in South Wales to be built in Carmarthenshire Heritage an especially fine stone effigy of Ieuan brick rather than local stone. Each Regeneration Trust ap Gruffudd ap Madog ap Iorwerth dated substantial structure is of red brick, with 1395 from the earlier church, one of the yellow brick dressings and a slate roof. Llanelly House most important of its type and date in The site contains five buildings that are North Wales. The lych gate, walls and 2 Vaughan Street/Bridge Street, Grade II* listed, plus another 10 at Grade railings are separately listed Grade II. Llanelli, Carmarthenshire II. The colliery shut in 1968 and the lease It is sited on ground rising above the flood Listed Grade I; Llanelli Conservation Area surrendered to Pontypool Park Estate plain of the river Dee, at the west end in 1972. Numerous uses have been LOAN: £189,000 contracted November of Llyn Tegid in the Snowdonia National suggested for the site and other studies 2009, security – first charge Park. The church has been empty and undertaken since its redundancy; PAG: £4,000 disbursed May 2008 on the market since 2006, when it was however, the Trust’s study examined a POG: £6,185 disbursed November 2008 declared redundant, and the Church in range of options and demonstrated that PDG: £7,500 disbursed December 2009 Wales has offered the Trust a 25-year external restoration and landscaping lease, pending the outcome of the options would enhance the site’s attractiveness Built in 1714 as a townhouse for appraisal. The village of Llanuwchllyn to end users and reduce maintenance Sir Thomas Stepney in the latest attracts significant numbers of visitors costs in the longer term. It is now contemporary style, Llanelly House has during the summer months and the Trust developing the project with the assistance been described by Cadw as ‘the most believes this may offer opportunities for of an AHF-funded project organiser. outstanding domestic building of its income-generating activities. type to survive in South Wales’, and still contains most of its original fittings despite years of neglect. It has a three- Cadwgan Building 1 2 storey, seven-bay frontage with two wings Menai Bridge Community Preservation Trust extending back towards what was once Heritage Trust Ltd Cardigan Castle Site the garden. When it first became involved, Old Warehouse & Pier the Trust sought to prevent the building Master’s House, Prince’s Pier Cardigan, Ceredigion being sold on the open market and arrest Listed Grade I (Castle), its decay. However, as it has developed Water Street, Menai Bridge, other structures Grade II* and II; the project, a wider recognition of the Isle of Anglesey Scheduled Ancient Monument building’s importance has emerged, Menai Bridge Conservation Area leading to its integration into the OAG: £7,500 disbursed March 2008 regeneration of Llanelli town centre. POG: £11,547 disbursed September 2009 CBG: £3,500 withdrawn February 2009 When restored, the building will house PAG: £4,000 disbursed March 2010 a community heritage centre, providing The Trust celebrates the lives of those PDG: £15,000 offered January 2010 facilities including exhibition space, within the local community, together restaurant and training and meeting with the legacy of Thomas Telford’s The Cardigan Castle site comprises a rooms. It has received a £3.4m Heritage Menai Bridge and Robert Stephenson’s wide array of structures from different Lottery Fund grant and work is expected Britannia Bridge, and the maritime historic periods, most of which are listed to be completed in late 2011. environment of the Menai Straits. The in their own right. These include the Prince’s Pier site has been secured with extensive remains of the Castle, built the support of Menter Môn, who will work c.1110, Castle Green House, 43 St Mary 2 in partnership with the Trust to develop Street, Ty Castell, various outbuildings, a new, permanent exhibition, restaurant including a stable yard and the extensive and business units. This is the last curtain wall, gate and gate piers. Located building on the waterfront that has not on a promontory overlooking Cardigan been purchased by private developers Bridge on the River Teifi, the Castle and it is to be the centre of its flagship hosted the first Eisteddfod, in 1176, to scheme in a prominent location. The celebrate its completion. The restoration Trust has secured a project planning project will take several years and the grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund Trust is in discussion with a number of to develop the scheme. local and national stakeholders. It intends to submit a second round bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund in the current financial year. The most recent AHF grant has allowed the employment of a project organiser who is helping the Trust to develop various aspects of the project.

52 3 1 Newtown Market Hall Building 4 Preservation Trust Newtown Market Hall

High Street, Newtown, Powys Listed Grade II OAG: £3,000 disbursed January 2010

Montgomery Community Buildings 3 Newtown Market Hall was built in 1870 Preservation Trust as a seven-bay open plan trading hall with mezzanine floor storage rooms. Montgomery Town Hall The principal elevation and main entrance List of other projects facing the High Street was considerably supported in 2009-10 Broad Street, Montgomery, Powys altered in the 1970s to form two shop Listed Grade II*; Montgomery units. However, the south east elevation 1 Conservation Area facing Market Street is relatively Narberth Museum Trust unchanged, with two arched doorways OAG: £10,016 disbursed April 2009 The Bonded Stores flanked by two arched windows. The PDG: £7,000 offered December 2009 Hall needs substantial investment to Church Street, Narberth Narberth Conservation Area Montgomery Town Hall stands at the prevent further deterioration, It is owned by Powys County Council, which has centre of the former county town of OAG: £5,000 disbursed September 2007 offered a 30-year lease to the Trust at Montgomeryshire, and was designed CBG: £1,923 disbursed October 2008 nominal cost if a viable scheme can in 1748 by William Baker of Cheshire. PDG: £4,000 offered March 2009 The earliest visual record of the building, be found. The Trust’s study identified options for generating greater income a 1784 sketch, shows two storeys with Penarth Arts and Crafts Ltd from the site, whilst ensuring that the five bays, with the upper part resting on Penarth Pier Pavilion open arches enclosing a sheltered area food market remained, with its heritage for the use of the market. The upper floor value preserved. The Esplanade, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan was used for the Quarter Sessions and Listed Grade II; Penarth Seafront meetings of the Borough Corporation. Conservation Area Since the building ceased to function as OAG: £7,500 offered March 2008 a town hall in 1974, it has had a variety of uses, including a twice-weekly food 2 The Rhondda Powerhouse Trust market on the ground floor with the upper floor used by local groups for The Rhondda mixed activities. The Trust has been Powerhouse Project offered a 35-year lease and its study Llwynypia, Rhondda Cynon Taff concluded that the Town Hall should 4 Listed Grade II remain accessible as a public building, but should be upgraded and adapted CBG: £1,750 offered May 2007 to maximise its commercial use and The Village Alive Trust 5 generate a sustainable income. Following Vivat Trust this it has received favourable responses Fairoaks House Saethon Old Farm Buildings from major funders and has been Namhoron Estate, Pwllheli, Gwynedd encouraged by the Welsh Assembly Llangattock Vibon Avel, Monmouthshire Listed Grade II*/II Government to approach the Community Listed Grade II Asset Transfer Fund. OAG: £6,405 disbursed November 2009 OAG: £3,000 offered September 2008, withdrawn October 2009 Built in 1893, this cottage was built 5 as part of Hendre Estate, owned by the 2 Rolls family, the pioneers of aviation and motoring. A simple gothic two-storey, two-gabled dwelling, it is built of snecked rubble and with a slate roof. Between floors there is a square plaque carved with a quatrefoil containing Lord Llagattock’s monogram ‘Ll’ and the date 1893. It is built on a ‘T’ plan formed by a three-bay main range and one-bay rear wing and is set in around an acre of land. It had been abandonded for approximately 20 years and was in poor condition when Monmouthshire County Council involved the Trust. The Trust’s preferred scheme was for a two-bedroom repair and conversion and intended this to be its first ‘revolving fund’ project. However, the local property market is relatively strong and the building may now have been sold.

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Historic Assynt Lewis and Harris BPT

Urras Nan Gearrannan

Highland BPT Uist BPT Greater London, National and Regional BPTs not named on map

Greater London Northern Ireland • Fitzrovia Trust • Hearth Revolving Fund • Hackney HBT • Haringey BPT Scotland • Heritage of London T Operations • Castles of Scotland PT Tayside BPT • Islington BPT • Heritage BPT • Merton Priory Trust • National Trust for Scotland England • North East Scotland PT Fife HBT Clackmannanshire HT • East of England BPT • Scottish HBT • Heritage Trust for the North West • Scottish RCT

Cockburn Cons T • Heritage Works BPT • Strathclyde BPT Glasgow BPT • North of England CT Alexander Greek Thomson Trust • The North Pennines HT Wales Berwick-upon-Tweed PT • Renewable HT • Hendref BPT • The Traditional BPT • Welsh Religious BT – • West Midlands HBT Ymddiriedolaeth Addoldai Cymru Ayrshire AHT

UK Solway Heritage • Buildings at Risk Trust • The Cygnet HBPT

Tyne & Wear BPT • Industrial BPT Gracehill OST Ouseburn T • The Landmark Trust

Glenarm BPT • The SAVE Trust Sion Mills BPT • Belfast BPT Spitalfields HBT Holywood Cons G • The Vivat Trust Cleveland BPT Brampton PT Lisburn BPT Sedbergh & District AHT Richmondshire BPT Richhill BPT Palatine Trust Cumbria BPT Milford BPT Newland Furnace T The Yorkshire Wolds BPT The Mourne HT North Craven BPT Yorkshire BPT Bradford BPT

Kirklees HBT Glanford BPT Greater Manchester BPT Llandudno Manchester HBT Hillsborough Seaside Reddish BPT & District BPT BPT Merseyside BPT Heritage Trust Parkgate PT South Yorkshire BPT of Lincolnshire Menai Bridge CHT Chester HBPT Congleton BPT Arkwright Society Bennington CHT

Ymddiriedolaeth The Leek & Peak Park T KEY ABBREVIATIONS Nottinghamshire BPT North Norfolk HBT Treftadaeth Caernarfon Moorlands HBT Derbyshire HBT Cyfeillion Cadw Tremadog AHT Architectural Heritage Trust East Staffordshire HT King’s Lynn PT Cywaith: Broadland BPT AHT Arts & Heritage Trust The Gwynedd BPT Staffordshire HBT Cylch Y Llan City of Wolverhampton Leicestershire HBT Norfolk HBT BCT Building(s) Conservation Trust Shrewsbury CST RBPT Wisbech Norwich PT Great Yarmouth PT Birmingham Cons T Society and PT Norfolk South Norfolk BPT Building(s) Preservation Trust Mills & BPT BT Building(s) Trust Shropshire BPT Rothwell PT Pumps T Cons G Conservation Group Spon End BPT Suffolk AHT Cymric BPT Bury St. Edmunds TT Cons T Conservation Trust Royal Leamington Spa BCT Cambridge PS CHT Community Heritage Trust Ipswich BPT Hartpury CST Civic Society Trust Cardigan BPT HLBT CT Civic Trust Cadwgan BPT Colchester & North Lancaut Church Trust Buckinghamshire HBT East Essex BPT HB Historic Buildings Carmarthenshire HRT Gloucester HB Hertfordshire BPT Mid-Essex HBT HBT Historic Building(s) Trust Cadw Sir Gaerfyrddin Cyf The Oxfordshire BT South Essex BPT HBPT Historic Building(s) The Oxford PT Merthyr Tydfil HT Stroud PT CPRE Oxfordshire BPT Preservation Trust Southend & District BPT HT Heritage Trust Environment Trust for Bristol Visual & Environmental BT Richmond upon Thames HLBT Historic Land & Buildings Trust Bristol BPT Avon IBT Bath Historical BT Walcot Street T Surrey HBT HRT Heritage Regeneration Trust Vale of Glamorgan BPT Bradford on Avon PT Weston-super-Mare Trust Bath PT Kent BPT IBT Industrial Building(s) Trust Frome HBT Warminster PT Alton BPT Farnham BPT OST Old School Trust Hampshire BPT Somerset BPT Wiltshire HBT Sussex HT PS Preservation Society Great Torrington BPT Romsey & District BPT Lewes BPT PT Preservation Trust Devon HBT Hastings Trust Cullompton Walronds PT RBPT Regenerating Buildings Dorset BPT Preservation Trust Exeter HBT RCT Redundant Churches Trust Exeter Canal & Quay T Isle of Wight BPT

T Trust Totnes & TT Town Trust District PT

Rame Cons T Cornwall Plymouth BPT Barbican Association THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND REGISTER OF BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUSTS

To qualify for entry in The Architectural Heritage Fund’s Register of Revolving Fund BPTs, an organisation must have charitable status, be established solely or principally in order to preserve historic buildings for the benefit of the community, be constituted so that money released from one project can be applied to another, and intend to undertake a programme of preservation projects. The following organisations are currently registered with the AHF:

ENGLAND Dorset Manchester The Dorset Building Preservation Manchester Historic Buildings Trust 2000 Bath & North East Somerset Trust Co Ltd 1985 Greater Manchester Building Bath Historical Buildings Trust 1997 Preservation Trust Ltd 2005 Bath Preservation Trust 1934 East Riding of Yorkshire Walcot Street Trust 2004 The Yorkshire Wolds Buildings Merseyside Preservation Trust 1996 Merseyside Buildings Preservation Trust 1989 Birmingham Birmingham Conservation Trust 1998 East Sussex Newcastle upon Tyne Hastings Trust 1992 Ouseburn Trust 1996 Bradford The Lewes Buildings Preservation Trust 1994 Bradford Building Preservation Trust 1994 Norfolk Essex Broadland Building Preservation Trust 2003 Bristol Colchester and North East Essex Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust 1980 The Bristol Buildings Preservation Building Preservation Trust 1995 King’s Lynn Preservation Trust Ltd 1959 Trust Ltd 1981 Mid Essex Historic Buildings Trust 1999 Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust 1977 Bristol Visual & Environmental Buildings Southend and District Building Norfolk Mills and Pumps Trust 1994 Trust Ltd 1982 Preservation Trust (East) Ltd 1994 North Norfolk Historic Buildings Buckinghamshire South Essex Building Preservation Trust 1978 Trust Ltd 1996 The Buckinghamshire Historic Buildings Gloucestershire Norwich Preservation Trust Ltd 1966 Trust Ltd 1983 Gloucester Historic Buildings Ltd 1980 South Norfolk Buildings Cambridgeshire Hartpury Historic Land Preservation Trust 2001 Cambridge Preservation Society 1929 and Buildings Trust 1998 North Somerset The Wisbech Society and Preservation Lancaut Church Trust 1984 The Weston-super-Mare Trust 1984 Trust Ltd 1939 Stroud Preservation Trust Ltd 1982 North Yorkshire Cheshire Greater London NorthCravenBuildingPreservation The Chester Historic Buildings Environment Trust for Trust Ltd 1976 Preservation Trust Ltd 1981 Richmond upon Thames 1986 Richmondshire Building 2003 Congleton Building Preservation Trust 2002 The Fitzrovia Trust Ltd 1985 Preservation Trust Parkgate Preservation Trust 1996 The Hackney Historic Buildings Trust 1985 Northamptonshire Cornwall The Haringey Buildings 1984 Rothwell Preservation Trust 1986 Preservation Trust Ltd The Cornwall Buildings Northumberland Heritage of London Trust Operations Ltd 1993 Preservation Trust 1974 Berwick-upon-Tweed Preservation Trust 1971 Rame Conservation Trust 1997 Islington Building Preservation Trust 1994 Merton Priory Trust 1998 Nottinghamshire Coventry Nottinghamshire Building Preservation Hampshire Spon End Buildings Preservation Trust Ltd 1967 Trust Ltd 1996 Alton Building Preservation Trust 1992 The Hampshire Buildings Oxfordshire Cumbria Preservation Trust Ltd 1975 CPRE Oxfordshire Buildings The Brampton Preservation Trust Ltd 1981 Romsey and District Buildings Preservation Trust Ltd 1971 Cumbria Building Preservation Trust Ltd 1978 Preservation Trust Ltd 1975 The Oxford Preservation Trust 1928 (formerly Kendal & District Civic The Oxfordshire Buildings Trust Ltd 1981 Society Building Preservation Trust) Hertfordshire Newland Furnace Trust 1998 Hertfordshire Building Preservation Plymouth Sedbergh and District Arts Trust Ltd 1963 Plymouth Barbican Association Ltd 1957 and Heritage Trust 1993 Isle of Wight Redcar and Cleveland Cleveland Buildings Preservation Derbyshire Isle of Wight Buildings Preservation Trust Ltd 1982 The Arkwright Society Ltd 1982 Trust Ltd 1979 Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust 1974 Sheffield Kent Peak Park Trust 1987 Hillsborough and District Buildings Kent Building Preservation Trust 1968 Preservation Trust 1992 Devon Kingston upon Hull Cullompton Walronds Preservation Trust 1997 Shropshire Glanford Buildings Preservation Trust 1990 Devon Historic Buildings Trust 1973 Shrewsbury Civic Society Trust Ltd 1978 Kirklees The Exeter Canal and Quay Trust Ltd 1981 Shropshire Building Preservation Trust 1985 Kirklees Historic Buildings Trust 1984 Exeter Historic Buildings Trust 1996 Great Torrington Buildings Leicestershire Preservation Trust 2003 Leicestershire Historic Buildings The Totnes and District Trust Ltd 1981 Preservation Trust 1985 Lincolnshire Bennington Community Heritage Trust 2007 Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire Ltd 1991

55 Somerset NORTHERN IRELAND WALES The Frome Historic Buildings Trust Ltd 1975 Somerset Building Preservation Antrim Carmarthenshire Trust Co Ltd 1989 Glenarm Buildings Preservation Trust 2005 Cadw Sir Gaerfyrddin Cyf 2002 Gracehill Old School Trust 2002 Carmarthenshire Heritage 2004 Staffordshire Lisburn Buildings Preservation Trust 2002 Regeneration Trust East Staffordshire Heritage Trust Co 2003 The Leek and Moorlands Historic Armagh Ceredigion Buildings Trust 1995 Milford Buildings Preservation Trust 2005 Cadwgan Building Preservation Trust 2000 Staffordshire Historic Buildings Trust 1982 Richhill Buildings Preservation Trust 2006 Cardigan Building Preservation Trust 2002 Stockport Belfast City Conwy Reddish Buildings Preservation Belfast Buildings Preservation Trust 1996 Llandudno Seaside Buildings Trust Ltd 2002 Down Preservation Trust 1997 Suffolk Holywood Conservation Group 2003 Gwynedd Bury St Edmunds Town Trust 1979 The Mourne Heritage Trust 1997 Cyfeillion Cadw Tremadog 1991 Ipswich Building Preservation Trust Ltd 1978 The Palatine Trust 1997 Cylch Y Llan 2008 Suffolk Architectural Heritage Trust Ltd 1998 Strabane Cywaith – The Gwynedd Buildings Preservation Trust 1991 Surrey Sion Mills Buildings Preservation Trust 1999 The Farnham (Building Preservation) National & Regional Isle of Anglesey Trust Ltd 1968 Hearth Revolving Fund 1972 Menai Bridge Community Heritage Trust Ltd 2000 The Surrey Historic Buildings Trust Ltd 1980 Total Northern Ireland: 11 Warwickshire Merthyr Tydfil Royal Leamington Spa Building Merthyr Tydfil Heritage Trust Ltd 1979 Conservation Trust 1996 SCOTLAND Vale of Glamorgan Wiltshire Clackmannanshire Vale of Glamorgan Buildings Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust Ltd 1964 Clackmannanshire Heritage Trust 1988 Preservation Trust 1994 Warminster Preservation Trust Ltd 1987 Dumfries & Galloway National & Regional The Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust Ltd 1967 Solway Heritage 1989 The Cymric Building Preservation Trust 1985 Wolverhampton Hendref Building Preservation Trust 1993 Dundee City of Wolverhampton Regenerating Welsh Religious Buildings Trust – Tayside Building Preservation Trust 1991 Buildings Preservation Trust 2002 Ymddiriedolaeth Addoldai Cymru 2000 Fife Ymddiriedolaeth Treftadaeth Caernarfon 1995 National & Regional Fife Historic Buildings Trust 1997 Avon Industrial Buildings Trust Ltd 1961 Total Wales: 15 East of England Buildings Glasgow Preservation Trust 1984 Glasgow Building Preservation Trust 1982 Heritage Trust for the North West 1997 Highland UK NATIONAL Heritage Works Buildings Highland Buildings Preservation Trust 1986 Buildings At Risk Trust 1992 Preservation Trust Ltd 1996 Historic Assynt 1997 The Cygnet Historic Buildings North of England Civic Trust 1982 Western Isles Preservation Trust 1996 The North Pennines Heritage Trust 1987 Lewis and Harris Buildings Industrial Buildings Preservation Renewable Heritage Trust 2004 Preservation Trust 2001 Trust Ltd 1976 South Yorkshire Buildings Uist Building PreservationTrust 1996 The Landmark Trust 1965 Preservation Trust Ltd 1995 Urras Nan Gearrannan 1997 The SAVE Trust 1998 Sussex Heritage Trust Ltd 1977 Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust Ltd 1977 National & Regional Tyne and Wear Building The Vivat Trust Ltd 1981 Alexander Greek Thomson Trust 1997 Preservation Trust Ltd 1979 Ayrshire Architectural Heritage Trust 1992 Total National: 7 West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust 1985 Castles of Scotland Preservation Trust 1986 Yorkshire Buildings The Cockburn Conservation Trust 1978 Preservation Trust Ltd 1980 TOTAL: 166 TRUSTS Heritage Building Preservation Trust 1993 Total England: 113 National Trust for Scotland 1931 North East Scotland Preservation Trust 1985 Scottish Historic Buildings Trust 1985 Scottish Redundant Churches Trust 1996 Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust 1986 Total Scotland: 20

56 REPORT ON THE AHF’s FINANCIAL POSITION

The Statement of Financial Activities and Balance Sheet are not the full statutory accounts but are a summary of the information which appears in the full accounts. The full accounts have been audited and given an unqualified opinion. The full accounts were approved by the Trustees on 23 September 2010 and copies have been submitted to the Charity Commission and Registrar of Companies.

The summarised accounts may not contain sufficient information to allow for a full understanding of the financial affairs of the Company. Detailed information about the AHF’s income and expenditure in 2009/10 and its overall financial position at the end of the year can be found in the statutory Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2010. Copies may be obtained from the AHF.

Introduction Expenditure Resources used during the year amounted to £916,481 The AHF’s overall income for the year amounted to £776,277 against £1,266,692 in 2009: a fall of £350,211. The following (2009 – £1,027,364). Expenditure amounted to £916,481 categories of expenditure showed a significant decrease (2009 – £1,266,692). At the year end, £7,544,307 (2009 – over the previous year: loan related activities (£184,452), £7,802,418) was out on loan for preservation projects. grants and related expenditure (£110,727), capacity building (£68,520), the cost of the Annual Review and other publications (£6,488). Management costs (£18,004) of the Details newly acquired property mentioned above provided the Income only notable offset against these decreases. Total income fell by £251,087 over 2009, with £110,852 being attributable to the effect of the historically low level Net grant offers fell by £104,884 over 2009, from £535,635 of interest rates on earnings from bank deposits. Interest to £430,751. receivable on loans also declined (by £58,339) due to a downturn in lending. A third major element in the overall Deficit and forward commitments decrease in income was the reduction in government The total deficit for the year (“net movement in funds”) funding of £71,021, directly linked to the reduction in was £140,204, reducing the AHF’s total funds at grantmaking mentioned below. 31 March 2010 to £13,086,172 (2009 – £13,226,376).

The AHF received the following government At the year-end, the AHF had £7,544,307 out on loan funding during 2010: for preservation projects and forward commitments for loans and recoverable grants of £3,954,849. English Heritage £153,189 (2009 – total loans £7,802,418 and forward Historic Scotland £154,335 commitments £3,856,900). Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments £31,000 DOE: Northern Ireland £25,000 Signed on behalf of the Members of the Total £358,524 Council of Management.

A new category of income for the AHF arose in 2010, Rent receivable, with a total for the year of £30,569. This reflects the acquisition of a property in April 2009 in final settlement of an AHF loan. This property is valued John Townsend in the Balance Sheet at £500,000. Chairman 23 September 2010

57 SUMMARISED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2010

Endowment Restricted Unrestricted 2010 2009 fund fund fund Total Total £ £ £ £ £ Incoming resources Incoming resources from generated funds Voluntary income Donations and legacies - - 921 921 3,809 Government grants - 358,524 - 358,524 429,545 Sponsorship - - - - 23,250 358,524 921 359,445 456,604

Investment income Interest receivable – on bank deposits - - 82,865 82,865 193,717 – on loans disbursed - - 285,977 285,977 344,316 Rent receivable - - 30,569 30,569 - - - 399,411 399,411 538,033 Total incoming resources from generated funds - 358,524 400,332 758,856 994,637 Incoming resources from charitable activities - - 17,421 17,421 32,727 Total incoming resources - 358,524 417,753 776,277 1,027,364

Resources expended Costs of generating funds Generating voluntary income - - 21,494 21,494 19,328 Investment management – financial - - 4,952 4,952 5,139 – property - - 18,004 18,004 - - - 44,450 44,450 24,467 Charitable activities Financial assistance for historic building projects Loan-related activities - - 24,735 24,735 209,187 Grantmaking - 358,524 214,084 572,608 683,335 - 358,524 238,819 597,343 892,522

Development and advocacy Capacity building - - 170,882 170,882 239,402 Annual Review and other publications - - 58,294 58,294 64,782 Net contribution to the UK Association of Preservation Trusts - - 12,155 12,155 11,147 - - 241,331 241,331 315,331 Total charitable activities - 358,524 480,150 838,674 1,207,853 Governance costs - - 33,357 33,357 34,372

Total resources expended - 358,524 557,957 916,481 1,266,692

Net incoming / (outgoing) resources - - (140,204) (140,204) (239,328)

Net movement in funds net surplus / (deficit) for the year - - (140,204) (140,204) (239,328)

Balances at 1 April 2009 11,179,713 - 2,046,663 13,226,376 13,465,704

Balances at 31 March 2010 11,179,713 - 1,906,459 13,086,172 13,226,376

58 SUMMARISED BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2010

2010 2009 ££££ Fixed assets Investment property 500,000 - Other tangible assets 44,598 55,128 Programme related investments Loans disbursed for preservation projects 7,544,307 7,802,418

Total fixed assets 8,088,905 7,857,546

Current assets Debtors Loan interest receivable 712,586 609,921 Government grants receivable 136,689 191,382 Other accrued income and prepayments 62,303 57,638 911,578 858,941

Cash at bank and short-term deposits 4,764,117 5,171,283 5,675,695 6,030,224

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 678,428 661,394

Net current assets 4,997,267 5,368,830

Net assets 13,086,172 13,226,376

Funds Endowment fund 11,179,713 11,179,713

Unrestricted funds Designated lending fund 1,155,000 1,285,000 General fund 751,459 761,663 1,906,459 2,046,663

Total funds 13,086,172 13,226,376

Programme related investments include £3,507,151 in loans disbursed which are due for repayment after more than one year (2009 – £3,019,500). Interest receivable on these loans amounted to £170,891 (2009 – £169,610). Creditors comprise: outstanding non-refundable grant offers £627,728 (2009 – £593,376). trade creditors and accruals – £37,936 (2009 – £55,352). tax and social security – £12,764 (2009 – £12,666). The financial statements were approved by the Members of the Council, and authorised for issue, on 23 September 2010 and signed on their behalf by:

John Townsend Roy Dantzic Chairman Trustee 23 September 2010 23 September 2010

59 AUDITORS’ STATEMENT

Independent Auditors’ Statement to the We have conducted our work in accordance with Members of the Architectural Heritage Fund Bulletin 2008/3 issued by the Auditing Practices We have examined the summarised financial Board. Our report on the company’s full annual statements of The Architectural Heritage Fund financial statements describes the basis of our for the year ended 31 March 2010. opinion on those financial statements.

Respective Responsibilities of the trustees Opinion and the auditor In our opinion the summary financial statements The trustees (who are also the directors of The are consistent with the full annual financial Architectural Heritage Fund for the purposes of statements of The Architectural Heritage Fund company law) are responsible for preparing the for the year ended 31 March 2010 and comply summary financial statements in accordance with with the applicable requirements of section 427 applicable United Kingdom law. Our responsibility of the Companies Act 2006, and the regulations is to report to you our opinion on the consistency made thereunder. of the summary financial statements with the full annual financial statements, and their compliance Nicholas Brooks (Senior Statutory Auditor) with the relevant requirements of section 427 for and on behalf of Kingston Smith LLP, of the Companies Act 2006 and the regulations Statutory Auditor. made thereunder. Devonshire House, 60 Goswell Road, London EC1M 7AD

27 September 2010

Benefactors and Friends in the year 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010

Benefactors (£20,000 or more) Friends (£10 – £1,000) Government Charities, Companies English Heritage and Other Organisations Historic Scotland Oxford Preservation Trust Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments Streonshalh Limited DOE: Northern Ireland Individuals S H Back Professor A H Gomme J E A Hay Stephen Marks Natalie Malevsky D K Robinson SPSalt P N Tomlinson Nigel M Waring

60 The Stockport Plaza (see p.19) 61 ABOUT THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND

Introduction Options Appraisal Grants The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is a registered The AHF offers grants of up to 75% of the cost of an initial charity, limited by guarantee, founded in 1976 to promote options appraisal of a project likely to qualify for a loan. the conservation of historic buildings in the UK. It does The maximum grant is normally £7,500, but in exceptional this by providing advice, information and financial circumstances this may be raised to £10,000. In rare assistance in the form of grants and low interest working cases the AHF may offer grants for options appraisals capital loans for projects undertaken by building which examine the feasibility of only one option, but the preservation trusts (BPTs) and other charities. grant offered will be a maximum of £3,000. An appraisal eligible for an AHF grant will look at the key conservation Financial Assistance from the AHF issues affecting the building, examine all options and Sources of AHF Funds consider in outline the viability of the most beneficial The AHF’s lending resources of some £12.3 million option. It should also explore all possible sources of derive from grants, donations and accumulated surpluses. funding for the project. The charity must bring together AHF grant programmes are financed by interest on loans the findings in a report that indicates the likelihood of and bank deposits and grant-aid from English Heritage, success or failure in conservation and financial terms, Historic Scotland, Cadw and the Department of the the implementation strategy and the further work that Environment in Northern Ireland. needs to be carried out to develop the preferred option.

Eligibility Low-interest loans Only organisations with charitable status are eligible for AHF loans provide working capital to allow BPTs and financial assistance from the AHF. Any charity with a other charities to purchase a building and/or finance the qualifying project is eligible to apply for an options appraisal cost of the capital works. Interest on loans is charged at grant or a loan, but the AHF’s other grant programme is 4% simple (6% on acquisition loans), payable at the end reserved for building preservation trusts (BPTs) – charities of the loan period. The recipient must have, or acquire, established specifically to preserve historic buildings. title to the historic building to be repaired. Loans are usually subject to a ceiling of £500,000 and security is Financial assistance is available only for buildings that required for every loan. Security can be offered in the are listed, scheduled or in a conservation area and of form of a repayment guarantee from a local authority, acknowledged historic merit. Projects must involve a change bank or other acceptable institution or as a first charge either in the ownership of a property or in its use. over any property. The normal loan period is two years or until the time when the building is sold, whichever The following is a summary of the AHF’s grants and loan is earlier. The AHF will always consider allowing programmes. Please contact the AHF or refer to our website extra time if this is requested before the loan falls for further details. due for repayment.

62 Additional Grants for Building Preservation Trusts • Detailed Guidance Notes for Applicants Project Development Grants for all AHF financial programmes: Following a major review of the AHF’s non-refundable grant – Options appraisal grants schemes during 2007/08, the project development grant – Loans was launched on 1 April 2008, incorporating and replacing – Project development grants the project administration, project organiser and capacity building grants (see below). The project development grant • Historic Building Preservation Trusts (information sheet) is intended to help BPTs with the costs of developing and Funds for Historic Buildings in England and Wales co-ordinating a project and taking it towards the start of • – A Directory of Sources (this publication is available free work on site after an options appraisal has established as a downloadable internet file at www.ffhb.org.uk) basic viability. • Model Memorandum and Articles of Association A project development grant will not normally exceed for a Building Preservation Trust (available by post £20,000. Grants may be applied for in stages according to the or email or download from www.ahfund.org.uk) needs of the project as it progresses. This may cover 100% of How to Rescue a Ruin – by setting up a local buildings administration costs up to £1,000; 100% of non-recoverable • preservation trust (£8.50 inc p&p) professional fees up to £7,500 or up to 75% of the cost of the project organiser up to £15,000. In addition, new BPTs or • Fully illustrated AHF Annual Review (£10.00 inc p&p) those undertaking a project after a gap of at least five years Statutory Report and Financial Statements are able to apply for mentoring support before undertaking • for each financial year. an options appraisal, up to a maximum of £3,500, and in exceptional circumstances, post options appraisal up to For further information please contact the AHF at: a maximum of £7,500. The Architectural Heritage Fund Alhambra House Non-financial Assistance and Publications 27-31 Charing Cross Road The AHF plays a strong development role by encouraging London WC2H 0AU and advising on the formation of BPTs and providing Tel: 020 7925 0199 relevant guidance throughout the duration of an AHF- Fax: 020 7930 0295 funded project. Several publications are available from Email: [email protected] the AHF (free of charge unless otherwise indicated). www.ahfund.org.uk

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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: No. 1150304 Wellbrook Manor (see p.41) Hestercombe Gardens (see p.12) All Saints Church, Benington (see p.32) Montgomery Town Hall (see p.53) St George’s Royal Garrison Church (see p.35) Belmont House (see p.22)

63 COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT AND STAFF as at 31 October 2010

President: The Duke of Grafton, KG

Council of Management

John Townsend Chairman Michael Hoare Cabinet Member, Environmental Policy, South Northants Council. Chartered Accountant, INSEAD. Chairman, National Churches Partner, The Old Hall Bookshop; Newbottle Estate and Farm. Trust; Watts & Co. Trustee Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Formerly: National Trust Council Member and Regional Chairman Formerly: Consultant C.Hoare & Co. (Thames and Solent Region). Trustee, Stowe House Preservation Trust. Fionnuala Jay-O’Boyle CBE DL Public and Government Affairs Consultant. Principal, Jay Merlin Waterson CBE Deputy Chairman Associates Public Affairs. Founder and Patron, Belfast Buildings Author and historian. Trustee, East Anglia Art Fund. Council, Preservation Trust. Patron, TOSINI. Trustee, Peter McLachlan The Attingham Trust. Curatorial Adviser, Community Development Trust; The Prince of Wales’s The Prince’s Regeneration Trust. Formerly: Historic Properties Regeneration Trust. Deputy Lieutenant of Belfast Formerly: Director, The National Trust. Adviser on Built Heritage and Chairman, Belfast Civic Trust. Member of the Historic Buildings Historic Properties, the Heritage Lottery Fund. Council for Northern Ireland. Director, Irish Landmark Trust.

Colin Amery Thomas Lloyd OBE Author and historian. Trustee, The Heather Trust for the Arts. Heritage Consultant. Solicitor (not practicing). Chairman, Panel Member, The National Trust. Governor, Compton Verney. Picton Castle Trust. Royal Commissioner on the Ancient and Chairman, St Edmundsbury Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee. Historical Monuments of Wales. Trustee, Aberglasney Restoration President,The Lutyens Trust. Trustee, War Memorials Trust. Trust; Carmarthenshire Heritage Regeneration Trust. Honorary Fellow, Royal Institute of British Architects. Co-author, Pevsner volumes for three Welsh Counties. Formerly: Director, World Monuments Fund in Britain. Formerly: Chairman,The Buildings at Risk Trust; Wales Region of Historic Houses Association. Malcolm Crowder OBE Chartered Surveyor. Surveyor and Secretary, George McNeill Norwich Preservation Trust; North Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust. Chairman, APT Scottish Region. Director, Scottish Historic Secretary, Haringey Building Preservation Trust. Project Adviser Buildings Trust. Management Committee member, Edinburgh and Secretary, Broadland Building Preservation Trust. President, Direct Aid. Vice Lord Lieutenant. Formerly: Chief Planning Officer, Heritage of London Trust Operations Ltd. Vice Chairman, West Lothian. Chairman, Built Environment Forum Scotland. UK Association of Preservation Trusts. Formerly: Chairman, West Lothian. Regional Board Member, Scottish Environmental UK Association of Preservation Trusts. Protection Agency.

John Duggan John Pavitt Chartered Accountant. Executive Director, JSM Indo China Ltd. Architect. Trustee, UK Association of Building Preservation Chairman, Milton Keynes Trust; Assemble Community Partnership; Trusts. Member, Executive Committee of the Chichester Society. LIFT. Member, the Investment Committee of the Bridges Ventures Formerly: Director of Properties in Care, Cadw. Planning Director Sustainability Fund; Advisory Council of the Doughty Centre for for Urban Renewal, Welsh Development Agency. Corporate Responsibility. Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. Formerly: Chairman and Chief Executive, Gazeley. Chairman, Spazio Investment NV. Non Executive Director, SGL Vietnam Ltd. Staff

Roy Dantzic Chief Executive: Ian Lush Chartered Accountant. Chairman, Interior Services Group plc. Finance Manager: Paul Tozer Non-Executive Director, Airplanes Ltd. Trustee, The Portman Office Manager: Diane Kendal Estate. Formerly: Chairman, Development Securities plc; Managing Director, British Gas Properties Ltd. Finance Director, Projects Team Stanhope Properties. Loans & Grants Manager: Barbara Wright Projects and Development Elizabeth Davidson OBE Officer: Ian Rice Project Director, Merchant City Townscape Heritage Initiative, Projects and Development Director, Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust. External Officer North: Gavin Richards Examiner, University of Dundee, Dept. of European Urban Conservation; Honorary Member of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. Formerly: Member of the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland. Chair, Association of Preservation Trusts. Director, Glasgow Building Preservation Trust. Trustee, Argyll & Bute Building Preservation Trust.

64 Annual Review 2009-10 Editor: Ian Lush Managing Editor: Diane Kendal Contributors: AHF Staff Design and production: Premm Design, London Proofreading: PerfectWord, Telford

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