Heritage at Risk Register 2016, South East
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South East Register 2016 HERITAGE AT RISK 2016 / SOUTH EAST Contents Heritage at Risk IV Dover 40 Gravesham 42 Maidstone 42 The Register VIII Sevenoaks 45 Content and criteria VIII Shepway 46 Criteria for inclusion on the Register X Swale 48 Thanet 51 Reducing the risks XII Tonbridge and Malling 52 Key statistics XV Tunbridge Wells 54 Publications and guidance XVI Medway (UA) 55 Key to the entries XVIII Milton Keynes (UA) 58 Entries on the Register by local planning XX Oxfordshire 59 authority Cherwell 59 Oxford 60 Bracknell Forest (UA) 1 South Oxfordshire 61 Brighton and Hove, City of (UA) 1 Vale of White Horse 63 South Downs (NP) 4 West Oxfordshire 64 Portsmouth, City of (UA) 66 Buckinghamshire 4 Aylesbury Vale 4 Reading (UA) 69 Chiltern 7 Southampton, City of (UA) 70 South Bucks 7 Surrey 71 Wycombe 8 Elmbridge 71 East Sussex 9 Epsom and Ewell 72 Eastbourne 9 Guildford 72 Hastings 10 Mole Valley 73 Lewes 11 Reigate and Banstead 75 Rother 12 Runnymede 75 South Downs (NP) 14 Spelthorne 75 Wealden 15 Tandridge 76 Hampshire 16 Waverley 76 Basingstoke and Deane 16 Woking 77 East Hampshire 17 West Berkshire (UA) 77 Fareham 18 West Sussex 80 Gosport 18 Hart 19 Adur 80 Havant 20 Arun 80 New Forest 20 Chichester 81 New Forest (NP) 21 Horsham 82 Rushmoor 22 Mid Sussex 83 South Downs (NP) 23 South Downs (NP) 84 Test Valley 26 Worthing 87 Winchester 28 Windsor and Maidenhead (UA) 88 Isle of Wight (UA) 30 Wokingham (UA) 89 Kent 35 Ashford 35 Canterbury 37 Dartford 39 II South East Summary 2016 he good news for Heritage at Risk this year is that, nationally, there are fewer entries on the 2016 Register than there were on the 2015 Register, and this reflects Tour success across the country in delivering our strategy for Heritage at Risk. In the South East our Register now has 506 assets, down from 534 last year. However, the less good news is the increase for the first time in the number of sites on the Register which are capable of re-use. This suggests that fewer buildings and structures are economic to repair these days, which makes the problem of how to reduce risk a more difficult nut to crack. Nevertheless, our undaunted local Heritage at Risk team, led by Clare Charlesworth, continues to work with owners, funders, stakeholders and especially volunteers, to find the right solutions for sites on the Register. Andy Brown Planning Director, South East 2016 has been a terrific England’s Countryside Stewardship schemes, we are year for Heritage at Risk removing 22 monuments and 20 places of worship from in the South East. More our Register this year. sites than ever before have been removed Helping people to appreciate and save Heritage at Risk from our Register. In Most of the work that we carry out would not happen order to achieve these if it weren’t for the owners and volunteers involved outcomes, we have clear with the individual sites. At the ruins of Bix Old Church, aims for our work: team members worked very hard with the local church community to foster their enthusiasm about the Using advice and grants to reduce the amount of former parish church building. As a result, a successful Heritage at Risk application was made to the Heritage Lottery Fund, For many of the entries removed from the Register and the building has been preserved and is open to this year, the solutions found were related to either the public. advice or grant aid from Historic England. At Sheerness Dockyard, our advice has assisted in the Regency Close Growing capacity to deliver solutions for Heritage and Dockyard House being returned to private domestic at Risk use. Both buildings are testament to the area’s illustrious Partnership with our colleagues in Local Authorities is former naval connections. In the Meon Valley, the ruins of a vital part of our work. The conservation areas on our the former hunting lodge of King John’s House have been Register have been assessed as ‘at risk’ by them, and we conserved with a Historic England grant. work closely with them and local communities to provide the necessary tools to reduce this risk. This year, four Understanding trends in Heritage at Risk conservation areas are being removed from our Register. So that money and time are directed to where they are most needed it is important that we know about future All of our partners are Heritage at Risk heroes and we trends in risk. Our partner organisations have made use look forward to another year of working with them to of this knowledge to design some of their grant schemes reduce risk to heritage in the South East. and we are able to support them by providing technical advice on applications. Largely because of the Heritage Clare Charlesworth Principal Adviser, Heritage at Risk Lottery Fund’s Grants for Places of Worship and Natural Cover image: Norris Castle, East Cowes, Isle of Wight. Built by James Wyatt in 1799. The house has been on the Register since 2011, but this year we have added the Estate’s Registered Park and Garden and ornamental farm. The site is at risk because of a backlog of maintenance and the deterioration of significant historic fabric. Our cover photograph shows the green light cast by a tarpaulin protecting the leaking roof light above a stairwell. Historic England is working with new owners and the local authority to ensure that current development proposals address all the causes of risk. 2 Saltdean Lido Brighton & Hove Saltdean Lido, Brighton had been altered so much that their original design & Hove, was built in 1938. was all but lost, and changes in the holiday market had The progress made in rendered them almost redundant. However, in early 2015 reducing risk to the Lido, the CIC secured a £2.3million grant from the Coastal this year, is a testament to Communities Fund to restore the pools to their former the tremendous work put glory, and within weeks a further £4.7million was pledged into reviving this iconic by the Heritage Lottery Fund to bring the Lido buildings temple to healthy living, back into beneficial use. by the Community Interest Company (CIC) which was The works to reform the pools are now on site, and set up to save it. Saltdean despite some set-backs, the project continues apace. Lido CIC was formed in Historic England is delighted to be working closely with 2014, born from the ‘Save the CIC to both help them as they test ideas for their Saltdean Lido Campaign’ which had successfully stopped business plan, and to seek out the further sources of the lido building and pool being demolished to make way funding which will enable the project to continue and see for residential development. The members of the CIC are Saltdean Lido removed from our Heritage at Risk Register. a small, voluntary team of local residents developing a business plan to safeguard the site for future generations. They have already been tremendously successful in their fundraising efforts to secure a pot of money to allow the building to be repaired. The reinforced concrete of the buildings has suffered from a lack of maintenance and the effects of a marine climate, whilst the two pools 3 Gothic Temple Shotover Park, Oxfordshire The Gothic Temple at Shotover Park in Oxfordshire was built in 1740 as an open loggia with a plain tiled roof and plaster vaults with Gothick detailing. We are delighted to be able to remove it from the South East Heritage at Risk Register this year. This follows a comprehensive programme of repairs to the folly, which sits in a landscape garden. The repairs were funded by Natural England, through their Environmental Stewardship Scheme (now superseded by the Countryside Stewardship Scheme), and the owner’s professional team were advised by architects and surveyors from Historic England. Work was completed in late 2015 and is an excellent example of partnership working between both bodies. The folly had fallen into a state of disrepair through a lack of maintenance over a number of years, but when ownership arrangements changed, the Estate Trustees correct materials. The roof has also been repaired, and sought funding to improve the condition. The folly the surrounding vegetation controlled. Always designed has particularly fine stuccowork which has now been to face the house at Shotover along the length of an restored through the work of skilled craftspeople, using ornamental pool, it is now reflected in all its glory in the traditional plasterwork repair techniques and historically waters again. 50th Anniversary of Conservation Areas In 2017, Historic England will celebrate the 50th face in protecting them. We also plan to analyse local anniversary of conservation areas. These precious historic authorities’ conservation area survey data to better areas, from urban and industrial to rural and remote, understand what puts conservation areas up and down create a strong sense of place and are likely to be what the country at risk. Finally, at a time when local authority you think of when you think of special local character. resources are under pressure, we’ll ask how local civic groups and organisations can become more involved to We’ll carry out research into people’s attitudes help safeguard conservation areas. towards conservation areas and the challenges they For a different format of this document contact our customer services department on: For more information contact: Telephone: 0370 333 0608 Textphone: 0800 015 0516 Clare Charlesworth, Historic England South East Email: [email protected] Eastgate Court, 195-205 High Street, Product code: 52040 Guildford, GU1 3EH Telephone: 01483 252 020 Find out what’s at risk by searching or downloading Email: [email protected] the online Heritage at Risk Register at: Twitter: @HE_SouthEast HistoricEngland.org.uk/har 4 HERITAGE AT RISK 2016 / SOUTH EAST LISTED BUILDINGS THE REGISTER Listing is by far the most commonly encountered type of designation.