ANNUAL REVIEW 2013–14 CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD

The purposes of the Architectural Heritage Fund, and the ways in which it meets its objectives, are straightforward. It supports the sustainable re-use of historic buildings, bringing social, economic and cultural benefits to communities, by providing loans, grants and advice. Never has the need for our support been more apparent. We are working in a climate which often makes conservation very hard going, not just for us but for all our partners.

In this situation we have to be more vigilant to our cause and good humour to our than ever about how we use our resources. meetings. We greatly appreciate his seven During the last year the AHF has carried out years of hard work for the AHF. Malcolm reviews of all our main areas of work. It has Crowder has retired after 20 years on the been reassuring to find that those to whom Council of the AHF, but will continue his work we make grants and loans are very clear that as an exceptionally creative conservation our role is highly valued, but they would like practitioner, both as project manager and us to be able to do more to help them. This is advisor, with an extraordinary ability to find partly because the context of austerity makes solutions for the most intractable problem the task of conservation and regeneration properties. Tom Lloyd, whose knowledge of particularly testing. We are trying to find new all aspects of the heritage of Wales has been solutions for historic buildings at risk; and of great benefit to the AHF, has also retired. new ways of making resources go further. He will be succeeded on the Council by Richard Keen. Our thanks go to all of them. When the whole sector is finding it difficult to achieve all we want to do, it is particularly We were saddened to hear of the death of important that our organisation and staffing Roy Worskett, who served the AHF admirably structure are as effective as we can make as a Trustee for 23 years from 1977–2000. them. The Council of Management is reviewing the AHF’s cost base and looking at Just as this Annual Review was being ways to reduce our overheads. We have also sent to print our Chief Executive, Ian Lush, consulted our clients about which aspects announced his departure from the AHF of our grants and loans programmes might after 11 years, as he is going to lead the be improved. And we have looked again Imperial College Healthcare Charity from at the way we govern ourselves. These the beginning of December. Ian has made different reviews all relate to and support not only a valuable contribution to the work each other. Our aim is to ensure that we of the AHF, but also to the wider heritage are able to achieve more, often with less. sector. He has our thanks and best wishes. I am extremely grateful to members of the We hope to have his successor in post Council and to staff for the way they have early in 2015. taken on a great deal of extra work. We aim to ensure that the AHF can Our funders continue to give us vital support, continue to contribute to the enrichment and we would like to thank the four national of communities, by helping to rescue and bodies – English Heritage, Historic Scotland, re-use historic building in ways that are Cadw and the Northern Ireland Environment imaginative, practical and sustainable. Agency – as well as the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, the J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust and the Pilgrim Trust.

The confidence they show in us owes much to those who have led the AHF in recent years. I am most grateful to our former Chairman, Merlin Waterson John Townsend, who retired last March. Chairman TOP: Fairfield Shipbuilding Offices (p.24) He brought an infectious commitment October 2014 ABOVE: Unity House (p.18)

1 Penicuik House (p.27) CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REVIEW

This will be my final article for the Architectural Heritage Fund’s Annual Review because I leave the AHF at the end of November, after exactly 11 years, to take up the position of Chief Executive of the Imperial College Healthcare Charity. It is therefore an opportunity to look back at some of the AHF’s achievements since 2003, to think about what has changed in the heritage sector and to identify some trends moving forward.

Reading the first Annual Review piece I wrote, in Autumn 2004, it is interesting to see the aspirations the AHF had ten years ago, and also that many of the issues I was writing about then are still just as relevant to the sector. One of our main aims at that time was to broaden our client base, seeking to work with non-specialist community groups and encourage them to consider historic buildings as a potential location for their activities and services. This has certainly been one of our success stories, shown by the range of organisations in this year’s Review – from long-standing building preservation trusts such as the Arkwright Society and the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust to charities active in a different sector, such as Youthscape in Luton and Age UK in Oldham.

The AHF’s involvement in the development bodies do think about the transfer of … we have been of community asset transfer over the last assets in a positive way, rather than seeing decade has also been important. This dates this as an opportunity to dump unwanted working with groups back to late 2005 when I was invited to join liabilities from their estates on to third taking advantage the work group set up by David Miliband, sector organisations. then a Minister in the Office of the Deputy of the new powers Prime Minister, to look at the idea of One of the most important ways in which in the Localism Act, transferring more buildings, land and the AHF has developed its own activities services from the public to the third sector. since 2003 has been the partnerships we and in particular This led to the Quirk Review and the have formed across the UK. These have the community government’s response to it in Spring 2007, included ones with government – such and eventually to new funding becoming as our (continuing) management on behalf right to bid … available to support asset transfer, along of the Northern Ireland Environment with the establishing of the Asset Transfer Agency of the Acquisition Grants scheme Unit (ATU). I was Deputy Chair of the ATU’s for buildings at risk in Northern Ireland, Stakeholder Group and subsequently our partnership with English Heritage and asked by the DCLG and Locality to Chair the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation the Community Ownership Forum. Alongside this we have been working with groups taking advantage of the new powers in the Localism Act, and in particular the community right to bid, and the success of projects such as the Ivy House in South- East London has been very encouraging, though there is still more to do in ensuring ABOVE: Severndroog Castle (p.15) that local authorities and other public LEFT: Unity House (p.18)

3 to run the Challenge Fund, working with Another area in which the AHF has Historic Scotland on the buildings at risk expanded its remit has been our involvement initiative there, and the ongoing Cold Spots in industry-wide initiatives. I was pleased initiative which has been supported by to serve for six years on the board of the English Heritage, the J Paul Getty Jr Heritage Alliance, for much of that time as Charitable Trust and the Pilgrim Trust. In Deputy Chair, and through the Alliance to Wales we have worked closely with Cadw devise and then direct Discovering Places, and, through my membership of the Historic which brought the built, historic and natural Environment Group, the Welsh Assembly environments together for a major project Government, and are hoping to build on this in the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Another area through the new heritage bill and associated More recently the Heritage Investment in which the AHF opportunities as they arise. Working Group, which I chair, has brought together representatives of public, private has expanded its We have also enjoyed a very close working and third sector organisations and is coming remit has been relationship with the Heritage Lottery Fund, up with imaginative ways of bringing new not least in the development of the highly- resources into the heritage. our involvement successful Heritage Enterprise scheme and in industry-wide the Start-up Grants, which were designed And those new resources are certainly alongside our Project Viability Grants and needed, for another clear trend since 2003 initiatives. launched together in 2013. has been the decline in public funding

4 towards heritage – with the exception of named above; our clients who show great OPPOSITE (top; bottom): the Heritage Lottery Fund, whose support perseverance and imagination in developing St George’s (Royal Garrison) Church (p.12) Fairfield Shipbuilding Offices (p.24) of community-led regeneration has been their projects for sustainable new uses; exemplary. The AHF’s clients have had organisations in the wider third sector and ABOVE: The Tally Ho Inn, to enter uncharted territory in their across national and local government; and before and after (p.13) fundraising, and recently we have seen the many individuals who have helped the AHF BELOW: Severndroog Castle (p.15) use of community share issues and crowd at different times and in different ways. funding in particular as impressive new ways to bring in vital funds whilst also forming Chief among the latter are the Trustees strong connections with local people. who serve on the AHF Council and who give of their time and expertise to the great An important area the AHF has been benefit of the organisation. It is invidious to working on recently – work which I hope single anyone out but I do particularly want will continue under my successor when to thank my two long-serving Chairmen, they are appointed – has been assessing Jane Sharman and John Townsend, both the wider impacts of our support for of whom gave me great support and community groups and their projects. encouragement. Many people within the Whilst the sector as a whole has been heritage sector have also been hugely relatively good at measuring economic supportive, particularly at the start when impacts – job creation, the multiplier effect, I arrived from a different field with few increased property and rental values and contacts and even less knowledge. so on – the social impacts have been ignored or only assessed through anecdotal Finally, I want to thank my colleagues at evidence. The AHF is developing new ways the AHF for their hard work, commitment, to assess the longer-term social impact enthusiasm and general good humour. There of the projects we fund through our grants have not been that many changes in staff and loans, and also the benefits to over the last 11 years, which allows me communities of the advice and capacity to name them all, so my gratitude goes to building support we give to the groups we Andy, Anna, Barbara, Gareth, Gavin, Gordon, work with. This should in turn help the AHF Ian, Jo, Josephine, Kate, Lucie, Maria, Paul, to make a strong case for new investment Stephen, Tessa, Victor and last but definitely in the endowment fund – something which not least, Diane, whose support through is much needed given the challenges of good times and more difficult ones has meeting the growing demand for grants been hugely appreciated. and loans over the last few years.

The AHF relies on building strong relationships in order to achieve its aims, both within the heritage sector and in the wider culture and regeneration sectors. Ian Lush I am grateful to our many partners for their Chief Executive support since 2003: the funding bodies October 2014

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COMPLETED PROJECTS

This year there are 22 completed projects in the Annual Review, which is the highest for five years and, along with increased numbers of projects under development, reflects an encouraging trend towards greater activity in our sector. It is also reassuring that all four home nations are included in the Completed Projects section, and that there is a striking variety of buildings and uses.

Featured on the front cover is the Pier Pavilion in Penarth, South Wales, which is only the second time we have led with a 20th-century building. Even more recent is the Langham Dome in Norfolk, whose plain exterior belies the vital importance of what went on inside, as it was one of the key training sites for RAF anti-aircraft gunners during the Second World War.

Another building more notable for its interior than its outward appearance is the Newman Brothers Coffin Fitting Works in Birmingham – from the outside little different from any other purpose-built Victorian factory, but in fact unique in the completeness of the large quantities of stock and machinery it contains. Its restoration by the Birmingham Conservation Trust as a visitor attraction combined with commercial office space is a remarkable story. the Heritage At Risk Register. It is very welcome that our help, along with the other KEY George Street Chapel in Oldham, funders, has seen them contributing once Many projects receive several Severndroog Castle in South London and more to their local communities. different AHF grants and loans. the Wolfeton Riding House in Dorset are These are abbreviated as follows: the first projects completed in part through The work of the 174 Trust in Northern Ireland FSG Feasibility Study Grant the support of a grant from the Challenge is making a vital difference in promoting Fund for Historic Buildings At Risk, which reconciliation in Belfast, and the AHF was OAG Options Appraisal Grant the AHF runs on behalf of the Andrew Lloyd pleased to support their restoration of The CBG Capacity Building Grant Webber Foundation and English Heritage. Manse on Antrim Road, where the Trust is PAG Project Administration Grant All are listed Grade I or II* and were on based, alongside spaces for meetings and POG Project Organiser Grant other activities and a crèche. This is a good PDG Project Development Grant example of an applicant whose focus is more CSG Cold Spots Grant on the use of the building than its heritage, CFG Challenge Fund Grant but who were keen to do the best for a significant historic site in their area.

In Scotland there are no fewer than eight completed projects this year, from Selkirk in the Borders to Brough Lodge in Shetland. All show an imaginative approach to the sustainable re-use of the buildings, whether in urban areas or ones as rural as the ABOVE: Kelvingrove Bandstand Highlands and Islands, and exemplify the and Amphitheatre (see p.23) commitment and dedication of the voluntary OPPOSITE PAGE AND LEFT: sector throughout the UK. Severndroog Castle (p.15)

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George Street Chapel AGE UK OLDHAM

Oldham, Lancashire Listed Grade II*

CFG: £100,000 offered October 2011

Professional Team George Street Chapel, completed in 1816, and artists’ studio. Unfortunately the work Architect: played a major role in the development of carried out by the previous owner resulted Lloyd Evans Pritchard, Manchester Independent Methodism, as well as local in the removal of some original features Structural Engineer: education and poverty relief. It survives and the character of the interior was The Morton Partnership, London in its early-19th-century form but with substantially changed. Quantity Surveyor: many alterations. The building is a simple T Sumner Smith, Manchester rectangular brick box with stone dressings A Challenge Fund Grant offer in 2011, Main Contractor: to some of the openings and a slate roof, with financed by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Lambert Walker, Preston the congregation apparently having done Foundation in conjunction with English Total investment: £1.3 million much of the building work itself. It comprises Heritage, supplied the match funding a galleried chapel with a basement below, required for a successful bid to the Heritage Other Sources of Funding: now largely opened out but originally Lottery Fund. Work began in September Viridor: £31,000 constructed as a school room with dwellings. 2012 to bring the chapel back into use Heritage Lottery Fund: £980,000 The two-manual organ, choir stalls and as a base for Age UK Oldham’s work Trust’s own resources: £300,000 pulpit seem to have been added in 1890. with people of all ages, while offering an It closed as a place of worship in 1990 and attractive venue for weddings, conferences, was bought by Age UK Oldham in 2003 exhibitions, organ recitals and other following a failed conversion to a café special events. Not only has a key building in George Street been restored but it now also provides a heritage resource, telling the story of the building and its congregation, as well as the social history of Oldham.

… now also provides a heritage resource, telling the story of the building and its congregation, as well as the social history of Oldham.

8 … a remarkable survival of a late Victorian purpose- built factory, complete with large quantities of stock, machinery and paper records.

Newman Brothers Ltd 13–15 Fleet Street, Birmingham Listed: Grade II*; Jewellery Quarter Conservation Area

(Coffin Furniture Manufacturers) LOAN: £310,000 withdrawn December 2002 POG: £10,000 disbursed August 2008 BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATION TRUST POG: £5,000 disbursed December 2009 PDG: £5,000 disbursed February 2011

Professional Team Architect: Stephen Oliver & Ed Kepczyk, Rodney Melville & Partners, Leamington Spa Structural Engineer: Steve Mason, Hancock Wheeldon & Ascough, Solihull Quantity Surveyor: Matt McTaggart, Greenwood Projects Limited, Lichfield Located in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Birmingham Conservation Trust’s Main Contractor: Fairhurst Ward Abbotts, Greenhithe, Kent Quarter, Newman Brothers Coffin Fitting work was acknowledged when the project

Works is a remarkable survival of a late- featured in the first series of the BBC’s Total investment: £1,664,263 Victorian purpose-built factory, complete Restoration in 2003 and in the same year with large quantities of stock, machinery Advantage West Midlands purchased Other Sources of Funding: and paper records. It is three storeys, built of the building. It was anticipated that a Heritage Lottery Fund: £815,489 English Heritage: £450,000 red brick with a slate roof, high-quality brick partnership between the two would be Birmingham City Council: £106,000 and stone dressings and lots of small-paned workable, but the government’s decision Greater Birmingham and Solihull cast-iron windows to flood the buildings with to disband Regional Development Agencies Local Enterprise Partnership: £208,539 light. It started manufacturing in 1894 and led to the withdrawal of funding for the AIM Biffa Award: £49,235 in its heyday, at a time when Birmingham scheme, causing a considerable setback. Charles Hayward Foundation: £20,000 Pilgrim Trust: £15,000 was at the forefront of industrial production, Despite this the Trust acquired the building employed over 100 people. Its fittings in 2010 and with the assistance of AHF grant were a byword for quality, appearing on funding was able to develop the scheme. such illustrious coffins as those of Winston Work has now been completed to create Churchill, Queen Elizabeth the Queen an innovative visitor attraction combined Mother and Princess Diana. However, cheap with commercial work units that will foreign imports and changing burial practice subsidise the community elements. caused the business to fall into decline and production ceased in 2000.

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St Mary’s Old Church CLOPHILL HERITAGE TRUST

Church Path, Clophill, Bedfordshire Listed Grade II*; Scheduled Ancient Monument

PDG: £20,035 disbursed December 2011 LOAN: £150,000 contracted June 2013

Professional Team Architect: Caroe Architecture Ltd, Cambridge There has been a vicar recorded at the site and Hamlingay. However this proposal did Structural Engineer: since 1145 with St Mary’s Church thought to not find favour with funders. An alternative Cambridge Architectural Research be about 400 years old. After being replaced scheme to consolidate the picturesque Quantity Surveyor: by a new parish church in 1845, it was used ruin, make the tower safe and provide an Central Bedfordshire Council as a mortuary chapel until 1970. Since then observation platform with enviable views Main Contractor: Universal Stone Ltd, Essex the building has suffered structurally and is now a roofless ruin, with its remote location … it lies at the heart of the Total investment: £446,000 making it a target for vandalism and anti- social behaviour. Built of coursed ironstone Greensand Ridge footpath, Other Sources of Funding: rubble with ashlar dressings, its most English Heritage: £431,083 which runs for 40 miles WREN: £50,000 prominent feature is the semi-octagonal, between Leighton Buzzard Central Bedfordshire Council: £150,000 battlemented stair turret. The large arched RDPE: £165,226 windows remain, despite all tracery having and Hamlingay. Heritage Lottery Fund: £47,929 been removed. Big Lottery Fund: £24,000 across the surrounding countryside, Trust’s own resources: £24,000 The Clophill Heritage Trust was established with new-build, ecologically-friendly by local residents concerned about the accommodation for walkers on adjacent land condition of the building. Its intention was to offering valuable educational and leisure restore it as a walkers’ hostel, as it lies at the facilities was considered to be the best way heart of the Greensand Ridge footpath, which forward. An AHF grant and working capital runs for 40 miles between Leighton Buzzard loan allowed the project to progress.

10 The Walronds

CULLOMPTON WALRONDS PRESERVATION TRUST Fore Street, Cullompton, Devon Listed Grade I; Cullompton Town Centre Conservation Area

FSG: £5,875 disbursed November 1997 LOAN: £55,000 repaid June 2006 CBG: £1,827 disbursed March 2009 OAG: £9,145 disbursed June 2008 PDG: £1,854 disbursed March 2009 PDG: £4,000 disbursed April 2010 LOAN: £245,000 contracted May 2011

Professional Team Architect: Marcus Chantrey, Benjamin Completed in 1605 by Sir John Peter, the The Trust, with the help of a large team & Beauchamp Ltd, Somerset Walronds is one of the most important of volunteers, set about developing a Structural Engineer: historic town houses in Devon and has been project to fulfil the objective of the bequest. John Mann, Mann Williams, Bath little altered. Early-17th-century work of the Emergency repairs were carried out, Quantity Surveyor: highest quality includes decorative ribbed temporary partitions removed and the Paul Trueman & Matt McTaggart, plaster ceilings, fireplaces with elaborate garden tidied while regularly opening the Greenwood Projects, Lichfield dated overmantles, oak panelling with house and ground for events. Project Management: renaissance details such as ionic pilasters Stephen Crichton, Greenwoods Projects, Lichfield and inlay work, barley-sugar balusters and An AHF-funded options appraisal helped Mechanical & Services Engineer: original joinery. The house stands on the to identify a future use for the building Vic Tudberry & Tony Jones, street front of its original two-acre burgage which included making the ground floor and Martin Thomas Associates, West Wellow plot that was laid out in the late medieval main part of the garden available for public Main Contractor: period. The enclosed garden contains use. Further AHF grant and loan funding Splitlath Building Conservation Ltd, formal and informal areas and a number assisted in restoring the building to its Hay-on-Wye of substantial trees. In 1954 the house was former glory and it was formally opened by bought and divided into three dwellings HRH the Duke of Gloucester in June 2014. Total investment: £3,412,681 that were occupied until the last resident The upper floors are being used for holiday Other Sources of Funding: died in 2006, when the Trust inherited letting and the ground floor and garden Heritage Lottery Fund: £2,099,300 the whole site. The Cullompton Walronds for community events. English Heritage: £579,000 Preservation Trust was formed at the wish Devon County Council: £250,000 of the last owner in order to find a way of Mid Devon District Council: £110,000 The Monument Trust: £150,000 restoring the house and giving it a useful (through the Vivat Trust Account) future in the community. J P Getty Jnr Charitable Trust: £100,000 The Pilgrim Trust: £30,000 The Wolfson Foundation: £25,000 The Garfield Weston Foundation: £20,000 The Mercers’ Company: £5,000 The Leathersellers’ Company: £5,000 Awards for All: £5,000 Cullompton United Charities: £3,650 Cullompton Town Council: £2,000 SPAB: £2,000 The Heathcoat Trust: £2,000 Cullompton Rotary: £1,030 Lloyd Maunder Ltd: £1,000

The Trust, with the help of a large team of volunteers, set about developing a project to fulfil the objective of the bequest.

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Repository Road, Woolwich Listed Grade II

OAG: £3,000 offered September 2009 St George’s (Royal Garrison) Church Professional Team Architect: HERITAGE OF LONDON TRUST OPERATIONS LTD Thomas Ford & Partners, London Structural Engineer: The Morton Partnership, London Quantity Surveyor: Greenwood Projects, Lichfield, Staffordshire Main Contractor: Fabrication Architecture, Gloucester CHI Projects, London

Total investment: £759,626

Other Sources of Funding: Heritage Lottery Fund: £454,600 The Royal Garrison Church of St George Working alongside the ‘Gunners’ and English Heritage: £85,000 Community Covenant Grant: £75,000 was built in 1863 for the Royal Artillery as the Ministry of Defence to find a long- Ministry of Defence: £30,000 part of the Woolwich Arsenal complex. term solution, the Trust has now taken Royal Artillery: £30,000 It was a grand building constructed in the on ownership of the building and returned John Paul Getty Foundation: £25,000 Lombardi style in stock brick and designed it to active community use. A kitchen Cory Landfill: £18,000 by T H Wyatt, one of the architectural and toilets have been constructed in the dynasty dominating English church-building surviving lobbies, and a tensile roof is being at the time. It was mostly destroyed in 1944 constructed over the mosaics to protect by a V1 flying bomb, leaving only the roofless them from further damage when they are apse. However, many of the regimental finally restored. The building was opened monuments survived the bombing including to visitors during the London 2012 Olympic the Victoria Cross memorial mosaic of St and Paralympic Games and now opens by George and the Dragon. A temporary roof request until repair work to the murals blew away in 1999, leaving the structure is completed. at serious risk of decay, and it was subsequently closed to public access on health and safety grounds. The Regiment relocated in 2007.

… many of the regimental monuments survived the bombing including the Victoria Cross memorial mosaic of St George and the Dragon.

12 The ‘Rally Round the Tally’ campaign was launched and the building was listed as an Asset of Community Value …

The Tally Ho Inn LITTLEHEMPSTON COMMUNITY PUB LTD

Littlehempston, Torquay, Devon Listed Grade II; Little Hempston Conservation Area

LOAN: £100,000 contracted March 2014

Professional Team All work undertaken by volunteers

Total investment: £308,000

Littlehempston is a small village located Littlehempston Community Pub Ltd was Other Sources of Funding: in the South Hams district of Devon, with formed with the intention of acquiring and Social Investment Business: £9,000 a population of around 2,000. The village re-opening the Tally Ho Inn, thus securing Trust’s own resources (share issue): £190,000 benefits from two public houses, but has its future. It is a not-for-profit industrial no shop, post office, community centre and provident society for the benefit of the or other similar facility. The Tally Ho pub community. It launched a community share reportedly dates from the 14th century and issue in May 2013 and has raised £190,000 is constructed of solid stone walls beneath to date from local investors as well as those a timber-framed roof clad with natural as far away as Australia and Venezuela. slates. It was probably originally a church This, together with an AHF loan, allowed it house, a building that was found in many to purchase the pub, which re-opened in 2014 Devon parishes, and had become an inn after being closed for two years and is South by 1838. It was closed in 2011 and put up Devon’s first community-owned public house. for sale as a private residence. However, It will also operate as a book exchange, basic the local village community decided to village shop and parcel delivery facility. The come together to keep the building as a popular garden is tended by volunteers. pub. The ‘Rally Round the Tally’ campaign was launched and the building was listed This is a second successful project for as an Asset of Community Value under Littlehempston, as a Grade I listed church the Localism Act 2011. next door to the Tally Ho, which was also under threat of closure, has been reordered into a flexible multi-use space for both religious and community purposes.

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… a ‘living’ and lasting memorial to all those who served at RAF Langham …

Langham Dome NORTH NORFOLK HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST

Cockthorpe Road, Langham, Norfolk Scheduled Ancient Monument

FSG: £2,247 disbursed February 2001 PAG: £4,000 disbursed July 2005 PDG: £8,500 disbursed May 2011 PDG: £6,700 disbursed March 2014

Professional Team Structural Engineer: The Morton Partnership Ltd Main Contractor (General): RAF Langham was at the forefront of studies, was gifted the structure by Bernard W S Lusher & Son Ltd Coastal Command’s Second World War Matthews Ltd. Early-stage feasibility work Main Contractor (Concrete Structure): campaign against enemy shipping, launching funded by the AHF enabled an assessment Martech Technical Services Ltd a range of sorties from hazardous low-level of the nature and condition of the structure Design and Fabrication attacks on enemy convoys to dramatic to establish the cost of restoration to (Interpretive Displays): air-sea rescue operations. include bringing services to the site and Ugly Studios a cathodic protective system for the Total investment: £700,000 The 40-foot diameter Dome was built in metal reinforcement. Working closely in 1942 of steel-framed concrete and metal- partnership with the local community and Other Sources of Funding: mesh construction. Its purpose was to Friends of Langham Dome (FoLD), the Trust Heritage Lottery Fund: £446,400 train anti-aircraft gunners in aiming was awarded an AHF Project Development English Heritage: £199,000 North Norfolk Coastal Sustainable technique to allow for aircraft speed and Grant to develop the project further and Fund: £10,000 direction before moving onto live practice to attract capital funding. The Pilgrim Trust: £10,000 using a replica Bofors gun with projection North Norfolk District Council: £5,000 of moving images of aircraft on the Dome’s It is now the only surviving publicly- Norfolk County Council: £5,000 inner surface and with audio equipment accessible wartime anti-aircraft gunnery Paul Bassham Trust: £5,000 Community Landfill Tax (NEWS): £5,000 simulating combat conditions. Many were training simulator and a ‘living’ and lasting North Norfolk Historic Buildings built on wartime airfields, but few survive. memorial to all those who served at RAF Trust: £15,000 Once shrouded in mystery, it had been Langham. A unique visitor centre managed unused for many years and was in poor by FoLD keeps alive memories of the condition and vulnerable to vandalism when vanished base’s role in war and peace the North Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust and its close relationship to the people became involved and, after its initial of Langham.

14 Shooters Hill, London Listed Grade II*

PDG: £8,500 disbursed February 2013 CFG: £35,000 disbursed May 2014

Severndroog Castle Professional Team SEVERNDROOG CASTLE BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST Architect: Thomas Ford & Partners, London Structural Engineers: The Morton Partnership, London Quantity Surveyor: William G Dick Partnership, London Main Contractor: Hilton Abbey Ltd, London Project Manager: Geoff Golledge, Royal Borough of Greenwich

Total investment: £986,000

Other Sources of Funding: Sir William James was born in The Castle featured on the BBC’s Restoration Heritage Lottery Fund: £687,000 Pembrokeshire and ran away to sea, in 2004 and the Trust obtained a 30-year English Heritage: £100,000 eventually becoming Commander of Sea lease in 2012 when it commenced restoration Country Houses Foundation: £75,000 Pilgrim Trust: £15,000 Forces for the East India Company. Sailing to provide a mixture of end uses, including Royal Borough of Greenwich: in ‘The Protector’, a 44-gun ship, he was a community café on the ground floor. The £25,000 (in kind) responsible for restoring sea trading elegant first floor will be used for functions Trust’s own resources: £8,670 routes following the Battle of Severndroog and the second floor as a space for exhibitions, off the Malabar Coast, western India, in educational visits, and ecology and nature 1755. On his return, he became an MP and pursuits. The rooftop viewing platform, a director of the East India Company and from which on a clear day it is possible was subsequently awarded a baronetcy. to see across seven counties, has been To commemorate his achievements, renovated and made secure. Thanks to the following his death in 1784 the tower was quick approval of a Challenge Fund Grant the commissioned by his widow to the design Trust was able to complete the project when of the architect Richard Jupp. It was built as unforeseen additional capital costs had put a battlemented keep, with three hexagonal it in jeopardy and is grateful to the Andrew towers, 60 feet high, in an imposing position Lloyd Webber Foundation in conjunction with with commanding views. It was sold by English Heritage for their support. the last private owner, along with the surrounding woodland, to London County Council in 1922. It operated as a café but was closed to the public by the London Borough of Greenwich when it took ownership in 1986, following the abolition of the GLC.

The rooftop viewing platform, from which on a clear day it is possible to see across seven counties, has been renovated and made secure.

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The Railway Station, Alston, Cumbria Alston Conservation Area

LOAN: £40,000 contracted March 2013 Alston River Retaining Wall Professional Team Architect: SOUTH TYNEDALE RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY Elaine Rigby, Blackett-Ord Architecture, Westmorland Structural Engineer: Charles Blackett-Ord, Blackett-Ord Conservation, Westmorland Quantity Surveyor: Nevile Beech, T Sumner Smith & Partners, Manchester Main Contractor: Metcalfe Civil Engineering, Penrith

Total investment: £54,500

Other Sources of Funding: The South Tynedale Railway is the North and Nent collapsed, threatening the DEFRA: £12,300 Trust’s own resources: £2,200 of England’s highest narrow gauge, heritage railway’s survival. An AHF loan allowed railway, running from Alston to Lintley work to commence without an undue delay Halt along the track bed of the former that would have had a substantial impact Newcastle and Carlisle branch line, built to on cashflow and operations. The collapse service local lead mines. Opened in 1852, the of the wall emphasised just how vulnerable line was closed by British Rail in 1976. The the Society could be to sudden demands replacement line has been built in stages by for extra working capital in difficult times. volunteers since 1983. The railway includes As a result, the Heritage Lottery Fund more than 30 listed or unique heritage awarded the Society a Catalyst Endowment structures and buildings and the South Grant which together with private match Tynedale Railway Preservation Society is funding, will contribute up to £100,000 a responsible for full maintenance and repair. year for planned maintenance and provide It meets most costs out of income derived an immediate reserve for any emergency from leisure rides on the line, a prime tourist repairs that may arise in future. attraction in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The loan has been repaid in full from a combination of grants and earned income In November 2012, after an extended and the Society is now able to continue period of flooding, a large river retaining its plans for further expansion in an wall at the confluence of the South Tyne investment of £5.6 million.

The collapse of the wall emphasised just how vulnerable the Society could be …

16 … its strength lies not merely in the historic building, but between the networks involving visitors, volunteers, staff and trustees …

The Old Low Light TYNE AND WEAR BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST

Cliffords Fort, Fish Quay, North Shields, Tynemouth Listed Grade II; Fish Quay Conservation Area; Cliffords Fort Scheduled Ancient Monument

CSG: £2,900 disbursed October 2012

The Old Low Light along with the Old High renovation and interpretation of this Professional Team Light were lighthouses built in the first remarkable building, which is a distinctive Architect: half of the 16th century by Trinity House of feature of the Fish Quay overlooking the Ainsworth Spark Associates, Newcastle upon Tyne. Viewed from the sea, mouth of the River Tyne. It has an art café Newcastle upon Tyne vertical alignment of the two lights ensured on the ground floor, and a conference venue Quantity Surveyor: safe navigation of the treacherous mouth of on the top floor. In 2015 the middle floor will Kier North Tyneside the River Tyne. The current building ceased become a dedicated exhibition telling over Main Contractor: to function as a lighthouse in 1810 when 900 years of maritime and fishing history. Kier North Tyneside

new lights were constructed. In 1830 the Total investment: £789,900 building was converted into Trinity Alms The Net has redefined the Old Low Light’s Houses. The light window was blocked, with purpose as a social enterprise, as its strength Other Sources of Funding: the seaward wall painted black to prevent lies not merely in the historic building, but Coastal Communities Fund: £787,000 it being used as a navigational landmark in the networks involving visitors, volunteers, in error, and the lantern turret removed to staff and trustees whereby individuals with enable a third storey. The last tenants, the differing expertise, but equal status, come Marine Service Volunteers, left in 2011. together to achieve common outcomes, so that it will once again become a ‘Leading The Net North Shields, a group of volunteers Light’ in helping to achieve a sustainable working closely with North Tyneside Council, environment in which to learn and work. were successful in securing £787,000 from the government’s Coastal Communities The project has been nominated for an Fund to cover the cost of essential repairs, English Heritage Angel Award. ENGLAND

Unity House UNITY HOUSE (WAKEFIELD) LTD

Westgate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire Listed Grade II

LOAN: £750,000 contracted November 2013

Professional Team Architect: Nick Brown Associates, Leeds Structural Engineer: Curtins Consulting, Leeds Quantity Surveyor: The Wakefield Industrial Co-operative Unity House (Wakefield) Ltd is an Industrial Derek Kershaw Partnership, Wakefield Society was formed in 1867. It promised to and Provident Society, established in 2011 Main Contractor: provide lower-priced food and provisions to convert Unity Hall into a national music, Triton Construction, and was so successful that by 1876 the conferencing and events venue and centre Liversedge, West Yorkshire Society had sold sufficient shares to engage for creative entrepreneurs. The space architects W & D Thornton to design a includes 700- and 150-person capacity halls, Total investment: £4.5 million purpose-built premises running the length 10,000 square feet of workspace, 3,500 Other Sources of Funding: of Bank Street. The building was extended Key Fund: £50,000 down Westgate in 1909 and emerged as … one of the main venues Wakefield Council: £500,000 one of the main venues of entertainment Leeds City Region: £1,460,000 loan and education for the mass workforce of entertainment and ERDF: £1,180,000 Social Investment Bank: £400,000 of Edwardian Wakefield. It was sold to education for the mass the Barnsley British Co-op Society in 1962, then to the Wakefield Corporation, and in workforce of Edwardian 1997 to a private owner, although the Wakefield. building has been largely unused since the mid-1990s. square feet of meeting space, a gallery and café/bar. It is working with development partner Shine, a regeneration specialist that has previously achieved success with a similar scheme in Harehills, Leeds, transforming a disused Victorian school into a vibrant office and events centre.

18 The Riding House WOLFETON RIDING HOUSE TRUST

Wolfeton Manor, Charminster, Dorset Listed Grade II*

FSG: £5,500 disbursed October 2006 CFG: £125,000 offered July 2012

Professional Team Chartered Building Surveyor: The Riding House at Wolfeton was built with AHF assistance, setting out various Philip Hughes Associates, in the early 17th century by Sir George funding possibilities and options for use. Wincanton, Somerset Trenchard of Wolfeton House. It is thought However, expectation of major assistance Structural Engineer: to be the earliest surviving riding house towards repairs from Natural England Andrew Waring Associates, in England and would have been used for evaporated with a change in grant rules Romsey, Hampshire the precision schooling of horses, haute two days before the project was due to Quantity Surveyor: Press & Starkey, Maidstone, Kent ecole. This use was suppressed by Oliver go before the committee. At this point Contractors: Cromwell and by the 18th century the English Heritage stepped in with a grant Carrek Ltd, Wells, Somerset building was in use as a threshing barn. offer and the works were split into phases, In the late 19th century it was converted firstly stabilisation of the walls and then Total investment: £697,000 for use as a cowshed and agricultural a second phase to repair and recover the store with the insertion of a floor and many roof. A Challenge Fund Grant was awarded Other Sources of Funding: English Heritage: £382,938 changes to openings. It became redundant towards a third phase to complete this Natural England: £5,875 for agricultural use in the 1960s by which work, bring water and electricity onto the Country Houses Foundation: £150,000 time ownership of the farm had already site, repair an ancillary structure as well SPAB: £5,000 been separated from Wolfeton House. as various works to enable limited public Alice Ellen Cooper-Dean Charitable access to the Riding House. Foundation: £18,000 The Wolfeton Riding House Trust was established in 1997 to acquire the freehold, restore the building and open it to the public for educational purposes. The Trust undertook holding repairs and commenced a long search for sources of funding. A feasibility study was completed in 2006

It is thought to be the earliest surviving Riding House in England …

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The Manse 174 TRUST Former Duncairn Presbyterian Church 160 Antrim Road, North Belfast

PDG: £7,777 disbursed June 2014

Professional Team Architect: Doherty Architects, Belfast Structural Engineer: MWL Consulting, Belfast Quantity Surveyor: Michael McEvoy MRICS, Belfast Main Contractor: Felix O’Hare Ltd, Newry

The 174 Trust has existed since 1983 The £3.5 million facility provides a 170 Total investment: £3.6 million to promote reconciliation between seat theatre/performance area, three art communities in Belfast, helping them to studios, an exhibition area, a community Other Sources of Funding: identify and meet their needs by providing meeting room, conference rooms and a International Fund for Ireland: £1,700,000 Heritage Lottery Fund: £1,000,000 an inclusive, non-threatening and safe café/bistro. It provides a platform for local Northern Ireland Environmental environment for individuals and groups to and international artists to showcase their Agency: £500,000 be involved in a wide range of life enriching work and give the community access to Department for Social activities where all are valued equally. arts and culture of the highest quality. Development: £230,000 Garfield Weston Foundation: £100,000 Biffa Award: £50,000 The church and surrounding buildings Phase II, the refurbishment of the Manse, were built in 1862 to the designs of W J Barr, required extensive work. Existing office who also designed the Ulster Hall and accommodation for the Trust has been Albert Clock. The former church had been upgraded, a new toilet block incorporated, and vacant for approximately 20 years before a link has been built to allow access through restoration commenced. Phase I has led the whole complex integrating with the wider to the opening of the Duncairn Centre scheme, together with additional meeting and for Culture & Arts within the main body of activity rooms and a crèche. An AHF Project the church, North Belfast’s first purpose- Development Grant helped to facilitate the built arts and culture shared space. development of this phase of works.

… for individuals and groups to be involved in a wide range of life enriching activities where all are valued equally.

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… it is intended that the project will play a central role in sustaining Shetland’s textile heritage …

Brough Lodge – Phase I BROUGH LODGE TRUST

Fetlar, Shetland Listed Category A

POG: £1,500 withdrawn March 2009 PAG: £2,000 disbursed November 2007 CBG: £5,555 disbursed February 2008 PDG: £3,830 disbursed November 2010 PDG: £9,600 offered March 2014

Professional Team through a linked educational programme. Built in 1820 on the summit of a low hill Architect: commanding the Ness of Brough, Brough AHF development funding allowed the Trust Groves-Raines Architects, Edinburgh Lodge is a castellated villa sited in a carefully to take a phased approach to the project; Structural Engineer: laid out, designed landscape centred on an the first stage of which – emergency works David Narro Associates, Glasgow Iron Age broch on which a contemporary to make the building structurally safe and Quantity Surveyor: observation tower was erected. It was wind and watertight – are now complete. Morham & Brotchie Ltd, Edinburgh constructed for Lerwick merchant and laird The project is expected to become a show- Main Contractor: Arthur Nicolson, who travelled throughout case development and an example of how Shetland Amenity Trust Europe during the early 1800s. Nicholson ecotourism can help similarly depopulated Total investment: £585,660 was probably influenced by the architecture areas in need of economic regeneration. he found in France, Switzerland and Italy, Other Sources of Funding: making Brough Lodge unique; Shetland has Historic Scotland: £293,141 no other building like it. It remained in the Shetland Islands Council: £160,664 family until acquired by the Brough Lodge Shetland Amenity Trust: £82,100 Highlands and Islands Enterprise: £14,636 Trust in 2007, but has been unoccupied Heritage Lottery Fund: £32,717 since 1988. Big Lottery Fund: £2,400

The Trust’s options appraisal concluded that the building would be viable as a centre for residential courses specialising in regional crafts, culture and music. In particular, it is intended that the project will play a central role in sustaining Shetland’s textile heritage

21 SCOTLAND

Saving Castle Roy has not only preserved an important part of Scotland’s heritage, but will help business in the region.

Castle Roy THE CASTLE ROY TRUST

Castle Roy is an 11th-century fortress built had collapsed many years previously Nethy Bridge, Highland by the Clan Comyn on a small glacial mound and livestock had caused significant Scheduled Ancient Monument; Cairngorms to the north of the modern village of Nethy damage to the base and remainder of the National Park Conservation Area Bridge. It is Scotland’s oldest masonry walls. In October 2012 a second phase of LOAN: £60,000 contracted July 2013 fortification. With its walls seven feet thick consolidation was completed to create and standing up to 25 feet high, the castle foundations under all the walls. Professional Team is a simple, irregular four-sided stronghold Addison Conservation, Roslin which has been largely unaltered over the In the last two years, funds have been centuries. The main architectural feature is spent on further foundation consolidation, Total investment: £351,235

a tower which still has a window with a lintel. stabilising the tower, land purchase to Other Sources of Funding: The main entrance archway is in the centre give unrestricted access and other small- Rural Development Contracts – of the north-east side and there appear scale activities to turn Castle Roy into a Rural Priorities: £231,235 to be latrines on the western side. visitor attraction for Nethy Bridge and the Historic Scotland: £70,000 surrounding area. Saving Castle Roy has Cairngorm National Park: £20,000 Donations: £30,000 The Castle Roy Charitable Trust has been not only preserved an important part of working to stabilise the walls since taking Scotland’s heritage, but will help business ownership of the castle in 1994. In 2011, in the region. a survey found that the tower was falling outwards and twisting slightly so urgent Work at Castle Roy is ongoing and it is repairs were carried out. Foundations were eventually intended to take away all plant created and braces put in place to stop any growth and rebuild the damaged areas further movement. The south-west corner of the walls and cap the tops.

22 Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow GLASGOW BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST Listed Category B PDG: £29,500 disbursed November 2012

Professional Team Main Contractor: CCG (Scotland) Ltd Architect: Page\Park Cost Consultant: nbm Structural Engineer: SKM Services Engineer: Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre, in repaired, with sensitive interventions to Harley Haddow Kelvingrove Park in the West End of Glasgow, make it safe and accessible for performers CDM Co-ordinator: was built in 1924 by Glasgow Corporation and audiences. Two small extensions, only CDM Scotland Public Parks Department. It is the only free- visible at the rear of the Bandstand, enabled Total investment: £2 million standing, theatre-style bandstand with oval the introduction of a platform lift to stage amphitheatre remaining in Scotland and is level and additional services. Improvements Other Sources of Funding: a well-known local landmark. The structure to the Amphitheatre included modifications Heritage Lottery Fund: £635,768 had become unsafe and was closed in the to the upper terracing to provide permanent Historic Scotland: £195,000 early 1990s. It has been on the Buildings concrete seating and a ramped area to Balance received from: Glasgow City Council (including at Risk Register for Scotland since 2004, with improve accessibility. Landfill Communities Fund) a risk level of ‘critical’. It remained in local Glasgow City Heritage Trust authority ownership with a long-running With the Amphitheatre’s terracing cleverly Hugh Fraser Foundation campaign by the Friends of Kelvingrove using the natural gradient of the land, the Sylvia Waddilove Foundation Park to bring it back into use. refurbished venue now has a slightly smaller Contributions raised by Glasgow Life seating capacity compared with up to 7,000 In 2012 a development programme was standing in its heyday! Re-opened by the agreed with a partnership between Glasgow Lord Provost of Glasgow in May 2014, the Building Preservation Trust, Glasgow City bandstand has been in frequent use hosting Council and the proposed end users, Glasgow cultural events for the Commonwealth Life. The existing fabric and features of Games as well as a successful series of the original structure were conserved and summer evening concerts.

The existing fabric and features of the original structure were conserved and repaired, with sensitive interventions to make it safe and accessible for performers and audiences.

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1048 Govan Road, Glasgow Listed Category A

OAG: £11,720 disbursed January 2009 LOAN: £125,000 contracted October 2013

Fairfield Shipbuilding Offices Professional Team GOVAN WORKSPACE Main Contractor: Govan Workspace Ltd Architect: Page\Park, Tom Sneddon Conservation Advisor: Robertson & McIntosh Cost Consultant: Gardiner & Theobald Structural Engineer: URS Services Engineer: Harley Haddow; Buro Happold CDM Co-ordinator: Gardiner & Theobald Built in 1891 in the French Renaissance After delays caused by a key contractor style to the design of John Keppie and going out of business, work was completed Total investment: £5.5 million extending 350 feet along Govan Road on two on the main restoration phase of the work storeys, the Fairfield Shipbuilding Offices in the summer of 2014. The new Fairfield Other Sources of Funding: were the centre of the shipbuilding industry Heritage Centre, telling the story of Glasgow City Council: £792,000 Historic Scotland: £1.1 million on the Clyde in its heyday. On either side of shipbuilding in Govan and the Clyde, uses Scottish Government Wider Role the central pedimented door is the figure the management offices, directors dining Fund: £250,000 of a workman, each standing on the prow room and main entrance and lobby. The European Regional Development of a ship, symbolising the shipbuilding and high-specification office suites are created Fund: £1.5 million engineering sides of the business. The from parts of the counting house on the Heritage Lottery Fund: £872,000 Govan Workspace Ltd: £1.1 million building was considered to be seriously ground floor, as well as the drawing offices at risk and boarded up in 2004. An options on the first floor, which now features a appraisal identified a mix of heritage centre mezzanine level. The boardroom is also and office accommodation as offering the available for private hire. most realistic end use for the building, at an estimated cost of nearly £5 million. The Heritage Centre, which is staffed by Govan Workspace purchased the building volunteers, opened its doors to the public from Clydeport plc for £200,000 and work in July 2014 as part of the Commonwealth started on site in March 2009 on a £1.4 Games-related Wee Doors Open Days million emergency repairs contract, funded events, and is now open five afternoons chiefly by Historic Scotland and Glasgow a week, while the first tenants are now City Council. moving into the office spaces.

… the Fairfield Shipbuilding Offices were the centre of the shipbuilding industry on the Clyde in its heyday.

24 This mixture of creative enterprise supports the overall vision for the Estate, to establish a vibrant cultural centre supporting local and national creativity …

Haining House – Phase I THE HAINING CHARITABLE TRUST

Selkirk, Scottish Borders Listed Category

OAG: £15,000 disbursed March 2011 LOAN: £350,000 withdrawn January 2012 PDG: £22,000 disbursed February 2013

Professional Team Project Coordinator: Scottish Historic Buildings Trust The Haining is a Palladian mansion The first phase of this long-term project Architect: set in 160 acres on the edge of Selkirk. was to convert the former stables and Lee Boyd, Edinburgh Constructed in 1795 and considerably coach house, which form an ‘L’ shape Structural Engineer: remodelled in 1820, it has a terrace around an existing courtyard, to create David Narro Associates, Edinburgh looking out over Haining Loch with a row flexible studio workshops. The ten of marble statues by Antonio Canova. The archways of the coach house are still Total investment: £948,726 surrounding parkland was laid out in the the most important feature of the historic Other Sources of Funding: late-18th and early-19th centuries. The façade and in order to enclose the spaces, Historic Scotland: £37,494 Estate also includes a Category A-listed new glazed screens were inserted behind ERDF: £352,632 stable block and coach house, a deer larder the existing stone arches, leaving the Scottish Borders Council: £10,000 and wolf and bear cages. The Estate was original features uncompromised by Creative Scotland: £50,000 bequeathed to the Trust by Andrew Nimmo- modern intervention. Other Charitable Trusts: £35,506 Public Appeal: £10,288 Smith to be used for ‘the advancement Trusts own reserves: £445,000 of education, arts, heritage and culture to The workshops have already attracted benefit the people of Selkirkshire and the a number of creative artists including a wider public’. The Haining Charitable Trust, costume designer, photographer, painter and assisted by the Scottish Historic Buildings weaver with interest shown from a dance Trust, have embarked on a long-term troupe and a glass blower. This mixture of project to revitalise the house, grounds creative enterprise supports the overall vision and outbuildings. for the Estate, to establish a vibrant cultural centre supporting local and national creativity, in keeping with the terms of Andrew Nimmo-Smith’s will.

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25 Braehead Beith, North Ayrshire Beith Outstanding Conservation Area

HERITAGE BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST OAG: £3,000 disbursed July 2013

Professional Team Project Manager: Robert MacCallum Valuer: D M Hall Chartered Surveyors

Total investment: £126,000

Other Sources of Funding: Trust’s own resources

The building is a one-and-a-half-storey The main walls were structurally sound cottage of sandstone with ashlar to the although the floors had rotted and fallen façade and rubble elsewhere, constructed through. The roof was in poor condition and in around 1858. It has a pitched slate roof letting in the elements. The Trust had been with stone end stacks and two modern trying to acquire the building for ten years dormers. It was originally a police house and eventually managed to purchase it for £4,000. It was originally a police The AHF grant enabled the Trust to establish house with two small costs for re-use as a residential property. jail cells to the rear. It has now been fully restored and sold as a three-bedroom house with a small rear with two small jail cells to the rear. Since the courtyard and off-street parking. previous owner died in 2000, the property had gradually fallen into a state of disrepair, becoming a blight on the otherwise well- kept Beith Outstanding Conservation Area which contains other buildings already restored by the Trust.

26 Penicuik House PENICUIK HOUSE PRESERVATION TRUST

Penicuik, Midlothian Listed Category A; Scheduled Ancient Monument

FSG: £5,000 disbursed November 2003 POG: £14,524 disbursed March 2007 LOAN: £500,000 contracted May 2008

Professional Team Architects: Simpson & Brown, Edinburgh Penicuik House, built between 1761–69, was then erected and repairs undertaken Quantity Surveyors: is the finest and most influential example of to the main fabric of the building. This initially Morham & Brotchie, Edinburgh Palladian architecture in Scotland. Designed focused on the western service range, which Structural Engineers: by Sir John Clerk, it sits at the centre of an was adapted to provide workshop facilities Wren & Bell, Edinburgh important landscape containing a number for the Scottish Lime Centre Trust to run CDM Coordinator: of bridges, eye catchers and monuments. training courses on the use of traditional Stephen Newsom, Aberdour, Fife The house was gutted by fire in 1899 and building techniques and materials. A number Landscape Architect: has stood as a ruin ever since. of public open days were also organised. Peter McGowan Associates, Edinburgh M&E Engineers: The Penicuik House Preservation Trust, The ruin is now stable and there is a new Irons Foulner Consulting, Edinburgh along with the Scottish Lime Centre Trust and dedicated public entrance to the Estate and Main Contractor: Graeme Brown Stonemasons, has delivered a car park. The converted service range Graeme Brown Stonemasons, East Linton, East Lothian a programme of repairs over six years to provides a base from which the newly- consolidate the ruin, providing both training established Estate Ranger Service will operate Contractor (Access & Car park): T&N Gilmartin, Cupar, Fife and educational benefits. Work was initially and also contains interpretative material on undertaken from a crane as dangerous the house and the wider landscape. It was Total Investment: £4 million overhanging masonry was removed under officially opened in September 2014 by archaeological supervision. Scaffold HRH the Duke of Gloucester. Other Sources of Funding: Heritage Lottery Fund: £1,208,161 Historic Scotland: £1,130,000 Scottish Natural Heritage: £28,000 ERDF Tyne Esk Leader: £11,931 Other Trusts/donations: £873,321

… it sits at the centre of an important landscape containing a number of bridges, eye catchers and monuments.

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Lochend, Highland Listed Category B

OAG: £3,000 disbursed April 2011 PDG: £16,000 disbursed December 2012

Bona Lighthouse Professional Team THE VIVAT TRUST Architect: Tom Duff and Ian Fraser, LDN Architects, Forres Structural Engineer: AF Cruden, Inverness Quantity Surveyor: Graeme Lyon, Torrance Partnership, Inverness Main Contractor: Simpson Builders, Beauly, Nr Inverness

Total investment: £504,000

Other Sources of Funding: Attributed to Scotland’s foremost engineer, The building sits in an attractive location at Scottish Canals: £338,000 Historic Scotland: £147,000 Thomas Telford, who built the Caledonian the head of Loch Ness and has two adjacent Canal, Bona Lighthouse is believed to have walled gardens, but can only be reached been completed in 1815 and may originally via an unmade private road. have been planned as a toll house. Located within an octagonal, two-storey, white The Vivat Trust undertook an options harled tower attached to a single-storey appraisal study which demonstrated that the dwellinghouse, at one time it was the Lighthouse was suitable for holiday letting smallest manned lighthouse in the UK. purposes. Further development funding was The original steady white light shone from offered toward professional fees and the a lantern in a corbell oriel window in the employment of a project organiser to secure upper storey, guiding craft between the capital funding. The final scheme has seen Canal and Loch Ness. It remained as a both the Lighthouse and adjacent stable domestic property when it ceased operation building sensitively restored into two holiday as a lighthouse, but stood empty for around letting properties with the most spectacular 15 years before falling into disrepair. views of Loch Ness.

The original steady white light shone from a lantern in a corbell oriel window in the upper storey, guiding craft between the Canal and Loch Ness.

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It has recently been voted Wales’ most treasured landmark as part of a campaign run by National Trust Wales.

Penarth Pier Pavilion PENARTH ARTS AND CRAFTS LTD

The Esplanade, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan Listed Grade II; Penarth Seafront Conservation Area

OAG: £7,500 disbursed August 2010 PDG: £8,000 disbursed February 2011 CSG: £5,000 disbursed December 2012

Professional Team Penarth Pier was constructed in cast iron would be suitable for use as a multi-purpose Architect: and timber for the Penarth Promenade entertainment venue and a long lease Purcell UK, Cardiff and Landing Company in 1894, and is an was subsequently negotiated with Vale of Quantity Surveyor: iconic structure on the South Wales coast. Glamorgan Council. With the assistance of Chandlers KBS, Cardiff The Art Deco Pier Pavilion was added in further AHF grant funding, the organisation Main Contractor: 1929 and this became a popular venue for was able to develop the scheme before all R & M Williams, Cardiff dances and entertainment. It is an early funders had committed. The Pavilion is now Total investment: £4.2 million cast-in-situ reinforced concrete building in a multi-functional social enterprise housing symmetrical Indian/Moghul style, designed a gallery, cinema, café and restaurant. It has Other Sources of Funding: by M F Edwards. The building has semi- recently been voted Wales’ most treasured Vale of Glamorgan Council: £800,000 circular ends contining the entrance foyer landmark as part of a campaign run by Heritage Lottery Fund: £1,685,000 and rear solarium, and square towers with National Trust Wales. Welsh Assembly Government: £470,000 deeply pinnacled roofs at each corner. The Pier was restored in 1998, along with the exterior of the Pavilion, but a long-term lack of use meant that the interior required complete refurbishment.

Penarth Arts and Crafts, which had already converted a former cinema in the area into the Oriel Washington Gallery, became interested in restoring the Pavilion. An options appraisal demonstrated that it

29 Wymering Manor (p.39) PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT

It is always difficult to single out any of the projects under development when writing the introduction to this section, because without exception each KEY is notable for the commitment of the people involved and the impact it is Many projects receive several different AHF grants and loans. likely to have on its community if ultimately successful. This is as true for These are abbreviated as follows: a building in a city centre as one in an isolated rural location – the numbers FSG Feasibility Study Grant may be different, but the impact will be just as meaningful. OAG Options Appraisal Grant CBG Capacity Building Grant This year’s Annual Review has as varied Options Appraisal Grant. Wymering dates PAG Project Administration Grant a range of projects as ever, both in terms back to 1581 whilst in complete contrast POG Project Organiser Grant of building type and the groups involved. the AHF offered a grant this year for one PDG Project Development Grant Uses too are very diverse – a theatre of the most modern buildings we have ever RPDG Refundable Project company in a former police station (The supported, the Grade A listed St Peter’s Development Grant Old Nick in Gainsborough), a bunkhouse College and Seminary in Cardross, Scotland, CSG Cold Spots Grant in a former sail-making works in Portsoy, a Brutalist masterpiece built in 1966, where CFG Challenge Fund Grant Scotland, a community arts use for a arts group NVA are working hard to save railway goods shed in Llanelli, South Wales, this ‘building of world significance’. Grant and loan information is as at the and an education and research centre in end of the financial year (31 March 2014). a redundant Methodist church and Manse An increased number of projects under Where a grant or loan offer is shown as in Portadown, Northern Ireland. All are development this year is encouraging, ‘withdrawn’, this does not necessarily using AHF funding and other support and while it is inevitable that some will fall mean that the project is not proceeding. to test their business plans as thoroughly by the wayside, it is promising to see that The applicant may have been able to as possible, recognising that long-term so much progress has been made on many go ahead without it or the nature of the financial sustainability is as important as of these over the last 12 months, and we project may have changed and a new application submitted. the structural repairs to the building. look forward to some forming part of the Completed Projects section in next Portadown is one of the projects funded year’s Annual Review. under the Acquisition Grants scheme for buildings at risk in Northern Ireland, which the AHF administers on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency. Three grants were distributed through this important programme during 2013–14: £125,000 to the Inner City Trust for 31–33 Shipquay Street, Derry; £125,000 to Culturlann for Great James Street, Derry; and, as already mentioned, £100,000 to Portadown 2000 for the Manse and Methodist Church, Portadown. All three projects are progressing well and are playing a major part in the regeneration of their areas.

Featured on the facing page is the Grade II* listed Wymering Manor in Portsmouth, where a community group, led by local MP Penny Mordaunt, is campaigning to save the building and trying to establish viable new uses for it, with the help of an AHF

RIGHT: Cleveland Baths (p.40)

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2 Youthscape 2 Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust Bute Mills Spital Cemetery Chapel 3

Guildford Street, Luton, Bedfordshire Chesterfield, Derbyshire Plaiters Lee Conservation Area Listed Grade II PDG: £6,000 offered December 2013 CSG: £5,385 disbursed February 2014

Youthscape is a charity devoted to The building, which comprises two supporting the emotional and physical former mortuary chapels, is located wellbeing of young people. Since its in the centre of an operational cemetery. formation it has trebled in size and now The chapels were built in 1857 of local needs more space and facilities. Bute Mills sandstone in a simple decorated style EASTERN REGION was built in 1910 as a steam flour mill. It is with two tall gables supporting small unlisted but one of the most recognisable broach and obelisk-like spires, and a roof buildings in Luton’s Conservation Area, of fishtail and plain clay tiles. The larger adjacent to the ‘gateway’ into the town chapel was for Anglican worshippers being developed by the council. It is and the smaller one for Nonconformists. built of red brick, on four storeys, with The Trust undertook an options appraisal Colchester & North East Essex 1 a distinctive iron water tank, and is a rare to find a sustainable long-term use Building Preservation Trust survivor of Luton’s built heritage owing alongside an established friends group. Former Church to wholesale redevelopment of the town The study found that the proposed end of Burch St Peter centre in the 1960s. It was refurbished use involved a considerable conservation as light industrial/office accommodation, deficit and the Trust is, therefore, but since the departure of the last tenant considering its future strategy. School Hill, Birch, Essex four years ago it has lain empty. The Listed Grade II; Birch Conservation Area charity has been offered a grant to PVG: £3,000 disbursed February 2014 examine the building as a suitable base Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire 4 for its activities, and as accommodation The Old King’s Head St Peter’s is a large parish church built for satellite organisations offering in 1850 and designed by the renowned complementary services. Kirton, Boston, Lincolnshire church architect, S S Teulon. It became Listed Grade II; Kirton Conservation Area redundant over 20 years ago when the congregation moved to a smaller parish PVG: £3,000 disbursed January 2014 church. The Birch Spire Arts Trust was formed in 2001 and sought to establish an The former Old King’s Head is located arts centre with AHF assistance. However in Kirton, a village three miles outside this scheme was unable to move forward Boston. It probably dates from the 16th and the building remained vacant. The century, and is built in the Fen Artisan current applicant has been offered an AHF mannerist style. It is now a private Project Viability Grant to look at residential residence. The owners have been trying accommodation, and from this study a to sell the building for two years and private individual was identified to take the 4 Boston Borough Council, concerned restoration forward using his own funds. about structural movement and collapse The church authorities have resisted what of an outbuilding, has funded a condition is effectively the best and only option, and 4 report. The Trust was identified as the the decision for demolition now rests with best means of finding a long-term, viable the Secretary of State, who may convene solution, and its study identified a mix a Public Inquiry. of residential and commercial use. EASTERN REGION • EAST MIDLANDS

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Gainsborough Community Theatre Old Nick Theatre 5 6 Spring Gardens, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire Listed Grade II; Britannia Works Sudbury Gasworks Restoration Trust Torr Vale Mill Preservation Trust 7 Conservation Area The Old Gasworks 6 Torr Vale Mill CSG: £4,225 offered February 2014 School Lane, Sudbury, Derbyshire New Mills, High Peak, Derbyshire The Old Nick Theatre is a former police Listed Grade II; Sudbury Listed Grade II*; New Mills station and magistrates court, dating from Conservation Area Conservation Area the mid-19th century. It is distinctively constructed in white brick with bands of CSG: £5,000 offered March 2014 CSG: £10,000 offered January 2014 red brick, a hipped Welsh slate roof, arcaded bays and round-headed windows. The Old Gasworks was built in 1874 Torr Vale is a complex of mill buildings In 1979, Douglas Parkinson bought the and is attributed to George Devey, who sited on a rocky outcrop within the building and allowed the Gainsborough is noted for his work on country houses gorge of the River Goyt in New Mills, Theatre Company to convert the former and their estates. He became involved Derbyshire. The site comprises the magistrates court room to a small, by being employed at Sudbury by the 6th remarkably complete survival of the flexible performance space. Side rooms Lord Vernon to design some new estate late-18th century water-powered cotton were adapted for use as a bar, kitchen, buildings and carry out alterations. The spinning mill and later additions and workshops and rehearsal rooms. When Gasworks manufactured gas from coal, alterations which reflect the development Mr Parkinson died in 1993, he bequeathed which was brought from a mine that of the industry over time. It was originally the whole building to the Theatre Club. the family owned in Poynton, Cheshire, powered by two waterwheels and altered Although the main building is large, its to supply the Hall and village. Sudbury’s in the 1850s to accommodate a steam original function as a police station with gasworks is one of the smallest and engine. The river weir, sluices and cells means that it is mostly divided into earliest examples of a private gasworks. water channels are still present, as small rooms. A lot of the building is It is a single-storey building in red brick are ancillary buildings. The mill was in presently unused. The project will build with orange brick diapering work and cotton production until 2000, the longest on existing theatre uses to develop ‘The sandstone dressings with distinctive continuous period in the UK. The site Theatre of the Law’ and make full use Flemish gables. Important surviving will be developed to create spaces for of the former police station, cells and features include the ironwork in the roof small businesses in the energy, creative exercise yards. The grant will be used to and the former retort house. Widespread and high-tech industries, and it is explore the ideas the group has to engage community support has resulted in the envisaged that Torr Vale Mill will become with schools to offer learning opportunities formation of the Trust, and the study will an exemplar for sustainable energy on the history of the police and the courts, explore a mix of end uses including production. There will be a community and in theatre workshops, costume conference and seminar rooms for hire, events space, work and exhibition space and set design. and heritage exhibitions. for the expanding local arts community, and a café/restaurant area to act as a further attraction. The Trust is intending 5 to submit a major bid to the HLF Heritage Enterprise scheme. EAST MIDLANDS EAST 7

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1 Pitzhanger Manor Trust 3 Hoxton Hall 1 Pitzhanger Manor 130 Hoxton Lane, Hoxton Listed Grade II*; Hoxton Conservation Area Old Library Arts Centre Acton 2 Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, Ealing PDG: £10,000 offered September 2013 Former Public Library Listed Grade I; Ealing Green Conservation Area Hoxton Hall was built as a music hall and High Street, Acton PDG: £10,000 offered September 2013 is a rare survivor of this type of building. Listed Grade II; Acton Town Centre It has a high stage and two tiers of iron- Conservation Area Pitzhanger Manor was built in 1770 as railed galleries on three sides, supported a private residence, to the designs of on cast iron columns surrounding the PVG: £3,000 offered November 2013 George Dance. It was purchased in 1800 central space designed for a standing by Sir John Soane, celebrated architect audience. Opened in 1863, its reputation Acton Library was designed in the early and, at that time, Surveyor to the Bank led to its closure within a few years. The 1900s by Maurice Bingham Adams, built of England. He intended it for use as his Quaker Community took ownership and on two storeys of red brick with Portland family residence and remodelled the it was subsequently used as a temperance stone detail in the English renaissance house extensively, creating interiors which hall, retaining its internal layout, with style. As well as the library areas, it made full use of light and space, and an an emphasis latterly on education and contains a lecture room, offices, staff advertisement for his architectural style. community support. The extended building room, two kitchens and toilet facilities. Various additions were made in the 1840s is currently a community resource, It closed in spring 2014 when the collection and again in 1901, and a library (now art promoting artistic activity, while the moved to the newly refurbished Town gallery) was added in 1939. The house, former music hall is in demand for Hall. The Trust has been formed to acquire which is of international significance, sits filming and commercial events. The top and convert the building for community within the larger Walpole Park, and the balcony has not been used since 1977, use. It has been offered a Project Viability London Borough of Ealing, which currently and urgent work is required, in particular Grant to undertake detailed research into owns it, wishes to pass the house on to to increase the building’s capacity and appropriate options for re-use, looking at the Trust. The project will restore Soane’s make it more financially viable. An AHF the local area to establish what the most architectural vision, reveal Pitzhanger grant has been offered to help pay for profitable ventures are and whether or Manor’s rich history, make the building professional work to assess the fabric. not they work with the Trust’s ethos. more accessible and improve visitor facilities to create a world-class heritage attraction. The AHF grant has funded a project organiser.

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4 North of England Civic Trust 5 Ushaw College Farm

Esh, County Durham Listed Grade II* PVG: £2,975 disbursed December 2013

Part of a planned farm, constructed 1851–52 in Gothic style to designs by Joseph Hansom, it served the nearby Ushaw College, a Roman Catholic seminary founded in 1808. Exploiting the gradient, the farm combines references to the Gothic aesthetics of the college with the practical benefits of bank barns, NORTH EAST affording level access to two of its three 5 floors, making this an exceptional agricultural building in both its concept and as a model of improvement. A review Tyne and Wear Building 6 of its significance and vulnerability Preservation Trust Berwick Community Trust 4 resulted in it being added to the English Heritage ‘Heritage at Risk’ register in Buddle Arts Centre 55 Hide Hill 2013. The main building dominates the farmstead cluster of associated ancillary 258 Station Road, Wallsend Berwick-upon-Tweed barns, workshops and pigsties, of which Listed Grade II Berwick-upon-Tweed Conservation Area some are listed Grade II in their own right. PVG: £3,000 offered January 2014 PVG: £1,860 disbursed December 2013 Two attached side wings and a projecting central bay create an ‘E’ shaped plan. Built in 1876 as the Buddle Board Schools Originally a 17th-century coaching house, Many original internal features survive, in a Scottish baronial style, designed by this complex of buildings with its frontage including the dramatic cathedral-like J Johnstone in a competition for the of decorative stone columns, cornice, wooden barn roof. The Trust is working Wallsend School Board, and constructed ironwork and clock arch has been added with the Ushaw College Trustees to in red sandstone in an ‘E’ plan form, the to and altered over the years, notably by the develop plans for the site as a training school closed in 1977 and was used by addition of a rare and very early example centre for NECT’s Heritage Skills Initiative, a voluntary organisation as the Wallsend of a car showroom in the Edwardian era. which will also house independent craft Arts Centre. In 1981, the building The building is currently derelict and workshops, accommodation for residential transferred to North Tyneside Council and for sale on the open market, with extant courses and catering facilities. opened as the Buddle Arts Centre. In 2008, planning permission for demolition and despite a full programme and support a replacement building. The grant has from its local community, a need to re-wire enabled the Trust to establish the viability 5 and some structural defects meant the of their preferred option to acquire the building had to be vacated at short notice. building and adapt it to incorporate The Trust has been working with a steering

affordable housing on the upper floors, group of arts professionals to re-establish EAST NORTH with commercial space below. The former the building as a community, cultural and showroom is proposed to be converted to entrepreneurial hub. It will concentrate a new public walled courtyard. The Trust is on the arts, especially the performing arts, now working on more detailed designs and as a lack of affordable rehearsal space is in discussion with the current owner. in the city has been identified.

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Leigh Building Preservation Trust Leigh Spinners’ Mill 1

Park Lane, Leigh, Lancashire Listed Grade II* CSG: £5,000 offered December 2013 3 The project comprises a double cotton mill, the first built in 1913, with an extension added in 1926. It is claimed to be one of the North of England Civic Trust 3 last and finest mills remaining in the UK, and contains a complete but unrestored Warwick Bridge Corn Mill steam engine. There are three adjacent modern structures. Blocked gulleys and Warwick Bridge, Carlisle, Cumbria poor maintenance has led to the partial Listed Grade II* collapse of the roof. The Trust has agreed Merseyside Buildings 2 FSG: £7,000 disbursed October 2003 in principle to acquire the historic listed Preservation Trust CSG: £10,000 offered August 2012 structures and one modern extension Welsh Presbyterian Church PDG: £7,750 offered September 2013 for £1. It wishes to retain the existing PDG: £10,000 offered March 2014 manufacturing element whilst introducing a business and community enterprise Princes Road, Toxteth, Liverpool The Mill is three stories high with a slate centre, providing sports facilities, leisure Listed Grade II; Princes Road roof and is an unusually large example and cultural spaces, workspace, meeting Conservation Area of a water-powered corn mill. It was and conference facilities. OAG: £5,000 offered June 2013 substantially rebuilt in 1839, although part of the structure may be much older. Princes Road was created in 1846 as It is part of a complex, which includes a tree-lined boulevard linking the city the miller’s house, a bakery, barns and centre with Paxton’s Princes Park. It was stables. The milling machinery and tools flanked with grand terraces of housing, were in use until 1989. The possibility punctuated by a series of impressive of the Trust acquiring the Mill has arisen religious buildings including the Welsh again and the Cold Spots Grant has Presbyterian Church of 1867 by W & G enabled it to re-assess the viability of Audsley. The Church is High Victorian transforming it into an artisan bakery Gothic with nave, transepts and a tall tower and office spaces for the Trust. and spire. It is now in dire condition, the spire has been removed for safekeeping, roofs have fallen in and one of the gable 2 walls is at imminent risk of collapse. The City Council, with support from English Heritage, wishes to serve a Repairs Notice on the current owner and expects to acquire the building by statutory means and pass it to the Trust if the options 1 appraisal identifies a viable scheme. NORTH WEST

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The Reader Organisation 4 The Mansion House and Stable Block

Calderstones Park, South Liverpool Listed Grade II PDG: £10,000 offered June 2013

The organisation is a charity established 6 to promote shared reading as a practical way to develop good mental health, increased wellbeing and social inclusion. South Tynedale Railway 5 SOUTH EAST Having outgrown its current premises, Preservation Society it has been seeking more appropriate Station House accommodation. Calderstone Mansion House was constructed in 1828 at the The Railway Station, Alston, Cumbria centre of a 94-acre estate. This was owned Argos Hill Windmill Trust 6 Listed Grade II; Alston Conservation Area for many years by the shipping magnate, Charles MacIver, who established PVG: £3,000 disbursed November 2013 Argos Hill Windmill the Liverpool-based Cunard Line as CSG: £5,000 offered February 2014 the foremost transatlantic steamship Argos Lane, Argos Hill, Kent operator. The house is built of stone with Built in the grand style from stone and Listed Grade II* a slate roof, on two storeys, with 10 bays slate around 1850 the Station House CSG: £2,386 offered December 2012 and a stable block, of red sandstone, contained a ticket office, waiting rooms CFG: £23,000 offered March 2014 on two storeys. The park and buildings and a cafe. It was once the terminus of the are currently owned by Liverpool City Newcastle and Carlisle Railway branch Argos Hill Windmill is one of only 50 Council. Following a competitive tender from Haltwhistle to Alston. British Rail surviving post-mills in the UK, with process, the Reader Organisation was able closed the line in 1976. It was then leased remarkably intact internal machinery. to demonstrate that it could make full use to the Railway Preservation Society, This hilltop location has long been occupied of the premises without the need for major before it acquired the freehold in 2012. by a mill, the earliest recorded in 1656, adaption. It intends to acquire the Mansion It proposes to alter the building from its although the current structure dates from House for use as office accommodation, current configuration of single domestic 1835 and remained in use until the 1920s. also providing flexible space for reading dwelling, shop and storage into the The mill body, clad in weatherboarding, groups, events, conference and training Station Master’s house, volunteers’ has three floors and sits on a single-storey rooms, community enterprise studios accommodation, ticket office, shop and brick roundhouse. Although restored in and a library. The applicant has received Railway Manager’s office. A Project 1990, further deterioration has led to the an AHF grant so that it can undertake Viability Grant tested the financial model need for significant work to renew the development work in advance of a formal and a Cold Spots Grant has allowed further weatherboarding and repair some of HLF Stage 1 application. professional input into the design scheme. the structural timbers. Wealden District Council has leased the mill to the Trust which was set up in 2010 to restore it and 5 open it as a visitor attraction. It plans a five-phase programme of repairs and restoration work. The first-phase work has made the structure safe through the installation of a steel frame. The

remaining phases will make the mill EAST • SOUTH WEST NORTH weatherproof and structurally sound, finally restoring it to working order. The Trust has been offered an Industrial Cold Spots Grant to undertake detailed drawings and specifications and a Challenge Fund Grant offer will add substantial funding to the capital phase of works.

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National Trust 1 Hinemihi

Clandon House, Surrey Listed Grade II PVG: £2,900 offered June 2013

Clandon Park is an 18th-century Palladian mansion in West Clandon just outside Guildford. It has been a National Trust property since 1956. Hinemihi is a Maori Meeting House which was originally situated near Lake Tarawera in New Zealand and provided shelter to the people of Te Wairoa village during the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886. The building was covered in ash and surrounded by volcanic debris, but its occupants survived. It remained half buried until 1892 when Lord Onslow, then Governor General of New 4 Zealand, had it removed and shipped to Clandon Park, his residence in England. Due to disrepair the building is not Providence Chapel Charlwood Trust currently used as part of Clandon Park’s Providence Chapel 4 visitor experience; however an expatriate community have formed a friends group Charlwood, Surrey and have worked closely with the National Listed Grade II* Trust to find a fundable restoration scheme. The project viability report will PVG: £3,000 offered October 2013 explore whether the building can function as a standalone visitor attraction, wedding Originally constructed in 1797 as an venue and cultural learning centre. officers’ mess for Horsham Barracks, housing troops assembled against the 2 threat of a Napoleonic invasion, the Open Hand Open Space 2 building was moved to Charlwood in 1815 to be re-used as a Nonconformist chapel. Oxford Preservation Trust The Keep 3 Timber-framed and weather-boarded, LMS Swingbridge with a hipped slate roof and fronted by 571 Oxford Road, Reading a seven-bay veranda, it has a distinctive Listed Grade II Rewley Road, Oxford New England appearance, described PVG: £2,900 offered October 2013 Scheduled Ancient Monument by Pevsner as ‘startling’ for Surrey. Internally, the plain and simple hall has CSG: £2,900 offered February 2014 The Keep was built as a secure armoury, two adjoining vestries, one of which serves guardhouse and store for Brock Barracks, as a kitchen. Following a decision by its The structure is a disused railway bridge, Oxford Road, in 1877. One of only 10 Baptist Trust owners to close the Chapel, designed to swing open to allow water surviving examples, it was part of the it was put on the market, generating local traffic to pass. Built in 1850–51 and Cardwell reforms which distributed concern about its future. Owing to a partially reconstructed in 1890, it is the barracks around the county to encourage requirement to continue to allow burials only swingbridge designed by Robert local connections and assist recruitment. and limited scope for conversion, there Stephenson to retain most of its original The four-storey building, in a Fortress were no serious offers. The newly formed structure and is one of only two scheduled Tudor Gothic Revival style, built in red Providence Chapel Charlwood Trust, set swingbridges in England. It closed to brick with terracotta banding and stone up by local people to secure the building passenger trains in 1951 and goods traffic dressings, is a significant landmark. for the community, was able to acquire in 1984. The AHF would not normally offer Open Hand Open Space has occupied the the building for £1. It has received an AHF funding to structures other than buildings building since the 1980s, letting space grant to examine financial viability. capable of viable re-use, but considered as artists’ studios and providing a venue this as an exceptional case, as it features for arts events and exhibitions. It has on the English Heritage national ‘At Risk’ been offered a grant to help pave the way Register, and the Trust’s proposal to for an Asset Transfer of The Keep from restore the bridge and mechanism would the freeholder, Reading Borough Council. enable it to be operational once more, thereby providing a financially viable business model. The Trust is one of the 1 longest-established building preservation trusts with a track record of successful delivery, including the major Oxford Castle project which it undertook with a commercial partner. 3 SOUTH EAST

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Old Wymering Lane, Wymering, Portsmouth, Hampshire SOUTH WEST Listed Grade II*; Old Wymering Conservation Area OAG: £7,500 offered June 2013

The current house was constructed in Axminster Heritage 6 1581 on the site of a former substantial Thomas Whitty House dwelling for the Bruning family. Surviving features indicate that it was built to Silver Street, Axminster, Devon impress and illustrate the importance Listed Grade II of the owners. Additions were made following acquisition by the Reverend LOAN: £25,000 withdrawn October 2013 Nugee in 1858. The Wymering Garden CSG: £8,030 offered January 2014 Estate grew up around the house in the 1930s and is now a suburb of Portsmouth. Thomas Whitty House is an 18th-century Plans to demolish the building in 1959 building which was occupied by the were thwarted by local campaigning, Axminster Carpet Factory between 1755 leading to the building’s acquisition by the and 1835. There are further buildings at local authority. It was subsequently let to the rear of the site arranged around a the Youth Hostels Association until 2006 courtyard, including the original dye house. when there was a partial collapse. The The entire site has been unoccupied for building has remained empty since then at least 30 years. The Trust proposes to and has been something of a cause create a site at the heart of the community, celebre. Despite several commercial incorporating the town museum and schemes being suggested, there has the tourist information centre, together been no immediate or obvious end use. Its with a small shop, community space and location counts against it, and community small offices for start-up businesses. The use appears to a certain extent inevitable. museum will celebrate Axminster’s role in Local MP, Penny Mordaunt, chairs the the carpet industry, and will provide a wide 7 Trust, and an options appraisal report range of training courses on the various should demonstrate that the building can processes involved. A Cold Spots Grant support a range of community uses. will help facilitate the plans. Beckery Island Regeneration Trust Baily’s West 7 6 Beckery Old Road, Glastonbury, Somerset Listed Grade II CSG: £7,000 offered April 2013

There have been tanneries on this site since the middle ages, when the Abbots of Glastonbury provided a mill stream as a source of power. Built between 1867 and 1896 Baily’s West comprises an office and a long tanning and manufacturing range, several drying sheds and a yard to the rear. It was part of the group known as Baily’s Factory and the Morland Sheepskin Works which closed in 1992. In 2001, the Regional Development Agency acquired the main body of the redundant site for WEST • SOUTH EAST SOUTH development, but the Beckery Island Regeneration Trust was established to find a new use for the historic buildings. The AHF grant has allowed the Trust to develop its business plan to examine a mixed use, incorporating industrial space, offices, student accommodation and an interpretation centre.

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Clevedon Pier and Heritage Trust Clevedon Pier 1

Clevedon, North West Somerset Listed Grade I; Clevedon Conservation Area 2 LOAN: £800,000 offered June 2013

Clevedon Pier was the UK’s ‘Pier of the Cleveland Pools Trust 2 Year’ in 2013 and is the only intact Grade I listed pier in the country. It maintains Cleveland Baths a Victorian elegance and is located at the northern end of Clevedon seafront, Hampton Row, Bathwick, Bath overlooking the Bristol Channel and Listed Grade II*; Bath Conservation Area; opening 364 days a year. It is 980 feet in World Heritage Site length and has to withstand a tidal rise and OAG: £7,445 disbursed May 2006 3 fall of 46 feet twice daily. The Pier costs £1 PDG: £5,000 offered June 2013 million every decade to maintain, and the Trust is seeking to increase its revenue- One of the earliest examples of a 3 generating capability so that it may create ‘subscription pool’, built with private an annual surplus sufficient to meet these money for public use in 1815, the Pools costs. To achieve this, an AHF loan has are the only surviving Georgian lido in the been offered to help it develop a range country. The site comprises a crescent- of visitor facilities including a new visitor shaped pool with surrounding buildings centre with tearoom, community space, including the Superintendent’s house and observation deck and expanded gift area. changing rooms. A separate, secluded, ladies’ pool, was added when the site was refurbished in 1825 but this has now gone; 1 nevertheless, despite various alterations made in the 20th century, the main pool remains virtually untouched and the principal buildings are in reasonably good order, retaining the original doors and many fittings. In the 1970s a new sports centre with swimming baths opened nearby and as a result Cleveland Pools Creative Youth Network 3 were closed in 1985. The Trust’s study Old Police Headquarters proved that the creation of a water-based leisure facility for the whole community which retains the historic nature of the site Bristol is viable. It has continued to develop the Listed Grade II scheme, and has been awarded a Heritage PVG: £3,000 offered October 2013 Lottery Fund grant in the current year. The ‘Bridewell Island’ site is an iconic and historical triangular section of land constructed as a purpose-built administrative centre housing the city’s fire station, police headquarters and magistrates court built around a central courtyard in the centre of Bristol. The buildings became redundant over time and Creative Youth Network acquired the former fire station in 2011, restoring it as a base for its activities. Having tested viability with the help of an AHF grant, in early 2014 the organisation purchased the magistrates court which was in poor condition, having been empty since 1965, and the police station which was wind and water tight and in partial short-term use as an arts facility and creative centre. Creative Youth Network provides opportunities for young people from socially, financially and culturally disadvantaged areas to develop personal and creative skills, improving life chances and supporting reintegration into 2 education, family and social networks. SOUTH WEST

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Exeter Historic Buildings Trust 4 Transfer Shed

Exeter St David’s Station, Exeter, Devon Listed Grade II CSG: £10,000 disbursed November 2013 PDG: £11,980 offered March 2014

Built in 1852 as a shipment shed for broad and narrow gauge trains, the single-storey, 13-bay, symmetrical shed has an entablature and cornice all around. The sides are a round-arched arcade with stone keys and alternately blind and metal-framed, round-arched 6 windows. A rail track occupies one side of the interior, a wooden platform occupies the other. Network Rail is willing Friends of Trowbridge Museum 5 Hestercombe Gardens Trust 6 to pass on ownership of the building, Trowbridge Museum Hestercombe House using an asset transfer model. The Trust used an Industrial Cold Spots Grant to undertake an options appraisal, and Courtfield House, Polebarn Road, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton, Somerset is now developing the scheme with the Trowbridge, Wiltshire Listed Grade II*; Hestercombe offer of further funding. One possible Listed Grade II*; Polebarn Road Conservation Area Conservation Area use would focus on whether the building PDG: £10,000 offered September 2013 could be used to house a rare example PVG: £2,385 offered August 2013 of an early steam train. Alternative uses Hestercombe is situated on the southern include performance rehearsal space, Courtfield House is a mid-18th-century slope of the Quantock Hills near Taunton. of which there is a local shortage. large detached house, understood to The estate is rich in history and has have been built for a cloth merchant. been continuously inhabited since the The attached outbuilding, the Workshop, Saxon period. The Trust has managed is understood to have been used as a wool the site since 2003 and has continued to store. The site is in private ownership and restore the 18th-century landscape, the until recently has been used as a small Victorian terrace and the formal gardens. private school. The owner is now willing Hestercombe House dates from the to transfer ownership of the site to the early medieval period, although the only Friends of Trowbridge Museum, who remaining visible feature is an internal are working in partnership with stone arch. Major building work was Trowbridge Museum on a proposal to undertaken in 1720 by John Bampfylde relocate the existing museum to this site. and following acquisition in 1872 by It has been offered a grant to examine the 1st Viscount Portman, extensive 4 financial viability. modernisation and expansion took place. Shortly afterwards, the formal gardens were remodelled by Edwin Lutyens and 4 Gertrude Jekyll. The House was acquired from the Crown Estate by Somerset County Council in 1977 but has recently become vacant. An agreement has been reached that ownership will be passed to the Trust who wish to undertake a phased renovation of the house, opening up the principal rooms to the public and creating a multi-use facility to include WEST SOUTH a music school, art gallery, international centre for landscape studies and a heritage skills and a rural enterprise hub. An AHF grant has supported the employment of a project organiser and a fundraiser.

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Poltimore, Exeter, Devon Listed Grade II* Transition Town Totnes 3 OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2007 Birdwood House PDG: £20,000 disbursed October 2011 LOAN: £30,000 offered June 2013 44 High Street, Totnes, Devon Listed Grade II; Totnes Conservation Area Poltimore was built by Sir Coplestone PVG: £2,950 offered August 2013 Bampfylde in the 17th century. His ‘L’ shaped Tudor house now forms the rear 1 Birdwood House is an early-17th-century and east ranges of a large mansion that merchant’s house, still retaining the little has undergone considerable alteration and and great courts at the rear. The ‘Annexe’, expansion, mainly in the late-17th and 19th Making the Most of Martock 1 which this project centres around, is centuries when several principal rooms described in the statutory list description The Rope Walk were refurbished, and in 1908 when a new as ‘at rear of kitchen and connected by western range was added. The house was passage 3 storey warehouse’. The front of Parrett Works, Martock, Somerset the residence of the Lords Poltimore until the house was renewed in the 18th century, Listed Grade II the 1920s. During the Second World War when it was home to William Payne, Mayor it became a hospital, and was last used as CSG: £2,950 disbursed January 2014 in 1707 and 1728, and then Dr Roger a private nursing home. When this closed CSG: £5,000 offered March 2014 Birdwood, Mayor in 1781, 1789 and 1795. in the 1980s, Poltimore endured years of The building is owned by South Hams savage vandalism and looting. The Trust The Rope Walk is a long, single-storey District Council, and held by the Town acquired the building in 2000 and proposes structure, with a roof of double roman Council on a long lease. Transition Town to transform the house into a centre for clay single lap tiles. Two external walls Totnes has been working closely with the creativity, business innovation, education are built of stone whilst the other sides Town Council on an economic strategy for and training. There are also planned are open. An engineering works was the town. This site has been identified as partnerships with other organisations established on the site in 1855. The site a business incubator centre. The grant will and social enterprises, and it is envisaged and group of buildings is of considerable help pay for market research and business that Poltimore will become part of the historic and archaeological interest, planning, to determine financial viability. global ‘hub’ network, bringing together forming part of the larger Parrett Works, entrepreneurs and professionals. English which contains a number of listed Heritage has offered £500,000 to make structures. Making the Most of Martock the building watertight, and an AHF has had a direct interest in the heritage, development loan will allow the project preservation and development of the site to move forward. for some years and completed a project viability report in 2014 which indicated that the Rope Walk had the potential to 1 become an arts and crafts light industrial facility, with interpretation areas, open studio events and a modest educational programme. Further funding has allowed the next piece of development work to be undertaken as part of that process. 2 SOUTH WEST

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Longford’s Mill, Minchinhampton, Stroud, Gloucestershire Listed Grade II*; Longford’s Mill Conservation Area CSG: £7,395 disbursed December 2013 4

There has been a mill on the site since the middle ages and Longford’s Mill dates 6 from around 1760. A stone-built, four- storey, 10-bay structure, constructed as an ‘estate mill’, it was originally required for all kinds of milling depending on the season. However, its most profitable use was as a textile mill and it supplied high quality cloth to the East India Company and for military use. The Mill closed in 6 1990 and the surrounding site has been redeveloped as housing, although the developer has maintained the Mill, carrying WEST MIDLANDS out exterior and stonework repairs. The developer’s plans to convert it into office accommodation proved uneconomic. The Shrewsbury and 6 A 125-year lease at a peppercorn rent has Newport Canals Trust therefore been offered to the Trust and Charterhouse Coventry 5 Wappenshall Warehouse an AHF Industrial Cold Spots Grant Preservation Trust allowed the funding of an options appraisal and Wharf study, which recommended the re-use of The Charterhouse the Mill as a textile centre, demonstrating Wappenshall, Telford, Shropshire the manufacture of woollen clothing in London Road, Coventry Listed Grade II Listed Grade I; London Road the former industrial ‘Five Valleys’ area LOAN: £395,000 withdrawn February 2009 Conservation Area around Stroud. Further development OAG: £7,500 disbursed March 2012 work is now being undertaken in advance OAG: £7,500 disbursed June 2013 PDG: £7,500 disbursed March 2014 of funding applications. PDG: £12,000 offered December 2013 CSG: £5,000 offered November 2013

The Charterhouse incorporates all that In 1797 the tub boat canal network in remains of the Carthusian Priory of St Telford was extended to Shrewsbury Anne, founded in 1381 by William Lord and in 1835 a new section of canal was Zouche of Harringworth on a 14-acre site. constructed from Wappenshall to the main The surviving range is believed to have Shropshire Union Canal in Staffordshire, been the Prior’s cell and the monks’ connecting the Wharf to the national refectory. It is constructed of local network. A two-storey warehouse was sandstone, with a timber-framed upper constructed at this time, followed by a storey of 16th-century construction. The three-storey warehouse in 1838. The route building has been altered and extended was abandoned in 1944, and the Wharf many times throughout its life, with a was sold to a road haulage company which two-storey Victorian house the most filled in the basin for parking. In 2007 obvious addition. It is situated close to the the site was put up for sale with planning centre of modern-day Coventry and was permission to convert the two buildings used as a private residence between the for residential use. This application was 5 Dissolution and 1940, when it was gifted strongly resisted by the Trust, which MIDLANDS WEST • WEST SOUTH to the community as part of the Wyley submitted an alternative bid to retain the Bequest. The Prior’s House was occupied site for community access and was offered 5 for many years by Coventry City College, an AHF acquisition loan. The local but the building was deemed surplus authority was persuaded to intervene and to requirements in 2010 and ownership obtained freehold ownership, allowing the was subsequently passed to the Trust. loan offer to be withdrawn. The Trust has It considers that there is huge potential now been given a long lease. Although in the opening out of this little-known superficially dilapidated, the buildings are amenity to the community as a whole, structurally sound and watertight. The and has ambitious plans to regenerate Trust has obtained planning permission significant areas to the west of the city. for a canal museum and heritage centre on An AHF Project Development Grant will the site, and the offer of an Industrial Cold contribute toward the cost of employing Spots Grant has allowed the continuing an architect and project organiser. employment of a project manager.

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West Midlands Historic 2 Buildings Trust Lye and Wollescote Cemetery Chapels

Cemetery Road, Lye, West Midlands Listed Grade II OAG: £5,275 disbursed July 2007 1 RPDG: £12,255 disbursed September 2008 2 CBG: £6,890 disbursed May 2008 PAG: £2,890 disbursed September 2012 Staffordshire Historic Buildings Trust PDG: £12,255 disbursed September 2008 Worcester Building 3 Sandfields Pumping Station 1 POG: £15,000 disbursed January 2009 Preservation Trust LOAN: £350,000 withdrawn January 2011 LOAN: £120,000 offered June 2013 Weavers’ Cottages Chesterfield Road, Lichfield, Staffordshire Listed Grade II Attributed to Smalman Smith of 20, 21 and 22 Horsefair, CSG: £8,905 disbursed November 2013 Stourbridge and dating from 1878, the Kidderminster, Worcestershire Gothic style building contains two chapels, Listed Grade II The Pumping Station is constructed one Anglican and the other Nonconformist. PDG: £4,850 disbursed January 2012 in blue brick with red and buff brick and Built of red English-bond brick with CSG: £9,875 offered November 2012 ashlar dressings, with a machicolated limestone and blue brick dressings, it is LOAN: £308,500 offered December 2013 parapet and round-headed windows. symmetrically arranged on an ‘H’ shaped CSG: £3,065 offered January 2014 Built in 1873, it contains a steam-powered plan and is largely single-storey. The two Cornish beam engine, which is of historic chapels are linked by a central doorway King Henry III granted an annual fair merit. The pumps in the building were and lobbies under a prominent central to Kidderminster in 1238, and by 1690 this shut down in September 1997, since then spire. Although the cemetery is still in had become too large for the city centre; the building has been unoccupied and use for burials, the chapels have been it was therefore moved to this area redundant, without a clear economic use. redundant for several years and are now in the north-east of the town. The fairs In recent years it has suffered from some in poor condition and vulnerable to ceased around 1820, but by this time vandalism. The Trust has been offered an vandalism. Both buildings are currently development had surrounded the large, Industrial Cold Spots Grant to undertake in the ownership of Dudley Metropolitan triangular open area which remains an options appraisal to find a sustainable Borough Council but have been offered today. Nos 20 and 21 Horsefair were long-term use. The Friends of Sandfields to the Trust for £1. It intends to repair built in the early 19th century as artisan Pumping Station was formed in 1998 and and convert them to provide office and housing. No 22 was constructed in has maintained the engine and kept the community space and after several years, the mid-18th century, and incorporates building secure and watertight. is poised to take the scheme forward. a purpose-built top-floor workshop, to accommodate weavers. The buildings have been unused and derelict for at least 10 years. They are owned by Wyre Forest Community Housing, which is willing to pass on the freehold interest for a nominal sum. AHF-funded development work concluded that re-sale as private housing offered the most viable option. The Heritage Lottery Fund has supported the project with a substantial grant offer to cover the conservation deficit and the Trust used a Project Development Grant and Cold Spots Grant to develop the scheme in the meantime.

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East Street Arts 4 St Patrick’s Church

Rider Street, Leeds Listed Grade II PVG: £2,992 offered September 2013 5 East Street Arts, a well-established social enterprise, offers studio space and professional support for new and emerging artists by helping them to set up in practice, develop business skills and locate affordable space. It has already refurbished a former industrial building for use as offices and studio space and is now looking to convert St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church for use as creative space, including a hostel for actors and dancers. The Church was built in 1891 in red brick with a Welsh slate roof. It is located just outside Leeds City Centre to the rear of the main premises occupied by East Street Arts, which sees the conversion of this building as the next logical step in its programme of expansion. The grant 5 6 will enable the charity to fund a measured and topographical survey of the building, which will be used by the architect to Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust 5 North Halifax Buildings 6 provide a condition survey and costings Preservation Trust for design options and refurbishment Grimsby Ice Factory for possible uses. Illingworth Gaol and Stocks Gorton Street, Grimsby, Lincolnshire Listed Grade II* 121 Keighley Road, Illingworth, Halifax CSG: £3,500 disbursed September 2012 Listed Grade II* OAG: £7,500 disbursed May 2013 PVG: £2,875 offered September 2013 CSG: £5,000 offered March 2014 Dated 1823, Illingworth Gaol is a small The Ice Factory was built in 1900–01 to stone building with stone roof and interior produce large blocks of ice which were flags reputedly containing four cells with crushed and loaded onto the boats of the the upper floor windows barred and open fishing fleets operating out of Grimsby, to the elements. A set of stocks erected to keep the catch fresh when fishing in the in 1697 lie to the west of the gaol. The North Atlantic. It is a vast brick building gaol has been unused for a number of with a labyrinth of internal spaces. Four decades and is now owned by Calderdale extensions were added between 1907 and Borough Council who have previously 4 1950 to house more efficient machinery tried to market the building but were and increase production. It is of exceptional unsuccessful. It was taken off the market significance owing to the survival of earlier this year when the Trust announced 4 the early-20th-century refrigeration its intention to find a new use for the HUMBER THE AND YORKSHIRE machinery. Production ceased in 1990, building and to pursue an asset transfer. when ownership passed to Associated The council has since allowed the Trust British Ports (ABP). The building has six months to provide a convincing outline been unused since then, with a consequent business plan, and the AHF grant has deterioration of its fabric. Much of the allowed the funding of this work. surrounding site has been cleared and it is now isolated. The Trust was offered an Industrial Cold Spots Grant to develop the scheme beyond options appraisal stage. This is the culmination of a campaign to find a new use for the building, and for it to be the catalyst for the wider regeneration of the dockside area and Grimsby as a whole.

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The Crescent, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Listed Grade II; Scarborough Conservation Area PVG: £3,000 offered March 2014

The Lodge is an 1830s two-storey villa with neo-Greek detailing, which was home to the first Earl of Londesborough. Edward VII was entertained here in 1871. It stands on the Crescent, a once proud Scarborough location, and continues 2 to form part of an impressive group of Sheffield General Cemetery Trust similar stone-built mansions, one of which was formerly home to the Sitwell Nonconformist Chapel 3 Queen Street School 1 Family and is now a creative arts venue, Preservation Trust another a museum and art gallery. The General Cemetery, Sheffield house was used by Scarborough Borough Listed Grade II*; Sheffield General Salvation Army Citadel Council as offices until five years ago but Cemetery (Parks and Gardens) is now suffering from a lack of use and Conservation Area Queen Street, Barton-upon-Humber, is vulnerable to vandalism. Following the OAG: £4,663 disbursed March 2012 North Lincolnshire failure to sell it on the open market an PDG: £20,000 offered June 2011 Listed Grade II; Barton-upon-Humber asset transfer has been agreed with the CFG: £200,000 offered June 2013 Conservation Area Trust which wishes to establish a holistic PVG: £2,775 offered September 2013 centre for health and wellbeing, providing Sheffield General Cemetery was one of treatment rooms, meeting rooms, café, the first commercial landscape cemeteries Built as a Primitive Methodist Chapel in book shop and community living space. in the UK. Opened in 1836, it became 1867 with double entrance-way and large The Trust is an international Buddhist established as the principal burial ground internal auditorium, plus back rooms, the charity which supports a broad range of in the city. It was designed by Sheffield building was designed by Joseph Wright activities, from assisting schools in the architect Samuel Worth with landscape of Hull. It ceased to be used by the poorest areas of China to running soup design by Robert Marnock, who also Methodists in 1961 when it was taken kitchens in Tibet. The grant will allow a designed Sheffield’s Botanical Gardens on by the Salvation Army who divided the review of the initial business plan before and Weston Park. The Nonconformist lower chapel area into offices and store agreeing to the asset transfer. Chapel was built in 1836 and is one of nine rooms and made the upper gallery into listed buildings and monuments, including a separate auditorium. The large and airy unique catacombs. The cemetery was upper gallery retains its original steep closed for burials in 1978 and is now listed bank of wooden seating and decorated on English Heritage’s Register of Historic ceiling bosses. The cost of adapting the Parks and Gardens. The Nonconformist building to meet fire regulations has Chapel has been unused for more than proved prohibitive and the building has 40 years, and although the structure is been put up for sale. The Trust successfully essentially sound, it would be difficult to delivered the Wilderspin School Museum adapt owing to its isolated position in the which opened in 2009 and has been a centre of the cemetery. The Trust was great success but now needs more space formed in 2003 from the existing Friends for its associated activities. Conveniently group, originally established by local the Museum is adjacent to the Chapel. residents in response to the cemetery’s The grant will help pay for a condition increasing dereliction. The AHF Project survey for using the building as a Development Grant has allowed a community venue. It will also allow for partnership with South Yorkshire market testing of uses and sourcing Buildings Preservation Trust to adopt prospective tenants, as well as costings a mentoring role to explore various uses for an internal fit-out and renewable for the Chapel. A Challenge Fund Grant has energy options, which would help reduce also been offered, making a considerable running costs. 1 contribution to the capital sum required. YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER

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Alton Building Preservation Trust Westbrook House 5 8 76 High Street, Alton, Hampshire Listed Grade II*; Alton Conservation Area OAG: £3,000 offered March 2013 6 7

Arkwright Society Building 17 Sir Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mills, Mill Lane, Cromford, Derbyshire Listed Grade I; Cromford and Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site PDG: £25,000 disbursed September 2010 RPDG: £5,000 disbursed November 2011 LOAN: £450,000 offered September 2011

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Buildings 1,7, 8 and 9 Bridport Area Development Trust 5 Dronfield Heritage Trust 7 Sir Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mills, Literary and Scientific Institute (formerly Peel Centre Mill Lane, Cromford, Derbyshire Charitable Trust) 51 East Street, Bridport, Dorset Listed Grade I; Cromford and Derwent Listed Grade II*; Bridport Conservation Area Dronfield Hall Barn Valley Mills World Heritage Site CFG: £200,000 offered June 2012 Dronfield, Derbyshire CSG: £5,000 disbursed October 2011 CSG: £10,000 offered November 2012 Listed Grade II* OAG: £7,500 disbursed March 2012 PDG: £12,500 offered March 2012 OAG: £8,635 disbursed June 2009 Bridport Area Development Trust CSG: £5,000 disbursed March 2012 Arkwright Society Methodist Church PDG: £17,500 disbursed July 2013 CSG: £4,535 disbursed March 2014 Buildings 14–16 West Bay, Bridport, Dorset Listed Grade II; West Bay Conservation Area Sir Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mills, Fiends of Ingestre Orangery 8 Mill Lane, Cromford, Derbyshire OAG: £1,500 disbursed March 2013 Ingestre Hall Orangery Listed Grade I; Cromford and Derwent PDG: £4,550 offered March 2013 Valley Mills World Heritage Site Ingestre, Staffordshire Listed Grade II LOAN: £60,000 repaid February 1994 Bristol Building Preservation Trust 6 LOAN: £107,000 repaid May 1995 Lower Lodge OAG: £3,393 disbursed January 2013 CSG: £5,000 offered October 2012 PDG: £4,905 disbursed January 2014 Ashton Court, Ashton Road, Bristol Listed Grade II*; Lower Ashton Benington Community 4 Hastings Pier Charity Conservation Area Heritage Trust Hastings Pier OAG: £5,995 disbursed March 2010 All Saints Church PDG: £7,500 disbursed March 2010 White Rock, Hastings, East Sussex Main Road, Benington, Boston, Lincolnshire CFG: £164,000 offered December 2012 Listed Grade II; White Rock Listed Grade I Conservation Area OAG: £7,500 disbursed May 2012 Cornwall Buildings Preservation Trust PDG: £13,367 disbursed May 2013 CFG: £200,000 offered December 2012 Loggan’s Mill (Western Bandstand Pavilion only) DEVELOPMENT LOAN: £50,000 Hale, Cornwall contracted April 2013 4 Listed Grade II LOAN: £700,000 offered March 2013 CSG: £10,000 disbursed December 2013 Heritage Trust for the North West Devon Historic Buildings Trust Lomeshaye Bridge Mill Police Station, Trowte’s House Bridge Mill Road, Nelson, Lancashire and Guildhall Complex Whitefield Conservation Area Abbey Place, Tavistock, Devon PDG: £15,000 disbursed May 2010 Listed Grade II*; Tavistock Town LOAN: £400,000 withdrawn February 2012 Conservation Area LOAN: £100,000 contracted September 2013 OAG: £7,500 disbursed April 2012 PDG: £10,000 offered March 2013 Continued overleaf

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Holbeach Cemetery Chapels Murston All Saints Trust Tyne and Wear Building 7 Holbeach Cemetery Chapels Murston All Saints Old Church Preservation Trust Park Road, Holbeach, Lincolnshire Church Road, Murston, Kent Jesmond Dene Banqueting Hall Listed Category II; Holbeach Scheduled Ancient Monument Jesmond Dene Road, Jesmond, Conservation Area OAG: £3,000 offered March 2013 Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne OAG: £4,000 offered March 2013 Listed Grade II; Jesmond Dene Paignton Heritage Society Conservation Area The Jewel on the Hill 1 Paignton Picture House OAG: £7,450 disbursed November 2012 Preservation Trust PDG: £3,760 disbursed April 2013 Torbay Road, Paignton, Devon PDG: £5,000 disbursed February 2014 Former Everton Library Listed Grade II* 109 Domingo Road, Liverpool OAG: £7,500 disbursed October 2012 Upminster Windmill 8 Listed Grade II (to Devon Historic Buildings Trust) Preservation Trust PDG: £10,000 disbursed December 2013 PDG: £5,400 offered March 2013 Upminster Windmill St Mary’s Lane, Upminster, Essex The John Clare Trust Prince’s Regeneration Trust 3 Listed Grade II* The Exeter Arms (United Kingdom Historic Building Preservation Trust) PAG: £4,000 disbursed February 2006 Church Lane, Helpston, Peterborough CSG: £7,780 disbursed February 2014 Listed Grade II*; Peterborough The Wedgwood Institute Conservation Area Queen Street, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent Waltham Forest Cinema Trust LOAN: £210,000 contracted July 2013 Listed Grade II*; Burslem Conservation Area Former Granada Cinema PDG: 3,750 offered September 2012 King Edward Mine Ltd 186 Hoe Street, Walthamstow Listed Grade II* Silk Heritage Trust 4 King Edward Mine OAG: £7,500 disbursed March 2014 Assay Office Complex, Paradise Mill (Lower) Troon, Camborne, Cornwall Park Lane, Macclesfield, Cheshire West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust Listed Grade II* Listed Grade II; Park Green Foster, Rastrick and Co Foundry CFG: £200,000 offered December 2012 Conservation Area Lowndes Road, Strourbridge, West Midlands CSG: £9,990 disbursed March 2014 Kingswood Heritage Projects Listed Grade II*/II; Stourbridge Branch Canal Conservation Area (part) Stratford Historic Buildings Trust Dalton Young Building OAG: £8,458 disbursed April 2011 and Clock Tower The Toll House CSG: £6,700 offered December 2012 Champion’s Brassworks, Clopton Bridge, Bridgefoot, Tower Lane, Warmley, Bristol Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire Vivat Trust 9 Listed Grade II; Warmley Conservation Area Listed Grade I; Stratford-upon-Avon Conservation Area 6–9 Ninhams Court OAG: £3,000 disbursed May 2013 Norwich, Norfolk OAG: £4,750 disbursed May 2013 Listed Grade II*; City Centre Lowther Castle & Gardens Trust Conservation Area Turner’s House Trust (formerly 5 Lowther Castle Sandycombe Lodge Trust) OAG: £3,000 disbursed May 2014 Lowther, Penrith, Cumbria Sandycombe Lodge Listed Grade II* Vivat Trust 10 40 Sandycombe Road, LOAN: £150,000 contracted April 2013 The Gatehouse Twickenham, Middlesex Listed Grade II*; Cambridge Park Cothelstone Manor, Moseley Muslim 2 Conservation Area Cothelstone, Taunton, Somerset Community Association Listed Grade I OAG: £7,400 disbursed June 2012 Former Moseley School of Art PDG: £15,000 offered December 2012 OAG: £3,000 offered March 2013 496 Moseley Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham CFG: £141,000 offered March 2013 Listed Grade II* Tyne and Wear Building 6 OAG: £7,500 disbursed February 2014 Preservation Trust Milton Rooms Charitable Trust Bottle Kilns The Milton Rooms Corbridge, Northumberland Listed Grade II*; Scheduled Malton, North Yorkshire Ancient Monument Listed Grade II; Malton Conservation Area CSG: £9,000 disbursed August 2013 OAG: £6,500 disbursed December 2013

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Portadown 2000 1 1 26 and 28 Thomas Street (Former Methodist Church and Manse)

Portadown, Co Antrim Listed Category B1 PVG: £3,000 disbursed December 2013

The Church and Manse were built in 1832 and served County Armagh, stronghold of Methodism in Portadown, for 30 years. John Wesley preached in this Church. With the great revival of Methodism in the mid- 19th century, a new and larger Church was built on the opposite side of the street, making both buildings redundant; they were offered for sale by public auction in January 1861, and for most of the 20th century were used for storage by a wholesale grocery business. After this closed, significant demolition took place and the site is now derelict. Portadown 2000 exists to promote peace and reconciliation, social cohesion and welfare and intends to restore the buildings to provide a heritage centre designed to attract tourists and provide educational and research facilities to people of all ages and backgrounds. The AHF grant was used Templemore Users Trust 2 to demonstrate that the cost of restoring Belfast Corporation Baths the two historic buildings was robust. It has since been successful in applying Templemore Avenue, Belfast City for an acquisition grant, which the AHF Listed Category B+ administers on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency. OAG: £7,500 disbursed April 2013

Opened in 1893, Templemore Avenue 2 Public Baths and Swimming Pools were built as one of four public baths in the City at the turn of the century. In the highly industrialised area of East Belfast, they 3 were intended to meet the hygiene and sanitary needs of the community. Now known as Templemore Swim and Fitness Other projects Centre, the building was saved from supported in 2013–14 closure by a voluntary committee in the early 1980s, and has been run by the Trust Glenarm Buildings 3 ever since. One of the pools remains in use, and the Centre has a fully equipped gym, Preservation Trust sauna and steam room. Nevertheless, a Seaview Hall significant part of the complex is derelict, including one pool, the slipper baths and New Row, Glenarm, Co Antrim laundry room, and cannot be reinstated Glenarm Conservation Area 4 without significant investment. The Trust OAG: £3,666 disbursed December 2009 has a long lease from the council and has CBG: £1,923 disbursed May 2009 ambitious plans for the building’s future, LOAN: £90,000 offered December 2012 hoping that an aquatic centre, a wellbeing centre and community hub can be Richill Buildings 4 established. Templemore Avenue is Preservation Trust an important route across East Belfast, and will be redeveloped to link these Richill Castle community facilities with the Titanic 1–3 Castle Grounds, Richill, Armagh Quarter and other tourist attractions such Listed Category A; Richill Village as C S Lewis’s house. The options appraisal Conservation Area demonstrated that a robust scheme could be carried forward. FSG: £4,235 disbursed November 2006 OAG: £4,603 disbursed August 2013

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Ailsa Horizons 5 Artists Collective Gallery 6 Former Davidson Hospital City Observatory Complex

The Avenue, Girvan, South Ayrshire 38 Carlton Hill, Edinburgh Listed Category B Listed Category A; Edinburgh UNESCO World Heritage Site PVG: £2,910 disbursed October 2013 PDG: £25,000 offered March 2014 The former Davidson Cottage Hospital opened in 1922, and is located within The City observatory was commissioned the Girvan Conservation Area. The main by the Astronomical Institution in about building served the community of Girvan 1818. They wished to build an observatory and the surrounding areas for almost 88 that could be used for scientific research, years, until the new Girvan Community form a base for the establishment of an Hospital replaced it in 2010. The architect accurate public time service for Edinburgh was John Watson of Watson, Salmond and and Leith, and create a ‘popular 7 Gray and the building was designed in the observatory’. A Classical, symmetrical, Scots Renaissance style in Auchenleath Greek cross-plan building with hexastyle stone. The building features a central Doric portico to each wing and dome on Campbeltown Community Business one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay block octagonal drum to centre, it is a well- The Picture House 7 and includes a front door with moulded known landmark in Edinburgh and is a architraves, bracketed name panel, scrolls vital component in the group of buildings 26 Hall Street, Campbeltown, and broken pediment. The three upper- on Carlton Hill that are both architecturally Argyll and Bute floor dormer windows sit above the front and culturally significant in the history of Listed Category A; Campbeltown door with sloped gables, and the building the city and the nation. The Astronomical Conservation Area has two symmetrical single-storey wings Society left the building in 2008, and facing the street with semi-circular outer Collective, a contemporary visual arts PDG: £7,500 disbursed May 2014 bays. A single-storey kitchen wing to the organisation that delivers a programme rear completes the original composition. of new exhibitions, commissions and Sitting in a prominent position on the The grant enabled Ailsa Horizons to projects, has agreed a lease with the waterfront, the Picture House is one of establish the viability of the building as an local authority. Their aim is to restore the earliest purpose-built cinemas in enterprise incubation centre, and they have the observatory, create a heritage hub Scotland. Designed by Glasgow cinema since gone on to agree terms to acquire the in the transit house, establish a new architect Albert V Gardner, its Glasgow building, and have achieved a successful subterranean gallery and education space School Art Nouveau design is unique, first-round pass from the HLF Heritage as well as a café. A HLF Stage 1 application comprising a series of concentric ovals in Enterprise scheme. was successful earlier this year. plan. Gardner returned in 1934/5 to update the building with an ‘atmospheric’ interior. This is still there including the ‘wee houses’ 7 either side of the screen. It has been in constant use as a cinema and was taken over by the community in 1987. The cinema celebrated its centenary in 2013, and CCB are managing a project to repair, conserve and upgrade it. They will incorporate an empty annex into the complex to create a larger foyer and café, and add a second screen at the rear with an exhibition area to show original artefacts from the cinema and the MacGrory Photographic Collection. The grant has enabled CCB to employ a project organiser to manage further funding applications and develop a revised business plan to show how these improvements would lead to a viable long-term sustainable operation for the cinema.

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Cambo Institute 1 Cowane’s Hospital Maintenance Trust Cambo Stables Cowane’s Hospital 3

Cambo Estate, Kingsbornes, St John Street, Stirling St Andrews, Fife Listed Category A; Stirling Old Town Listed Category B Conservation Area LOAN: £500,000 offered March 2014 PDG: £15,000 offered December 2013 2 Built in the 1760s, the stable building, John Cowane was a wealthy Stirling part of the Cambo Estate, is Italianate. merchant whose ‘deadbed’ wish was to Carluke Development Trust 2 The central stalls section survives largely use 40,000 merks to build ‘ane hospitall unaltered. Elsewhere there has been no High Mill or almshous’. The building was duly built apparent alteration since the addition of between 1637 and 1649 by the architect the coach houses in circa 1800 except for Chapel Street, Carluke, South Lanarkshire John Mylne and master mason James the dormers added to the north coach Listed Category A Rynd. It is on an ‘E’ plan on two storeys house. Such survival is remarkable, and with crow-stepped gables and a central OAG: £7,211 disbursed November 2013 adds to the significance of the building. The four-storey tower with a statue of PDG: £23,745 offered March 2014 project includes the stables, coach house Cowane in a niche. Cowane’s Hospital and walled garden plus glasshouses. The Maintenance Trust was formed to take The High Mill was built in the 1790s as a plan is to renovate the stables and coach on the responsibility of looking after the wind-powered grain mill. It was converted house, using these buildings for the work hospital as it was felt the responsibility to steam power around 1830 when the of the Institute, while giving interpretation was at a tangent to the previous owner’s building was extensively remodelled of the heritage of the estate. The intention main activities. The project proposes all including the construction of the drying is to create a visitor hub, a focus for appropriate building conservation and kiln and threshing mill. The power supply students and volunteers, and enhanced alterations to include a small permanent for the machinery was altered again in learning facilities, maximising potential exhibition telling Stirling’s story through the early 20th century when a gas-fired for access to learning, participation and the archive, some restored and recreated Tangye engine was installed. The Mill public involvement, as the current historic rooms including the original ceased operation some time before the facilities are quite basic. hospital kitchen and bedroom, a revitalised outbreak of the Second World War. The main hall providing the focus for a buildings continued in general use for comprehensive and varied programme some years after cessation of milling but of events, activities and sessions and have been redundant for several decades. a restored amenity garden incorporating Much of the mill machinery survives, Scotland’s oldest bowling green. having been removed in 1990, and is stored in shipping containers. The Carluke Development Trust has partnered with 3 Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust to examine options for a sustainable use, taking forward plans to restore the mill in working order and use it as a social enterprise consisting of a shop, café, cook school, event space and visitor 1 interpretation with appropriate facilities.

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Ericht Trust 3 Former Hill Primary School

Upper Allan Street, Blairgowrie, Perthshire Listed Category B; Blairgowrie Conservation Area PDG: £25,000 offered June 2013

The site consists of three main buildings, the first built in 1878. It is mainly in squared and snecked red sandstone rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings. There are several Gothic details such as roll-moulded doorways, pointed-arch traceries and shoulder-arched windows. The site was used as a school until 2009 when the school moved to a new campus. It has been unoccupied since then and has been subject to vandalism, metal theft and some water ingress. The Trust is progressing plans to use the buildings as a cinema, youth hostel, games area, café and print museum, with total project costs estimated at £3.6 million. The local authority owner has taken the building off Dunoon Burgh Hall Trust 1 Edinburgh Printmakers 2 the market for a year to give the Trust time to raise funds. The Burgh Hall Former North British Rubbermill Company 195 Argyll Street, Dunoon, Argyll Listed Category B Castlemills, Corner of Gilmore Park, OAG: £7,500 disbursed January 2008 Dundee Street, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh (to Strathclyde BPT) Listed Category C PDG: £15,000 disbursed March 2012 PVG: £2,950 disbursed March 2014 PDG: £7,500 disbursed January 2013 PDG: £30,000 offered March 2014 LOAN: £495,000 offered March 2014 Castlemills is a two-storey with Dunoon Burgh Hall was designed in the basement, 16-bay, near ‘L’ plan building Scots Baronial style and opened in 1874 in painted brick. It was built in 1894 for to celebrate the conferring of Burgh status the North British Rubber Company, on the town. The upper floors were closed then taken over in 1971 by Scottish and in the 1980s but Argyll and Bute Council Newcastle Brewery, which closed it in occupied offices on the ground floor before 2004. Edinburgh City Council bought the selling to a housing association in 1993. The 11-acre site in 2011 with the intention of 2 Hall was transferred to another registered building a new school and selling off the social landlord in 2001, but proposals remainder of the land, retaining it as the to convert the building to residential sole listed building within this masterplan. use failed in the face of local opposition. The building is one of the few reminders In 2008, the Hall was transferred to the of Edinburgh’s industrial heritage, and John McAslan Family Trust, which funded was famous for pioneering the use of emergency works to eradicate dry rot and India rubber to make wellington boots, make it wind and watertight. Windows were supplying 1.2 million pairs to soldiers in re-glazed and a Friends room decorated World War One. Edinburgh Printmakers and fitted out, allowing the building to take operates as a centre of excellence for on temporary uses. The Trust transferred contemporary art in print, providing the building to the Dunoon Burgh Hall exhibition space and educational Trust in 2013. The plan is for the Burgh activities. It is developing the Castlemills Hall to become a community-run arts building with a view to its establishment and cultural venue with some office as a world-class visual arts centre of accommodation and a café/bar on the excellence, and has been awarded ground floor. The Trust has concentrated significant funding towards this through on getting the building fit for use, the HLF Heritage Enterprise scheme. 3 attracting audiences and demonstrating that there is sufficient demand for cultural activities, and the capital phase of the works is now imminent.

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Jedburgh, Scottish Borders Listed Category A; Jedburgh Conservation Area PDG: £3,000 offered September 2013

The Port House was built for the 5 Cooperative Society as a department store and headquarters. It is a symmetrical two-storey with attic, three-bay building Inverclyde Community 5 in cream ashlar. To the rear of the main Development Trust building is a three-storey warehouse with The Dutch Gable House loading bays. This building was probably a grain store and was latterly used as a warehouse and bakery, along with 14 William Street, Greenock a range of single-storey buildings in the Listed Category B; Greenock adjacent courtyard. The complex also Town Centre Conservation Area includes three one-and-a-half-storey Four Acres Charitable Trust 4 PVG: £3,000 offered February 2014 garages. The Trust purchased the Former Dowanhill Church buildings in 2010, made them wind and (Cottier Theatre) (Final Phase) The oldest house in Greenock, the Dutch watertight and dealt with some wet rot Gable House was constructed around damage. Recent community consultation 93–97 Hyndland Street, Glasgow 1755, in front of an even older property, has identified a range of uses that will Listed Category A; Glasgow West now known as the Back House. The Trust ensure sustainability. The main building Conservation Area is progressing plans for the renovation would be a shop and community café, and restoration of the Back House into with artist/artisan workshops in the RPDG: £25,000 disbursed June 2003 a community learning and exhibition warehouse and courtyard buildings, PAG: £4,000 disbursed January 2005 space which it aims to make feel new and and the Bridge Community Resource POG: £15,000 disbursed April 2007 interesting, while not losing the character Centre has been identified as an anchor LOAN: £740,032 contracted March 2014 of the currently empty shell. They are tenant. This grant has allowed the Trust to also exploring options for a new update the plans and costings of an earlier Designed by William Leiper, Dowanhill community studio on the top floor of the options appraisal, and to put together Parish Church was built in 1865. It is front Dutch Gable House, which is being a revised business case to facilitate an notable particularly for the stained glass used as the base for the Trust’s activities application to the Heritage Lottery Fund and decoration by Daniel Cottier and an in heritage, arts and enterprise. and other funders. important Willis organ. The building was in a semi-derelict condition when the Trust acquired it from the Church 6 of Scotland for £1 in 1984. The AHF was first involved in 1988 when the Trust was given a loan to fund structural repairs and the conversion of the church halls into a bar and restaurant. From 1994 to 2004 the popular Cottier Theatre performed in the unrestored church. Steeple repairs were carried out in 2002. Work commenced on the final phase of the restoration in March 2009 with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Historic Scotland and Glasgow City Council. The reconstruction work included overhaul of the roof and roof space, repairs to external and internal carved stonework, plasterwork and timber, re-leading and repairing glasswork, revealing and replicating original decoration, restoration of the organ and construction of a 6 basement to provide ‘backstage’ facilities. A new phase of work has recently begun with the construction of several new 6 townhouses on land owned by the Trust; once complete these will be sold to raise money for the continuing restoration. SCOTLAND

Kirtonhall Creative Media Group 2 3 Kirktonhall

Glen Road, West Kilbride National Trust for Scotland Little 3 Listed Category B; West Kilbride Houses Improvement Scheme Conservation Area Halligarth House PDG: £8,700 disbursed November 2013 to Strathclyde BPT Baltasound, Unst, Shetland Islands PDG: £21,520 offered March 2014 Listed Category C Kirktonhall is a three-storey house backing PDG: £6,000 disbursed June 2014 onto the main street in West Kilbride. There are three different date stones (1660, Built by the naturalist Dr Laurence 1791 and 1807) and as such it is a mix of Edmonston between 1832–39, Halligarth 2 different architectural styles. The principal House and grounds are an integral and façade faces the rear towards the garden. significant part of the history of Unst. It has a projecting two-storey porch with a The house consists of two one-and-one- 1 Gothic Palladian window on the first floor, half-storey ranges separated by a narrow the lower stage of which is supported on gap with a small connecting passageway, corner columns. It has a ridge roof with both in harled rubble with some ashlar large Victorian dormers and plain gables. edging. Of additional interest are a walled The family of Robert Simson (1687–1768), garden and a small wooded copse, planted Professor of Mathematics at the University to attract birds. The house remained in the of Glasgow and translator of Euclid, lived ownership of the Edmonston and Saxby here for some generations. It was declared families until their bequest to the National surplus by the council in 2005. In 2012, Trust in 1988, at which time the house was North Ayrshire Council undertook a abandoned and in need of considerable process to choose a preferred bidder for repair. The Trust has concentrated on asset transfer and selected Kirktonhall keeping the building wind and watertight Killin & Ardeonaig Community 1 Creative Media Group. KCMG carried out until a viable solution could be found. The Development Trust a costed condition report, a conservation AHF grant has allowed the Trust to develop management plan and a business plan. their plans to open one side of the house The Old Mill (St Fillian’s Mill) These indicated there was a viable use for and the designed landscape as a visitor the building as a creative media centre and centre that focuses on the natural heritage Main Street, Killin, Stirling office rental but the information needed of Shetland and the role of the Edmondston Listed Category B; Killin to be formed into a detailed delivery and Saxby families. The other side of the Conservation Area strategy for the project. The AHF grant house will be used as accommodation for PDG: £10,494 offered June 2013 has enabled this work to get underway. both holiday letting and volunteers.

Built in circa 1840, the building was a 2 corn mill and later a tweed weaving mill, before being converted into a visitor centre in 1994. Rubble-built with a creamy limewash and pointed-arch openings in Breadalbane Gothik Estate style, the ‘L’ plan three-storey mill serves as an important reminder of Killin’s industrial history and its significant picturesque setting has ensured that it is a landmark in the village. Its most recent use was as a tourist information and folklore centre, for which it underwent some restoration. Stirling Council, which owns the mill, has agreed to transfer it to the Trust for £1 on the condition that it provided a business plan demonstrating the proposed activities are viable and sustainable in the long-term and secured funding for the repairs and alterations. The business plan has been produced and accepted by Stirling Council and it now remains for the Trust to further clarify the capital costs and secure funding. The proposal is to repair the exterior of the building and carry out interior changes to improve thermal performance, and to fit out the second floor as storage and an office for the Trust.

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North East Scotland 4 Preservation Trust Former Sail-making Works and Cottages 5

Back Green, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire Listed Category B; Scheduled North East Scotland 5 Ancient Monument Preservation Trust FSG: £5,280 disbursed October 2001 Logie House Lodge OAG: £2,200 disbursed February 2011 PDG: £3,370 disbursed May 2012 Pitcaple, Inverurie PDG: £10,570 disbursed April 2013 Listed Category C PDG: £6,060 offered March 2014 PVG: £1,850 disbursed January 2014 LOAN: £250,000 offered March 2014 5 Logie House Lodge is situated at the Portsoy harbour developed as a busy entrance to the west drive of Logie trading port in the 17th and early 18th Elphinstone House, near Pitcaple. It NVA 6 centuries. The buildings at Back Green derives its significance partly because it are to the east of the Burn of Durn, which St Peter’s College is one of the few remaining 18th-century flows into the Moray Firth at Links Bay. elements of the estate and partly because The site developed to manufacture thread Kilmahew Estate, Carman Road, it is a good example of a gate lodge from from flax. The reliable water supply Cardross, Argyll and Bute that time. ‘T’ shaped in plan, symmetrical from the burn made the ‘green’ ideal Listed Category A; Cardross Parish in elevation and with very modest for bleaching the flax. In the early Conservation Area proportions, the central door with its 19th century there were two groups pediment, arched window openings with PDG: £10,000 offered December 2013 of buildings. One to the seaward side stone margins, hipped slated roofs and operated as a rope-making business central chimney combine to provide the Built in 1966 by I Metzstein, J Cowell while the manufacture of sails took place lodge with a picturesque character. It is and A McMillan of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia, within the eastern range, adjacent to a partially concealed behind a retaining in a brutalist style, the surviving building row of cottages. The ropeworks fell into wall which supports the adjacent trunk consists of a main block, a convent block, decline and have been lost. The sail- road, but the original entrance gate piers a sanctuary block and classroom block. making lofts and three cottages, while with their round-topped sunken panels One side of the quadrangle was the derelict, remain intact. A roofless shell remain. The grant has established that Victorian mansion of the Allan family, built now remains though the wallheads are the preferred option is that the lodge be in 1868. St Peter’s closed as a seminary protected by lime mortar haunching. The purchased by the current owner of Logie in 1980 and later became a drug cottage roofs remain, though are severely House, and refurbished to provide rehabilitation centre, however, due to holed, allowing water ingress. The Trust residential accommodation for estate staff. a lack of maintenance the centre was is working to deliver a scheme for a four- moved to the Victorian building. This was star bunkhouse with accommodation destroyed by fire in 1995 and the centre for 25 people. The buildings will then be 6 closed. The remaining 1960s sections have leased to the Scottish Traditional Boat been described as a “building of world Festival who will manage it jointly with significance”. In 2009 NVA received funding the adjacent Portsoy Caravan Park. to develop temporary and permanent artworks as part of the redevelopment of the buildings and surrounding woodland, and has remained involved ever since. They plan to consolidate some buildings, restore others and create a centre for culture, heritage and education with a large- scale performance and exhibition space in the main block; teaching, exhibition, interpretation and library spaces in the teaching block with offices for NVA and temporary accommodation for visiting 6 educational groups in the convent block.

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Patrick Allan-Fraser 1 2 of Hospitalfield Trust Hospitalfield House

Arbroath, Angus Listed Category A PDG: £8,316 disbursed February 2014

Hospitalfield House was originally built as a hospital in the 13th century to receive pilgrims on the way to religious sites in Arbroath and further north. It was bought by the Fraser family in 1660 and developed as a house. In 1843 Elizabeth Fraser, the last of the family, married Patrick Allan, an artist. Upon their deaths the entire estate passed to a trust, based at the house, to provide young people with training in the main forms of art. The house is a large two- and three-storey mansion mainly built in red sandstone and slate in a baronial style. It has ornate detailing, incorporates medieval fragments and has several original Arts & Crafts interiors. The Trust now wishes to increase public access to the house, Scottish Historic Buildings Trust 2 grounds and collections. To do this it wants to restore several outhouses as residential Grey Mill accommodation and studios. In addition it wants to generally improve facilities to be Broadford Works, able to cope with much larger events, both Maberly Street, Aberdeen for public access and to improve income Listed Category A generation. Historic Scotland has granted OAG: £10,000 offered December 2012 £500,000 from its Building Repair Grants OAG: £7,500 offered August 2013 3 scheme for Hospitalfield House. Broadford Works has been in almost continuous operation as a textile- Scottish Historic Buildings Trust 3 manufacturing site since 1808. It is the The Glasite Meeting House largest collection of Category A buildings at risk in Scotland. Building No 43, the 33 Barony Street, Edinburgh Grey Mill, is the oldest and is also the Listed Category A; Edinburgh UNESCO oldest iron-framed mill in Scotland. World Heritage Site It has four storeys plus an attic level and a pitched slate roof with continuous roof FSG: £5,000 disbursed March 2002 lights. Red brick towers with ball finials PDG: £25,000 offered March 2014 have been added to the outside. Internally it is of shallow arched construction with The Reverend John Glas broke away tie rods on slender columns with further from the established protestant church columns of varying type and dimensions in 1728 in opposition to state involvement added in later. Since the Works’ closure in religious teaching. His movement grew in 2004 it has suffered from vandalism throughout Scotland and Edinburgh’s 1 and arson. In 2011 the Prince’s Glasite Meeting House was built in 1836, Regeneration Trust created a plan that remaining in use until the 1970s. The main divided the site into sections to sell to Meeting Room is still intact, with 200 box commercial developers. However, the pews. The building became the national Grey Mill was identified as the most headquarters for the Architectural significant building, suffering from a Heritage Society of Scotland, and was substantial conservation deficit, and not then owned by its charitable company, attractive to a buyer. As such it will be The Glasite Meeting House Trust. In 2012, developed by the Trust in a way that is the Trust gifted the building to Scottish capable of attracting visitors to the site. Historic Buildings Trust. Since then, SHBT SHBT will be a ‘pioneer developer’ taking has managed the property and become on this most important and vulnerable fully aware that the building is at risk of not building at an early stage, thereby acting being fully utilised owing to accessibility as a catalyst for commercial developers issues and the need to bring the facilities to gain confidence in taking on some up to a suitable standard to make it viable 2 of the other buildings. and sustainable for the future.

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322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh Scottish Redundant Churches Trust Listed Category A; Edinburgh World Heritage Site St Margaret’s Church 5 OAG: £12,500 disbursed June 2010 Braemar (to Cockburn Conservation Trust) Listed Category A PDG: £25,000 disbursed January 2013 LOAN: £500,000 offered December 2013 FSG: £3,000 disbursed March 2005 5 OAG: £4,500 disbursed September 2013 The Riddle’s Court buildings are in a PDG: £9,975 offered September 2013 prominent position at the west end of Strathclyde Building 6 Edinburgh’s Lawnmarket on the Royal Designed by John Ninian Comper, St Preservation Trust Mile, close to Edinburgh Castle. They are Margaret’s was built between 1895 and Shawmuir Lodge the remains of two three-storey ‘L’ plan 1901 as an Episcopal church for regular houses built by Baillie John McMorran visitors from England. It is built of Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow c.1590. The north wing of the east house weathered pink granite from nearby Listed Category B was demolished in the late-19th century. Callater Moors, with dressings of Riddle’s Close and Court were Arbroath freestone and roofs of stone PDG: £27,375 offered March 2014 reconstructed for the renowned Scottish from old Mar Lodge, demolished in 1895. LOAN: £45,000 offered March 2014 urban planner and educationalist Patrick The interior has white walls, concentrating Geddes, who owned the buildings, as all attention on the rood screen and altar. Shawmuir Lodge is a single-storey University Halls in 1892–93. The City of Repairs were carried out in the 1990s; building with wrought iron gates, built Edinburgh Council has been the owner unfortunately these were inadequate and in 1891 and thought to be the work of Sir since 1947 and reconstructed the in some areas exacerbated the problems. Robert Rowand Anderson. It stands at the buildings as education rooms in 1964. A The 2004 feasibility study stalled owing Eastern vehicular entrance to Pollok Park number of very fine historic interiors have to very marginal viability, a lack of local which is a designed landscape classified been retained, including 17th-century enthusiasm and ill-health of the bishop. as ‘outstanding’ on the Historic Scotland plasterwork ceilings, a painted beam ceiling The 2012 options appraisal came about Inventory of Gardens and Landscapes. and a painted ceiling by the celebrated through renewed local interest and The Lodge has been empty for some 19th-century Edinburgh decorator, involvement of the Prince’s Regeneration years and is in a state of disrepair. Thomas Bonnar, together with timber- Trust. The end use proposed a creative hub The building is owned by Glasgow City panelled rooms with decorative fireplace and performance venue, mainly as a home Council who are seeking to return it to surrounds. The Trust is working to enable for a Scottish fiddle school. The latest study a sustainable use. In 2011 the Trust was Riddle’s Court to continue its educational has allowed the Trust to establish a viable contracted by the council to carry out an use and develop it as a multi-functional and sustainable long-term use for the options appraisal which identified a viable learning centre. The proposals include building. Urgent work to stabilise and repair use as a holiday let. Since the park was office space for the existing tenants, and the most vulnerable sections of stained designated a hub for the Commonwealth the Workers’ Educational Association. glass began in January 2014 with the first Games, there was impetus from the Substantial funding has been secured sections of repaired glass being returned council to repair the outside. Now that from the Heritage Lottery Fund and to the church. The building has been used the Games have finished, work to restore Historic Scotland. to host a series of live performances. the Lodge fully will be taken forward.

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Ayr Building Preservation Trust 1 Glasgow Building 6 Moffat Town Hall 7 Darlington Church Preservation Trust Redevelopment Trust North Harbour Street, Ayr Kirkhaven Hall Moffat Town Hall Listed Category B Duke Street, Glasgow High Street, Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway OAG: £3,900 disbursed October 2013 Listed Category A Listed Category B PDG: £6,183 disbursed November 2013 PDG: £12,720 disbursed April 2013 Ayr Building Preservation Trust Belleisle Conservatory Highland Buildings Preservation Trust National Trust for Scotland Little 8 Houses Improvement Scheme Belleisle Park, Doonfoot, Ayr Viewhill House Listed Category B 1 Old Edinburgh Road, Inverness, Highland Drum House Farm OAG: £5,000 disbursed April 2013 Listed Category B; Inverness Drum Castle Estate, Drumoak, Conservation Area by Banchory, Aberdeenshire Listed Category A Burgie Castle Preservation Trust 2 OAG: £10,000 offered June 2012 Burgie Castle OAG: £2,925 disbursed April 2013 Kirkcaldy Old Kirk Trust Near Forres, Moray Paisley Development Trust 9 Listed Category A; Scheduled Kirkcaldy Old Kirk Ancient Monument Kirk Wyne, Kirkcaldy, Fife Russell Institute OAG: £15,000 disbursed December 2011 Listed Catergory B; Abbotshall and 30 Causeyside Street, Paisley PDG: £18,000 disbursed December 2013 Central Kirkcaldy Conservation Area Listed Category A PDG: £5,000 disbursed May 2013 OAG: £7,500 disbursed June 2013 Clackmannanshire Heritage Trust 3 Alloa Tower Stables Merkinch Enterprise Ltd Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust 10 Tower Square, Alloa, Clackmannanshire Merkinch Welfare Hall Lower City Mills Listed Category B; Old Alloa Burgh 30–34 Grant Street, Inverness Mill Wynd, Perth Conservation Area Listed Category C(s) Listed Category A OAG: £3,000 offered March 2013 PDG: £23,500 disbursed August 2012 OAG: £5,980 disbursed April 2013 PDG: £5,000 disbursed July 2013 FACT Three 4 Peter Pan Moat Brae House Trust Lansdowne Parish Church Moat Brae House 416–420 Great Western Road, Glasgow 101 George Street, Dumfries Listed Category A; Glasgow West Listed Category B; Dumfries Mediaeval Outstanding Conservation Area Town Conservation Area FSG: £6,410 disbursed May 2006 OAG: £7,500 disbursed October 2010 to Glasgow BPT PDG: £15,000 disbursed June 2012 RPDG: £15,435 disbursed January 2009 PDG: £5,000 disbursed January 2014 to Four Acres Charitable Trust LOAN: £100,000 withdrawn January 2014 CBG: £10,523 disbursed January to Four Acres Charitable Trust Strathclyde Building 11 LOAN: £350,000 withdrawn December 2012 Preservation Trust LOAN: £150,000 offered December 2012 The Clock Lodge Four Acres Charitable Trust 5 Kilmory, By Lochgilphead, Argyll Listed Grade B Lion Chambers 3 170–172 Hope Street, Glasgow OAG: £4,000 disbursed July 2013 Listed Catergory A; Glasgow Central Conservation Area 11 Traill Hall Community Trust 12 PDG: £4,540 disbursed July 2013 Traill Hall Stangerhill Bridge, Castletown, Glasgow Building Preservation Trust Nr Thurso, Highland St Martin’s Church Listed Category B 201 Ardencraig Road, Castlemilk, Glasgow OAG: £12,500 withdrawn April 2010 Listed Category B OAG: £12,070 disbursed February 2013 PDG: £10,000 offered March 2013 OAG: £5,150 disbursed March 2013 PDG: £22,500 offered March 2013

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Cylch y Llan Buildings 3 Preservation Trust St Deiniol’s Church

Llanuwchllyn Bala, Gwynedd Listed Grade II*/II OAG: £5,280 disbursed October 2011 PDG: £7,000 offered June 2013

The parish church of St Deiniol was built in 1873 in ‘mixed Gothic’ style to replace its medieval predecessor. It retains its stained glass and incorporates an especially fine stone effigy of Ieuan ap Gruffudd ap Madog ap Iorwerth dated 1395 from the earlier church, one of the most important of its type and date in North Wales. The lych gate, built in 1725, walls and railings are separately listed Grade II. It is situated in the village of Llanuwchllyn which attracts significant numbers of visitors during the summer, and is sited on ground rising above the flood plain of the River Dee, at the west end of Llyn Tegid in the Snowdonia National Park. The church is structurally sound and in reasonable condition. However, it is slowly deteriorating due to redundancy and it will need restoration to meet current standards. The options appraisal demonstrated that use as a 3 community resource offering opportunities for income-generating activities such as art exhibitions, concerts and conferences Cardigan Building Preservation Trust Carmarthenshire Heritage 2 would be appropriate, and a further Regeneration Trust development grant has allowed the The Market Hall 1 employment of a project organiser to Former YMCA work on major funding bids. Cardigan, Ceredigion Listed Grade II* Merthyr Tydfil CSG: £3,000 offered March 2014 Listed Grade II PVG: £3,000 offered May 2013 The Market Hall and Guildhall were designed by R J Withers, as the first civic The former YMCA building is a striking building in Britain to follow the Ruskinian four-storey Baroque design completed Gothic style of architecture. The complex, in 1911. Prominently located in the opened in 1860, was built of local Pontmorlais Heritage Quarter, its buff Cilgerran stone, with red brick dressings. terracotta dressings and brick facings The Market Hall is situated to the rear and illustrate its status as one of the most has two storeys. The vaulted lower floor important civic buildings in the town. has bays constructed of stone rounded It has been unused and at risk for more piers with arches of cut grey stone. than 20 years. It is owned by a property An open central light well leads up to developer who is now willing to dispose 1 the upper floor with a staircase installed of the building to the Trust. The council in the 1960s. The upper market is a much funded a feasibility study and structural lighter space, lit from glazed ridges of survey in 2012, which demonstrated the the four surrounding roofs and a glazed building’s critical condition, and, together lantern on the hipped roof over the light with Cadw and the Welsh Assembly well. Following the Trust’s restoration Government, is highly supportive of the of the Guildhall (Annual Review 2010–11), Trust’s involvement. The building is also which is trading successfully as a within a Townscape Heritage Initiative community and public resource, an AHF area. The AHF grant should allow the Trust Cold Spots Grant will allow it to assess the to develop its plans in advance of a formal restoration of this final unrestored part application to the Heritage Lottery Fund. of the wider complex to enhance its attractiveness to visitors, traders and the local community, and to make the overall scheme more viable financially. 2

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Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust 5 Kidwelly Heritage Trust 6 Gwrych Castle Kidwelly Town Hall

Abergele, Sir Conwy 1 Lady Street, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire Listed Grade I Listed Grade II; Kidwelly Conservation Area FSG: £7,195 disbursed October 2006 MG: £1,227 disbursed April 2006 CSG: £2,800 offered December 2013 PVG: £2,670 disbursed February 2014 The former Town Hall was constructed Gwrych is a mock-medieval castle in 1878, and designed in heavy plate- conceived as a vast picturesque traceried Gothic style by T W A Evans, 4 monument, with numerous towers and who was not only Mayor of Kidwelly, but battlements by Lloyd Bamford Hesketh also an architect, and gave his services on the site of his ancestral home. The free to design it. Built of squared rock- Glandwr Community Shop 4 four-storey building has a large frontage faced rubble stone, it has Bath stone The Old Post Office but shallow plan and stands on the edge of dressings and a slate roof. The lower floor a limestone escarpment with spectacular was a covered market and the upper floor views over the Irish Sea, backed by a housed the Guildhall, also used as meeting Glandwr, Pembrokeshire 50-acre wood. It was last occupied as a and entertainment space. The building On the edge of, but not within, stately home in 1928, and after a number additionally contained police cells and a Pembrokeshire Coast National Park of failed uses, has lain empty for many reading room. This imposing town-centre LOAN: £35,000 offered June 2013 years, having been reduced to little more landmark has been empty for the past 20 than a shell by squatters and persistent years, but despite some dereliction, it is Siop Glandwr is a small village shop vandalism and arson. With ownership a substantial structure with usable spaces. which, until 2010, traded out of the having changed recently, there is now The Trust wishes to bring it back into public premises of the old post office in Glandwr the prospect of the Castle becoming a use and has agreed a long-term lease with in North Pembrokeshire. The property hotel. The Trust has reached agreement the County Council. The Trust has wider was built between 1800 and 1900 and is with the owner for a long lease on part plans for the town, and this building is a four-bedroom, two-storey house with of the main Castle building and grounds, the ideal starting point to bring together attached post office and private, enclosed which will include the old melon house, the historic elements. An AHF grant will garden. It is built of solid elevation the conservatory and historic gardens to allow it to develop a viable new use. rendered walls under a pitched artificial create a visitor centre and amenities. The slate roof over the shop and a natural AHF has supported the Trust over many slate roof over the house. The nearest years and an AHF-funded viability report shops are five miles away so the group demonstrated that the Trust’s plan was had hoped to buy the premises and set robust and has allowed it to develop the up as a community shop and service. scheme further. It enjoys strong The AHF offered a loan to bid at auction community support, with a team of but unfortunately, this was unsuccessful volunteers clearing the site of vegetation and the loan was withdrawn. and making it safe for walkers and visitors.

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The Landmark Trust 1 Llanelli Railway Goods Shed Trust 2 4 Llwy Celyn Farmhouse Former Goods Shed

Stanton, Llanvihangel Crucorney, Llanelli Railway Yard, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire Marsh Street, Llanelli Listed Grade I; Brecon Beacons Listed Grade II National Park Conservation Area OAG: £7,500 disbursed January 2013 PDG: £5,000 offered June 2013 CSG: £3,000 disbursed December 2013 CSG: £5,292 disbursed November 2013 The Farmhouse is thought to have been PDG: £15,000 offered December 2013 built in the late-16th century on the land CSG: £1,700 offered October 2013 of the Augustinian Priory of Llanthony, possibly for a tenant farmer. It was The Goods Shed was built for South Wales acquired by a local owner following the Railway in 1852, in the goods yard to the Dissolution. It remained a tenanted farm north side of Llanelli Station. It is a long, owned by the Llanthony Estate until the single-storey shed of lias rubble with a mid-20th century. The house is on an 17-bay slate roof and an attached office ‘L’ shaped footprint, with the long stem building at its west end. It has been Other projects containing the original Hall Range, and the unused for 25 years, and is deteriorating; supported in 2013–14 shorter projection being the former Solar. a portion of the roof is gone, with rainwater The building is constructed of local red goods missing and broken windows. sandstone rubblestone with slightly Internal timbers have been badly affected Hay Castle Trust 3 larger blocks as quoins. It is one of the by wet rot and the exposed external steel Hay Castle most important survivals of this type structure is showing signs of corrosion. still in existence. Its poor condition made Nevertheless, the overall structure of the Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire it a priority case for the Brecon Beacons shed and office appears sound, with no Listed Grade I; Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, which contacted evidence of structural movement. Conservation Area the Trust, leading it to acquire the Network Rail, the owner, is prepared to OAG: £3,614 disbursed June 2013 building in 2012, with funding obtained in pass on ownership and the Trust’s options CSG: £7,050 disbursed December 2013 full from Cadw and the National Heritage appraisal study demonstrated that an Memorial Fund. It has utilised an AHF array of community arts-based uses Welsh Religious Buildings Trust – 4 Project Development Grant to undertake could be accommodated. It has since Ymddiriedolaeth Addoldai professional work to evaluate the building received three Welsh Cold Spots Grants in advance of a formal Heritage Lottery and a Project Development Grant to fund Bethania Chapel Fund application. This long-established professional work and employ a project Bethania Street, Maesteg, Powys Trust has a strong track record in restoring organiser, as it continues to develop Listed Grade II* historic buildings for holiday letting. the scheme. CSG: £8,714 disbursed April 2013

64 The Old Mill (p.43) 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 auditor has issued an unqualified report on the full annual financial statements and on the consistency of the trustees’ annual report with those financial statements. Their report on the full annual financial statements contained no statement under sections 498(2)(a), 498(2)(b) or 498(3) of the Companies Act 2006. The full accounts were approved by the Trustees on 24 September 2014 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 2013/14 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 2014. Copies may be obtained from the AHF.

The AHF received the following government funding during 2014:

English Heritage £102,260 Historic Scotland £265,000 Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments £30,000 Department of the Environment: Northern Ireland £12,500 Total: £409,760

Expenditure Resources used during the year amounted to £1,669,198 against £3,076,266 in 2013. The fall of £1,407,068 over the previous year is largely accounted for by a decrease of £1,170,108 in grantmaking, and a smaller (£314,672) increase in the total annual bad debt charge.

Surplus and forward commitments The total deficit for the year (“net movement in funds”) was £592,411, reducing the AHF’s total funds at 31 March 2014 to £13,046,835 (2013 – £13,639,246). At the year end, the AHF had £8,649,913 out on loan for Welsh Presbyterian Church (p.36) preservation projects and forward commitments for loans and recoverable grants of £3,983,465 (2013 – total loans INTRODUCTION £9,195,575 and forward commitments £4,113,918). The AHF’s overall income for the year amounted to Signed on behalf of the Members of the Council £1,026,787 (2013 – £919,512). Expenditure amounted of Management. to £1,669,198 (2013 – £3,076,266). At the year end, £8,649,913 (2013 – £9,195,575) was out on loan for preservation projects.

DETAILS Merlin Waterson Income Chairman Income in the year increased by £107,275 over the 24 September 2014 2013 total. Most of this increase derived from a higher level of grant funding receivable (£141,569), offset by falls in investment income (£18,110) and income from donations and legacies (£15,112).

66 Auditor’s Statement

Independent Auditor’s Statement to the Trustees misstatements or material inconsistencies with the and Members of The Architectural Heritage Fund summarised financial statements. The other information We have examined the summarised financial statements comprises only the Report on the AHF’s Financial Position. of The Architectural Heritage Fund for the year ended 31 March 2014. Basis of Opinion We have conducted our work in accordance with Respective Responsibilities Practice Note 11 issued by the Auditing Practices Board. of the trustees and the auditor Our report on the charitable company’s full annual financial The trustees (who are also the directors of The statements describes the basis of our opinion on those Architectural Heritage Fund for the purposes of company financial statements. law) are responsible for preparing the summarised financial statements in accordance with applicable United Kingdom Opinion law and the recommendations of the Charities SORP. In our opinion the summarised financial statements are Our responsibility is to report to you our opinion on the consistent with the full annual financial statements and the consistency of the summarised financial statements with trustees’ annual report of The Architectural Heritage Fund the full annual financial statements and the trustees’ for the year ended 31 March 2014. annual report. Nicholas Brooks (Senior Statutory Auditor) We also read the other information contained in the for and on behalf of Kingston Smith LLP, Statutory Auditor. summarised annual report and consider the implications Devonshire House, 60 Goswell Road, London EC1M 7AD for our report if we become aware of any apparent 13 October 2014

BENEFACTORS AND FRIENDS IN THE YEAR 1 APRIL 2013 TO 31 MARCH 2014

Benefactors (£10,000 or more)

Government English Heritage Historic Scotland Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments Department of Environment: Northern Ireland Charities The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust The Pilgrim Trust

Friends (£20 – £2,000)

Organisations Oxford Preservation Trust Streonshalh Limited Individuals S H Back Professor A H Gomme D K Robinson S P Salt P N Tomlinson Nigel M Waring

Estate of Carey A McCormick Severndroog Castle (p.15)

67 Summarised Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2014

Endowment Restricted Unrestricted 2014 2013 fund fund fund Total Total £ £ £ £ £ Incoming resources Incoming resources from generated funds Voluntary income Donations and legacies – – 2,903 2,903 18,015 Government grants – 409,760 – 409,760 321,644 Other grants – 99,733 – 99,733 46,280 – 509,493 2,903 512,396 385,939 Investment income Interest receivable – on bank deposits – – 16,748 16,748 72,554 – on loans disbursed – – 445,244 445,244 407,982 Rent receivable – – 34,679 34,679 34,245 – – 496,671 496,671 514,781 Total incoming resources from generated funds – 509,493 499,574 1,009,067 900,720 Incoming resources from charitable activities – – 17,720 17,720 18,792 Total incoming resources – 509,493 517,294 1,026,787 919,512

Resources expended Costs of generating funds Generating voluntary income – – 18,391 18,391 17,464 Investment management – financial – – 6,608 6,608 4,947 – property – – 18,821 18,821 14,274 – – 43,820 43,820 36,685 Charitable activities Increase / (decrease) in the loan bad debt provision 376,321 – (217,847) 158,474 473,146 Other loan-related activities – – 165,554 165,554 126,633 Grantmaking – 561,425 322,378 883,803 2,053,911 376,321 561,425 270,085 1,207,831 2,653,690 Development and advocacy Capacity building – 68,225 217,801 286,026 266,465 Annual Review and other publications – – 73,172 73,172 59,886 Net contribution to the UK Association of Preservation Trusts – – 13,375 13,375 16,250 – 68,225 304,348 372,573 342,601 Total charitable activities 376,321 629,650 574,433 1,580,404 2,996,291 Governance costs – – 44,974 44,974 43,290 Total resources expended 376,321 629,650 663,227 1,669,198 3,076,266 Net (outgoing) / incoming resources (376,321) (120,157) (145,933) (642,411) (2,156,754)

Other recognised gains / losses Gain on investment property 50,000 – – 50,000 –

Net movement in funds net (deficit) / surplus for the year (326,321) (120,157) (145,933) (592,411) (2,156,754)

Balances at 1 April 2013 10,418,179 388,151 2,832,916 13,639,246 15,796,000

Balances at 31 March 2014 10,091,858 267,994 2,686,983 13,046,835 13,639,246

68 Summarised Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2014

2014 2013

££££ Fixed assets Investment property 500,000 450,000 Other tangible assets 70,380 13,186 Programme related investments Loans disbursed for preservation projects 8,649,913 9,195,575

Total fixed assets 9,220,293 9,658,761

Current assets Debtors Loan interest receivable 641,958 808,437 Government grants receivable 157,538 73,842 Non-government grants receivable 426,013 616,280 Other accrued income and prepayments 44,656 78,993 1,270,165 1,577,552

Cash at bank and short-term deposits 5,686,115 5,725,922 6,956,280 7,303,474

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (3,129,738) (3,322,989)

Net current assets 3,826,542 3,980,485

Net assets 13,046,835 13,639,246

Funds Endowment fund 10,091,858 10,418,179

Restricted fund 267,994 388,151

Unrestricted funds Designated lending fund 2,066,983 2,266,466 General fund 620,000 566,450 2,686,983 2,832,916

Total funds 13,046,835 13,639,246

Programme related investments include £4,661,603 in loans outstanding which are due for repayment after more than one year (2013 – £3,322,166). Interest receivable on these loans amounted to £160,615 (2013 – £190,163). The financial statements were approved by the Members of the Council, and authorised for issue, on 24 September 2014 and signed on their behalf by:

Merlin Waterson RoyRoy DDantzicantzic Chairman Deputy Chairman 24 September 2014 24 September 2014

69 About the Architectural Heritage Fund

INTRODUCTION The following is a summary of the AHF’s grants and loan programmes. Please contact the AHF or refer to our website The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is a registered www.ahfund.org.uk for further details. charity and a company limited by guarantee, founded in 1976 to promote the conservation of historic buildings Project Viability Grants in the UK. It does this by providing advice, information and This scheme was introduced in 2013 replacing the Options financial assistance in the form of grants and competitive Appraisal Grant. A Project Viability Grant is intended to loans for projects undertaken by building preservation be an initial swift assessment of whether it is viable to bring trusts (BPTs), other charities and eligible not-for-profit a historic building back into sustainable use. In particular it organisations. aims to enable applicants to explore the evidence of need for a suggested use, or uses, for a building and the sustainability FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE AHF of that use, with a view to the likely requirements of grant funders. Sources of AHF Funds The end report should provide sufficient information The AHF’s lending resources of some £12.2 million derive to help decide whether to commit to further cost, risk and from government grants, donations and accumulated effort in developing the project. It should also indicate the surplus of income over expenditure. AHF grant programmes principal areas of further work required, and be a useful are financed by interest on loans and bank deposits, and tool in applying to other funders. In turn, the report will be grant-aid from English Heritage, Historic Scotland, Cadw, used to judge whether the project is eligible to apply for the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland, the further AHF development funding. Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and the Pilgrim Trust. For eligible projects, the AHF offers up to 100% of the cost Eligibility of the report. The maximum grant is £3,000 – no match Only charities and eligible not-for-profit organisations funding is required. can apply for financial assistance from the AHF for buildings that are listed, scheduled or in a conservation Project Development Grants area and of acknowledged historic merit. Projects usually Project administration, project organiser and capacity involve a change either in the ownership of a property building grants were absorbed into this single grant scheme or in its use. in 2008. The Project Development Grant is intended to help with the costs of developing and co-ordinating a project and taking it towards the start of work on site after basic viability has been established.

70 The maximum grant available is £25,000. Grants may be Non-Financial Assistance and Publications applied for in stages according to the needs of the project The AHF plays a strong development role by encouraging as it progresses. This may cover 100% of non-recoverable and advising on the formation of BPTs and providing relevant professional fees up to £15,000 or up to 75% of the cost guidance throughout the duration of an AHF-funded project. of a project organiser up to £15,000. Several publications are available from the AHF and can be downloaded free of charge from www.ahfund.org.uk. Loans • Comprehensive Guidance Notes for Applicants for all AHF AHF loans are intended to assist registered charities and financial programmes eligible not-for-profit organisations by making short-term, competitive-rate loans for the acquisition and/or repair • Fully illustrated AHF Annual Review and re-use of historic buildings. • Statutory Report and Financial Statements A loan may be used for the acquisition costs of a building, • Funds for Historic Buildings – A Directory of Sources to support the working capital requirement during a project, (this publication is available free as a downloadable or to bridge anticipated grant payments. There may even internet file at www.ffhb.org.uk) be instances when having a loan offer from the AHF can be helpful in giving credibility to a project, and in securing • Model Memorandum and Articles of Association grant offers from elsewhere. Similarly, the AHF may be for a Building Preservation Trust (available by email). able to offer a loan for a project that is already on site and has hit unexpected difficulties. Security for a loan will For further information please contact generally be required. The Architectural Heritage Fund.

A loan will typically be repaid from grant income and/or Registered under the Charities Act 1960, No 266780 from the proceeds of the sale of the building at the end of a in England and Scotland No SCO43840. Company limited project, or, if the building is retained, through ongoing trading by guarantee registered in England, No 1150304. income or by the applicant taking out a mortgage or other form of long-term borrowing from other lenders.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: City Observatory Complex (p.51); Former Church of Burch St Peter (p.32); Former Dowanhill Church (Cottier Theatre) (p.55); Old Nick Theatre (p.33); The Old Mill (St Fillian’s Mill) (p.56); George Street Chapel (p.8)

71 Council of Management and Staff as at 31 October 2014

COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT Rita Harkin Built Heritage Consultant. Trustee, Irish Landmark Trust. Committee Member, Hearth Housing Association. Formerly: Merlin Waterson CBE Chairman Author and historian. Panel Member, National Heritage Research Officer, Ulster Architectural Heritage Society. Heritage Memorial Fund. Trustee, East Anglia Art Fund. Commissioner and Officer, Belfast City Council. Researcher, Rachel Bevan Architects. Deputy Chairman, the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Formerly: Historic Executive Committee Member, Northern Ireland Environment Link. Properties Director, The National Trust. Adviser on Built Heritage NI Regional Committee Member, Heritage Lottery Fund. Cathedral and Historic Properties, the Heritage Lottery Fund. Quarter Trustee. NI Environmental Planning Law Association.

Roy Dantzic Deputy Chairman Richard Keen Chartered Accountant. Chairman, Interior Services Group plc. Research Officer, Ulster Architectural Heritage Society. Trustee, Non-Executive Director, Airplanes Ltd. Trustee, The Portman Cathedral Quarter Trust. Committee Member, Environmental and Estate. Formerly: Chairman, Development Securities plc; Planning Law Association NI. Board Member, Belfast Exposed Managing Director, British Gas Properties Ltd. Finance Director, Photography. Formerly: Heritage Officer, Belfast City Council. Stanhope Properties. Researcher, Rachel Bevan Architects. Executive Committee Member, Northern Ireland Environment Agency. NI Regional Myra Barnes Committee Member, Heritage Lottery Fund. Chartered Town Planner. Partner, Salisbury Jones Planning. Board Member, Genesis Homes. Beanstalk Volunteer. Formerly: Phillip Kirby OBE Head of Planning, National Grid Property. Development Manager, Civil and Structural Engineer. Director of Policy, Connect. Olympia & York Canary Wharf Ltd. Assistant to CEO, London Formerly: Managing Director, National Grid Property. Project Docklands Development Corporation. Director, Stanhope Properties. Member of Lord Rogers’ Urban Task Force. Chair, Cl:aire; Exsite.

Elizabeth Davidson OBE Principal, City Design Glasgow City Council. Trustee, Strathclyde Liz Peace CBE Building Preservation Trust. Fellow, Royal Incorporation of Governor, Peabody. Trustee, LandAid; Churches Conservation Architects in Scotland; Royal Society for the Encouragement of Trust. Non-Executive Director, Turley; Morgan Sindall; Redrow; Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce. Formerly: Project Director, Holtby Turner. Chairman, Good Relations Property. Formerly: Merchant City Townscape Heritage Initiative. External Examiner, Chief Executive, British Property Federation. Director of University of Dundee, Dept. of European Urban Conservation. Corporate Affairs and Company Secretary, QinetiQ plc. CABE Member of the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland. Chair, Commissioner. Non-Executive Director, Planning Inspectorate. Association of Preservation Trusts. Director, Glasgow Building Chairman, National Planning Forum. Preservation Trust. Doug Reid Kate Dickson Chartered Architect. Partner, James F Stephen Architects. Director, Creative Heritage Consultants Ltd. Member, National Member, Royal Institute of British Architects; Institute of Historic Trust Regional Advisory Board for the North West. Membership Building Conservation. Fellow, Royal Incorporation of Architects assessor and member, Membership and Ethics Committee of in Scotland; Royal Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Director, the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. Chair, Midlands Tayside Building Preservation Trust. Regional Committee, UK Association of Preservation Trusts. Formerly: Member, National Trust Council; Heritage Lottery Fund Regional Committee for the North West. Director, Heritage Works STAFF Buildings Preservation Trust. Chief Executive: Ian Lush John Duggan Finance Manager: Paul Tozer Chartered Certified Accountant. Non-Executive Director, JSM Indo Office Manager: Diane Kendal China Ltd. Chairman, Milton Keynes Trust; Assemble Community Partnership; LIFT. Member, the Investment Committee of the Projects Team Bridges Ventures Sustainability Fund; Advisory Council of the Loans Manager: Andy Richardson Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility. Deputy Lieutenant Projects and Development Officer: Ian Rice of Buckinghamshire. Formerly: Chairman and Chief Executive, Projects and Development Officer North: Gordon Barr Gazeley. Chairman, Spazio Investment NV. Non-Executive Director, SGL Vietnam Ltd. Development Team Development Manager: Gavin Richards Michael Hoare Regional Support Officers: Josephine Brown – South West Chartered Accountant, INSEAD. Chairman, Watts & Co. Tessa Hilder – London, South East, East of England Trustee Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Formerly: Consultant, Lucie Thacker – East and West Midlands C Hoare & Co. Chairman, National Churches Trust.

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