ANNUAL REVIEW 2007-08 CONTENTS

1 Chairman’s foreword 3 Chief Executive’s review 6 Completed projects 22 Projects under development 44 Register of Building Preservation Trusts 47 AHF financial information 52 About the AHF 54 About the UK Association of Preservation Trusts

FRONT COVER: Blackburn House, West Lothian, Scotland (see p.16) INSIDE FRONT COVER: Perrott’s Folly, Edgbaston, Birmingham (see p.8) CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD

It was a pleasure and I have already had the opportunity, together honour to be invited with some of my colleagues on the Council to become Chairman of Management, to join AHF staff in visiting of The Architectural a number of projects in different areas of the Heritage Fund. country, and I am looking forward to meeting The task has been more Building Preservation Trusts and other made much easier by groups over the next year. I think it is my predecessor Jane Sharman who has important both for our Council members done so much to ensure that the organisation and also our clients that we do visit projects was ready to meet the challenges ahead. on a regular basis, as there is no better way Although I was already aware of the work to learn about the issues faced by a trust. of voluntary sector organisations in restoring historic buildings, through my involvement I have also been pleased to see that many of with the Stowe House Preservation Trust our projects have an active involvement from and as a former Regional Chairman of the the local authority. Having been involved with National Trust, I have been impressed with the planning committee of my own authority, the number and variety of charities striving South Northamptonshire, for many years, to find a sustainable future for our heritage I know only too well some of the barriers, around the UK, supported by the AHF. perceived or real, to working with local government, so the AHF’s role as a potential The projects we fund encounter many enabler of this relationship is a very valuable obstacles along the way, and the current one. The conference we are organising in financial uncertainty surrounding the property November, jointly with our partners in the market is another challenge for our clients Agencies Co-ordinating Group, includes to overcome. At the AHF we have had to deal sessions specifically intended to further with the first capital loss we have suffered on the partnerships between the public and a loan for many years, as a direct result of the voluntary sectors, with speakers such as fall in the value of residential properties, and Barry Quirk, Chief Executive of the this has meant that we have posted a larger Borough of Lewisham, and Sir Richard than expected deficit for the financial year. Leese, Leader of City Council. However, we are fortunate in having had generous donations to our Endowment Fund This Annual Review shows that there is still TOP: The Compton Organ, The Plaza, over the last few years, in particular from an encouraging amount of activity and that Stockport (see p.28) Historic Scotland, so our ability to lend will projects continue to get underway and be ABOVE: not be affected in the short term. Nonetheless completed, and we will do all we can to Blackburn House, Near Livingston, West Lothian (see p.16) we are watching the situation carefully, support that process over the next year. BOTTOM LEFT: particularly where we are asked to lend Restored ironwork, money for a residential development, and (Phase I), Manchester (see p.33) we will exercise appropriate caution in our decision-making.

John Townsend Chairman October 2008

1 2 Lochgelly Miners’ Institute, Fife (see p.18) CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REVIEW

This is the fifth Our lending fund totals nearly £13million introduction I have and we are therefore in the very fortunate position of being able to survive one such written for The deficit without any adverse consequences in Architectural the short term. However, this loss, coupled Heritage Fund’s with the continuing uncertainties around the true value of residential development, Annual Review , and it is the first means we must be prudent and exercise the which is having to reflect on a highly caution which would be expected of us by our challenging property market and external funders and regulators, such as the Charity Commission. We are therefore taking TOP: the impact that has already had on a number of steps to protect our lending The Minister for Europe, External Affairs & Culture, our operations. As our Chairman, fund – the AHF’s key asset – against any Linda Fabiani, with Ian Lush, further hits of this nature. We are working AHF Chief Executive and John Townsend, has said in his John Townsend, AHF Chairman at with our clients to ensure that this does not Foreword, the downturn in the the Scottish Parliament reception. prevent us in any way from continuing to BOTTOM LEFT: residential market, and in particular support their work, but it may mean that Gracehill Old School, Gracehill, Co. Antrim (see p.35) in that for apartment developments, in some cases we will be more demanding in terms of the information we require and has led to our having to provide the security we always insist on. The market for a considerable sum on one downturn could, of course, provide some project in the Midlands, which has new opportunities for voluntary sector organisations, as more properties become resulted in a large deficit for the affordable, so we will continue to monitor financial year. the situation carefully.

Turning to more positive matters, we have just celebrated 30 years of working in Scotland with a reception at the Scottish Parliament hosted jointly by Alasdair Morgan MSP, Deputy Presiding Officer and the Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Culture, Linda Fabiani MSP. This brought together representatives of the public, private and voluntary sector and showcased some of the outstanding projects completed by building preservation trusts and other charities in Scotland with the AHF’s support. We are grateful to our Scottish lawyers, Burness LLP, for their support of this event.

3 Later this Autumn we hold a large-scale The umbrella body Heritage Link, of which joint conference with our partners in the I remain Deputy Chair, has been at the Agencies Co-ordinating Group: the Civic forefront of the HPR discussions, and Trust, Institute of Historic Building has led a number of significant events Conservation, Prince’s Regeneration Trust and consultation responses to feed in to and UK Association of Preservation Trusts. the process. Through Heritage Link my I am particularly pleased that we have been involvement with the London Organising able to take this event to a BPT venue, the Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic wonderful Monastery of St Francis, in Gorton, Games in the plans for the Cultural Olympiad Manchester, and we look forward to a leading up to the London 2012 Olympics has stimulating and enjoyable two days there increased, and I am pleased to say that the on 13 and 14 November. launch of the Cultural Olympiad at the beginning of September included Former Minister of the Environment, Arlene The heritage world in and ‘Discovering Places’, a major project around Foster; former Chief Executive of Environment & Heritage Service Northern Ireland, Richard has been preoccupied with the completion all aspects of heritage, the built and natural Rogers; and AHF Chief Executive, Ian Lush and publication of the long-awaited Heritage environments, which I lead on behalf of signing the new funding agreement Protection Reform bill (HPR), which brings Heritage Link in partnership with CABE, together the consent and listing regimes and Natural England and Leeds Metropolitan clears up many anomalies in the sometimes University. A year ago our sector was not arcane systems. The bill is welcome, and we included in the Cultural Olympiad, so this have been keen to make that point in is a huge step forward and an opportunity submissions to Government and the to see some real benefits for the heritage Opposition parties, but equally keen to say world from London’s hosting of the Games. that without adequate resources to bring about its reforms, it will be in danger of One of the most significant achievements for failing to meet its key objectives. This is the AHF during the year was the signing of a particularly true when one looks at the partnership agreement with the Government new responsibilities laid at the door of in Northern Ireland to manage a new funding local authorities in England (the position is stream for historic buildings. This is the first different in Wales), and sets them against time the NI Government has worked with already declining support for conservation a non-Government body in this way, and staff and the financing of measures such it is an honour for the AHF to have been as compulsory purchase orders. I had the chosen to run this fund. The agreement opportunity to discuss this with the Minister was signed by the then Environment of State, Margaret Hodge, live on Radio 4’s Minister, Arlene Foster, and myself at the ‘You and Yours’ earlier this year and we will start of a major heritage and regeneration continue to lobby on this issue. conference in Belfast in May. The new fund,

ABOVE: The Catstrand, £500,000 per annum, is mainly intended to Dumfries and Galloway (see p.17) offer grants to charities to acquire listed BOTTOM RIGHT: Portencross Castle, buildings at risk in order to rescue them, North Ayrshire (see p.36) and we have already had a very good level of interest.

4 During the year we said goodbye to one LEFT: Causey Hall, Halifax (see p.31) Trustee, Bob Boas, and we are grateful BELOW: for his help and support during his term Penarth Pier Pavilion, of office. Bob was replaced by Michael Hoare, Vale of (see p.43) whose knowledge of both the financial and heritage sectors will be invaluable. We were also pleased to extend the terms of several Trustees, ensuring a good blend of experience and new ideas. The only change in our staff was the welcome appointment of Gavin Richards as Projects and Development Officer (North). Gavin has previously worked for both a local authority and the Heritage Lottery Fund, and he is offering very useful support to our clients throughout the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

It only remains for me to thank my colleagues, the Chairman and all of our Trustees for their support and advice through the year, and to complete this introduction This year in Northern Ireland also saw by observing that despite all the the retirement of Richard Rogers as Chief uncertainties in the global economy, one Executive of the Environment and Heritage certainty is the ongoing commitment, energy Service (now renamed, and kept within and enthusiasm of our clients as they strive Government, to the relief of the heritage to bring new life to more historic buildings sector, as the Environment Agency); Richard the length and breadth of the UK. was a great supporter of the AHF and of the Built Heritage Forum, which I continue to chair, and we wish him well; his retirement was deservedly marked with the award of the CBE, and we were delighted to see our NI Trustee, Fionnuala Jay O’Boyle, also Ian Lush receive a CBE in the same Honours List. Chief Executive October 2008 In Wales, the Historic Environment Group continues its important work to advise the Minister on heritage issues, and to promote wider enjoyment, understanding and engagement with the subject. A successful conference, Treftadaeth 08, was held at the Wales Millennium Centre, chaired by AHF Trustee Tom Lloyd, and we were also pleased to contribute to the Historic Environment Strategic Statement which will inform the work of the Welsh Assembly Government over the next few years.

5 6 St. Albans Signal Box, St. Albans (see p.13) COMPLETED PROJECTS This year’s completed projects section contains, as always, a variety of restoration schemes. What stands out is the range of community facilities that have been provided: educational, recreational and leisure uses are all catered for.

There were several arts projects with More formal educational use features Glenkens Community and Arts Trust strongly in two projects. Cockburn KEY offering theatre, music, comedy, films Conservation Trust has tailored the Many projects receive several and community events in the CatStrand, restoration of Liberton Bank House, different AHF grants and loans. These are abbreviated as follows: formerly the town’s Old School. Elsewhere Edinburgh, to a school which provides in Scotland, the Scottish Historic Buildings specialist teaching, providing a link FSG Feasibility Study Grant Trust has completed the restoration of the to its original use, and to its former OAG Options Appraisal Grant Hippodrome, Bo’ness, which is once more occupation by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. PAG Project Administration being used as a cinema. Richmondshire Heritage BPT’s completed project, Grant BPT’s Railway Station, in Richmond, North Lochgelly Miners’ Institute, Fife, houses POG Project Organiser Grant Yorkshire, also provides the opportunity adult education for two different types to visit the big screen, but offers more to of user. Cockburn’s Blackburn House RWCG Refundable Working visitors, with an art gallery, heritage centre provides accommodation and support Capital Grant and food and drink outlets all on site. services to businesses and organisations Grant and loan information is as operating in the cultural sector. at the end of the financial year Suffolk BPT’s Pakenham Watermill (31 March 2008) but the text often adds to the existing A residential scheme is also featured, includes more recent attractions to visitors with the provision showing that such projects remain feasible developments. of a multi-function room for educational despite current uncertainty in the housing Where a grant or loan offer is and recreational use and reinstated 17th- market. It is a high-profile case: Clifton shown as ‘withdrawn’, this does century kitchen. Charlotteville Jubilee House in King’s Lynn was in the news last not necessarily mean that the Trust’s Spike, in Guildford, provides an year when Simon Thurley, Chief Executive project is not proceeding. The opportunity to experience what it would of English Heritage, purchased the applicant may have been able to have been like to be an inmate of the property and began restoration of the go ahead without it or the nature workhouse and various other community interior; the King’s Lynn Preservation of the project may have changed facilities are incorporated. Other Trust had already worked for a number and a new application submitted. community resources include Holywood of years to get the building to this Old School, in County Down, Perrott’s condition, and to ensure that public Folly in Birmingham and the Renewable access was part of the solution. Heritage Trust’s Howsham Mill project in North Yorkshire. The St. Albans Signal As always, this section demonstrates Box Trust has restored the signal box to the wide diversity of projects that a working condition, surrounded by the the AHF is able to support. It also 'signalman's garden' open to the public. acknowledges the support of other funders and the involvement of professionals in a successful scheme. We can therefore celebrate the achievements of those organisations that have restored these buildings, to the benefit of many within their respective communities for years to come.

TOP: Restored interior, Midland Hotel, Morecambe (see p.21) LEFT: The Undercroft, Clifton House, King’s Lynn (see p.10) RIGHT: The ca sual ward building, The Spike, Guildford (see p.9)

7 ENGLAND

Perrott’s Folly Waterworks Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham PERROTT’S FOLLY Listed Grade II* Birmingham Conservation Trust FSG: £7,500 disbursed September 2004

Professional Team Architect: Mark Balkham, Rodney Melville and Partners, Leamington Spa Structural Engineer: Steve Mason, Hancock, Wheeldon and Ascough, Solihull Quantity Surveyor: Andrew Bradley, J Austin and Partners, Birmingham Main Contractor: John Perrott inherited Rotton Park in 1737 Although the Folly was open to the public William Sapcote and Sons, Birmingham and built the Folly in 1758. It is seven from 1988, visitor numbers decreased Total investment: £142,915 storeys in height and was probably built and there were problems finding enough as a viewing tower. It is an extraordinary volunteers. Although not derelict, the Other Sources of Funding: survival near the centre of Birmingham. building had potentially serious repair Neighbourhood Renewal Fund: £50,000 It is linked to the pioneering meteorologist A. problems. The Birmingham Conservation English Heritage: £57,915 Follet Osler who set up one of the world’s Trust undertook a study to identify these, Birmingham City Council: £35,000 first weather recording and forecasting together with issues of ownership and viable stations there in 1884. It continued in this re-use. This uncovered a critical problem at use for 100 years. The Folly and the the point where the square base meets the neighbouring Waterworks are thought to be main part of the hexagonal tower. Cracking the key inspiration for in Lord of to external and internal masonry and the Rings; Tolkein lived nearby in Moseley. decaying brickwork were also identified. Repair work has now been completed and ownership transferred to a local housing association who have been working to use the Folly as a community resource. Whilst a clear future use has not been identified, it has been safeguarded for another century and forms part of the City’s Tolkein Trail.

The Folly and the neighbouring Waterworks are thought to be the key inspiration for the Towers in Lord of the Rings...

8 The Spike, Warren Road, Guildford, Surrey Listed Grade II

THE SPIKE LOAN: £50,000 contracted March 2008, Charlotteville Jubilee Trust Ltd security – first charge

Professional Team Architect: Gerry Lytle Associates, Guildford Structural Engineer David Osborne Associates, Farnham Quantity Surveyor: C M Parker Brown, Guildford Project Management: White & Co., Camberley Main Contractor: Lampard and Partners, Guildford The Guildford Union workhouse was erected The development of Charlotteville began in 1836 to the designs of George Gilbert in the late 1860s with the seven and a half Total investment: £1,630,000 Scott and William Bonython Moffatt, acre workhouse site at its northern edge, Other Sources of Funding: renowned workhouse architects of this which became St Luke’s Hospital until Heritage Lottery Fund: £1,195,000 period, and could accommodate up to 300 vacated by the NHS in 1996, when many Guildford Borough Council: £341,000 inmates. A new hospital wing was added in of the surviving workhouse buildings were SITA Trust: £40,000 1856 and enlarged in 1870; in 1906 several demolished to make way for a housing Surrey Community Action (Tripartite Scheme): £17,500 other buildings were constructed, including development. However, the casual ward Guildford Borough Council the casual ward, designed by Edward Lunn. was saved because of its listing in 1999 as (Tripartite Scheme): £17,500 The male section contained 17 sleeping cells a rare survival of its type. The involvement Trust’s own resources: £19,550 and 13 sleeping/work cells. Vagrants could of the Charlotteville Jubilee Trust ensured spend two nights in these, during which they continuing public access. Work to repair worked for their keep by breaking a defined and convert the building started in July 2006, weight of stone into pieces small enough with the main contract completed in July to pass through a metal grid in the wall of 2007, followed by a year of fitting out. The the cell. Another task carried out in the cells finished project provides a heritage area and was the chopping of cut lengths of railway a community facility that will provide room sleeper into kindling wood. The workhouse space with kitchen facilities for hire. There became commonly known as the ‘Spike’ is also a nursery, a studio and office space after a tool used by inmates. providing a rental income to support the building’s upkeep.

The workhouse became commonly known as the ‘Spike’ after a tool used by inmates.

9 ENGLAND

One surprise has been the discovery of an entire room panelled in Jacobean oak hidden under a layer of plasterboard...

17 Queen Street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk Listed Grade I, in King’s Lynn CLIFTON HOUSE Conservation Area King’s Lynn Preservation Trust FSG: £1,350 disbursed June 1997 LOAN: £175,000 withdrawn August 2004

Professional Team Architect: Philip Orchard, Whitworth Co-partnership, Bury St Edmunds Quantity Surveyor: G C Baxter & Associates Ltd, King’s Lynn Main Contractor: R G Carter Building Ltd, Ipswich

Clifton House is the finest grand merchant Preservation Trust had always regarded Total Investment: £370,000 house remaining in King’s Lynn. Built the building as one of the town’s most Other Sources of Funding alongside the Great Ouse, its origins date important still in private ownership and had English Heritage: £107,000 back to the 13th century. In the early 17th been concerned about its condition for some Trust’s own resources: balance century, a major refurbishment included time. When offered the freehold in 1996, it the building of the five-storey watchtower moved quickly to ensure Clifton House did on the south-west corner, the only one of its not once again fall into unsympathetic hands. type left in King’s Lynn. In the 18th century, further remodelling produced the house The Trust decided to carry out an extensive as we see it today, with an ornamental programme of external repairs and then rainwater head bearing the date 1708. sell the main house on as a single private The building has been little altered since. dwelling, whilst retaining the tower to allow The interior contains a fine 14th century public access and interpretation. Dr Simon brick undercroft and the remains of a Thurley, Chief Executive of English Heritage, medieval tiled floor and hearth. purchased the house and is now carrying out the restoration of the interior. One surprise Used as Council offices in the 1960s, has been the discovery of an entire room Clifton House was sold in 1980 for domestic panelled in Jacobean oak hidden under use and subsequently suffered from a lack a layer of plasterboard, probably added of proper maintenance. The King’s Lynn to the house in the 1620s by Thomas Snelling. The Trust has retained the freehold of the tower but intends to lease it to Dr Thurley, who will create a museum and allow public access.

10 The restoration of the Granary was accomplished reusing old materials found on site wherever possible, supplemented with finds from local reclamation yards.

Howsham, North Yorkshire Listed Grade II, GRANARY AND WHEEL CHAMBER, Howsham Conservation Area HOWSHAM MILL (PHASE I) OAG: £4,230 disbursed November 2005 LOAN: £30,000 offered December 2006, Renewable Heritage Trust increased to £50,000 October 2007. security – first charge

PAG: £4,000 disbursed January 2008

Professional Team Architect: Andrew Yeats, EcoArc, Harton, Structural Engineer: Douglas Finch, Malton, North Yorkshire Quantity Surveyor: Built in the Gothick style for the Cholmeleys Once the site had been cleared of many David Fotheringham, Turner and of Howsham Hall, possibly by John Carr years’ worth of accumulated silt the Trust’s Holman, York of York, the Mill had a combined functional first objective was to restore the waterwheel Main Contractor: Geoff Hutchinson, Appleton-le-Moors, and aesthetic role. Its dual purpose allowed and wheel pit, and to prevent further North Yorkshire. it to play the role of a decorative landscape deterioration of the surviving fabric. feature to be noted from the Hall and its An Archimedes screw electricity generator Total Investment: £166,000 approaches; however, it also drove an was floated along the river to generate undershot water-wheel. Brick built and electricity to provide power and income. The Other Sources of Funding faced in limestone ashlar, the Mill originally restoration of the Granary was accomplished Defra Rural Enterprise Scheme: £108,000 Clear Skies: £50,000 had two storeys, and was relatively intact reusing old materials found on site wherever Howardian Hills AONB (SDF): £57,000 until after World War II, when, in common possible, supplemented with finds from local Ryedale District Council: £12,600 with many large estates, the Howsham lands reclamation yards. Its interior now provides North Yorkshire County Council: £22,250 were sold and divided. Since then, the Mill toilet and kitchen facilities and houses Local Heritage Initiative: £16,700 has been much neglected, the target of the generating equipment for the hydro Yorkshire Forward: £11,045 Nationwide Building Society: £5,000 vandalism and victim of a devastating fire installation. These facilities will not only Local Trusts: £2,800 which damaged the timbers supporting the benefit the project when completed, but will Private Donations: £15,000 main drive machinery and caused the also be used by the regular working parties Friends Scheme: £5,000 collapse of the geared assembly. Most of the who continue the restoration of this remote decorative stonework above eaves level had site. This phase was completed in January fallen and much of the painted and 2008. Regrettably, vandalism remains an glazing bars of the dummy windows had ongoing problem, to the frustration of the weathered away. Trust and its many supporters.

11 ENGLAND

Richmond, North Yorkshire Listed Grade II*, RICHMOND RAILWAY Richmond Conservation Area STATION BUILDING FSG: £6,125 disbursed March 2004 POG: £15,000 offered September 2004 Richmondshire Building Preservation Trust RPDG: £25,000 disbursed January 2005 PAG: £4,000 disbursed June 2005

LOAN: £700,000 repaid January 2008, security – first charge

Professional Team Architect: John Ives, Potts, Parry, Ives & Young, York Structural Engineer: Tony Wood, York Designed by G T Andrews, Richmond Station Catterick barracks. When the branch line Quantity Surveyor: opened in 1846 as the terminus to the closed in 1969 the station was redundant, Turner & Holman, York Richmond branch line. It blended into the becoming a garden centre and builders’ Project Management: attractive riverside site at the edge of town merchants, which required few changes Turner & Townsend, Sheffield and has been described by railway historian to the building. The station had been Mechanical & Electrical: Martin Design Associates, York Gordon Biddle as a ‘monastic Gothic station unoccupied for three years when the Main Contractor: like no other, astonishingly medieval with its Richmondshire Building Preservation Trust Thomas Armstrong, Catterick arcaded and buttressed entrance, mullioned became involved. windows and tall angled chimneys’. The Total investment: £2,750,000

accommodation comprises a large train The Trust’s feasibility study established that Other Sources of Funding: shed, roofed in two spans with a central row a mix of community and commercial uses Yorkshire Forward: £390,000 of cast iron columns, and a range of rooms could prove sustainable. The local authority, Single Regeneration Budget: £295,000 on the north-east side including the main which owns the site, supported the proposals European Regional Development Fund entrance with porte-cochère (carriage and offered a 999-year lease. The early (ERDF): £800,000 Heritage Lottery Fund: £730,000 porch). The building is constructed of local aspirations have been fulfilled and the Station Richmond Town Council: £5,000 sandstone and roofed with Welsh slates. now offers a variety of facilities for the local Fundraising & donations: £305,000 The arrival of the railway in Richmond played community and visitors. Events such as R M Burton Charitable Trust: £1,000 a major part in opening up both the town seminars, trade exhibitions and dinners can G W Cadbury Charitable Trust: £6,000 and nearby Swaledale to trade and tourism. be held at the Station, which is now to Garfield Weston Foundation: £25,000 Bruce Wake Charitable Trust: £2,000 However, during the two World Wars, it was a wide range of manufacturing businesses. Kenneth Hargreaves Charitable Trust: £250 best known as the arrival and departure There are also two cinema screens, an art Gannett Foundation: £7,500 point for thousands of troops based at gallery, heritage centre and offices. Foundation for Sport and The Arts: £20,000 The Arts Council: £5,000 Richmond Mayor’s Appeal: £1,500 D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust: £5,000 Cohen Foundation: £2,000 Yorventure: £24,300

It blended into the attractive riverside site at the edge of town and has been described by railway historian Gordon Biddle as a ‘monastic Gothic station like no other...

12 Listed Grade II, in St Albans Conservation Area

ST. ALBANS SIGNAL BOX FSG: £2,315 disbursed September 2003 St. Albans Signal Box Preservation Trust PAG: £4,000 disbursed May 2005

Professional Team Architect: Melanie J. Canaway, St Albans Structural Engineer Ed Morton, The Morton Partnership, London N1 Main Contractors: Richardsons Builders Ltd., Smallford, St Albans; Groundwork Hertfordshire, Mill Green, Hatfield

The two-storey signal box was constructed The St. Albans Signal Box Preservation Trust Total investment: £135,000 in 1892, replacing an earlier one on the site was formed in 2002 from a group of local after expansion of the Midland Railway. residents concerned at the plight of the Other Sources of Funding: Heritage Lottery Fund: £50,000 The new structure was large enough to house building. It was eventually able to secure a Railway Heritage Trust: £35,000 the 44-lever tumbler frame that was installed lease of the signal box and surrounding land Lafarge Aggregates: £22,000 in 1906, the largest known to remain in for a peppercorn rent over 25 years from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation: £15,000 existence. It is the only surviving example Network Rail. Restoration work was of a three-bay Type 2a Midland Railway signal completed in January 2008 and it will now be box and is located just 100 yards south of St used as a community resource and heritage Albans City Station rear exit. It had remained attraction. The signal box is being restored vacant since it was decommissioned in 1979, to working condition with a simulated with much of the woodwork rotten and the signalling system installed to replicate the ground and first floor doors missing. The procedures used in the box’s working life. surrounding land was also derelict. The lock room – the ground floor – is used as a meeting room, and the surrounding land has been turned into a ‘signalman’s garden’ open to the public. The Trust worked with the National Railway Museum in York and other heritage bodies to ensure that the signal box was restored sympathetically whilst giving the building a sustainable future.

It is the only surviving example of a three-bay Type 2a Midland Railway signal box...

13 ENGLAND

Mill Road, Pakenham, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Listed Grade II*

LOAN: £20,000 for restoration of Mill in 1980-81

LOAN: £223,200 (including RPDG) contracted October 2000 for acquisition of Miller’s House, repaid April 2006 ...the last parish in England to contain both LOAN: £250,000 offered December 2007, a working windmill and a working water mill. security – first charge

Professional Team Architect: Nicholas Jacob Architects, Ipswich Structural Engineer: PAKENHAM WATER MILL MLM, Ipswich Quantity Surveyor: AND MILLER’S HOUSE Hyams, Ipswich Main Contractor: Suffolk Building Preservation Trust R & J H ogg, Bury St Edmunds

Total Investment: £385,000

Other Sources of Funding Manifold Trust: £1,000 Trusthouse Charity Fund: £1,000 Simon Gibson Trust: £3,000 Stuart Heath Charitable Settlement: £2,000 Harebell Centenary: £1,000 The Leathersellers Charity: £1,000 Lesley Mary Carter: £10,000 Pakenham is the last parish in England The Miller’s House is an early 17th century Alan Evans Memorial Trust: £3,000 to contain both a working windmill and building, with the end bay forming part of Dulverton Trust: £2,500 a working water mill. The Domesday Survey the mill. English Heritage suggested that the Idlewild Trust: £1,000 John S Cohen Foundation: £3,000 in 1086 records a watermill in Pakenham, Suffolk Building Preservation Trust purchase Britten Pears Foundation: £1,500 possibly on the site of the present building. the Miller’s House, and it was able to do so Prince of Wales Charity Foundation: £1,000 A Tudor mill was replaced by the present in October 2000 with the assistance of an St Edmundsbury Council: £25,000 building in the late 18th century and in 1903 AHF loan. Two funding applications were Esmé Fairbairn Trust: £53,380 ownership of the mill and Miller’s house subsequently submitted to the Heritage Rayne Foundation: £2,500 Mrs S E Bain: £6,000 was divided. The mill ceased trading in 1974 Lottery Fund; neither were successful 29 May Charitable Trust: £10,000 and was acquired in April 1978 by the Suffolk and the Trust was forced to reconsider its Worshipful Company of Grocers: £2,000 Preservation Society. It was awarded a options. Meanwhile the building has been Dr Mortimer: £1,000 prestigious Europa Nostra Diploma in 1985 re-roofed, with major repairs to the timber Band Trust: £5,000 for the restoration project. Ownership was frame. The reinstated 17th century kitchen Charles Littlewood Trust: £5,000 Scarfe Charitable Trust: £1,000 later transferred to the Suffolk Building contains an inglenook fireplace, and a Suffolk County Council: £1,000 Preservation Trust. multi-function room suitable for educational Steel Charitable Trust: £3,000 or recreational use has been completed. Mary Webb Trust: £1,000 A self-contained flat has also been created Mercers Company: £5,000 to generate a steady income for the Trust. Helen Roll Charity: £2,000 Batty Charitable Trust: £5,000 Despite the disappointment of the Lankelly Chase Foundation: £10,000 unsuccessful lottery bid, it now considers Michael Marks: £10,000 that this has allowed a more organic scheme Cadogan Charity: £2,500 which retains fully the tranquil setting. Garfield Weston Foundation: £5,000 J Paul Getty Jnr: £8,528 H B Allen Charitable Trust: £30,000

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...was once the boyhood home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...

1 Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh Listed Category C

FSG: £2,000 disbursed May 2002

LIBERTON BANK HOUSE PAG: £4,000 disbursed June 2006 Cockburn Conservation Trust LOAN: £150,000 offered December 2006, withdrawn September 2007

Professional Team Architect: Groves-Raines Architects Limited, Edinburgh Landscape Architect: Anterre, Edinburgh Structural Engineer: Mott MacDonald, Edinburgh Quantity Surveyor: KLM Partnership, Chartered Surveyors, Edinburgh Liberton Bank House was built in the late original features including the remains of Main Contractor: 18th century and was once the boyhood the original decorative schemes. Persistent Inserve Project Services Limited, home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who at the water ingress had resulted in widespread West Lothian age of five was sent to live here in the care rot so bad that the top floor rooms had Total Investment: £800,000 of Mary Burton, a key figure in the Scottish become unsafe. Set within the grounds suffrage movement and pioneering of the Cameron Toll Shopping Centre and Other Sources of Funding: educationalist, social reformer and the first vacant for over a decade, it was threatened Heritage Lottery Fund: £96,300 woman Governor of Heriot-Watt College. with demolition and replacement with City of Edinburgh Council: £32,800 a fast-food restaurant. However, this Kilmartin Property Group: £10,000 Dunedin School (through numerous The rectangular plan house is modest in size, attracted widespread criticism and the individual charities): £660,000 just three bays wide and a single storey high Cockburn Conservation Trust was with an attic. Despite a number of alterations eventually offered the building for £1 in in the 1970s, the interior retained many October 2006. It has worked closely with the Dunedin School, a charity which provides specialist teaching for educationally fragile pupils who are unable to thrive in mainstream school environments. The result is a restored building tailored to the school’s requirements, which enhances the local area and ensures the survival of Edinburgh’s last link with Conan Doyle’s childhood.

15 SCOTLAND

Near Livingston, West Lothian Listed Category A

BLACKBURN HOUSE FSG: £4,300 disbursed June 1999 Cockburn Conservation Trust RPDG: £25,000 disbursed April 2005 POG: £15,000 disbursed December 2005

LOAN: £245,000 contracted December 2005, security – first charge

PAG: £4,000 disbursed June 2006

Professional Team Architect: Simpson & Brown Architects, Edinburgh Structural Engineer Mott MacDonald Ltd, Edinburgh Blackburn House was built in 1772, probably However, the Trust was unable to make Mechanical & Electrical Engineers: for George Moncrieff, an agricultural the project viable and went into liquidation. Alan Cumming Associates, Edinburgh Quantity Surveyor: improver who had returned from the West Cockburn Conservation Trust undertook Morham & Brotchie, Edinburgh Indies where he had been a sugar plantation a study which showed that it had a workable Project Management: owner in Antigua. The house is of significance solution and acquired the building in 2005. George McNeill, Built Heritage Consultant, in its own right, but is also a testament to West Lothian Moncrieff’s entrepreneurial spirit, as he was Blackburn House has been restored as Main Contractor: Hunter & Clark, Glasgow responsible for founding the nearby town a centre for the creative industries, let to of Blackburn. The building is an attempt Caledonian Arthouse, a company specialising Total investment: £3,810,000 to combine country mansion and large in the provision of accommodation and farmhouse and is constructed in the local support services to organisations operating Other Sources of Funding: Lothian sandstone. It possesses two flanking in the creative and cultural sector. Heritage Lottery Fund: £1,995,000 Historic Scotland: £600,000 pavilions, formerly , behind which were The upper floors and pavilions contain European Regional service and agricultural courts. lettable accommodation. The principal rooms Development Fund (ERDF): £768,500 provide multi-functional spaces suitable West Lothian Council: £72,000 The house was abandoned in 1972 and for conferences, seminars and events, Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh became derelict. It was acquired in the early and for educational use. A key feature of and Lothians (SEEL): £250,000 1990s by the Blackburn House Trust, which the restoration was the retention of the planned to use the property as a conservation high-quality Rococo plasterwork, and the training centre and undertook some remedial reinstatement of the external limewash in work. The AHF offered a loan of £175,000 in a pale ochre colour faithful to the original. 1994 (see Annual Review 1993-4, p.57).

The house is of significance in its own right, but is also a testament to Moncrieff’s entrepreneurial spirit...

16 New Galloway, Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway THE CATSTRAND Listed Category C, New Galloway Conservation Area

(FORMERLY THE OLD SCHOOL) RPDG: £12,000 disbursed December 2003 LOAN: £80,000 offered March 2005, Glenkens Community and Arts Trust withdrawn September 2007

Professional Team Architect: ARP Lorimer, Architects, Ayr Structural Engineer: Hodgkin Smith Partnership, Prestwick Quantity Surveyor: McGowan Miller Partnership, Dumfries Project Management: The old school building is located in local people a voice in determining what ARP Lorimer, Architects a highly prominent position at the end of might be needed to regenerate their local Main Contractor: New Galloway’s main street and can be seen community. The restoration and conversion T Graham & Son, Langholm by visitors as they enter Scotland’s smallest of the building was intended to provide Royal Burgh. Built in the latter part of the a focal point for community and social Total Investment: £1,100,000

19th century, the single storey gabled, L-plan activity and an opportunity to promote Other Sources of Funding school could accommodate 190 children. the attractions of the area to visitors. South of Scotland European It closed in 1968 and, after a variety of uses, The CatStrand, as it is now known, takes Partnership (SOSEP): £150,000 was purchased by the Glenkens Community its name from the small stream that Scottish Arts Council: £130,000 and Arts Trust in 2001. once ran under the building. It has been Fresh Futures: £100,000 transformed into an exciting flexible Dumfries and Galloway Council: £77,000 Robertson Trust: £60,000 Set in the rural heartland of South West contemporary space and offers a year- Heritage Lottery Fund: £30,000 Scotland, Glenkens comprises the central round varied programme of theatre, music, Many other private and public funders and upper parts of Galloway’s largest glen comedy, storytelling, workshops, films and – approximately 300 square miles with community events. It also offers facilities a population of less than 2,000 people. for conferences as well as private venue The Glenkens Community & Arts Trust was hire. Open daily it offers a welcome to arts formed as a direct result of the Community audiences, businesses, the local community Horizons programme, an initiative giving and the visitor alike.

It has been transformed into an exciting flexible contemporary space and offers a year-round varied programme...

17 SCOTLAND

The miners protested about this, stormed the Institute with their wives and helped themselves to the refreshments.

125-127 Main Street, Lochgelly, Fife Listed Category B

LOCHGELLY LOAN: £189,000 contracted January 2007 MINERS’ INSTITUTE security – first charge Heritage Building Preservation Trust Professional Team Conservation Architect: Stephen Newsom, Fife Architect, Quantity Surveyor, Planning Supervisor: Dearle and Henderson, Glasgow Structural Engineer: McKinney Nicholson Associates, Dundee Mechanical & Electrical Engineer: Enconsult Ltd, Dunfermline Main Contractor: Lochgelly is situated on a ridge between weekdays as a sports facility for boxing, Richard Street Ltd, Lochgelly, Fife Loch Ore and Loch Gelly and the towns of table tennis and badminton. Responsibility Dunfermline and Glenrothes. It was once for the management and maintenance of the Total Investment: £2,433,000 a small agricultural market and weaving building passed through several authorities Other Sources of Funding centre before coal mining commenced on and it had been vacant for over 10 years and ERDF: £905,000 an industrial scale in the 1830s. The Coal in a very poor condition when the Heritage Heritage Lottery Fund: £340,000 Industry Social Welfare Organisation built Building Preservation Trust became involved. Historic Scotland: £323,000 the Miners’ Institute for use as a community Fife Council: £300,000 facility for the people of the town and when The Trust purchased the building from Trust’s own funds/ sale proceeds: £270,000 it opened in 1923 it contained a card/domino Fife Council for adaptation as a technology Communities Scotland: £165,000 Coalfields Regeneration Trust: £80,000 games room, dance hall and a quiet reading and training centre for sale to Fife Housing Robertson Trust: £50,000 room. At the opening, arrangements had Associations Regeneration Community been made for a reception but no miners Alliance. This is in keeping with the original had been invited. The miners protested about intention to provide a building for community this, stormed the Institute with their wives use. There are now two tenant organisations; and helped themselves to the refreshments. Adam Smith College, which provides The building, designed by local architect plumbing and electrical engineering courses, Andrew Haxton, is a mixture of styles. and Fife Women’s Technology Centre, One elevation is almost pure Robert Adam, a learning centre providing training in consisting of a dominant Venetian window new technology to unemployed women. and regularly-spaced Georgian windows In addition, some of the earlier uses of the below. The façade to Main Street is an Institute are available in the areas open for unusual mixture of late Queen Anne baroque public access. with touches of Beaux Arts detailing. During the 1940s the dance hall was used during

18 ...is a rare example of early pre Art Deco cinema architecture.

10 Hope Street, Bo’ness, Falkirk Listed Category A, Bo’ness Centre THE HIPPODROME Conservation Area Scottish Historic Buildings Trust FSG: £5,000 disbursed September 2002 POG: £15,000 disbursed December 2005

PAG: £4,000 disbursed May 2005

RPDG: 15,000 withdrawn October 2006

LOAN: £87,000 contracted March 2007, security – first charge

Professional Team Architect: Gareth Jones, Pollock Hammond Partnership, West Lothian Structural Engineer: The Hippodrome was designed by the Bo’ness had been in economic decline R A Skyes (Consulting Structural and local architect Matthew Steel in 1911 for many years but a Townscape Heritage Civil Engineers), Edinburgh and is a rare example of early pre Art Deco Initiative scheme was able to halt the decay Quantity Surveyor: cinema architecture. It is Scotland’s earliest of the historic environment and bring about Gardiner & Theobald, Edinburgh/ surviving purpose-built cinema and is one renewed vitality; the Hippodrome benefited Norman Wilkinson (Construction Cost Consultant), Fife cine of the best examples of a pre-1920s from this programme. It is once more being Main Contractor: theatre. It comprises a circular auditorium used as a cinema, with Falkirk Council Watson Construction, West Lothian served by rectangular corner boxes having taken out a long lease to provide containing the box office, offices and back a year-round programme of screenings. Total Investment: £1,940,000 stage area. The exterior is of rendered Furniture and fittings, sanitary ware, signage Other Sources of Funding: stone and brick. Minor alterations made and even some original seats have been Heritage Lottery Fund – Bo’ness Townscape in its early years included remodelling retained in the restoration scheme Heritage Initiative: £1,359,220 the foyer using discarded ship’s panelling Historic Scotland: £297,270 plus and fittings. The building was last used supplementary grant of £40,000 as a bingo hall until closed in the late Falkirk Environmental Trust: £50,000 1980s. In 1991 it was acquired by The The Manifold Trust: £5,000 Bo’ness Heritage Trust before being transferred to the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust. By this time the cinema had received only basic maintenance and dry rot had taken hold, with much of the floor lost and the upper rooms unsafe.

19 NORTHERN IRELAND

92 Church Road, Holywood, Co. Down Listed Grade B2; HOLYWOOD OLD SCHOOL Holywood Conservation Area Holywood Old School Preservation Trust FSG: £5,575 disbursed April 2005 LOAN: £50,000 offered March 2006, withdrawn March 2008

Professional Team Architect: Consarc Conservation, Consarc Design Group, Belfast Main Contractor: Martin & Hamilton Ltd, Ballymena M&E Engineer: AH Design, Belfast The Old School was built in 1845 and The Holywood Old School Preservation Trust Structural Engineer: consisted of a large school hall which may was formed after discussions between the Albert Fry Associates, Belfast have originally been two separate rooms, Church, owner of the Old School, and the Quantity Surveyor: together with living accommodation at either Holywood Conservation Group. Following its Consarc QS, Belfast end, one each for the male and female study, which demonstrated that community Project Management : Consarc Conservation, Belfast teachers. It is a pleasant seven-bay building use could be sustainable, it was offered

with a pitched slate roof and over-sailing a long lease at a minimal rent. The project Total investment: approx £600,000 eaves. At the time of the school’s was completed in April 2008 and the construction, Holywood’s 12th century Priory main hall will be used by a variety of Other Sources of Funding: church had recently been replaced and local community groups, with the former Heritage Lottery Fund: £455,000 tradition states that its roofing materials teachers’ accommodation converted back NI Environment & Heritage Service: £33,600 EU ‘Peace’ programme through the North were re-used in the construction of the to lettable residential accommodation to Down Local Strategy Partnership: £5,000 school. However, not long after it had been subsidise the community use. Ulster Garden Villages: £20,000 finished, the railway line was constructed, Garfield Weston: £10,000 putting Holywood in commuting distance Better Belfast Landfill Tax of Belfast; this led to a rapid growth in the Credit Scheme: £6,000 number of pupils and a new, larger school was built in the town in 1887. The Old School became the Parochial Hall and this use continued until the 1960s. The 2nd Holywood Scout troop, having used the hall since 1916, only ceased to meet here in 2002, when a lack of maintenance meant that the deterioration of the fabric raised health and safety concerns.

...consisted of a large school hall which may have originally been two separate rooms, together with living accommodation at either end, one each for the male and female teachers.

20 Midland Hotel Morecambe, Lancashire In 2001 the Architectural Heritage Fund gave a feasibility study grant to the Heritage Trust for the North West and this study contributed to the decision by developer Urban Splash to buy the Hotel in 2003. Following extensive restoration and some sympathetic new-build, the Midland re-opened this year. It is proving successful, and it is hoped that this will have a positive impact on its neighbour, the Winter Gardens, whose Friends group the AHF supports (see p.28). 21 22 Whitford Lighthouse, Burry Estuary, Gower (see p.42) PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT This section provides details of ongoing schemes supported by the Architectural Heritage Fund over the last 12 months. Whilst the projects featured have had the most significant advances, those listed are still active and more details will be provided in the future.

It is clear that the AHF’s Capacity Building Once the potential viability of any project Grant (CBG) scheme, introduced as a pilot has been established, further development KEY programme this year, has been a great funding for building preservation trusts has Many projects receive several success. Several projects, seemingly been made available through the Capacity different AHF grants and loans. These are abbreviated as follows: stalled, have benefited from measures Building Grant scheme mentioned above, designed to move them forward, either and the well-established Project Organiser FSG Feasibility Study Grant through the involvement of an experienced and Administration Grant schemes (POGs OAG Options Appraisal Grant practitioner, or by the provision of funding and PAGs). Some proposals require a great CBG Capacity Building Grant for a particular aspect of development not deal of work at this stage as funding is available from other sources. sought and other agencies consulted. PAG Project Administration Grant The AHF targets its grant funding at these The large number of options appraisal critical development phases, where it can POG Project Organiser Grant grants (OAGs) offered also demonstrates be most effective. From Spring 2008 these RPDG Refundable Project how the AHF can help organisations to schemes were amalgamated into the Development Grant start the restoration process, by bringing new Project Development Grant scheme. Grant and loan information in professional expertise at an early stage. is as at the end of the financial This is essential not only for newly- The provision of low-interest loans for year (31 March 2008) but the established trusts, such as those in working capital has been the AHF’s text often includes more recent Blisworth, or Glenarm, but mainstay since its inception and this year developments. also for established organisations such they range from £24,500 (Heritage Trust as HOLTOP, the Vivat Trust and Glasgow for the North-West) to £700,000 (Traditional Where a grant or loan offer is shown as ‘withdrawn’, Building Preservation Trust. BPT). A loan can make all the difference in this does not necessarily mean bridging the gaps between payments from that the project is not proceeding. other project funders, or for overcoming The applicant may have been unforeseen problems during the restoration able to go ahead without it or process. Loans are also available for the nature of the project may acquisition, and the Shrewsbury and have changed and a new Newport Canals Trust provides a good application submitted. example of this.

As always, this section demonstrates the wide variety of projects that we have been able to fund. What also comes across is the level of commitment of those groups of people who are dedicated to their causes with the AHF’s support. Their achievements should provide a great deal of inspiration to others dealing with their own schemes, or to those wishing to begin the process.

TOP: Shurland Hall, Isle of Sheppey (see p.34) LEFT: 810 High Road, Tottenham, London (see p.26) RIGHT: Wellington Rooms, Mount Pleasant, (see p.27)

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EASTERN REGION

Bawdsey Radar Group The Transmitter Block

Bawdsey Manor Estate, Woodbridge, Suffolk Listed Grade II* CBG: £294 disbursed August 2007 OAG: £4,400 disbursed March 2008

RAF Bawdsey was the first operational radar station in the network of long range early-warning radar stations that played such a vital role in the Battle of Britain. 1 The Transmitter Block was built in 1939, on a single storey with a reinforced 2 3 concrete roof, surrounded by concrete Moulton Windmill Project ‘blast walls’, with earth built up against Moulton Windmill – Phase II them. The Block had two transmitters, although little of the original equipment High Street, Moulton, Lincolnshire remains. There were four transmitter Listed Grade I; South Holland towers associated with the Block, but Conservation Area the last of these was demolished, despite significant public protest, in 2000. The LOAN: £50,000 contracted February 2008, Trust runs popular visitor days, and its security – repayment guarantee study demonstrated that a permanent (Moulton Bulb Co Ltd) display explaining the evolution of radar and its vital importance during the War Built in 1822, the mill was worked by could make the project viable. Further wind until it lost its sails in a gale in 1894, business advice was obtained with the after which it worked by steam, then oil help of a small capacity building grant. engine power, and latterly by electricity. It continued in use until 1994 when the last miller retired, following which it was bought by a developer who has built 1 Bury St Edmunds Town Trust a residential care home on part of the 6 Angel Hill site, but wished to see the mill restored and has let it to the Trust at a peppercorn Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk rent. Following the Trust’s completion of Listed Grade II*; Bury St Edmunds Town the initial repairs it is not only the tallest The Arkwright Society 3 Centre Conservation Area windmill in the country, but also the only mill with disabled access to a set of Cromford Station Building LOAN: £600,000 offered December 2007, working stones. The restoration has been security – first charge split into three phases: the repair of the Lea Road, Cromford, Derbyshire OAG: £2,732 disbursed February 2008 tower and internal machinery and Listed Grade II; Cromford Conservation replacement of the cap and fantail, Area and World Heritage Site No.6 Angel Hill is thought to have been completed in April 2005 when the Mill built in about 1696 and was originally a OAG: £5,000 disbursed March 2007 first opened its doors to the public with high-quality, fashionable town house. It LOAN: £110,000 contracted December the aid of an AHF loan; the replacement is constructed on three storeys with cellars, 2007, security – repayment guarantee of the furling gallery round the top of the and is of red brick with small-paned sash (Derbyshire County Council) tower, for which this loan has been windows and a pitched slate roof. The PAG: £4,000 disbursed February 2008 contracted; and the replacement of the original dog-leg stair with barley-sugar four sails and stocks, which will follow twists remains, and the principal rooms Constructed in 1875 to supplement the when funds have been raised. contain panelling and fireplaces from the existing station accommodation, Cromford Station was built of local stone with a slate early 18th century; reclaimed Jacobean 2 panelling can also be found in other rooms. roof, and with its wooden platform canopy The building occupies a prominent position it is a typical Midland Railway building of opposite the main entrance gateway to the the period. It was closed when the line Abbey and the ground floor is currently was downgraded in the 1960s, although used as a tourist office, although the upper the platform remains in use for rail floors have been vacant since the 1960s. services. The building has continued to The building is in reasonable condition deteriorate since then. The Options and is weathertight. A fair amount of work Appraisal concluded that the station could will still be required, which should allow be utilised as office accommodation to close inspection of the building’s structure provide a revenue stream in the short term. and provide clues to its likely earlier With the assistance of the Railway Heritage construction. The Trust has purchased the Trust, a long lease has been negotiated building and will convert the upper floors with Network Rail and restoration work to residential accommodation, whilst the is underway. ground floor will be used by the tourist office that currently occupies it.

24 Blisworth Historic Buildings Trust 4 The Sun Moon and Stars LONDON

64 High Street, Blisworth, 5 4 Groundwork London Northamptonshire 2 Station Buildings Listed Grade II; Blisworth Conservation Area The Vivat Trust Ltd Windsor Walk, Denmark Hill, London SE5 OAG: £7,500 offered March 2008 North Lees Hall Cruck Listed Grade II; Camberwell Grove Conservation Area This former public house and restaurant Birley Lane, Hathersage, Derbyshire LOAN: £115,000 offered September 2007, was originally built in 1797 as an inn, likely Listed Grade II; Stanage Edge security – first charge to have served those travelling along the Conservation Area Grand Union Canal, a nearby toll road and OAG: £5,000 offered June 2007 The building was constructed in 1865 as later the railway, as well as local part of the main station at Denmark Hill inhabitants. It is built in brick with a North Lees Hall is a late-Elizabethan and was originally used as accommodation hipped, slate roof, on an ‘L’ shaped plan, dating from around 1590, for the Station Master. It contains two well and may have been constructed on the and is used by the Trust for holiday finished rooms that still feature cornices, foundations of an earlier stone building. accommodation. The Cruck Barn was panelled window reveals and fireplaces. During the 1980s the ground floor was originally constructed in the 17th century, The lower ground floor rooms, accessible used as a restaurant until the building and retains its original stonework. It was from the platform and probably used by was damaged by a lorry in 1988; built as a five-bay cow barn, and extended the station staff, provided more basic thereafter it became increasingly in the 19th century. The impressive roof accommodation. The building was last neglected. Following the issue of repairs structure still displays four cruck trusses used as a small print shop until the notices it was compulsorily purchased by (naturally curved timbers), and the ground property was vacated and left empty. South Northants District Council in 2007. floor originally possessed impressive Gutted by fire in 1980 the building has For the last 20 years it has stood empty mullioned windows, although many have remained derelict and in a bad state of and in obvious need of repair, and the since been blocked. The Barn is still in repair ever since. Groundwork Trust was formed by the village farm use although it is no longer London hold a 41 year lease (from 1983) inhabitants to save this much-loved compatible with modern agricultural on the former ticket hall next door, which building and enable it to become an methods. The Trust has been offered a it restored and converted to the Phoenix architectural and functional asset to 150-year lease for the remaining historic Public House. Groundwork London the village conservation area. The local buildings on the site by the Peak District is a member of the Groundwork authority is prepared to hand it on to the National Park Authority, and considers Federation, a national network of 50 Trust subject to a viable scheme being that the Cruck Barn could be a valuable charities working with local communities identified, and the study will examine all addition to its holdings. It wishes to bring to improve their environment. It has potential options for re-use. together the entire site to enhance the negotiated a 40 year lease at a peppercorn historic integrity of the Hall, and it has rent and will undertake the restoration of therefore decided to undertake a full the building. The roof, windows and doors St James the Less Preservation Trust options appraisal to examine all will be replaced, an internal staircase will suitable end uses. The Stanage Forum, be fitted and the interior refurbished. St James the Less Church an umbrella group of users of the This fits in with Network Rail’s plan to surrounding land, residents, the Trust upgrade facilities at the Station. A tenant Spring Bank, , and Park Authority, has expressed a has been identified who has offered to High Peak, Derbyshire keen interest in having access to and pay the first year’s rent in advance. Listed Grade II; New Mills Spring use of the building. Bank Conservation Area OAG: £4,485 disbursed June 2007 CBG: £553 disbursed June 2007 5 POG: £13,000 disbursed March 2008

This compact, simple church was built in 1878 of dressed local stone with ashlar dressings and forms part of a group with the adjacent . In recent years it was used jointly by Anglican and Methodist worshippers but finally became redundant in 2005. At this point the Trust was formed with the aim of supporting artistic and cultural activities within the building, and with a lack of community facilities in the area, it could become an ideal resource for local people. With the support of the Diocese, a wide range of events already takes place throughout the year. The Trust has been able to demonstrate that this is a viable proposition in the longer term. It is now working on further development to turn this into reality.

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1 Haringey Buildings Preservation Trust Heritage of London Trust 1 810 High Road Operations Ltd 549 Lordship Lane Tottenham, London Listed Grade II*; North Tottenham East Dulwich, London Conservation Area Listed Grade II POG: £9,000 disbursed November 2007 OAG: £7,500 offered June 2007 LOAN: £300,000 offered December 2007, security – first charge This domestic dwelling was built around 1873, with the outer walls being of Built in the 1720s, 810 High Road is one innovative concrete construction using of a pair of brick-built, semi-detached ‘burnt ballast’ and portland cement merchant’s houses constructed during without steel reinforcement. Mr Drake a time of substantial growth in the area’s of the Patent Concrete Building status along a main trade route out of Company, who pioneered its design, London. Together with its neighbour, promoted it at the international exhibition the house forms a main block with a of the Royal Society of the Arts the symmetrical façade. Internally, the layout following year, with the Society’s journal remains relatively unaltered and original noting that the finish had ‘much the features such as the staircase and wall appearance of having been worked out panelling remain. However, having been of sandstone’. The building was designed unoccupied for more than 15 years, it was on two storeys with three large reception in poor condition. The Trust is repairing rooms on the ground floor. The building the exterior so that it may be sold for has been derelict for a number of years residential development. It has utilised and is deteriorating rapidly. The London the experienced Heritage of London Trust Borough of Southwark has now begun Operations to manage the project on its to instigate a Compulsory Purchase and behalf. It has been said that this building Heritage of London Trust agreed to hand on the property to the is ‘a rare, beautiful and important piece Operations Ltd Trust for a peppercorn rent following of London’s heritage’. this. Although re-use as a domestic Abbey Mills Pumping Station dwelling might appear to be the most likely solution, there are several Abbey Lane, Newham, London alternatives and the borough is likely to Heritage of London Trust Listed Grade II*/II be sympathetic to any suitable end use Operations Ltd that gives the building a viable future. OAG: £7,500 offered December 2006 123-132 London Road and 113-119 Borough Road Abbey Mills Pumping Station comprises a group of buildings designed by Charles Heritage of London Trust Southwark, London Driver under the supervision of Sir Joseph Operations Ltd Listed Grade II; St George’s Circus Bazalgette in 1865-68 to serve the 46-86A Dalston Lane & Conservation Area , a huge undertaking to modernise London’s sewerage system 457-459 Queensbridge Road OAG: £7,500 disbursed January 2008 following the ‘’. Station ‘A’, the pumping station itself, is the most , London The houses at St George’s Circus form prominent, and is surrounded by ancillary Dalston Lane (West) Conservation Area the important surviving fragment of buildings, the bulk of which are Grade II George Dance’s plans of 1807 for the OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2007 listed in their own right. All are constructed comprehensive redevelopment of the area, in yellow stock brick with red and black originally laid out following the opening of The buildings all date from the early 19th brick detailing, and redolent of Victorian Blackfriars Bridge and Blackfriars Road in century and were originally constructed pride in the improvement of the Metropolis 1769. The dates of the buildings range from as flat-fronted, predominantly three-storey by engineering methods, a combination 1820-27. With the exception of the Duke townhouses. Projecting, single-storey of Byzantine and Gothic styles and a of Clarence public house, all now have shops were added in around 1870 and collaboration between engineering and shopfronts and form a significant cohesive cover what would have been the front architecture. , the site’s group around one of South London’s most gardens. Several distinct terraces can owner, is prepared to offer a long lease important formal layouts. Purchased by be identified; nos. 48-52 are rendered on all buildings apart from Station ‘A’, London South Bank University for and retain their original eight-over-eight which needs to remain operational, redevelopment for educational purposes, sash windows; nos 54-64 are a trio of providing there is a community benefit. the complex was spot-listed by English paired houses in London stock bricks Station ‘B’, the former store, and Station Heritage in 2000 leading to the need to with gauged flat brick arches over the ‘C’, the Ancillary Pump House, are ideal for find an alternative use. The buildings window openings and no 66 may have a range of uses and the latter, it is hoped, remain in poor condition with significant been a single-fronted town house, slightly will house some courses for the Building structural problems and water larger than the adjacent paired villas. Crafts College. The site is adjacent to the penetration. The Trust’s options appraisal The majority are in poor condition, with Greenway, a footpath on the raised sewer identified a mix of retail, residential most of the residential units above the pipe, which will be a main pedestrian and office accommodation as the most shops vacant. The study identified a range access to the 2012 Olympic site. This is viable solution. of measures, including the enhancement therefore likely to be the highest-profile of the shopfronts as the key to improved heritage project in the area, demonstrating streetscape environment. It also the commitment of the current owner to suggested that suitable properties might finding a viable community-based use be used as exemplars to show adjoining for its vacant buildings and providing a owners the benefits of restoration. long-term cultural legacy.

26 3 Industrial Buildings Preservation Trust NORTH WEST Beaufoy Institute Heritage Trust for the North West 3 Black Prince Road, Lambeth, London Listed Grade II Former Wesleyan Chapel

FSG: £3,000 disbursed December 2007 School Lane, Upholland, Wigan Listed Grade II; Upholland The Arts & Crafts style Beaufoy Institute, Conservation Area by F A Powell, was built in 1907 as a philanthropic venture by a family that LOAN: £189,000 offered December 2007, made its fortune from the manufacture security – repayment guarantee of vinegar. A charitable trust, administered (Lancashire County Council) by the , was POG: £3,700 offered December 2007 established as a ragged school for the further technical education of ‘boys who Upholland’s Wesleyan Methodist Chapel belong to the poorer classes’. It was and School was built in 1849 of coursed extended in 1929 and ran as a school until sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof, being evacuated in 1939. It was then now replaced with modern felt. It forms amalgamated with the Borough Polytechnic part of a terrace of buildings dating from and subsequently became the annexe of the 17th to late 19th centuries which is the West Square School, which itself a prominent feature of the conservation became the Lillian Bayliss School. With area and overlooks the graveyard of the abolition of the Inner London Education Upholland Priory to the rear. Last used Authority in 1990, ownership passed to as a store, the building was unoccupied the London Borough of Lambeth. It has for three years before the Trust purchased been largely unused since then. This it for conversion into two flats. It has single-use study examined the viability since stabilised the severe bulge in the Heritage Works Buildings 4 of relocating the Cinema Museum and front façade. Preservation Trust Ronald Grant Cinema Archive into the Wellington Rooms Institute and awaits a positive response from the Local Authority. Heritage Trust for the North West Mount Pleasant, Liverpool Listed Grade II*; Mount Pleasant The Bothy Conservation Area

Bank Hall, Bretherton, OAG: £3,000 disbursed April 2007 NORTH EAST Nr Chorley, Lancashire OAG: £6,020 disbursed January & April 2008 Listed Grade II* RPDG: £25,000 withdrawn March 2008 2 North of England Civic Trust POG: £12,000 offered June 2007 The Wellington Rooms were built in St Mary’s Church 1815-16 to the designs of Edmund Aikin as The Trust is working on a restoration a single block on one storey in the Grecian scheme for Bank Hall in conjunction Woodhorn, Ashington, Northumberland style. Built to provide genteel entertainment with Urban Splash and the Bank Hall Listed Grade I for the most fashionable occupants of Action Group. The Bothy is adjacent to Liverpool, it remained in this use until the OAG: £8,260 offered December 2007 the building’s walled garden, and like all close of the 19th century, although sporadic the buildings on the Estate is in a totally attempts were made to prolong this until Woodhorn Church is said to be the oldest derelict condition. The roofs have about 1930. A nearby bomb explosion in church on the Northumbria coast, with collapsed and all that remain are the 1941 caused significant damage and the the nave and some of the west tower brick walls, doorways and some windows. ceilings and many decorative interior pre-dating the Norman Conquest. The Trust intends to use it as an exhibition features were lost. The building has been Originally constructed between the 12th and interpretation centre and is currently vacant for approximately 15 years. The and 13th centuries, it was substantially sourcing funds Trust initially commissioned a single-use rebuilt in 1843 by B&J Green of Newcastle study with Dance: Liverpool as end-user. in the Norman style in tooled stone and However, it subsequently decided that ashlar with a Welsh slate roof. The 2 further options needed to be explored, churchyard, which is now closed, contains and this report concluded that Liverpool some monuments listed in their own right. John Moores University would be The church became redundant in 1973 a suitable end-user. and was then converted into a museum and cultural centre. This opened in 1975 and 4 was in use for many years. A nearby project combining the county archives and a coalfield museum has now rendered it redundant. Wansbeck District Council, the current owner, has approached the Trust and offered to pass on ownership if a viable future use can be identified. The study will look at the possibility of residential, commercial and cultural/community use.

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2 3 Stockport Plaza Trust 2 The Plaza

Mersey Square, Stockport Listed Grade II*; Mersey Square/St Petersgate Conservation Area LOAN: £35,000 withdrawn March 2001 POG: £2,502 disbursed June 2001 POG: £12,500 offered December 2007

The Plaza was designed to operate as a theatre and cinema and was built to a very high specification, combining stylish design SOUTH EAST and safety features. Its glazed vitreous white terracotta frontage and neon lighting The Traditional Buildings 3 were considered in 1932 to be the very Preservation Trust latest in modernism. Internal decorative treatments included bas-relief murals of Archbishop’s Palace dancing nymphs of Egyptian theme. The stalls, circle and balcony could seat Charing, Nr Ashford, Kent 1,800 and the auditorium was topped by Listed Grade I and Scheduled Ancient a massive dome in burnished silver that Monument; Charing Conservation Area 1 Morecambe Winter Gardens was lit by 1,000 lights of ever-changing FSG: £3,750 disbursed September 2001 Preservation Trust colour. The pride of the building was the RPDG: £25,000 offered December 2002 The Victoria Pavilion (or Compton organ that originally POG: £15,000 disbursed October 2004 Morecambe Winter Gardens) accompanied films and was still being PAG: £4,000 disbursed August 2005 played until the building closed in FSG: £3,750 withdrawn December 2005 September 1999. This single project trust 208-214 Marine Road Central, LOAN: £700,000 offered December 2007, was established then and purchased the Morecambe, Lancashire security – first charge building the following year with the Listed Grade II*; assistance of a £500,000 grant from Poulton Conservation Area The Archbishop’s Palace is situated Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. in the centre of the village of Charing, OAG: £7,500 disbursed May 2006 It has developed the project for a number adjacent to the medieval church. PAG: £4,000 offered July 2006 of years and a successful Heritage Lottery Charing is one of the earliest possessions CBG: £1,750 offered February 2007 Fund application in March 2007 has allowed of the See of Canterbury, recorded in LOAN: £80,000 contracted January 2008, a more progressive scheme to be adopted, the 11th century, and the Palace was security – first charge which the AHF has been able to support. regularly used from the time of Archbishop Peckham (1279-1292). The Victoria Pavilion opened in 1897 and The site contains buildings from the late functioned as an integrated entertainment 13th and early 14th centuries. These complex linked to the Winter Gardens, Theatre Royal Onward comprise lodgings and a gatehouse over designed to house variety and musical Theatre Royal the entrance to the palace, beyond which entertainers. The building closed in 1977 lie the Archbishop’s private chambers after an adverse structural report and Corporation Street, Hyde, (now a farmhouse) and the Great Hall although exterior repairs were carried out Listed Grade II (now a barn), as well as the remains in the late 1990s, no use has been found of the chapel and various lodgings and for it since. The Trust purchased the FSG: £3,500 disbursed November 2002 garderobes. The overall condition of the building in February 2006 and is now CBG: £1,750 offered October 2007 main buildings is reasonably good and developing a scheme for its repair and many original features remain intact. reuse. Under the AHF’s Capacity Building The Theatre Royal is a large theatre, Following the death of the owner’s Grant scheme a mentor has been latterly a cinema, of three storeys in the parents an opportunity arose to appointed to provide advice and guidance. centre of Hyde. Built in 1902, it is notable commission a major study to identify The Trust continues to develop the project for its lavish terracotta and brick sympathetic alternative uses and provide with the support of the Local Authority. decoration. It was listed in April 2000 after public access to this exceptional heritage the previous owner had acquired it, with site of national importance, which 1 the intention of demolishing it, having featured prominently in the second series obtained outline planning permission to of the BBC’s Restoration programme. build sheltered housing. The Trust wanted The Trust has now agreed to purchase to develop an alternative scheme and the freehold of the whole Palace and its undertook a feasibility study; however, grounds and to repair the Great Hall with this was unable to determine a sufficiently the help of a grant from English Heritage. viable use. Since then the building has The Gatehouse will be converted into changed hands once again and the new an interpretation centre and the central owner appears prepared to consider the area between the most important Trust’s plans, and it is therefore preparing buildings will remain in the Trust’s a revised bid for an options appraisal grant. ownership to maintain public access. A mentor was appointed under the AHF’s Capacity Building Grant scheme to assist the trust through the process of shortlisting professionals.

28 Industrial Buildings 5 SOUTH WEST Preservation Trust Dawe’s Twine Works Beckery Island Regeneration Trust (The Ropewalk) Baily’s Factory and 94 High Street, West Coker, Somerset The Mill House Listed Grade II* Beckery Old Road, FSG: £2,665 disbursed January 1998 Glastonbury, Somerset CBG: £1,750 offered October 2007 Listed Grade II Supplemental FSG: £500 withdrawn 5 February 2008 OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2007 OAG: £7,500 offered March 2008 There have been tanneries on this site 4 The Ropewalk is of timber-framed since the middle ages, when the Abbots Ford Park Cemetery Trust construction, mostly open-sided, on of Glastonbury Abbey carried out works Ford Park Cemetery a single storey with an attic floor, and to provide a mill stream as a source of with Bridgwater-made double Roman tiles. motive power. The 15th century Mill House Ford Park Road, , Devon It may be the most complete example is the last surviving partly medieval Listed Grade II of a 19th century rural twine works, and building, built predominantly in the local LOAN: retains almost all of its machinery. The limestone. It was part of the grouping £150,000 offered December 2007, Trust completed a feasibility study in 1998 known as Baily’s Factory and the Morland security – repayment guarantee which focused upon how the Twine Works Works, closed in 1992. In 2001, South (Plymouth City Council) would be run as a tourist attraction, West of England Regional Development Ford Park Cemetery was opened in manufacturing limited amounts of rope Agency acquired the site for development 1848 by the Plymouth Devonport and and twine. However the project has been as a mixed-use business park, demolishing Stonehouse Cemetery Company and stalled for some considerable time, despite most of the buildings. Although it originally contained two chapels designed by a Compulsory Purchase Order having allowed the trust to carry out a study J R Hamilton and James Medland of been served by a supportive local authority. on the remaining historic buildings, it , cemetery designers of note. The building’s condition remains poor, subsequently passed the site as a whole The Nonconformist Chapel was totally being held up by hawsers and scaffolding, to a developer, although it offered the destroyed by enemy action during World although the roof has been patched. Trust the opportunity to bid for the Mill War II but rebuilt in the 1960s, when the Following an appearance on the BBC’s House for a nominal sum. An AHF-funded Chapel became a Restoration Village the trust sought some options appraisal identified conversion machine store. The cemetery went into mentoring help through the AHF’s Capacity to office use as most likely to prove viable, voluntary liquidation in 1999 and the Building Grant scheme so that it might and the project is being developed further. Trust was formed to take ownership apply for Lottery funding. This process with the strong support of the City Council demonstrated that a completely revised and the community. In September 2007 report would be required, and the AHF the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded exceptionally offered an additional grant Cornwall Buildings Preservation Trust a stage 1 pass and development funding toward this end. The Trust is working with Pellow’s Cottage & toward the cost of restoring the Chapel, stakeholders including Coker Rope and Miners’ Barracks converting it into a cultural space, and Sail Trust, which it hopes will run the transforming the neighbouring 1960s project when restored, growing flax and Luckett, Cornwall Chapel into a heritage centre. The Victorian hemp locally as raw material. Other Luckett Conservation Area Chapel will be dedicated as a memorial stakeholders include South Somerset to the civilian war dead of Plymouth, District Council, English Heritage, the OAG: £7,500 offered September 2007 and given a sustainable income-earning parish council and the County Council future as a lecture space with the latest Historic Environmental Service. The study This rare survival of miners’ barracks communication aids, as well as hosting will examine all appropriate end uses, was built for single workers at the New concerts, other cultural activities and and will investigate whether enabling Consols Arsenic Mine and Processing family occasions such as christenings development elsewhere on the site Works. It appears to be the only mine- and weddings. It will also function as will be possible. related, purpose-built barracks to be a funeral chapel. built in Cornwall, more commonly found in the frontier mines of North America, 4 South Africa and Australasia. The northern end is partitioned off as a dwelling for the housekeeper, and this is known as Pellow’s Cottage. The mine shut down suddenly in 1879, and although the buildings were owned by the mine company, the occupants remained and gradually acquired squatters’ rights. The current owner offered the Trust an 18-month option to purchase. However, before the Trust was able to proceed with the study, the building was placed on the market and the grant offer had to be withdrawn.

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Tone Mill Trust 1 Tone Mill

Wellington, Somerset Listed Grade II* OAG: £7,500 offered September 2007

As early as 1503 the Tone Mill site may have been used for the processing of cloth, being the location of the ’s fulling mill, astride a meander within the flood plain of the River Tone. By 1754 Thomas Were and Sons had built a dye works on the site and this was taken over by Thomas Fox. By 1929 it had expanded to its current configuration and Fox Brothers continued to use the site until the late 1990s. The mill buildings contain an array of custom-built machinery, providing a unique chronology of technological innovation. Although the production lines are still in a condition where they could, with modest outlay, be brought back into use, the main elements of most of the listed buildings are in urgent need of repair. A developer now owns the whole Tone Mill site and its proposals involve the removal of all of the machinery. This forms an important part of the property’s listing and the Trust wishes to ensure that this example of 2 unique industrial heritage is preserved for future generations. Despite a delay in 3 obtaining charitable registration the Trust Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is now ready to undertake a study that will Blists Hill Brick & Tiles Works examine all options. The Hopton Castle 2 Blists Hill Victorian Town, Legges Way, Madeley, Telford, Shropshire Preservation Trust Listed Grade II; Ironbridge Gorge World Hopton Castle Heritage Site

Craven Arms, Shropshire LOAN: £400,000 contracted November 2007, Listed Grade I; Area of Outstanding security – repayment guarantee Natural Beauty (Ironbridge (Telford) Heritage Foundation) POG: £7,500 offered March 2008 Blists Hill Victorian Town has been PAG: £4,000 offered March 2008 added to the long list of attractions at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum. Featuring More a fortified tower house than a a collection of rescued historic buildings defensive keep, Hopton Castle was built in their original setting, costumed staff by the Hopton family, who held it until recreate a fascinating insight into life in the 15th century, when it passed first to Victorian times. Four listed buildings on the Corbets and then the Wallops. During the site survive from the original mining the English Civil War it was besieged by and manufacturing phase of Blists Hill’s Royalist forces but the garrison preferred industrialisation and form a group that 1 to fight to the last man rather than once made up the Western Brick and surrender, and the castle was slighted Tile Works. The Blists Hill Development 3 and abandoned. Following this the ruins Project seeks to improve the historic site were sold and passed through various with a new visitor centre and the expansion hands until acquired by the Williams family, of the lower green area. Developments local farmers, in the 1950s, who are still around the Canal Street part of the Town the owners. In recent years the ruin has will see new interpretation and new use deteriorated badly, and it is too dangerous of the Drying Sheds, part of the historic for public access. The Trust has now Brick and Tile Works built by the Madeley agreed to purchase the site which includes Wood Company circa 1850. Currently, five acres of earthworks, currently grazing these buildings house the Museum’s land. The Trust has received firm offers reserve collections and the Engineers of funding from English Heritage and the workshop, as well as being used to display Heritage Lottery Fund and is confident collections relating to a 19th century that it will be able to acquire and stabilise tinsmiths and plumbers. The former the Castle and provide access and Company offices are a single-storey interpretation for future visitors. building which will be restored and used once again for office accommodation.

30 4 The Shrewsbury and Newport 4 Canals Trust Wappenshall Warehouse and Wharf

Wappenshall, Telford, Shropshire Listed Grade II LOAN: £395,000 offered March 2008, security – repayment guarantee (Telford and Wrekin Council)

The Old Grammar School The construction of the canal network in The Old Grammar School Telford between 1768 and 1792 allowed the transport of raw materials and goods to serve the development of the Industrial Hales Street, Coventry Revolution. In 1797 this network was Listed Grade I 6 extended to Shrewsbury and in 1835 a OAG: £6,575 offered March 2008 new section of canal was constructed from Wappenshall in Telford to Norbury List of other projects The Old Grammar School is the only Junction on the main line of the Shropshire supported in 2007-08 surviving building of the 12th century St. Union Canal in Staffordshire, connecting John’s Hospital, founded in 1155 by the local to the national network. The Wharf Laurence, Prior of Coventry. The surviving complex consists of a large three-storey The Arkwright Society architectural features suggest that it was warehouse, a smaller two-storey Ashford Bobbin Mill rebuilt shortly before the middle of the warehouse, the East Basin and part of Buxton Road, Ashford, Nr Bakewell, 14th century. Internal alterations date the Canal (currently filled in), and a large Derbyshire from the 16th century conversion to a parking area. The Trust wishes to purchase Listed Grade II schoolroom following the Reformation. the complex to secure its future, and has The building material is local red obtained planning permission for a canal FSG: £5,000 offered April 2003, £2,000 sandstone, much decayed externally owing museum and heritage centre on the site. disbursed June 2005 to the building’s location which means that It has also negotiated a purchase price it suffers from erosion caused by the salt with the owner. Since its foundation it has Berwick-upon-Tweed spray from the road. The school remained worked closely with Staffordshire and Preservation Trust here until 1885, when the building passed Shropshire County Councils, and Telford Dewars Lane Granary into the hands of the Old Grammar School and Wrekin Council recognises the Trustees. The charity aims to cater for contribution that the reinstated canal could Dewars Lane, Berwick-upon-Tweed, the area’s youth and it intends evening make as a tourist and leisure attraction. Northumberland sessions solely for this purpose, but wants Listed Grade II; to find sympathetic daytime uses that Berwick-upon-Tweed Conservation Area can generate sufficient income such FSG: as nursery daycare, some retail use, £5,290 disbursed February 2003 YORKSHIRE POG: a café and provision for local people. £15,000 disbursed July 2006 AND THE HUMBER RPDG: £25,000 disbursed August 2006

6 5 Heritage Works Buildings 5 Birmingham Conservation Trust Preservation Trust Newman Brothers Ltd Causey Hall (Coffin Furniture Manufacturers) 13-15 Fleet Street, Birmingham Causeway, Upper Kirkgate, Listed Grade II*; Jewellery Quarter Halifax, Calderdale Conservation Area Listed Grade II; Halifax Town Centre POG: £10,000 offered December 2006 Conservation Area OAG: £6,900 disbursed December 2007 Buildings Preservation Trust LOAN: £130,000 contracted February 2008, 35, 37 & 41 Stokes Croft security – first charge Bristol Causey Hall was originally built as a school Listed Grade II; in 1857. Surrounded by dense housing, Stokes Croft Conservation Area it accommodated 400 pupils, finally closing FSG: £3,000 disbursed June 1997 in 1960, since when it has been used as RPDG: £14,195 disbursed August 2001 a community facility. Built in the Gothic style LOAN: £600,000 offered June 2006, in stone with a slate roof, it has traceried security – repayment guarantee upper windows with arched and flat heads, (Bristol City Council) battlements and pinnacles. The Diocese struggles to maintain the building but its Broomhill Pool Trust priority lies with the Grade I Listed church next door. The Trust has developed a Broomhill Pool scheme which retains some space for Sherrington Road, Ipswich, Suffolk Parish use and continued community Listed Grade II access, whilst creating a dwelling which will make the project far more viable OAG: £3,000 offered December 2005 in financial terms.

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List of other projects supported in 2007-08

Cullompton Walronds 1 Heritage Trust for Lincolnshire Heritage Trust for the North West 3 Preservation Trust Manor Farm House Bank Hall The Walronds Helpringham, Lincolnshire Bank Hall Farm, Bretherton, Fore Street, Cullompton, Devon Listed Grade II* Nr Chorley, Lancashire Grade II* Listed Grade I; Cullompton Town Centre Conservation Area CBG: £489 offered December 2006 LOAN: £15,000 repaid 1999 (to stabilise tower) FSG: £5,875 disbursed November 1997 Heritage Trust for the North West POG: £15,000 disbursed February 2008 LOAN: £55,000 repaid June 2006, Lomeshaye Weaving Sheds security – first charge Heritage Trust for the North West CBG: £1,250 offered December 2006 Lomeshaye Mill, Whitefield, Nelson, OAG: £9,145 offered June 2007 Lancashire, Whitefield Conservation Area 25 Wallgate & 1 Rowbottom Square Wigan, Lancashire, Wigan Conservation Area FSG: £4,840 offered March 2005 Fawside POG: £8,000 offered October 2002, Nine Dargue Bastle House Heritage Trust for the North West withdrawn September 2004 Acton, Nr Allendale, Northumberland Rainhill Hall Farm LOAN: £230,000 contracted July 2006, Listed Grade II; North Pennines Area of security – repayment guarantee (Wigan Blundells Lane, Rainhill, Merseyside Outstanding Natural Beauty Metropolitan Borough Council) Listed Grade II*; Scheduled Ancient OAG: £4,331 disbursed May 2007 Monument Heritage Trust for the North West FSG: £5,000 offered March 2004 Canal House, Warehouse and Barn Friends of Abbeydale Picture House 2 Foulridge Wharf, Colne, Lancashire Abbeydale Picture House Heritage Trust for the North West Listed Grade II Sheffield St Luke’s Church Tower Listed Grade II OAG: £5,000 offered December 2005 Cheetham Hill, Manchester FSG: £7,500 disbursed June 2005 Listed Grade II Heritage Trust for the North West CBG: £1,750 offered February 2008 POG: £15,000 offered September 2002, 43 King Street withdrawn September 2004 Blackburn, Lancashire, Listed Grade II*, Great Torrington Buildings FSG: £2,250 offered September 2003 Preservation Trust King Street, Blackburn Conservation Area The Town Hall Heritage Trust for the North West OAG: £3,615 disbursed August 2007 Great Torrington, Devon Mona House LOAN: £145,000 contracted December 2007, Listed Grade II; Great Torrington security – repayment guarantee (Blackburn Conservation Area 1 Deansgate, Morecambe, Lancashire with Darwin Borough Council) Listed Grade II; Morecambe Conservation Area FSG: £4,920 disbursed August 2004 Heritage Trust for the North West 4 Supplemental FSG: £2,500 disbursed OAG: £3,475 offered June 2006 August 2006 LOAN: £90,000 repaid November 2007, 22 Main Street PAG: £4,000 offered August 2006 security – repayment guarantee Heysham, Lancashire RPDG: £25,000 offered September 2006 (Lancashire County Council) Listed Grade II; Heysham Conservation Area POG: £10,000 offered September 2006 LOAN: £50,000 contracted October 2006, FSG: £3,460 disbursed October 2005 CBG: £3,000 offered June 2007 security – repayment guarantee LOAN: £90,000 repaid November 2006, CBG: £1,588 disbursed June 2007 (Lancashire County Council) security - repayment guarantee (Lancashire County Council) Hanwell Community Centre Heritage Trust for the North West POG: £12,000 offered June 2007 Hanwell Community Centre Long Street Methodist Church (former Central London Long Street, Middleton, Manchester District Schools) Listed Grade II*; Middleton Conservation Area Westcott Crescent, Hanwell, London W7 OAG: £5,000 offered December 2005 Listed Grade II FSG: £7,500 offered March 2005

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Heritage Trust for the North West Limehouse Town Hall Consortium Trust North Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust 158 Every Street Limehouse Town Hall The Old Chapel Whitefield, Nelson, Lancashire 646 Commercial Road, London Holt Road, Cromer, Norfolk Whitefield Conservation Area Listed Grade II; Listed Grade II Limehouse Conservation Area LOAN: £24,500 repaid January 2008, OAG: £5,000 offered September 2006 security – repayment guarantee POG: £10,000 offered December 2006 (Lancashire County Council) PAG: £4,000 disbursed December 2007 Ouseburn Trust Supplemental Loan: £45,500 contracted 47-49 Lime Street January 2007, security – repayment Long Sutton and District Historic Trust guarantee (Lancashire County Council) Sneath’s Mill Lower Ouseburn Valley Conservation Area Roman Bank, Lutton Gowts, Heritage Trust for the North West Long Sutton, Lincolnshire OAG: £5,000 offered September 2006 Bridge Cottage Listed Grade I and Scheduled Nelson, Whitefield Conservation Area Ancient Monument Poltimore House Trust Poltimore House LOAN: £100,000 repaid January 2008, OAG: £7,500 offered March 2007 security – repayment guarantee Poltimore, Nr Exeter, Devon 7 (Lancashire County Council) Manchester Historic Buildings Trust Listed Grade II* Supplemental Loan: £125,500 contracted 84 Plymouth Grove FSG: £7,500 offered March 2005 January 2007, security – repayment Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester guarantee (Lancashire County Council) Listed Grade II* Rame Conservation Trust Heritage Works Buildings 5 FSG: £5,000 disbursed November 2000 Maker Heights Centre Preservation Trust POG: £4,406 disbursed September 2001 Maker, Torpoint, Cornwall 2-4 King Cross Street RPDG: £14,872 disbursed September 2001 Listed Grade II*; (Hopwood Gateway Site) CBG: £2,100 disbursed December 2007 Redoubts all Scheduled Ancient OAG: £2,500 disbursed March 2008 Monuments; Tamar Conservation Area Halifax, Calderdale PAG: £4,000 disbursed March 2008 Listed Grade II; Halifax Town Centre POG: £15,000 offered March 2008 LOAN: £260,000 contracted December 1998, Conservation Area security – first charge RPDG: £15,000 disbursed January 2000 OAG: £5,000 disbursed August 2007 Manchester Victoria Baths Trust PAG: £4,000 disbursed April 2000 Victoria Baths (Phase I) POG: £15,000 disbursed November 2001 Historic Chapels Trust Hathersage Road, Victoria Park, Manchester Wainsgate Baptist Church Listed Grade II* The Sheffield General Cemetery Trust Wainsgate Lane, Wadsworth, FSG: £7,500 disbursed April 1994 Anglican Chapel Hebden Bridge, Calderdale RPDG: £15,000 disbursed February 1999 Sheffield General Cemetery, Sheffield Listed Grade II* PAG: £4,000 disbursed April 2005 Listed Grade II; General Cemetery OAG: £7,500 offered September 2006 POG: £15,000 disbursed July 2005 Conservation Area 8 RPDG: £10,440 disbursed March 2005 Kirklees Historic Buildings Trust 6 Massey’s Folly Preservation Trust POG: £12,446 disbursed December 2006 Wellhouse Farm Barn Massey’s Folly PAG: £4,000 disbursed March 2007 Wellhouse Lane, Mirfield, North Yorkshire Church Road, Upper Farringdon, Listed Grade II Alton, South London Theatre Centre Ltd Listed Grade II; Upper Farringdon The Old Fire Station OAG: £3,000 offered March 2007 Conservation Area 2a Norwood High Street, London SE27 The Leek and Moorlands Historic LOAN: £240,000 offered September 2006 Listed Grade II; Buildings Trust POG: £15,000 offered December 2006/ West Norwood Conservation Area Haregate Hall March 2007 CBG: £4,500 offered July 2007 FSG: £3,000 offered September 2004 Haregate Road, Leek, Staffordshire CBG: £3,722 disbursed November 2007 CBG: £1, 148 disbursed November 2006 Listed Grade II CBG: £4,112 disbursed February 2008 Supplemental FSG: £4,500 offered PAG: £4,000 disbursed March 2008 September 2007 OAG: £3,750 disbursed May 2007

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List of other projects supported in 2007-08

South Yorkshire Buildings 9 Ulverston Ford Park Community Group West Midlands Historic 11 Preservation Trust Ford House Buildings Trust 42-44 King Street Corngreaves Hall Ford Park, Ulverston, Cumbria Thorne, Doncaster Listed Grade II Corngreaves Road, Cradley Heath, Dudley Thorne Conservation Area Listed Grade II* FSG: £5,000 disbursed August 2005 PAG: £4,000 disbursed February 2007 LOAN: £220,000 contracted December 2005, FSG: £4,790 disbursed December 2002 LOAN: £170,000 contracted March 2007, security – first charge LOAN: £700,000 offered June/September security – first charge PAG: £4,000 disbursed November 2006 2004, security – repayment guarantee POG: £15,000 disbursed January 2008 CBG: £10,000 disbursed September 2007 ( Sandwell District council) POG: £15,000 disbursed February 2008 RPDG: £25,000 disbursed October 2004 Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust 10 RPDG: £25,000 withdrawn February 2008 POG: £15,000 disbursed October 2005 Shurland Hall PAG: £4,000 disbursed April 2006 The Vivat Trust Leysdowne Road, Eastchurch, West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust Isle of Sheppey, Kent Hadlow Tower Foster, Rastrick & Co Foundry Listed Grade II*; Scheduled Ancient Hadlow Village, Tonbridge, Kent Monument Listed Grade I; Hadlow Conservation Area Lowndes Road, Stourbridge, West Midlands Listed Grade II*/II; Stourbridge Branch LOAN: £660,000 contracted June 2007, PAG: £4,000 disbursed February 2005 Canal Conservation Area (part) security – first charge POG: £15,000 disbursed February 2005 LOAN: £100,000 contracted May 2005, OAG: £8,088 offered March 2006 The Strawberry Hill Trust security – repayment guarantee Strawberry Hill (Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council) West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust Waldegrave Road, Strawberry Hill, Lye and Wollescote The Vivat Trust Twickenham Cemetery Chapel Listed Grade I North Lees Hall East Wing Cemetery Road, Lye, West Midlands and Pigsties Listed Grade II FSG: £7,500 disbursed September 2005 Birley Lane, Hathersage, Derbyshire LOAN: £750,000 offered December 2006, OAG: £5,725 disbursed July 2007 Listed Grade II*; (East Wing), Grade II security – first charge PAG: £4,000 offered September 2007 (Pigsties), Peak District National Park POG: £15,000 disbursed January 2007 POG: £15,000 offered September 2007 Conservation Area PAG: £4,000 disbursed November 2007 RPDG: £12,375 offered December 2007 OAG: £3,000 offered March 2007 CBG: £7,500 offered March 2008 Stroud Preservation Trust Ltd The Brunel Goods Shed The Vivat Trust Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust Ltd Station Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire Norman Arch & Cottage Former Assize Courts Listed Grade II*; Stroud Industrial Heritage Abbey Grounds, Cirencester, Northgate Street, Devizes, Wiltshire Conservation Area Gloucestershire Listed Grade II*, Devizes Conservation Area Listed Grade I LOAN: £45,000 repaid 1987-88 OAG: £5,000 offered June 2006 LOAN: £70,000 offered March 2005, OAG: £3,000 disbursed March 2008 withdrawn December 2006 Wiveliscombe Town Hall Trust 12 PAG: £4,000 offered March 2005 The Vivat Trust Wiveliscombe Town Hall POG: £15,000 disbursed August 2007 Bolton Percy Gatehouse Wiveliscombe, Somerset Thatcham (Old Bluecoat School) Charity Bolton Percy, York Listed Grade II, Wiveliscombe Conservation Area Old Bluecoat School/ Listed Grade II* and Scheduled Ancient Chapel of St Thomas Monument OAG: £5,000 disbursed March 2008 CBG: £2,078 disbursed December 2007 Thatcham, Berkshire OAG: £3,000 disbursed March 2008 Listed Grade I FSG: £5,000 offered December 2004

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Belfast Buildings Preservation Trust Former Harland & Wolff Headquarters & Drawing Office 3

Titanic Quarter, Belfast List of other projects Listed Grade B2 supported in 2007-08 OAG: £7,125 disbursed August 2007 Belfast Buildings Preservation Trust The former Harland and Wolff Headquarters and Drawing Office St Malachy’s, or Sussex Place were built in three phases between 1900 National School and 1919 within the heart of this famous Sussex Place, Belfast shipyard complex. It was here that the Listed Grade B1; City Centre design and construction drawings for Conservation Area RMS Titanic and Olympic were prepared. It has a long three-storey front wing with LOAN: £750,000 contracted June 2006, end returns, and set between these are £350,000 repaid August 2006, security – the oldest parts of the building, the two, repayment guarantee (First Trust Bank) tall, single-storey former drawing offices. Although the solid masonry structure Conway Mill Preservation Trust is generally sound, it is in poor condition 2 Conway Mill owing to extensive wet and dry rot. The 2 5-7 Conway Street, Belfast whole site is now being redeveloped and The White House Listed Grade B2 marketed as the Titanic Quarter and the Preservation Trust owners will grant the Trust a lease if The White House LOAN: £500,000 offered December 2006, a suitable and sustainable scheme can security – first charge be identified. 30-34 Whitehouse Park, PAG: £4,000 offered November 2007 Newtonabbey, Co Antrim Listed Grade B+ The Friends of Lissan Trust Glenarm Buildings 1 Lissan House & Yard FSG: £5,000 disbursed July 2003 Preservation Trust POG: £10,000 offered June 2007 Cookstown, Co Tyrone Seaview Hall PAG: £4,000 disbursed March 2008 Listed Grade B1 FSG: £7,500 disbursed December 2002 The White House is one of the finest New Road, Glenarm, Co Antrim POG: £15,000 disbursed May 2007 examples of a Plantation Bawn, or stone Glenarm Conservation Area RPDG: £15,000 disbursed June 2007 fortified dwelling, surviving in Northern CBG: £2,468 offered August 2007 OAG: £4,145 offered June 2007 Ireland. It is first shown on a map of 1569 PAG: £4,000 disbursed October 2007 CBG: £1,750 offered November 2007 and mentioned in a “noate” of 1574 when CBG: £5,000 offered November 2007 Elizabeth I gave it to a Mr Brunker in Seaview Hall was built as a National appreciation of his distinguished military 3 School in 1888 on a portion of land service during the Spanish wars. On Gracehill Old School Trust adjacent to the Church of the Immaculate 14 June 1690 King William III’s army Gracehill Old School Conception (1875) and was originally of 35,000 men and 700 ships landed at Church Road, Gracehill, Co Antrim divided into separate sections for boys the nearby ancient quay. William met and girls. The building became redundant Listed Grade B2; Gracehill with his officers at The White House Conservation Area when a new school was built in 1972 to plan strategies for his war against and although initially used for a variety King James II at the Battle of the Boyne. PAG: £4,000 disbursed April 2005 of community uses it has now fallen into In 1997, the building was purchased by POG: £15,000 offered September 2005, disuse as it no longer complies with the Ulster Garden Villages Trust on behalf withdrawn March 2007 licensing requirements. It is structurally of the Abbey Historical Society – now sound but is showing signs of neglect the White House Preservation Trust. The Irish Landmark Trust owing to its redundancy and poor The Trust has developed new proposals Triumphal Arch Gatelodge maintenance. The potential for beneficial preserving the remains of the original Colebrooke Park, Co Fermanagh re-use has improved in recent years structure and introducing a reversible Listed Grade B2 following the restoration of the harbour mezzanine and glass-walled upper storey and the creation of a marina which largely concealed from view. The new OAG: £3,000 offered June 2005 attracts visitors to Glenarm. The town scheme has been approved in principle lies within an area of outstanding natural by the environment and Heritage Service: Old Belmont School Preservation Trust beauty and the main Antrim Coast Road Northern Ireland and the Heritage Lottery passes in front of the building. The Belmont Tower (former Fund and has achieved substantial offers Belmont Primary School) Church has stated its willingness to of funding both for the capital phase and grant a long lease to the Trust should for the subsequent operation of a planned 82 Belmont Church Road, Belfast a viable re-use be identified. heritage centre linked to the Williamite Listed Grade B1 landing and battles and to a new heritage 1 FSG: £4,941 disbursed July 2001 centre being developed at Oldbridge, site PAG: £4,000 disbursed October 2002 of the Battle of the Boyne. RPDG: £23,500 disbursed October 2002 LOAN: £180,000 repaid April 2005, security – repayment guarantee (Ulster Bank) LOAN: £75,000 offered September 2007, security – repayment guarantee (Ulster Bank) CBG: £1,750 offered November 2007

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Brough Lodge Trust 1 Brough Lodge

Fetlar, Shetland Listed Category A PAG: £4,000 offered August 2007 POG: £1,500 offered September 2007 CBG: £5,555 disbursed February 2008

Built on the summit of a low hill commanding the Ness of Brough, Brough Lodge (c. 1820) is a castellated villa sited in a carefully laid out designed landscape centred on an iron-age (a scheduled ancient monument) on which a contemporary observation tower was built for Arthur Nicolson, who enclosed the Fetlar lands for sheep and cleared the tenants. It remained in the family until acquired by the Trust in 2007, but has been unoccupied since 1988. The Trust has carried out an options appraisal and concluded that the future use most likely to prove viable is as a centre for residential courses. Applications for support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Highlands and Islands Enterprise have been accepted in principle. 1

Cockburn Conservation Trust Friends of Portencross Castle Glasgow Building Preservation Trust Riddle’s Court Portencross Castle St Margaret’s Church

322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh Portencross by Seamill, West Kilbride, 110 Polmadie Road, Oatlands, Glasgow Listed Category A; Edinburgh World North Ayrshire Listed Category B Heritage Site Listed Category A; Scheduled Ancient Monument OAG: £12,500 offered June 2007 OAG: £12,500 offered March 2008 FSG: £7,500 disbursed July 2003 St Margaret’s Church was built between The Riddle’s Court buildings are the POG: £15,000 offered December 2004 1897 and 1902 and was designed by Peter remains of two three-storey L-plan PAG: £4,000 disbursed July 2007 McGregor Chalmers as the last of a series houses built c. 1590. They were CBG: £6,000 offered March 2008 of churches commissioned by the reconstructed for the owner, renowned Reverend John MacLeod for the Govan Scottish urban planner and educationalist Portencross Castle stands on a rocky Parish Church Extension Scheme. Patrick Geddes, as University Halls in promontory that juts into the Firth of Constructed from red sandstone, it is 1892-3. The City of Edinburgh Council Clyde. The keep and tower, parts of which cleverly interconnected with its manse, has owned the buildings since 1947 and date from the 14th century, were originally hall and transept via a covered single- reconstructed them again as education a four-storey building with garrets. It was storey link which in turn helps create rooms in 1964. A number of very fine abandoned by its owner shortly after the a courtyard. The church remained in use historic interiors have been retained, restoration of Charles II in 1660 and then until 1984 when it was sold by the Church including 17th century plasterwork occupied by fishermen until the roof of Scotland. By 1990 it had changed hands ceilings and a painted ceiling by the collapsed in 1739. A concrete slab erected several times and was added to the celebrated 19th century Edinburgh over the tower has created structural Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland. decorator, Thomas Bonnar, together problems and the building is now in a In 2002 a regeneration programme was with timber-panelled rooms with dangerous condition. The castle featured approved for the area and by 2004 the decorative fireplace surrounds. The in the BBC’s 2004 series of Restoration City Council had acquired the Church by buildings have been under threat of and it was gifted to the Trust in December compulsory purchase. The City Council closure or sale for a number of years. 2005 together with a donation of £50,000 has retained ownership in an area that has In 2007, the Friends of Riddle’s Court from its owners, British Nuclear Fuels. otherwise been cleared for new housing Edinburgh, a community group formed It has since been awarded a grant of and favours community uses for the to safeguard them, produced a plan to £510,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund Church in the newly developed area of develop the buildings as an Adult and received an indicative offer of £367,000 Oatlands. Subject to a viable use being Learning Centre incorporating public from Historic Scotland. Fundraising identified, the Council has indicated its exhibition space, interpreting their activities have brought the Trust to the willingness to transfer the Church to the historic links with Geddes and the position where 95% of the current Trust for £1. philosopher David Hume, who also estimated project costs, more than £1m, lived there. The Trust was approached are funded. The restoration project will to explore this among a range of possible consolidate the ruin and allow public uses as part of the options appraisal. access to the interior for the first time.

36 2 Glasgow Building 2 Govan Workspace Ltd Preservation Trust Fairfield Shipyard Office Pollokshaws West Station 1048 Govan Road, Glasgow Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow Listed Category A Listed Category B OAG: £11,720 offered December 2007 OAG: £3,000 offered December 2007 Designed by John Keppie around 1890 for Built in 1847 for Glasgow Barrhead and arguably the most prestigious shipbuilder Neilston Railway, Pollokshaws West in the world, the Fairfield Shipyard Station building is constructed on a long offices were the centre of the rectangular plan, rising to two storeys on shipbuilding industry on the Clyde the Pollokshaws Road and a single storey in its heyday. Designed in the French on the embanked platform. Owned by style, on either side of the Network Rail, the main building has been central pedimented door are figures of out of use for 10 years, although trains two workmen, each standing on the prow still stop at the station. First Scotrail, the of a ship, symbolising the shipbuilding franchisee for Network Rail, lets redundant and engineering sides of the business. station buildings to community-based Extending 350 feet along Govan Road, organisations under its Adopt a Station and on two storeys, the ground floor was scheme. The station has been identified as occupied by the boardroom, directors’ an ideal base for South West Community room, cashiers’ and book-keepers’ Cycles, a charity which provides safe, Glasgow Building 3 offices, with the upper floor consisting of two drawing offices, one for engineers affordable cycling to children and adults Preservation Trust in south-west Glasgow, to use as its Bike and one for shipbuilders. The buildings Access point. The Trust will investigate the British Linen Bank Tenement have been vacant since 2001 and viability of this scheme in a single-option boarded-up since 2004; they have study, with a view to carrying out the repair 162-170 Gorbals Street, Glasgow deteriorated rapidly and are now and conversion of the Ticket Hall and Listed Category A seriously at risk. The current owner, Clydeport plc, has procured architectural Waiting Room with South West Community OAG: £12,500 offered March 2008 Cycles as its defined end user. and engineering advice but has been Built in 1900, the former British Linen unable to find a sustainable future use. Bank building is the only surviving It has therefore approached Govan example of a Gorbals tenement. It was Workspace to find a viable solution and Glasgow Building Preservation Trust designed by James Salmon Jr. (1873- has formally committed to passing on ownership. Maxwell Park Station 1924). Known as the ‘wee trout’, Salmon was a contemporary and friend of Charles Fotheringay Road/Terregles Avenue, Rennie Mackintosh and is best known for his landmark Art Nouveau ‘Hatrack’ Pollokshields, Glasgow Govan Workspace Ltd Listed Category B; West Pollokshields building in St Vincent Street, Glasgow. Conservation Area Currently owned by a housing association, Govan Old Parish Church this building has been empty for at least OAG: £7,500 offered June 2007 16 years. It is in very poor condition and 866-868 Govan Road, Glasgow categorised as high risk on the Buildings Listed Category A, Scheduled Maxwell Park Station was built in 1894 as at Risk Register for Scotland. The owner Ancient Monument part of the Caledonian Railway Company’s had originally aspired to restore the rapid expansion into the suburbs on the building with a view to providing social OAG: £12,000 offered March 2008 south side of Glasgow. It is one of 10 housing, but despite various efforts over Govan Old Parish Church (the Parish stations constructed in the 1880s on a number of years had been unable to Church of St. Constantine in Govan) built what is known as the Cathcart Circle and establish a viable funding package. in 1883-8 by Robert Rowand Anderson designed in a style considered a precursor Following discussion with the City Council is the last in a long series of churches of the Arts & Crafts movement. Following and the owners, the Trust has been on this site, the oldest known place ‘de-staffing’ in 1986 the station became identified as the best hope for finding of Christian worship on the Clyde. derelict and British Rail applied for a new use and saving the building. consent to demolish, which was refused. The church’s minister, Reverend Dr John A Repairs Notice was served and as 3 Macleod, a pioneer of Scots-Catholicism, a result it was repaired via Railtrack’s was influential in its design, which is Station Regeneration Programme. inspired by Italian Franciscan basilicas The building has not been in use and the Pluscardine Priory at Elgin, since then due to hefty anti-vandalism and it contains windows measures such as blocked doorways by Charles Eamer Kempe. An exceptional and raised window heights and there being collection of Early Christian sculpture, no power, lighting or sewage connection. most of which was brought into the The Trust has been offered the building on church from the graveyard in 1926, a 25-year lease through the Adopt a Station occupies the nave and west transept. scheme, subject to a tripartite agreement There are 31 notable sepulchral and an acceptable and viable end use monuments in all, among them a being identified. The Trust’s hope is that sarcophagus and five ‘hogback’ carved a scheme will emerge that will allow stones of Viking origin or influence, the restoration of the building’s original which is easily the largest group in architectural composition through the Scotland. The Church is minded to sell provision of a single, or number of the building to Govan Workspace for £1 mixed-use units for let. if a viable end use is found.

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1 Highland Buildings Preservation Trust 30 Princes Street

Thurso, Highlands Listed Category B; Thurso Conservation Area OAG: £7,500 offered September 2007

The property is a tall, two-storey classical townhouse dating from c. 1800, built of squared Caithness rubble with raised margins indicating that it was originally harled. Despite its poor condition, an elegant oval staircase survives together with some good plasterwork. The building forms part of Sir John Sinclair’s grid iron plan for the New Town of Thurso. The 1 Trust was offered a Feasibility Study Grant The Greenlaw Town Hall Trust Ltd The Gunsgreen House Trust in 2002 but this offer was withdrawn in Greenlaw Town Hall Gunsgreen House July 2003 when the owner took up a legal action against the Highland Council and Greenlaw, Berwickshire Eyemouth, Scottish Borders the Trust decided to take no further Listed Category A; Greenlaw Outstanding Listed Category A; Eyemouth action until this had been concluded. Conservation Area Conservation Area The Highland Council has now served a repairs notice on the owner with a view OAG: £7,500 disbursed October 2007 LOAN: £45,000 repaid December 2006 to proceeding to a Compulsory Purchase CBG: £13,000 offered December 2007 LOAN: £160,000 offered March 2008, Order in the event of non-compliance. security – first charge A back-to-back arrangement has already Greenlaw was the county town of been agreed in principle between the Berwickshire from 1696 until 1904. Designed in 1753 by the Adam brothers Council and the Trust. The Trust has In 1829, at his own expense, Sir William of Edinburgh for the Eyemouth merchant discussed the project with a housing Purves Hume Campbell retained John John Nisbet, Gunsgreen House is an association, which has expressed an Cunningham to design a suitably grand outstanding example and a rare survival interest as a potential end-user. new county hall and courthouse, forming of an 18th century merchant’s house. a composition with the equally grandiose After a variety of uses, Gunsgreen House Castle Inn Hotel on the opposite side was purchased in 1967 by the local of the square. The Trust undertook a authority so that its lands could be used Kintyre Amenity Trust 2 feasibility study in 1998 but its preferred for public housing. The house was used option fell through. In the meantime, as a golf clubhouse until 1997, since Former Free Church School the building’s condition deteriorated when it has been in partial use for various (The Old School) significantly, requiring emergency temporary purposes but mostly empty. stabilisation work to avert structural The Trust acquired a 99-year lease at a Big Kiln Street, Campbeltown, collapse. It was featured in the BBC’s 2006 peppercorn rent from the local authority Argyll and Bute series of Restoration. An AHF options in 2000. It has completed Phase 1 of a Listed Category B, Campbeltown appraisal identified a mix of community restoration project and the redevelopment Conservation Area use and office space as the preferred end of the dovecote next to the house into OAG: £7,500 offered June 2007 use. The Trust was awarded a £500,000 self-catering accommodation. Work grant from Historic Scotland towards part started in 2007 on the £2m final phase of The Former Free Church School is a restoration and to convert two of the wings the project, which will see the restoration modest but elegant mid 19th century into offices. It has since been working to of the principal rooms on the ground and building and an interesting survival of its raise the match funding required. first floors so that they can be opened type. It is the only building remaining of to the public during the day while being a group of four on this site that comprised available for functions in the evening. two churches, one for Gaelic speakers with 1,500 seats and one for English speakers with 900 seats, and two school 2 houses, one for the teaching of trades and one for general education (the surviving building). The two churches were replaced in 1867 by the large existing church by James Boucher and the trade school was demolished. Campbeltown has been awarded an Historic Scotland grant under its new Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme and the Old School is a key building within it. Ideally, the Trust would prefer to retain ownership of the building and identify a use that is complementary to the adjacent Heritage Centre. However, if the economic analysis identifies a commercial re-use that could provide an income for the Trust, it has indicated its willingness to dispose or let the property if necessary.

38 Penicuik House 3 Preservation Trust Penicuik House

Penicuik, Midlothian Listed Category A; Scheduled Ancient Monument FSG: £5,000 disbursed November 2003 POG: £14,524 disbursed March 2007 LOAN: £500,000 offered December 2007, security – repayment guarantee (Clydesdale Bank)

Penicuik House, built between 1761-69, is the finest and most influential example of Palladian architecture in Scotland. 3 It was gutted by fire in 1899 and has stood as a ruin ever since. It sits at the centre 4 of an important landscape designed by Strathclyde Building The Vivat Trust Ltd Sir John Clerk in the first half of the 18th Preservation Trust Earlstoun Castle century. Influenced by the natural beauty Kilmory Home Farm and topography of the land, the grounds St Johns Town of Dalry, contain 18 structures including bridges, Lochgilphead, Argyll and Bute Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway eye catchers and monuments. The Listed Category B Listed Category A; Scheduled Penicuik House Partnership, a partnership Ancient Monument between the Trust, the Scottish Lime OAG: £7,500 offered December 2007 Centre Trust and the building contractor, OAG: £3,000 disbursed August 2007 intends to deliver a phased programme The Home Farm was constructed in 1816 POG: £15,000 offered September 2007 of work over six years to consolidate the to serve Kilmory Castle. The structures PAG: £4,000 offered December 2007 ruin of the house, providing both training comprise a main steading surrounding and educational benefits. Interpretation a rectangular-plan classical courtyard with Originally a fortified tower house facilities will be provided in the west a separate range, a stable block, animal constructed around 1615 for John Gordon wing and a series of lectures, courses shed, saw mill, barn and horse-exercising of Airds, Earlstoun Castle is of random and practical demonstrations will be ring. It is a good example of a model estate rubble construction on three storeys to co-ordinated on site by the Scottish Lime farm typical of its time and is contained in an ‘L’ shaped plan. It is set in an attractive Centre Trust. A dedicated education officer the designed landscape believed to have location overlooking Earlstoun Loch on will be employed to manage the training been set out by William Hooker, founder one side and Earlstoun Oak Wood to the and a year-round educational programme. of Kew Gardens and Professor of Botany at other. It has been uninhabited since the Glasgow University. Owned by the council 1780s, although it has retained some for some years, and immediately adjacent internal timber panelling, plasterwork to its headquarters, proposals for various and cornicing from the mid-1650s. It Strathclyde Building uses have come and gone with no action became an estate store, with a single- Preservation Trust taken because the cost of regeneration has storey extension in the 19th century, been seen as prohibitive. Housing, office used as a sawmill. The upper floors have The Burgh Hall and business use, with the possibility of collapsed, with water having penetrated providing further space for council offices all parts of the structure, weakening it 195 Argyll Street, Dunoon, Argyll and Bute will all be considered in the options considerably. The building is owned by Listed Category B appraisal. The Friends of Kilmory Home Earlstoun and Sanqhar Trust, which OAG: £7,500 disbursed January 2008 Farm group has been working closely has offered the Vivat Trust a long lease, with local commercial partners, including together with the necessary land and Opened in June 1874, the Burgh Hall was the Forestry Commission, which is access, if a viable scheme can be identified. Robert Bryden’s first commission and is interested in the farm as a base, designed in a rather understated Scots as it plans to generate tourism in the area, Baronial Style. A range of stylistic devices introducing paths and cycleways in the was employed to project an image of civic designed landscape. importance, making it appear larger and grander than it really was. The building 4 was operated by the local authority and widely used by the local community until the late 1970s, when the public hall was closed, but the front ground floor offices remained in use. In 2001 ownership passed to Fyne Homes, a housing association, which proposed converting it into offices and flats. This prompted spirited local opposition to the perceived loss of a community asset. The building has been empty since 2005, but if a viable solution to return the Hall to beneficial public re-use emerges from the options appraisal, the owner has stated its willingness to pass the building to the Trust for a nominal sum.

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List of other projects supported in 2007-08

Ayrshire Architectural Heritage Trust Fife Historic Buildings Trust Heritage Building Preservation Trust 3 1-3 Dunlop Street and Hew Scott Hall, St Nicholas Tower 1a Bellman’s Close 12 Strand Street & Town Hall Beith, North Ayrshire Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire Anstruther, Fife Listed Category C; Beith Outstanding Listed Category C, Kilmarnock Central Listed Category A (Tower & Hew Scott Hall), Conservation Area Conservation Area Category B (Town Hall); Anstruther POG: Conservation Area £7,500 disbursed July 2007 OAG: £5,000 offered March 2007 PAG: £4,000 disbursed December 2007 OAG: £4,800 disbursed February 2008 LOAN: £105,000 offered March 2008, The Belmont Trust security – first charge Belmont House Four Acres Charitable Trust Former Dowanhill Church Highland Buildings Preservation Trust Unst, Shetland Islands (Cottier Theatre) (Final Phase) Alness Old Parish Church Listed Category A 93-97 Hyndland Street, Glasgow Alness, Highlands FSG: £5,537 disbursed February 1998 Listed Category A; Glasgow West Listed Category B LOAN: £150,000 offered March 2004, Outstanding Conservation Area withdrawn January 2005 FSG: £5,000 disbursed October 2002 LOAN: £75,000 offered March 2006 RPDG: £25,000 disbursed June 2003 PAG: £4,000 disbursed December 2006 (Phase II), withdrawn August 2007 PAG: £4,000 disbursed January 2005 POG: £5,000 disbursed January 2007 LOAN: £500,000 contracted September RPDG: £5,000 disbursed January 2007 Clackmannanshire Heritage Trust 2005, security – first charge Tullibody Old Kirk POG: £15,000 disbursed April 2007 Highland Buildings Preservation Trust Townlands Barn Menstrie Road, Tullibody, Alloa, Four Acres Charitable Trust High Street, Cromarty Clackmannanshire Lansdowne Parish Church Listed Category A Listed Category A; Cromarty Outstanding 416-420 Great Western Road, Glasgow Conservation Area OAG: £3,000 offered March 2007 Listed Category A; Glasgow West FSG: Outstanding Conservation Area £7,500 disbursed June 2005 Dunbar Harbour Trust 1 POG: £15,000 disbursed July 2007 FSG: £6,410 disbursed May 2006 PAG: £4,000 offered August 2007 McArthur’s Store Building (to Glasgow Preservation Trust) RPDG: £25,000 offered September 2007 Dunbar Harbour, Victoria Street, RPDG: £25,000 offered September 2006 CBG: £20,000 offered October 2007 Dunbar, East Lothian CBG: £10,523 offered November 2007 Listed Category B; Dunbar Kirkintilloch Town Hall Preservation Trust Conservation Area Glasgow Building Preservation Trust Kirkintilloch Town Hall Gartnavel Royal Hospital Chapel FSG: £3,000 disbursed March 2006 (offered Union Street, Kirkintilloch to McArthur’s Store Preservation Trust) Shelley Road, Glasgow Listed Category B; Peel Park Outstanding RPDG: £25,000 offered March 2006 Listed Category B Conservation Area PAG: £4,000 offered April 2006 LOAN: £100,000 offered March 2007, OAG: £7,500 offered December 2006 OAG: £5,715 disbursed May 2007 security – first charge CBG: £500 offered May 2007 POG: £11,707 disbursed February 2008 Govanhill Baths Community 2 CBG: £10,200 offered June 2007 Development Trust Govanhill Baths The Kirkmichael Trust 99 Calder Street, Glasgow Kirkmichael Listed Category B Balblair, Ross and Cromarty OAG: £7,000 disbursed September 2007 Listed Category B; Scheduled Ancient Monument RPDG: £14,829 disbursed November 2004

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The Knockando Wool Mill Trust 4 North East Scotland Preservation Trust Solway Heritage Knockando Woolmill and Croft 34 Broad Street/ Erskine Church 1 & 3 Rose Street Knockando, Aberlour, Moray High Street, Langholm, Listed Category A Peterhead, Aberdeenshire Dumfries & Galloway Listed Category B (Broad Street) Category C Listed Category B; FSG: £7,173 disbursed May 2001 (Rose Street); Peterhead (Central) Langholm Conservation Area PAG: £4,000 offered May 2006 Outstanding Conservation Area POG: £15,000 offered March 2007 FSG: £4,670 disbursed November 2007 RPDG: £25,000 disbursed September 2007 FSG: £2,000 disbursed August 2007 CBG: £20,000 offered October 2007 Solway Heritage North East Scotland Preservation Trust St Michael’s Lodge Lewis and Harris Buildings 36 St Andrews Street/ Preservation Trust 2-4 Threadneedle Street Craigs Road, Dumfries, Industrial Female School Dumfries & Galloway Peterhead, Aberdeenshire Listed Category B Keith Street, Stornoway, Western Isles Listed Category C; Listed Category B; Stornoway Outstanding Peterhead (Central) Outstanding FSG: £4,070 disbursed August 2007 Conservation Area Conservation Area Solway Heritage 7 PAG: £4,000 offered June 2006 FSG: £2,000 disbursed August 2007 POG: £15,000 offered June 2006 73-75 High Street St Nicholas Apse Trust 6 Annan, Dumfries & Galloway Mavisbank Trust The Alms Collection House Listed Category B; Annan Outstanding Mavisbank House Conservation Area St Nicholas Buccleuch Church, Edinburgh 119 High Street, Dalkeith, Midlothian OAG: £5,000 offered March 2007 Listed Category A Listed Category A; Dalkeith Palace and Park Conservation Area FSG: £5,000 disbursed May 2002 RPDG: £12,750 disbursed February 2005 OAG: £1,260 disbursed July 2007 POG: £15,000 offered September 2005, withdrawn March 2007 Scottish Redundant Churches Trust CBG: £5,000 offered November 2007 Polwarth Kirk National Trust for Scotland: Polwarth, Nr Duns, Berwickshire, Borders Little Houses Improvement Scheme Listed Category A 2-4 Threadneedle Street/ FSG: £6,200 offered March 2005 32-36 St Andrews Street Peterhead, Aberdeenshire Scottish Redundant Churches Trust Listed Category B; Peterhead (Central) Cromarty East Church Outstanding Conservation Area Church Street, Cromarty, Ross-shire POG: £7,500 disbursed February 2008 Listed Category A; Cromarty Outstanding Conservation Area 5 National Trust for Scotland: PAG: £4,000 disbursed April 2006 Little Houses Improvement Scheme LOAN: £250,000 offered June 2007, security Glen O’Dee Hospital – repayment guarantee (Highland Council) Corsee Road, Banchory, Aberdeenshire Listed Category A OAG: £1,625 disbursed May 2007 CBG: £2,500 offered June 2007

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Cadw Sir Gaerfyrddin Cyf Whitford Lighthouse

Burry Estuary, Gower Listed Grade II* OAG: £9,515 offered June 2007

Whitford Lighthouse was built in 1865 by the Llanelli Harbour and Burry Navigation Commissioners to the south of the entrance to Burry Harbour. It is thought to be the only surviving major cast-iron, 2 wave-swept lighthouse in British coastal waters. Constructed of cast-iron plates, it tapers from 6.5 to 3.5 metres at gallery Cardigan Building Preservation Trust Menai Bridge Community level. Internally there are two rooms, Heritage Trust Ltd the lantern room and ‘living’ room for The Guildhall lighthouse keepers. It remained in use Canolfan Thomas Telford until 1921 but was retained as a landmark Cardigan, Ceredigion Centre (formerly St Mary’s at the request of the shipping authorities Listed Grade II* Church Hall) using Burry Port, itself closed to OAG: £4,260 disbursed October 2006 commercial traffic in 1951. The structure RPDG: £25,000 disbursed September 2007 Mona Road, Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey appears to be in generally good condition, PAG: £4,000 offered September 2007 Menai Bridge Conservation Area with only two or three cast iron plates CBG: £2,552 disbursed October 2007 cracked. The owner, Carmarthenshire OAG: £3,690 disbursed January 2006 PAG: £4,000 offered April 2007 County Council, has offered it to the Designed by R J Withers and opened in Trust for £1. There is no road access and 1860, the Guildhall, together with the St Mary’s Church Hall was constructed although it is accessible on foot at low tide, attached two-storey covered market, in 1853 as the National School for Menai at high tide it stands in six metres of water. was the first civic building in Britain Bridge. It was deemed redundant and This is an unusual and difficult project; constructed in the Ruskinian Gothic style. the Trust was offered preferred bidder nevertheless the Trust believes that viable Corn, wool, meat and produce markets status by the Church Commissioners. long-term use is attainable and its study were based here, together with the It undertook an options appraisal to assess will examine all possibilities. Borough Chambers and Mechanics’ whether it would be suitable for use as an Institute and Grammar School room, exhibition and events centre supporting and a clock tower was added in 1892. its other activities on Prince’s Pier. Cadwgan Building 1 With decreasing use in recent years, It has since purchased the building and the building diminished in importance Preservation Trust undertaken supplementary development to the town and became poorly utilised work, producing a business plan showing Cardigan Castle Site by the community. The upper hall and that the scheme is feasible. Now known as serving areas were no longer used as the Canolfan Thomas Telford Centre, it has Cardigan, Ceredigion the Town Council’s Chamber and the hosted temporary exhibitions, including Listed Grade I (Castle), other structures building’s condition had deteriorated a celebration of Thomas Telford’s work. Grade II* and II; Scheduled Ancient as a result. The Trust has continued to Monument develop the project since it completed an options appraisal study. The renovation OAG: £7,500 disbursed March 2008 of the building to redevelop its spaces as CBG: £3,500 offered March 2008 Menai Bridge Community a multi-functional community centre has PAG: £4,000 offered March 2008 Heritage Trust Ltd been divided into three phases, the first and second having been completed and Old Warehouse Cardigan Castle is located on a promontory & Pier Master’s House overlooking Cardigan Bridge on the River fully funded from the Cardigan Townscape Teifi. The very first Eisteddfod in 1176 Heritage Initiative scheme. Phase III will Prince’s Pier, Water Street, celebrated its completion, and it was added complete the renovation works and the Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey, to and repaired principally by Robert fixtures and fittings required to provide Menai Bridge Conservation Area Waleran between 1248 and 1275. The great the community space and facilities, although the Trust is still seeking tower was added in 1321, and after the POG: £15,000 offered June 2007 Glyndwr revolt a new hall and tower were funding for this. added. The complex site comprises the The Trust intends to convert the Old extensive remains of the 12th century Warehouse and Pier Master’s House on the Castle, Castle Green House, 43 St Mary 1 Prince’s Pier into a museum and heritage Street, Ty Castell, various outbuildings, centre focusing on the two historic bridges, including a stable yard, and the extensive Thomas Telford’s Menai Bridge and Robert curtain wall, gate and gate piers, all of Stephenson’s Britannia Bridge, and the which are listed in their own right. After maritime environment of the Menai Straits. a concerted public campaign to save the This is the last building on the waterfront site, which remains in very poor condition, that has not been purchased by private it was finally purchased by Ceredigion developers and the Trust wishes to develop County Council with funds from the Welsh it as the centre of its flagship scheme. Assembly Government. The Trust has The current owner, Anglesey County taken the lead on finding new uses for Council, has offered a 35-year lease. the site and its options appraisal study The Trust intends to refurbish the demonstrated that a number of uses existing warehouse before installing visitor maximising community access are facilities, and is confident of securing possible. However, this is a complex project Heritage Lottery Fund and European that will require substantial public funding. support for the subsequent phases. 42 Nantgarw China Works Trust 2 Penarth Arts and Crafts Ltd 3 Nantgarw China Works Penarth Pier Pavilion 4

Tyla Gwyn, Nantgarw, Rhondda The Esplanade, Penarth, Vale of List of other projects Listed Grade II (House); Glamorgan supported in 2007-08 Scheduled Ancient Monument (site) Listed Grade II; Penarth Seafront Conservation Area OAG: £12,500 offered December 2007 Cardigan Castle Building OAG: £7,500 offered March 2008 Preservation Trust Nantgarw House was constructed in 1780, Ty Castell possibly as a public house. In 1813 Penarth Pier is an iconic landmark on the William Billingsley, who was famous for South Wales coast. Constructed in cast 3 Green Street, Cardigan, Ceredigion his flower painting on , arrived iron and timber, it opened for the Penarth Listed Grade II in Nantgarw with Samuel Walker and Promenade and Landing Company Ltd LOAN: £250,000 offered December 2005, established a factory on the site to put in 1895. At first only a landing pier, security – repayment guarantee into practice what he had learnt at the a shoreward end pavilion was added in (Ceredigion County Council) Worcester porcelain factory. In the 1929 which became a popular venue for periods 1813-1814 and 1817-1820 they dances and entertainment. The building Carmarthenshire Heritage produced porcelain of outstanding is an early cast-in-situ reinforced concrete Regeneration Trust whiteness and brilliance which achieved structure in an Indian/Moghul style, Llanelly House pre-eminence worldwide. Production designed by M F Edwards. The pier was ceased in 1822 and restored in 1998 by the local authority; 2 Vaughan Street/Bridge Street, subsequently produced domestic ware however the long-term lack of use means Llanelli, Carmarthenshire and clay pipes until 1922. In 1992 the that the Pavilion interior requires complete Listed Grade I; Llanelli Conservation Area, House was converted as the centrepiece refurbishment. Penarth Arts and Crafts securtity – first charge of the Nantgarw Chinaworks Museum; Ltd has been offered a long lease subject LOAN: £189,000 offered June 2006 the Friends of Nantgarw House group to a viable scheme being found, together PAG: £4,000 offered September 2006 was formed in 1993, and in 1997 with substantial backing over three years POG: £10,000 offered September 2006 ownership of the site was transferred from the local authority. The Trust has to Rhondda Cynon Taff Borough Council. already received a Project Planning Grant Llanfyllin Dolydd Building In 1996, funding was withdrawn and, from the Heritage Lottery Fund and as well Preservation Trust although the Friends retain a presence as looking at a range of community uses, Y Dolydd to allow for visits, it is effectively closed. it is keen to cater for environmental, and With AHF advice the Friends group maritime issues. Llanfyllin, Powys decided to form a BPT which envisages Listed Grade II the complete restoration of Nantgarw 3 POG: £15,000 offered March 2002 China Works to preserve it as a unique site. PAG: £4,000 offered May 2002 FSG: £7,500 disbursed March 2006 LOAN: £300,000 repaid January 2008, security – first charge Narberth Museum Trust The Bonded Stores Montgomery County Recreation Association Church Street, Narberth Cwt Plas yn Dre Narberth Conservation Area Milford Road, Newtown, Powys OAG: £5,000 disbursed September 2007 Listed Grade II CBG: £1,750 offered October 2007 OAG: £3,907 withdrawn April 2007 The Bonded Stores is a former bonded The Rhondda Powerhouse Trust warehouse which is situated in the oldest Strata Florida Trust The Rhondda Mynachlog Fawr part of Narberth, forming a triangle with Powerhouse Project the 13th century castle and church. It Strata Florida, Pontrhydfendigaid, dates from 1906 and was built by James Llwynypia, Rhondda Cynon Taff Ystrad Meurig, Ceredigion Williams, a local beer and spirit merchant. Listed Grade II*/II Although unlisted it is a striking building Listed Grade II CBG: £700 offered November 2007 within the Conservation Area and has been CBG: £1,750 offered May 2007 OAG: £7,500 disbursed March 2008 identified by Pembrokeshire County Council as a building of ‘special The Llwynpia Colliery was once part importance’ to the town. A large building of an industrial landscape comprising Vale of Glamorgan Building Preservation Trust on two storeys it is constructed of stone brickworks, coke ovens, lime kilns and with brick window surrounds and the gravel pits. The Engine House was Church of St Brise customs office is still in one corner of the constructed in 1905 of yellow and red brick Eglwys Brewis Road, St Athan, ground floor. The building has been gifted and a Welsh slate roof. The Powerhouse Vale of Glamorgan to the Trust, which is currently in was the starting point for the Tonypandy Listed Grade II temporary accommodation, from where riots. The Trust undertook an options OAG: it is able to run its bookshop. Its study appraisal that was funded by the Welsh £5,625 offered June 2005 demonstrated that the proposal to Development Agency which suggested 4 relocate the Museum, together with other a mix of commercial and community uses, The Village Alive Trust complementary uses could be sustainable. including a social enterprise café. Great Tre-rhew Great Barn It is now developing the scheme, which A mentor was appointed under the AHF’s Llantilio Cosenny, Llanvetherine, will include a coffee shop and community capacity building grant scheme to resolve nr Abergavenny, Monmouthshire meeting facilities, with the help of a the difficult issue of a charge remaining on Listed Grade II* mentor through the AHF’s capacity the building, affecting the Trust’s potential building grant scheme. long-term ownership. OAG: £3,197 disbursed March 2008 43 Shetland Is. Orkney Is.

Historic Assynt Lewis and Harris BPT

Urras Nan Gearrannan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Preservation Trust Totnes & RCT Redundant Churches Trust District PT

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

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

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

45 Southend NORTHERN IRELAND WALES Southend and District Building Antrim Carmarthenshire Preservation Trust (East) Ltd 1994 Glenarm Buildings Preservation Trust 2005 Cadw Sir Gaerfyrddin Cyf 2002 Staffordshire Gracehill Old School Trust 2002 Carmarthenshire Heritage 2004 East Staffordshire Heritage Trust Co 2003 Lisburn Buildings Preservation Trust 2002 Regeneration Trust The Leek and Moorlands Historic Armagh Ceredigion Buildings Trust 1995 Staffordshire Historic Buildings Trust 1982 Milford Buildings Preservation Trust 2005 Cardigan Building Preservation Trust 2002 Richill Buildings Preservation Trust 2006 Cadwgan Building Preservation Trust 2000 Stockport Belfast City Conwy Reddish Buildings Preservation Trust Ltd 2002 Belfast Buildings Preservation Trust 1996 Llandudno Seaside Buildings Preservation Trust 1997 Suffolk Down Gwynedd Bury St Edmunds Town Trust 1979 Holywood Conservation Group 2003 Ipswich Building Preservation Trust Ltd 1978 The Mourne Heritage Trust 1997 Cyfeillion Cadw Tremadog 1991 Suffolk Architectural Heritage Trust Ltd 1998 The Palatine Trust 1997 Cywaith – The Gwynedd Buildings Preservation Trust 1991 Surrey Strabane The Farnham (Building Preservation) Sion Mills Buildings Preservation Trust 1999 Isle of Anglesey Trust Ltd 1968 National & Regional Menai Bridge Community The Surrey Historic Buildings Trust Ltd 1980 Hearth Revolving Fund 1972 Heritage Trust Ltd 2000 Warwickshire Total Northern Ireland: 11 Merthyr Tydfil Royal Leamington Spa Building Merthyr Tydfil Heritage Trust Ltd 1979 Conservation Trust 1996 Vale of Glamorgan Wiltshire SCOTLAND Vale of Glamorgan Buildings Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust Ltd 1964 Argyll and Bute Preservation Trust 1994 Warminster Preservation Trust Ltd 1987 Argyll and Bute Building National & Regional The Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust Ltd 1967 Preservation Trust 2002 The Cymric Building Preservation Trust 1985 Wolverhampton Clackmannanshire Hendref Building Preservation Trust 1993 City of Wolverhampton Regenerating Clackmannanshire Heritage Trust 1988 Welsh Religious Buildings Trust – Ymddiriedolaeth Addoldai Cymru 2000 Buildings Preservation Trust 2002 Dumfries & Galloway Ymddiriedolaeth Treftadaeth Caernarfon 1995 National & Regional Solway Heritage 1989 Total Wales: 14 Avon Industrial Buildings Trust Ltd 1961 Dundee East of England Buildings Tayside Building Preservation Trust 1991 Preservation Trust 1984 Heritage Trust for the North West 1997 Fife UK NATIONAL Fife Historic Buildings Trust 1997 Heritage Works Buildings Buildings At Risk Trust 1992 Preservation Trust Ltd 1996 Glasgow The Cygnet Historic Buildings North of England Civic Trust 1982 Glasgow Building Preservation Trust 1982 Preservation Trust 1996 The North Pennines Heritage Trust 1987 Highland Industrial Buildings Preservation Renewable Heritage Trust 2004 Highland Buildings Preservation Trust 1986 Trust Ltd 1976 South Yorkshire Buildings Historic Assynt 1997 The Landmark Trust 1965 Preservation Trust Ltd 1995 The SAVE Trust 1998 Western Isles Sussex Heritage Trust Ltd 1977 Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust Ltd 1977 Lewis and Harris Buildings The Traditional Buildings The Vivat Trust Ltd 1981 Preservation Trust 2001 Preservation Trust 1995 Uist Building PreservationTrust 1996 Total National: 7 Tyne and Wear Building Urras Nan Gearrannan 1997 Preservation Trust Ltd 1979 West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust 1985 National & Regional TOTAL: 166 TRUSTS Yorkshire Buildings Alexander Greek Thomson Trust 1997 Preservation Trust Ltd 1980 Ayrshire Architectural Heritage Trust 1992 Total England: 113 Castles of Scotland Preservation Trust 1986 The Cockburn Conservation Trust 1978 Heritage Building Preservation Trust 1993 National Trust for Scotland 1931 North East Scotland Preservation Trust 1985 Scottish Historic Buildings Trust 1985 Scottish Redundant Churches Trust 1996 Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust 1986 Total Scotland: 21

46 REPORT ON THE AHF’s FINANCIAL POSITION

The Statement of Financial Activities and Balance Sheet are not the full statutory accounts but are a summary of the information which appears in the full accounts. The full accounts have been audited and given an unqualified opinion. The full accounts were approved by the Trustees on 25 September 2008 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 2007/08 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 2008. Copies may be obtained from the AHF.

Introduction An increase in grant applications throughout the year led to an increase over 2007 of net grant offers, from £154,559 The AHF’s overall income for the year amounted to to £569,673. £1,228,330 (2007 – £808,767). Expenditure amounted to £1,341,856 (2007 – £813,677). At the year end, £7,728,245 Included in loan-related activities is the provision against (2007 – £8,623,769) was out on loan for preservation loan capital, loan interest and refundable project grants projects. that may not be recovered: this was increased by £207,302 (2007 – £69,995).

Details Deficit and forward commitments The total deficit for the year (“net movement in funds”) Income was £113,526, reducing the AHF’s total funds at The increase in incoming resources of £419,563 over 2007 31 March 2008 to £13,465,704 (2007 – £13,579,230). is due mainly to: contributions to the endowment fund (2007 – Nil) from Historic Scotland (£200,000) and At the year-end, the AHF had £7,728,245 out on loan for Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments (£15,000); an increase preservation projects and forward commitments for loans in restricted funds (£140,777) as a result of a higher level and recoverable grants of £7,408,774. (2007 – total loans of applications for AHF grants; an improved level of return £8,623,769 and forward commitments £7,410,911). on investment income (£64,402). The remaining sources of income decreased by £616 over 2007. Signed on behalf of the Members of the Council Apart from endowment contributions, the AHF received of Management. the following government funding during 2008: English Heritage £171,868 Historic Scotland £177,193 Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments £31,000 John Townsend Department of the Environment: Chairman Northern Ireland £27,838 25 September 2008

Expenditure Resources used during the year amounted to £1,341,856 against £813,677 in 2007. The increase over the previous year of £528,179 is accounted for by increases in grants and related expenditure (£418,794) and loan-related activities (£114,479), offset by a net decrease of £5,094 in other expenditure (capacity building, publishing the Annual Review and other literature, supporting the Association of Preservation Trusts, governance and the costs of generating funds.)

47 SUMMARISED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2008

Endowment Restricted Unrestricted 2008 2007 fund fund fund Total Total £ £ £ £ £ Incoming resources Incoming resources from generated funds Voluntary income Donations and legacies - - 7,640 7,640 2,102 Government grants 215,000 407,899 - 622,899 259,284 Sponsorship - - - - 10,500

215,000 407,899 7,640 630,539 271,886 Investment income Interest receivable - - 597,320 597,320 532,918

Total incoming resources from generated funds 215,000 407,899 604,960 1,227,859 804,804

Incoming resources from charitable activities - - 471 471 3,963

Total incoming resources 215,000 407,899 605,431 1,228,330 808,767

Resources expended Costs of generating funds - - 24,288 24,288 24,666

Charitable activities Financial assistance for historical building projects Loan-related activities - - 299,048 299,048 184,569 Grantmaking - 402,465 315,311 717,776 298,982 - 402,465 614,359 1,016,824 483,551 Development and advocacy Capacity building - - 183,014 183,014 192,658 Annual Review and other publications - 5,434 72,542 77,976 71,243 Net contribution to the UK Association of Preservation Trusts - - 15,239 15,239 16,699 - 5,434 270,795 276,229 280,600 Total charitable activities - 407,899 885,154 1,293,053 764,151

Governance costs - - 24,515 24,515 24,860

Total resources expended - 407,899 933,957 1,341,856 813,677

Net incoming / (outgoing) resources 215,000 - (328,526) (113,526) (4,910)

Net movement in funds net surplus / (deficit) for the year 215,000 - (328,526) (113,526) (4,910)

Balances at 1 April 2007 10,964,713 - 2,614,517 13,579,230 13,584,140

Balances at 31 March 2008 11,179,713 - 2,285,991 13,465,704 13,579,230

48 SUMMARISED BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2008

2008 2007 ££££ Fixed assets Tangible assets 65,657 79,541 Programme related investments Loans disbursed for preservation projects 7,728,245 8,623,769 Total fixed assets 7,793,902 8,703,310

Current assets Debtors Accrued income – loan interest receivable 546,148 533,103 – endowment fund contribution 200,000 - Other accrued income and prepayments 225,926 67,549 972,074 600,652 Cash Cash at bank and short-term deposits 5,427,001 4,861,223 6,399,075 5,461,875

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Accruals 727,273 585,955

Net current assets 5,671,802 4,875,920

Net assets 13,465,704 13,579,230

Funds Endowment fund 11,179,713 10,964,713

Unrestricted funds Designated lending fund 1,595,000 2,000,770 General fund 690,991 613,747

2,285,991 2,614,517

Total funds 13,465,704 13,579,230

Programme related investments include £2,205,000 in loans disbursed which are due for repayment after more than one year (2007 – £3,030,385). Creditors include: outstanding non-refundable grant offers of £670,183 (2007 – £496,079). tax and social security – £8,591 (2007 – £9,238). The financial statements were approved by the Members of the Council on 25 September 2008 and signed on their behalf by:

John Townsend Roy Dantzic Chairman Trustee 25 September 2008 25 September 2008

49 AUDITORS’ STATEMENT

Independent Auditors’ Statement to the Basis of opinion Members of the Architectural Heritage Fund We conducted our work in accordance with We have examined the summarised financial Bulletin 1999/6 The auditors’ statement on the statements of The Architectural Heritage Fund summary financial statements issued by for the year ended 31st March 2008. the Auditing Practices Board for use in the United Kingdom. Respective Responsibilities of the Council of Management and Auditors Opinion The Council of Management is responsible for In our opinion the summarised financial preparing the summarised financial statements statements are consistent with the full financial in accordance with the recommendations of the statements and the Council of Management’s charities’ SORP. Our responsibility is to report Annual Report of the Architectural Heritage Fund to you our opinion on the consistency of the for the year ended 31 March 2008. summarised financial statements and Council of Management’s Annual Report. We also read the Kingston Smith LLP other information contained in the Annual Report Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors and consider the implications for our statement if Devonshire House, 60 Goswell Road, we become aware of any apparent misstatements London EC1M 7AD or material inconsistencies with the summarised financial statements. 2 October 2008

Benefactors, Supporters and Friends in the year 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008

Benefactors (£7,500 or more) Friends (£10 – £999) Government Charitable Trusts, Companies English Heritage and Other Organisations Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments The Meri & Keith Benham Charitable Fund Historic Scotland Oxford Preservation Trust Dept of Environment: Northern Ireland The Prince’s Regeneration Trust Streonshalh Limited Supporters (£1,000 – £7,499)

Charitable Trusts, Companies Individuals and Other Organisations S H Back Castle Cement Ltd Andrew B Badger Turley Associates R Anthony Dams Professor A H Gomme J E A Hay Michael J Hill Stephen Marks D K Robinson S P Salt P N Tomlinson Nigel M Waring R C Waterman

50 Richmond Railway Station Building, Richmond, North Yorkshire (see p.12) 51 ABOUT THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND

Introduction Options Appraisal Grants The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is a registered The AHF offers grants of up to 75% of the cost of an initial charity, limited by guarantee, founded in 1976 to promote options appraisal of a project likely to qualify for a loan. the conservation of historic buildings in the UK. It does The maximum grant is normally £7,500, but in exceptional this by providing advice, information and financial circumstances this may be raised to £12,500. In rare cases assistance in the form of grants and low interest working the AHF may offer grants for options appraisals which capital loans for projects undertaken by building examine the feasibility of only one option, but the grant preservation trusts (BPTs) and other charities. offered will be a maximum of £3,000. An appraisal eligible for an AHF grant will look at the key conservation issues Financial Assistance from the AHF affecting the building, examine all options and consider in Sources of AHF Funds outline the viability of the most beneficial option. It should The AHF’s lending resources of some £13 million derive also explore all possible sources of funding for the project. from grants, donations and accumulated surpluses. AHF The charity must bring together the findings in a report grant programmes are financed by interest on loans and that indicates the likelihood of success or failure in bank deposits and grant-aid from English Heritage, conservation and financial terms, the implementation Historic Scotland, Cadw and the Department of the strategy and the further work that needs to be carried Environment in Northern Ireland. out to develop the preferred option.

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

52 Additional Grants for Building Preservation Trusts • Detailed Guidance Notes for Applicants Project Development Grants for all AHF financial programmes: Following a major review of the AHF’s non-refundable grant – Options appraisal grants schemes during 2007/08, the project development grant – Loans was launched on 1 April 2008, incorporating and replacing – Project development grants the project administration, project organiser and capacity building grants (see below). The project development grant • Historic Building Preservation Trusts (information sheet) is intended to help BPTs with the costs of developing and Funds for Historic Buildings – A Directory of Sources co-ordinating a project and taking it towards the start of • (this publication is available free as a downloadable work on site after an options appraisal has established internet file at www.ffhb.org.uk) basic viability. • Model Memorandum and Articles of Association A project development grant will not normally exceed for a Building Preservation Trust (available by post £25,000 in total. Grants may be applied for in stages or email or download from www.ahfund.org.uk ) according to the needs of the project as it progresses. This How to Rescue a Ruin – by setting up a local buildings may cover 100% of administration costs up to £4,000; 100% • preservation trust (£8.00 inc p&p) of non-recoverable professional fees up to £7,500 or up to 75% of the cost of the project organiser up to £15,000. In • Fully illustrated AHF Annual Review (£10.00 inc p&p) addition, new BPTs or those undertaking a project after Statutory Report and Financial Statements a gap of at least five years are able to apply for mentoring • for each financial year. support before undertaking an options appraisal, up to a maximum of £3,500, and in exceptional circumstances, For further information please contact the AHF at: post options appraisal up to a maximum of £7,500. The Architectural Heritage Fund Alhambra House Non-financial Assistance and Publications 27-31 The AHF plays a strong development role by encouraging London WC2H 0AU and advising on the formation of BPTs and providing Tel: 020 7925 0199 relevant guidance throughout the duration of an AHF- Fax: 020 7930 0295 funded project. Several publications are available from Email: [email protected] the AHF (free of charge unless otherwise indicated). www.ahfund.org.uk

Registered under the Charities Act 1960, No. 266780 Company limited by guarantee registered in England, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: No. 1150304 A performance at the Catstrand (see p.17) St Albans Signal Box (see p.13) Landscape detail at Holywood Old School (see p.20) Penicuik House, Midlothian (see p.39) Restoring metal work for Victoria Baths, Manchester (see p.33) The Hippodrome ceiling, Bo’ness (see p.19)

53 ABOUT THE UK ASSOCIATION OF PRESERVATION TRUSTS

The UK Association of Preservation Trusts (APT) was Start-up Grant Scheme founded in 1989 by the Architectural Heritage Fund at the In 2007, the new APT Start-up Grant Scheme was request of Building Preservation Trusts across the UK. APT launched thanks to additional funding from the AHF and provides an invaluable network of support and advice to over six trusts were assisted under this scheme. The aim is 250 member trusts via meetings, publications and events. to help new trusts with some of the costs incurred when The Architectural Heritage Fund, Cadw, the Department of starting up, or to enable groups to re-activate a trust. Environment Northern Ireland, English Heritage and Historic Scotland granted funding for 2007-2008. Cytal APT activity in Wales The region has 32 member trusts. 12 new trusts were The 2007 APT Evaluation formed during the year, nine of which involved the In 2007, an evaluation was commissioned to review APT’s protection of rural landscapes and environment and activities and services. This was to establish how resources a further six potential new trusts are in the process of could best be used to meet existing priorities and needs setting up. The Development Officer Wales also supported and to inform the provision of future services and funding new organisations targeting historic ‘buildings at risk’ requirements. The report noted a positive response to which did not necessarily become trusts or APT members. APT’s services and the evaluation process offered a required The post was once again supported by Cadw, Environment and useful period of assessment and reflection that was Wales and the Architectural Heritage Fund. intended to provide APT with a new starting point in several key areas of development. Heritage Protection Review in England APT submitted written evidence on the Heritage Protection The 2007 ‘Risky Business’ Bill and is continuing to look at issues surrounding the Conference and regional events level of resources available to ensure that legislation can Ninety-one delegates received a warm welcome at the work effectively. 2007 APT National Conference in Cardigan. The key themes to the conference were looking at managing and taking Website risks. A visit from the then Welsh Assembly Heritage The redesigned APT website was officially launched Minister, Rhodri Glyn Thomas, project visits, workshops in December 2007. and receptions hosted by Ceredigion County Council and Cardigan Town Council provided opportunities for some For further information about APT contact: lively discussion. UK Association of Preservation Trusts 9th Floor, Alhambra House, APT hosted three seminars in 2007-2008 entitled 27-31 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0AU ‘A Carbon Footprint in the Right Direction’ and ‘Engaging with Communities’ in Scotland and ‘Assisting owners of Tel: 020 7930 1629 Fax: 020 7930 0295 listed buildings’ in the Midlands. APT NW also organised Email: [email protected] a tour of buildings at risk. www.ukapt.org.uk

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Colin Johns, APT Chair, Mayor of Cardigan, Melfydd George, and Peter White, Cytal APT Chair, at the 2007 APT Conference; Gayle Mill team in action using restored machinery; A school’s workshop at the Scottish Lime Centre; Llanfyllin Workhouse Festival.

54 Clifton House, King’s Lynn, Norfolk (see p.14) 55 COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT AND STAFF President: The Duke of Grafton, KG

Council of Management

John Townsend Chairman Michael Hoare Cabinet Member for the Built Environment, South Northants Chartered Accountant, INSEAD. Chairman, Council. Partner, The Old Hall Bookshop; Newbottle Estate and National Churches Trust; Watts & Co. Consultant C.Hoare & Co. Farm. Formerly: National Trust Council Member and Regional Trustee, Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Chairman (Thames and Solent Region). Trustee, Stowe House Mrs Fionnuala Jay-O’Boyle MBE Preservation Trust. Public and Government Affairs Consultant. Principal, Nicholas Baring CBE Deputy Chairman Jay Associates Public Affairs. Founder and Patron, Trustee, The Cambridge Foundation. Chairman, The Fitzwilliam Belfast Buildings Preservation Trust. Patron, TOSINI. Museum Trust. Formerly: Chairman, Commercial Union Trustee, Peter McLachlan Community Development Trust; Assurance Company plc; Board of Trustees of The National The Prince of Wales’s Regeneration Trust. Formerly: Gallery; Council of The Baring Foundation; Finance Committee Chairman, Belfast Civic Trust. Member of the Historic Buildings and Council Member, The National Trust. Council for Northern Ireland. Director, Irish Landmark Trust. Colin Amery Thomas Lloyd OBE Author and historian. Trustee, The Heather Trust for the Arts. Heritage Consultant. Solicitor (not practicing). Chairman, Panel Member, The National Trust. Governor, Compton Verney. Wales Region of Historic Houses Association; Picton Castle Trust. Chairman, St Edmundsbury Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee. Formerly: Chairman, Historic Buildings Council for Wales; President,The Lutyens Trust. Trustee, War Memorials Trust. The Buildings at Risk Trust. Director, Wales Tourist Board. Honorary Fellow, Royal Institute of British Architects. Trustee, Aberglasney Restoration Trust. Co-author, Pevsner Formerly: Director, World Monuments Fund in Britain. volumes for three Welsh Counties. Consultant for Sotheby’s in South Wales. Malcolm Crowder OBE Chartered Surveyor. Surveyor and Secretary, George McNeill Norwich Preservation Trust; North Norfolk Historic Buildings Chairman, Scottish Historic Buildings Trust. Director, Trust: Haringey Building Preservation Trust. Project Adviser AlbaConservation Trust. Management Committee member, and Secretary, Broadland Building Preservation Trust. President, Edinburgh Direct Aid. Vice Lord Lieutenant, West Lothian. Heritage of London Trust Operations Ltd. Vice Chairman, Regional Boardmember, Scottish Environmental Protection UK Association of Preservation Trusts. Formerly: Chairman, Agency. Formerly: Chief Planning Officer, West Lothian. UK Association of Preservation Trusts. Chairman, Built Environment Forum Scotland. Roy Dantzic John Pavitt Chartered Accountant. Chairman, Interior Services Group plc. Architect. Trustee, UK Association of Building Preservation Non-Executive Director, Airplanes Ltd; Blenheim Bishop Ltd. Trusts. Member, Executive Committee of the Chichester Society. Trustee, The Portman Estate; Spazio Investment NV. Formerly: Formerly: Director of Properties in Care, Cadw. Planning Director Chairman, Development Securities plc; Managing Director, for Urban Renewal, Welsh Development Agency. British Gas Properties Ltd. Finance Director, Stanhope Properties. Merlin Waterson CBE Elizabeth Davidson Author and historian. Trustee, East Anglia Art Fund. Council, Project Director, Merchant City Townscape Heritage Initiative, The Attingham Trust. Curatorial Adviser, The Prince’s Trustee, Argyll & Bute Building Preservation Trust; External Regeneration Trust. Formerly: Historic Properties Director, Examiner, University of Dundee, Dept. of European Urban The National Trust. Adviser on Built Heritage and Historic Conservation; Advisor, St. Andrews in the Square Trust; Member Properties, the Heritage Lottery Fund. of the Conservation Advisory Panel, National Trust for Scotland. Formerly: Member of the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland. Staff Chair, Association of Preservation Trusts. Director, Glasgow Chief Executive: Ian Lush Building Preservation Trust. Honorary Member of the Royal Director of Projects: Stephen Enthoven Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. Loans & Grants Manager: Barbara Wright Projects and Development Officer: Ian Rice Projects and Development Officer North: Gavin Richards Finance Manager: Paul Tozer Office Manager: Diane Kendal

56 Annual Review 2007-08 Editor: Ian Lush Photo Editor: Victor Rose Assistant Editor: Diane Kendal Contributors: AHF Staff Design and production: Premm Design, London Proofreading: PerfectWord, Telford Photographs have been provided by loan and grant applicants and with our thanks for additional photographs by: AHF staff, ARPL Architects, Angus Bremner, Simon Bridge, Peter Carey, Donald Cline, Consarc Design Group, Gary Cooper, Ted Doan, Karen Donald, Mike Finnie, Nick Ford Photographer, Charlotte Francoz, Groves – Raines Architects, Morris Higham, Nicholas Jacobs Architects, Mo Macleod, Robert McCallum, John McLachlan, Elizabeth Perkins, Janet Pettigrew, Potts Parry Ives & Young Architects, Jean Prosser, Victor Rose, Delphine Ruston, James Stewart Photography, Lorna Tittle, Sue Thompson, Keith Webster, Sheila West, Andrew Whitham, Gill Wright, Urban Splash

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