l Review 2012–13 a Annu

THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND Annu al Review 2012–13 CONTENTS

1 Chairman’s Foreword

3 Chief Executive’s Review

6 Completed Projects

26 Projects Under Development

58 AHF Financial Information

62 About the AHF

FRONT COVER: Llanelly House (see p.24)

INSIDE FRONT COVER: Grey Mill (see p.52) CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD

This will be my final Foreword for theAnnual Review, as I retire next March after seven years as Chairman of the Architectural Heritage Fund. During my time with the AHF I have been very ably supported by our Chief Executive, Ian Lush, and his excellent staff team for which I convey my sincere thanks.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my association with the AHF, finding it both stimulating and challenging and have been particularly struck by the remarkable commitment shown by so many of our clients. The projects we support are often in areas of considerable deprivation and disadvantage, and yet people come together as a group to save buildings and find viable new uses for them despite the many difficulties they face.

The AHF is facing its own challenges; the demand for our loans is increasing both in quantity and size, but at the same time more of our existing borrowers are struggling to repay in full and on time. We are managing this situation carefully Two long-serving members of the Council and also working closely to find longer- of Management retired this year: George term solutions with our very supportive McNeill, a stalwart of the Scottish historic funders – English Heritage, Cadw, environment movement whose passion and Historic Scotland, the Northern Ireland strongly-held views were of great value to Environment Agency, the Andrew Lloyd the AHF, and Colin Amery, whose erudition Webber Foundation, the J Paul Getty Jr and knowledge were equally helpful. Charitable Trust and the Pilgrim Trust. We welcomed three new Trustees in April We were also pleased to receive a generous 2013 and following our governance review individual donation from Randall M Kells the regular refreshing of the Council’s in the United States, whose support membership is working well. is much appreciated. It has been an honour to serve the AHF as its Chairman, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank my fellow Trustees for their support during this time. I will look forward to continuing to observe from afar as the organisation continues its vital work supporting heritage-led regeneration projects throughout the UK.

TOP: Upminster Windmill (see p.29)

ABOVE: The Charterhouse (see p.39)

BELOW LEFT: Belfast Corporation Baths (see p.47)

John Townsend Chairman October 2013

1 Russell Institute (see p.51) CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REVIEW

Just before embarking on this year’s article for our Annual Review, I met with Terry A’Hearn, who has been Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) since November 2012. Terry showed me his business card and the statement on the back of it, which is now the motto for the whole of NIEA: ‘To create prosperity and well-being through environment and heritage excellence’.

These inspiring words could equally format for English Heritage, whilst also serve as the Architectural Heritage Fund’s working closely in partnership with EH and mission, or that of almost any of our the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation on clients, and so with Terry’s permission I the Challenge Fund. am repeating them here. NIEA, along with Cadw in Wales, English Heritage and Looking back more generally over the Historic Scotland, continue generously last 12 months, I am struck in particular by to support our work, seeing the AHF as a how quickly things can change in our work. key partner in working with not-for-profit In June 2012 we hit an all-time low for loan enterprises and community groups seeking applications, and were concerned that the to find beneficial and sustainable uses for impact of recession was being keenly felt historic buildings at risk, and we are proud by our clients and potential partners. of our enduring relationships with all four 12 months later our Council meeting was Government agencies/departments. faced with a record number of applications for loans and grants, and we were having to In Northern Ireland we had a welcome turn people away for the first time in many ABOVE: Ninhams Court (see p.29) boost to the funding available through years because of this very high demand. BELOW: Castle House (see p.36) the Acquisition Grants scheme which we administer on behalf of NIEA. This enabled us to offer three grants: £75,000 to Gracehill Old School Trust for the acquisition of the Old Village Shop in Gracehill; and £125,000 (the maximum available) each for two projects in Derry/Londonderry, the focus of so much attention in 2013 during its year as Capital of Culture. These were to the Inner City Trust for 31–33 Shipquay Street; and to Culturlann (the Irish Language … I am struck in particular by how quickly things can change in our work.

Centre) for 33–35 Great James Street. In Scotland we continue to manage the buildings at risk initiative on behalf of Historic Scotland, run by Stuart Eydmann, and are looking forward to the final results of his work over the next few months. Similarly in Wales we have taken an active part in the discussions prompted by the advent of the new heritage bill and possible new infrastructure arrangements within the sector, and are equally engaged with the debates around the potential new

3 THIS PAGE (clockwise from top): What led to this dramatic change? Firstly, We have also changed the way in which Ingestre Hall Orangery (see p.40) we broadened our criteria from April 2013 we support clients in the earliest stages of Castle House (see p.36) to allow any not-for-profit organisation to their work. For some time we had felt that Belfast Corporation Baths (see p.47) apply, rather than just charities and similar the Options Appraisal scheme was not OPPOSITE (clockwise from top): bodies. This has already allowed us to necessarily serving our purposes as St John’s Church (see p.18) The Charterhouse (see p.39) invest in some interesting projects which effectively as it might, and following Russell Institute (see p.51) would not have been eligible previously. discussions with our Board and a number We are also seeing the impact of the of regular clients, as well as with the UK Community Right to Bid initiative, which Association of Preservation Trusts, we enabled local people to prevent the Ivy replaced the Options Appraisal Grant with House pub in South East London from being a Project Viability Grant. These were only sold for housing, with the help of a rapidly- launched in April this year so it is too soon agreed loan from the AHF. This also to assess their impact but certainly there highlights another factor in the changing has been considerable interest in the landscape: many of the new applications scheme so far. These new grants are a we are receiving are for projects which need particularly useful tool for our team of to draw down the funds much more quickly Regional Support Officers in England, than more traditional long-term restoration another joint initiative with English Heritage, schemes, hence increasing the demands as they support community groups in those on our cashflow. vital early stages. The RSOs are working very effectively, helping EH and the AHF in Less positively, we are still seeing the tackling priority buildings at risk throughout impact of the recession on our clients with England, and complementing the ongoing overdue loans, caused by a combination of efforts of our core development staff in the lack of available new finance, stagnant London and Edinburgh. property prices (outside London and the South East) and challenging trading conditions. We are working closely to find solutions in each case in order to unlock more support for new projects as they come in.

4 The Heritage Lottery Fund has also launched new schemes, and we were delighted to work closely with them on the development of the ‘Heritage Enterprise’ grants. I was pleased to speak at the launch of Heritage Enterprise at the House of Commons in April, alongside HLF Chair Dame Jenny Abramsky and Nick Boles MP, Minister for Planning in the DCLG, and we are also collaborating with the HLF on the guidance for potential applicants for our Project Viability Grants and the HLF’s Start Up Grants, which cover similar ground.

We were also very pleased this year to be able to extend our Cold Spots Grant scheme, which is intended to boost activity in the East Midlands, for projects involving industrial heritage in England, and now for schemes anywhere in Wales (having previously just focused on South Wales). This extension of the scheme is thanks to a further two years of funding from the J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust and the Pilgrim Trust, and we are very grateful to both for this continued support.

Our Chairman, John Townsend, covers the recent retirements from our Council of Management in his Foreword, but I would like to add my own thanks to John and the rest of the Council for their hard work on behalf of the AHF this year, and in particular to all my colleagues, who continue to show their commitment and enthusiasm for our work in an exemplary manner. By the time this Annual Review is published we will have moved offices and launched our new website, and our Office Manager, Diane Kendal, deserves special mention for master-minding all three – the publication of the Review, the office move and the website. These were not all meant to happen simultaneously but Diane has dealt with the unintended overlap with her usual professionalism and care, for which I am especially grateful.

We were also very pleased this year to be able to extend our Cold Spots Grant scheme,

Ian Lush which is intended to boost activity in the East Chief Executive Midlands, for projects involving industrial October 2013 heritage in England, and now for schemes anywhere in Wales …

5 Hadlow Tower (see p.21) COMPLETED PROJECTS

Our 2013 Annual Review contains an unusually varied range of completed projects, which as ever illustrate the passion and professionalism of our clients, the majority of whom remain largely volunteer-run.

What can we learn from the 17 projects featured here? Firstly, that a diversity of Key funding sources is an essential component Many projects receive several of any successful scheme. This year these different AHF grants and loans. include the full gamut of support from These are abbreviated as follows: public and charitable sources, as well FSG Feasibility Study Grant as community share and bond issues, European funds, sale receipts and private OAG Options Appraisal Grant donations. Persistence is another common CBG Capacity Building Grant theme – Llanelly House featured in the PAG Project Administration Grant BBC’s Restoration series in 2003 – but POG Project Organiser Grant also the ability of groups to act quickly and PDG Project Development Grant decisively, as seen with the Ivy House where RPDG Refundable Project the terms of the legislation gave them just Development Grant six months to bid for and complete the CSG Cold Spots Grant purchase of the building. Finally, identifying uses for buildings which are sustainable CFG Challenge Fund Grant in the long-term is absolutely key, for no matter how good the restoration, if On the front cover is Llanelly House, a long- a building is not financially viable it could ABOVE LEFT: 549 Lordship Lane (see p.12) running but ultimately successful rescue soon become a problem again. BELOW: Howsham Mill (see p.16) of one of Wales’ most important buildings, whilst on the back cover (and the opposite page to this) is the extraordinary Hadlow Tower, rising above the Kent landscape and, after an equally protracted saga, beautifully restored for holiday accommodation.

In complete contrast the Old Duchy Palace in Cornwall dates back to the 13th century and has a rich history including use as a ‘tinners’ gaol’, whilst Portland Works is a late Victorian industrial structure whose importance is as the location for the first commercial manufacturing of stainless steel cutlery. Sion Mills Stables in Northern Ireland was the first building to be the subject of a Compulsory Purchase Order in the Province, saving it from neglect and ruin, whilst Pollokshaws West Station in Glasgow shows what can be done when a public body – in this case Network Rail – works with the local community to find a viable solution for a redundant building. The Ivy House Pub in South London is the first example of what we hope will be many, of a group using the opportunities provided by the 2011 Localism Act to prevent a building from being sold for development and instead keeping it as a thriving local venue.

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Beckery Old Road, Glastonbury, Somerset Listed Grade II

OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2007 PAG: £4,000 disbursed May 2010

Northover Mill House Professional Team B eCKERy Island Regeneration Trust Architect: Colin Harvey, Architecton Conservation and Design, Bristol Structural Engineer: Brian Jones, Woolavington, Somerset Quantity Surveyor: Press & Starkey, Bristol Main Contractor: Shane Avery, Moorview Plant Hire Ltd, Glastonbury

Total investment: £175,000

Other Sources of Funding: There have been tanneries on this site business park, and removed the majority Regional Development Agency: £11,000 Mendip District Council: £6,000 since the Middle Ages, when the Abbots of the structures. The Beckery Island Somerset County Council of Glastonbury provided a mill stream Regeneration Trust was established at this (Economic Regeneration Fund): £10,000 as a source of power. Northover Mill was time and endeavoured to find a new use for Leader Fund, Levels and Moors: £15,000 originally built as a fulling mill and dates from the historic buildings, carrying out a study Glastonbury Town Council: £2,000 the 15th century, using water power from the on those that remained. Following detailed Stephanie Morland: £400 Steven Clark Foundation: £300 mill stream. It is constructed of local Lias negotiation, it was able to acquire the Mill limestone, with stone-mullioned windows, House for a nominal sum. some of which survive. It became part of the group of buildings known as Baily’s Factory The options appraisal identified conversion and the Morland Works. The site produced to commercial use as the most viable and a range of products, including ‘bearskins’ appropriate way forward, and the Trust was for the Grenadier Guards, and boxing gloves able to utilise further AHF development for Henry Cooper and Muhammed Ali. The funding to this end. Northover Mill has site covered 40 acres and employed over now been let to a natural mineral-based 200 people before closing in the 1980s. cosmetics company whose products are In 2001, the Regional Development Agency exported across the world. The Trust has acquired the main body of the redundant now turned its attentions to the other site for development as a mixed-use historic buildings on the site.

The site produced a range of products, including ‘bearskins’ for the Grenadier Guards, and boxing gloves for Henry Cooper and Muhammed Ali.

8 ‘ In a town whose identity has undergone such dramatic change over the past 200 years, Porthmeor Studios remains a living embodiment of St Ives’ cultural roots.’ Building Design magazine, September 2013

Porthmeor Studios Back Road West, St Ives, Cornwall Listed Grade II*; St Ives Conservation Area B oRLASE Smart John Wells Trust Loan: £240,000 contracted March 2012

Professional Team Architect: Long & Kentish, London Structural Engineer: Keith Rolleston Associates, Falmouth Quantity Surveyor: Trevor Humphreys Associates, Bristol Project Management: Trevor Humphreys Associates, Bristol Main Contractor: Symons Construction, St Ives In 1801 a wall was built to protect St Ives Graham, Patrick Heron and Sandra Blow Total investment: £4 million from being engulfed by sand. The section and it is this legacy that brought the Tate along Porthmeor beach, built by the Gallery to Porthmeor Beach, their artist- Other Sources of Funding: celebrated civil engineer John Smeaton, in-residence continuing to use the studio Arts Council England: £1 million enabled local fishermen to create cellars of Nicholson and Heron. Sea Change: £900,000 Convergence ERDF: £643,000 and net lofts to process their large catches Heritage Lottery Fund: £535,000 and to store their boats and nets. The Since 1949, the studios have been managed English Heritage: £300,000 pilchard industry was once at the heart of by Borlase Smart John Wells Trust. However, Cornwall Council: £200,000 St Ives’ fortunes, however it was Whistler for many years it lacked the necessary and Sickert who in the 1880s remarked on funds to repair the timber-framed building the quality of light in St Ives and in a very that faces the full force of Atlantic gales. short time the net lofts were converted Major structural elements had been failing, into artists’ studios. Porthmeor Studios causing grave concern. The Trust has was built in several phases throughout the therefore undertaken much-needed repairs 19th century, and by 1898 had reached its with the help of an AHF working-capital loan. current layout, with fishermen pressing Internal spaces have been reconfigured pilchards in the cellars and painters filling to create four new studios, increasing much- the lofts above. Over the years it has needed revenue, with high quality affordable been used by a remarkable list of artists, workspace for fishermen retained. The including Olsson, Smart and Fuller, Ben project was a finalist in the 2013 English Nicholson, Terry Frost, Wilhelmina Barns- Heritage Angel Awards.

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Old Duchy Palace C oRNWALL Buildings Preservation Trust

Quay Street, Lostwithiel, Cornwall Grade I listed, Lostwithiel Conservation Area

The Duchy Palace was built by Edmund, purchase the building to prevent it being PDG: £4,965 disbursed March 2010 Earl of Cornwall, c.1292 as the administrative auctioned. This allowed the Trust sufficient centre of his estate. The two-acre complex time to develop a funded project and its final Professional Team contained a strong room, wine cellar, proposal was for a commercial mix of office Architect: Purcell, Bristol ‘tinners’ gaol’ and was the site of the County rental and retail. The undercroft houses Court and Stannary Court. However, by the a permanent heritage display, developed Structural Engineer: Mann Williams, Bath 19th century the Great Hall was in ruins with help from volunteers at Lostwithiel Quantity Surveyor: and only the building now known as the Old Trevor Humphreys Associates, Bristol Duchy Palace survived, then used as the It is probably the largest Mechanical and Electrical Consultant: Tinners’ Convocation Hall. In 1852 it was Martin Thomas Associates, Hampshire altered by the Duchy of Cornwall and sold on and most important Main Contractor: to the Restormel Lodge of the Freemasons secular medieval building Carrek Ltd, Wells in 1878. By 2008 the Lodge sought to dispose CDM Coordinator: of the building owing to its inability to meet surviving in Cornwall. Ward Williams Associates, Uxbridge repair costs. It is probably the largest and most important secular medieval building Museum. An AHF Project Development Total investment: £1.1 million

surviving in Cornwall. Grant allowed the funding of a project Other Sources of Funding: organiser, until a formal partnership was European Regional Development Fund: Cornwall Buildings Preservation Trust established with The Prince’s Regeneration £310,916 stated an interest in acquiring the building Trust. Cornwall Building Preservation English Heritage: £150,000 and was helped by the The Prince’s Trust has now taken a 25-year lease on the Cornwall Council: £100,000 Clay County Local Action Group: £25,000 Regeneration Trust, whose subsidiary, the building which should provide a sustainable Private Trusts and Foundations: £540,097 UK Historic Buildings Trust, stepped in to long-term income stream.

10 Former Schoolhouse, Stick House and Coach House C oTESBACH Educational Trust

Cotesbach Hall, Lutterworth, Leicestershire School House Grade II Listed; other buildings unlisted but within curtilage of Cotesbach Hall (Grade II*)

PDG: £20,000 disbursed May 2012 CSG: £2,100 disbursed May 2012 The Cotesbach Estate has survived as a groups, focusing on heritage, environment Professional Team remarkable example of architectural and and the arts. It identified the group of Architect: social history. Cotesbach Hall remains in buildings as being suitable for its use, Mark Stewart, Nottingham the long-term ownership of one family, but despite the state of disrepair, and negotiated Main Contractor: strong links have been developed between a 50-year lease. It was successful in Ackroyd Construction Ltd, Nottingham the Cotesbach Educational Trust and the obtaining a Heritage Lottery Fund grant owners of the Hall. The three ancillary for development and restoration; work Total investment £843,410 buildings are modest in scale and create commenced in Autumn 2012 and was Other Sources of Funding: an informal cluster. The Schoolhouse was completed at the end of March 2013. The Heritage Lottery Fund: £704,500 purpose-built in the late 18th century to project now provides a multi-purpose Forward with Leicestershire serve the children of Cotesbach and the educational resource centre, which hosts Aggregates Grant (FLAG): £34,646 surrounding villages. The Stick House was regular events. The Coach House is a study The Ernest Cook Trust: £7,000 constructed in the early 19th century as a centre for the extensive and unique archive Harborough District Council: £6,816 Renaissance East Midlands: £2,000 cart or livestock shed and the Coach House records, also on loan from the Estate for 50 Foyles Foundation: £25,000 built at the same time to serve the adjacent years, and a café space which is available Garfield Weston: £20,000 farm buildings. for hire. AHF Project Development Grant Monument Trust: £20,000 funding was used to employ a project Shires Grants: £500 The Trust was established to provide learning organiser and meet professional costs, and Lutterworth Town Council: £250 Donations and volunteer match funding, opportunities for the wider community, an East Midlands Cold Spots Grant paid for etc: Balance including schools and adult education further development costs.

The Cotesbach Estate has survived as a remarkable example of architectural and social history.

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549 Lordship Lane, London Listed Grade II

OAG: £7,500 disbursed December 2008 PDG: £17,500 offered September 2009/ January 2010 549 Lordship Lane Development Loan: £50,000 repaid September 2011 H eRITAGE of London Trust Operations Ltd Loan: £660,000 contracted July 2012 Development Loan: £30,000 contracted September 2011

Professional Team Architect: Paul Latham, The Regeneration Practice, London Structural Engineer: The Morton Partnership, London Quantity Surveyor: William Dick Partnership, London Main Contractor: This substantial domestic dwelling was built Dulwich College, 549 Lordship Lane was Noble & Taylor (Ongar) Ltd in 1873 and was thought to have been the constructed using Drake’s patent concrete Total investment: £1.1 million Parsonage to St Peter’s Church. However, building apparatus, the outer walls being the existence of an almost identical of innovative concrete construction using Other Sources of Funding: twin in Tulse Hill, a few miles west, has ‘burnt ballast’ and Portland cement without English Heritage: £100,000 suggested a link between these two houses steel reinforcement. It is Gothic in style, Southwark Empty Homes Grant: £219,900 Pilgrim Trust: £25,000 with pointed arches to the large bay Heritage of London Trust: £4,000 … 549 Lordship Lane was windows which also have ornate stucco Hexagon Housing Association: £748,000 reveals. The building, highly visible from constructed using Drake’s the adjacent main road, had become patent concrete building a local landmark owing to its state of extreme dereliction. The London Borough apparatus … of Southwark finally took positive action, successfully serving a Compulsory rather than with the church. 549 Lordship Purchase Order and negotiating a back-to- Lane was part of the rapidly expanding back agreement with the Heritage of London development of the Dulwich College Trust Operations to take on ownership. Estate, which followed the relocation of the Crystal Palace to Sydenham. Designed The Trust has restored the building and by Charles Barry Jnr, also architect for converted it into five affordable housing units for a local housing association. The surrounding garden has been landscaped and new railings, replicating the originals, have been reinstated. In less than a year the Ivy House has gone from last orders to champagne celebrations.

The Ivy House Public House Ievy Hous Pub & Hub CLC

Stuarts Road, Nunhead, London Listed Grade II

Loan: £550,000 disbursed March 2013

Professional Team Architect: John Burton, Purcell, London The Ivy House, formerly the Newlands the campaign group to raise funds to Structural Engineer: Tavern, is a classic, three-storey, wood- submit an open market bid to purchase. Brian Morton, The Morton Partnership, panelled pub with a rare 1930s interior The Ivy House Community Pub Limited London designed by A E Sewell in neo-Georgian was offered acquisition and working capital Valuation Surveyors: Colliers International, London Savills, style. At the time of its closure in April loans by the AHF at very short notice as London 2012 it operated with two bars, a live music part of the overall funding package. venue and residential accommodation. Total investment: £550,000 The involvement of CAMRA led to its being After protracted negotiations with the listed by English Heritage two days before vendor, purchase of the freehold was Other Sources of Funding: Social Investment Business Group: £450,000 closure. The building was then sold to a completed in March 2013, making the Ivy Community share issue: £142,600 property developer for potential conversion House the first building to be bought by to residential use. a community group using the right to bid provisions contained in the Localism Act. In response to the threat of losing an iconic On completion of the purchase, Ivy House pub, four local people formed a campaign Community Pub Limited went on to raise group and in October 2012 successfully £142,600 from 371 shareholders through applied to Southwark Council to have the a Community Share Issue. The Ivy House building listed as an ‘asset of community is now London’s first co-operative pub, value’ under the newly-enacted Localism Act community hub and performance venue. 2011, becoming the first building in London The project won the 2013 English Heritage and possibly England to do so. A six-month Angel Award for ‘The Best Rescue Of moratorium came into force to enable A Heritage Site’.

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The Britons Arms is thought to be the only surviving medieval beguinage in England and is one of the oldest continuously-occupied buildings in Norwich.

The Britons Arms – Phase I N oRWICH Preservation Trust

9 Elm Hill, Norwich, Norfolk Listed Grade II*

Loan: £77,000 contracted July 2012

Home to a small group of single women It had fallen into disrepair when put up Professional Team who devoted themselves to a life of prayer for public auction by the owner, the City Architect: and charitable work within the community, Council. However, the groundswell of local Janet Jury, Reynolds Jury Architects, a beguinage was very common on the opinion was that this important and iconic Norwich Continent in the Middle Ages but was rare building should not be sold. After having Structural Engineer: in England. The Britons Arms is thought to contacted the Architectural Heritage Fund Morton Partnership, Halesworth, Suffolk be the only surviving medieval beguinage directly, the tenants were put in touch with Main Contractor: W S Lusher & Son, Norwich in England and is one of the oldest the Norwich Preservation Trust, which was Thatcher: continuously-occupied buildings in Norwich. able to negotiate a lease with the Council, M&B Thompson, Wymondham, Norfolk Research in the archives and findings leading to an offer of grant aid from English on site have revised some views of the Heritage. An AHF working-capital loan Total investment: £200,000 age of the building with evidence pointing has allowed the first phase of restoration to a structure on the site from 1347, and to be completed. Repairs have been made Other Sources of Funding: English Heritage: £172,000 a dendrochronology test on attic floor to the exterior of the building, including all Trust’s own resources: Balance timbers dated these between 1407–21. It the roof timbers and re-thatching in East is timber-framed with a masonry rear wall, Anglian reed. The work was managed in and the upper storey has a jetty on three a way that enabled the tenants to remain sides. There are three floors and an attic, in situ to continue running their restaurant a rare feature in medieval buildings and business. A second phase of work is it is one of the few remaining thatched planned to start in late 2013 to complete buildings in the City. final repairs.

14 Portland Works P oRTLAND Works Little Sheffield

Randall Street, Sheffield Listed Grade II*

CSG: £10,000 offered December 2012 Loan: £200,000 contracted February 2013

Professional Team Architect: Studio Polpo, Sheffield Portland Works is a large purpose-built Portland Works Little Sheffield Limited Structural Engineer: cutlery works dating mostly from the late so that it could continue to provide low- Rich Lee Associates, Sheffield 1870s. It was commissioned by Robert cost workshop space to small businesses. Quantity Surveyor: Richard Fletcher Associates, Sheffield Mosley, and was the first place in the world Their intention was to buy, renovate and

to manufacture stainless steel cutlery. manage the building, and the initiative Total investment: £614,450 It is an extremely good and complete gained increasing support from the example of its type, which is distinctive to local community. Other Sources of Funding: the industrial identity of Sheffield, known South Yorkshire Community Fund: £5,000 Sheffield City Council: £250 at that time throughout the world as a The Community Share Issue has raised Sheffield City Council, centre of excellence in the manufacture £260,000 from 500 shareholders to date, Community Assembly: £7,000 and processing of steel. The works were and this contributed considerably to Sheffield Town Trust: £6,700 originally mechanised with a steam engine, the organisation’s ability to acquire the South Yorkshire Key Fund and later by a series of gas engines, but building, along with an AHF acquisition (grant and share purchase): £25,000 J G Graves Trust: £1,500 there are also unpowered workshop loan. Furthermore, during 2013 the Society Freshgate Foundation: £1,000 ranges, illustrating the fact that Sheffield issued loanstock to shareholders in the Community Share issue: £260,000 based its reputation on traditional skills. form of three- and five-year Community Individual donors: £5,000 A planning application for Change of Bonds, which raised a further £103,000 Community bonds: £103,000 Use was lodged in 2010 with the proposal to help the short-term renovation process. to convert the building into flats. This The Share Issue is still open to investors would inevitably have led to the loss of for shares of £100–£1000. It has generated many businesses who could not relocate. widespread interest to others wishing to At this point the tenants, including undertake similar projects. metalworkers, engineers, craftsmen, artists and musicians, resolved to form

‘ One of the biggest community buy-outs in the country should guarantee that the building where stainless steel cutlery was invented can continue to house craftspeople, who plan to teach their inherited skills to young people in Sheffield.’ The Guardian

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Howsham, North Yorkshire Listed Grade II

FSG: £4,230 disbursed November 2006 PAG: £4,000 disbursed January 2008 PDG: £7,500 disbursed June 2011 Howsham Mill – Phase II Loan: £50,000 offered 2007, withdrawn

R eNEWABLE Heritage Trust Professional Team Architect: Andrew Yeats, Eco Arc, Kendal Structural Engineer: Gez Pegram, Alan Wood & Partners, York Quantity Surveyor: David Fotheringham, Turner and Holman, York Project Management: Gez Pegram, Alan Wood & Partners, York Martin Phillips, Renewable Heritage Trust Main Contractor: Stephen Pickering, Traditional The Mill was constructed for the Cholmeley environmental study centre, promoting Building Services, Nawton, York family of Howsham Hall in around 1755, renewable energy, local history and wildlife. Sculptor: possibly to the designs of the renowned Phase I of the project, the restoration of Nikki Taylor architect John Carr of York. Built of brick and the granary, waterwheel and wheel pit, Total investment: £620,000 faced in limestone ashlar, it was designed in was completed in 2007 (see Annual Review the fashionable Gothic style and served as 2007–08, p.11). The second phase of the Other Sources of Funding: a decorative landscape feature and working project, the restoration of the main mill Country Houses Foundation: £100,000 watermill. It was in use until just after the building, was developed with the help of an Trust’s own resources: £34,000 Second World War when the estate was AHF Project Development Grant, and largely Heritage Lottery Fund: Balance broken up. It subsequently fell into serious funded by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant. disrepair, the victim of vandalism and a Work started in June 2012 and despite the devastating fire which damaged the timbers building being flooded four times during the supporting the main drive machinery and winter, it was completed 13 months later. caused the collapse of the geared assembly The difficult access to the site meant that and most of the decorative stonework. all the work was done using hand tools and human effort. A permanent, state-of-the- The Renewable Heritage Trust was formed art classroom and meeting space has been to save the building and to conserve the created. The building is topped off with a surrounding natural environment. It has sculpture of Diana, the goddess of hunting, restored the Mill building for use as to replace the original lead figurine long a community venue as well as an since lost.

The difficult access to the site meant that all the work was done using hand tools and human effort.

16 It has been referred to as a building of national importance and one of the finest Georgian gentleman’s townhouses to survive outside London.

St Helen’s House King Street, Derby Listed Grade I, Strutts Park S t Helen’s House Trust Conservation Area FSG: £7,500 disbursed December 2005 RPDG: £10,000 offered March 2006, withdrawn September 2006

Professional Team Architect: Brownhill Hayward Brown, Lichfields, Staffordshire Structural Engineer: Peter Steer, Derby Project Management: Richard Blunt, Midlands Main Contractor: St Helen’s House was designed in 1767 by St Helen’s House Trust declared an interest Richard Blunt Ltd, Midlands Joseph Pickford of Derby for John Gisborne, and was offered an AHF grant to establish a wealthy landowner and sometime MP for the feasibility of re-use. Total investment: £2 million Derby. It has been referred to as a building of national importance and one of the The resulting study suggested that the finest Georgian gentleman’s townhouses site had a viable future as a centre for to survive outside London. In 1807 it was education, vocation and recreation for the acquired by the Strutt family, among people of Derby, but despite the Trust’s the prime innovators of the industrial efforts this did not attract wider support. revolution in the Derwent Valley. Derby It was nevertheless able to convince Richard School acquired the eight-acre site in 1863. Blunt, a property developer and twice winner Other school buildings were constructed of the Georgian Group’s Best Restoration around it between 1878 and 1935, including of a Georgian Building award, of the the main school block, the chapel and commercial worth of restoration, which the headmaster’s house. In the early 1970s has now been completed. The building the school moved elsewhere and the is now occupied by a firm of chartered buildings were subsequently used for adult accountants, whilst redevelopment of the education. In 1997 Derby City Council took surrounding site continues. The restoration over the site, latterly claiming that the of St Helen’s House was itself the winner buildings were unsafe and that there were of a 2013 Georgian Group award. no funds for repairs. At this point, the

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One of its most important features is the early and extensive use of cast iron …

St John’s Church Sh’ t Jo n s Church Hanley Charitable Trust

Town Road, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent Listed Grade II*

FSG: £7,500 disbursed 2005

Professional Team St John’s Church occupies a prominent Charitable Trust was offered an AHF grant Architect: position a short distance north of Hanley to examine potential end uses but was unable Derek Latham, Lathams, Derby town centre. Funded by public subscription, to find a viable scheme. Structural Engineer: it was built in 1787–90 and replaced a Steve Wicham, Price and Myers smaller chapel on the site. It is an imposing The building was acquired by Church Quantity Surveyor: brick building with stone facings. However, Converts Ltd, which sought to find the most Bob Spencer, Wm Baird & Partners the church was built over mine workings that appropriate commercial use. The initial cost Project Management: caused problems with the foundations, even was estimated to be £2.4 million; however Simon Linford, CZero as it was being constructed. One of its most this was reduced considerably once the Main Contractor: important features is the early and extensive project was underway. Repairs were Staffordshire Restoration & Conservation use of cast iron, notably the slender columns undertaken re-using building materials Total investment: £443,000 supporting the gallery, the window frames wherever possible, both desirable in and the castellations on the tower. The conservation terms and to keep costs down. square brick tower is 100 feet high and Subsidence was identified in parts of the originally housed eight bells inscribed with building, but analysis of the cracks in the the names of benefactors including Josiah wall showed that the rate of movement had Wedgewood. In 1985 the tower was declared slowed over the years and that underpinning unsafe, and following an arson attack in was not necessary once other remedial 1988 the Church was declared redundant. works had been carried out. The building The Diocese sought to sell the building but has now been completed as a shell, a it remained on the market for a considerable distinctive and atmospheric space ideal time. In 2001 the St John’s Church Hanley for potential use as a restaurant.

18 Castle House Taunton Castle, Taunton, Somerset Listed Grade I; Castle Green S oMERSET Building Preservation Trust Conservation Area OAG: £10,500 disbursed February 2010 PDG: £19,700 disbursed December 2011 Loan: £50,000 contracted September 2012

Professional Team Architect: Architecton Conservation and Design, Bristol Structural Engineers: Patrick Stow, Ottery St Mary Andrew Phillips, Taunton Quantity Surveyor: Martin Pickard, Trowbridge Main Contractor: Castle House forms an integral part of and were faced with evidence of structural W Coombes & Sons, Ilminster the Inner Ward of Taunton Castle, originally movement and penetrating damp. The head the castle of the Bishops of Winchester. leaseholders, Somerset County Council, Total investment: £1.1 million The house is regarded as one of the finest invited the Somerset Building Preservation Other Sources of Funding: medieval buildings in the South West. Parts Trust to become involved. Heritage Lottery Fund: £500,000 of the building date from the 13th century Viridor Credits Environmental Co: £390,000 with later Tudor and Stuart additions. The building has now been restored to English Heritage: £150,000 During the English Civil War the Castle was provide an educational area on the ground Garfield Weston Foundation: £50,000 a parliamentarian stronghold and in 1685 floor, managed by the newly formed Castle Somerset County Council: £50,000 Individual donations: Balance its Great Hall was used for trials following House Taunton Management Trust. The the quelling of the Monmouth Rebellion. facility will offer learning opportunities Judge Jeffreys lodged in Castle House for the general public and will incorporate during the Bloody Assizes. It subsequently special opportunities for the disadvantaged. became a dwelling house for the Castle The upper floors will be managed by the bailiffs and was then used as a school but Vivat Trust as holiday accommodation. The fell into disrepair during the 19th century. Trust has made full use of AHF financial The Castle itself, which is located in the assistance, from early-stage funding of centre of the town, is now the county an options appraisal study, to a loan for museum. The Somerset Archaeological and the capital phase of works. This was repaid Natural History Society own Castle House early, as the project was completed on but were unable to find a long-term use, time and on budget.

Judge Jeffreys lodged in Castle House during the Bloody Assizes.

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Regency Close and former Chief Superintendent’s House S pITALFIELDS Historic Buildings Trust

Residential Quarter, Sheerness Dockyard, Blue Town, Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, Kent Listed Grade II* and Grade II; Sheerness Dockyard Conservation Area

Loan: £650,000 contracted March 2011

Professional Team Architect: Morris Higham Sheerness Dockyard lies on the western In 2009 Swale Borough Council refused Structural Engineer: tip of the Isle of Sheppey, occupying an the redevelopment scheme, at which point John Wardle important position at the mouth of the the site was acquired by a company set up Project Management: River Thames and Medway. There has been by the Spitalfields Trust. The purchase was Tim Whittaker and Oliver Leigh-Wood a dockyard on this site since the Tudor funded by individuals, who committed to Main Contractor: period, but between 1815 and 1828 a new take on and repair seven properties without The Spitalfields Trust and Kent dockyard was built, engineered by John the need for enabling development, and Conservation and Restoration Rennie and the buildings designed by Navy a loan from the AHF allowed the Trust to Total investment: £1.9 million surveyors Edward Holl and George Ledwell take on the remaining properties. The Trust Taylor. The eight-acre residential site was only given a short time to conclude the Other Sources of Funding: within the dockyard comprises the Chief purchase, but the AHF was able to offer a Private investors Superintendent’s (Commissioner’s) House; loan at short notice to facilitate the process. a terrace of five officer’s houses; South Gate The Trust and the investors whose properties House (formerly Police House and Surgery); are held in trust by the new company have Dockyard Cottage (or Bosun’s House) and since engaged on a major programme of the former stables. The dockyard closed repairs and landscaping, restoring the Police in 1961 and was sold to a commercial port House and recently selling the Bosun’s operator. In 2001 the residential quarter was House. Envelope and roof repairs have sold to a developer who put forward plans now been carried out (or are in progress) for intensive development of the site. on all but one property on the site.

There has been a dockyard on this site since the Tudor period …

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Hadlow Village, Tonbridge, Kent Listed Grade I; Hadlow Conservation Area

PAG: £4,000 disbursed February 2005 POG: £15,000 disbursed February 2005 Loan: £100,000 contracted May 2005 Loan: £150,000 contracted December 2011

Professional Team Architect: Thomas Ford and Partners, London Structural Engineer: The Tower, servants’ quarters, stables the dismantling of the lantern, gables, The Morton Partnership, London and coach house are now all that remain all pinnacles and the parapets to the tower Quantity Surveyor: of Hadlow Castle, a large Gothic house and stair tower. Greenwood Projects, Lichfield, Staffordshire of late-18th-century origins built by wealthy Project Management: Greenwood Projects, Lichfield, Staffordshire local landowner, Walter Barton May. It is Vivat Trust has worked closely with the Main Contractor: of octagonal plan with an adjoining circular local authority on this scheme and when Mansell Construction, London stair turret. Construction work on the a Compulsory Purchase Order was Castle began in 1790 and continued for served in 2010 after several years of legal Total investment: £4.2 million several decades. Modelled on the tower wrangling, restoration work was finally at Fonthill Abbey, the Tower at Hadlow was able to commence. The Tower now offers Other Sources of Funding: Heritage Lottery Fund: £2 million built in 1835. The lantern was added in 1840 high-quality holiday letting accommodation English Heritage: £450,000 but it was never furnished or decorated. over five floors with a lift and two spiral Country House Foundation: £250,000 In 1975 the building was converted to staircases offering access to all levels. Monument Trust: £300,000 residential use and remained in private The lantern, gables, buttresses and roof Garfield Weston: £100,000 ownership. Having had no maintenance have been rebuilt and the whole building work done since its construction, Tonbridge reglazed. The Save Hadlow Tower Action and Malling Borough Council undertook Group has been active in raising funds as emergency repairs in 1992, which included well as the project’s profile and now runs a visitor centre. The restoration scheme Modelled on the tower at has led to the project winning two 2013 Fonthill Abbey, the Tower English Heritage Angel awards and has been nominated for the Georgian Group at Hadlow was built in 1835. Architectural Awards.

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… general neglect and weathering had been exacerbated by fire and bomb damage and the building had lost the majority of its roof …

Melmount Road, Sion Mills, Strabane Listed Category B+

Loan: £50,000 offered December 2011

Sion Mills Stables – Phase I Professional Team (Phase I) Architect: Harthe Revolving Fund Hearth Housing Association, Belfast Structural Engineer: Albert Fry Associates, Belfast Quantity Surveyor: Rainey & Best, Belfast Main Contractor: Piperhill Construction Ltd, Portadown

Total investment: £210,000

Other Sources of Funding (Phase I only): Northern Ireland Environment Agency: £80,990 Ulster Garden Villages: £25,000 Sion Mills, a small village near Strabane of the Stable Block for many years but had (and loan of £50,000) in Co Tyrone, was founded by the been unable to reach agreement with the Pilgrim Trust: £50,000 Herdman family in 1828 as a linen mill current owner until the Northern Ireland Headley Trust: £25,000 with associated buildings. The new mill of Environment Agency (NIEA) stepped in 1853 has an Italianate tower, mill chimney and made its first compulsory acquisition. and administration block occupying a When Hearth eventually took on the building, magnificent site in the Mourne River valley. general neglect and weathering had been The Herdmans built the neo-Elizabethan exacerbated by fire and bomb damage Sion House in 1884 and its associated stable and the building had lost the majority of its block is a prominent part of the Herdsmans roof, with the internal gables having also Mill complex. Sion Mills is still largely been partly demolished. focused on the Mill but with the closure of the factory many of the buildings have become Hearth has carried out a first phase of works redundant or derelict. Hearth Revolving to stabilise the walls and has reinstated the Fund had been negotiating the acquisition roof and the iconic belfry tower which forms an essential part of the village’s townscape. Grant aid has now been offered by the Heritage Lottery Fund and others towards a second phase that should see the building opening as a heritage education centre in association with a local trust and Strabane District Council. An AHF loan has been offered to assist with the works.

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Pollokshaws West Station Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow Listed Category G lASGOW Building Preservation Trust OAG: £3,000 disbursed September 2009 PDG: £30,000 disbursed May 2012

Professional Team Architect: Richard Shorter Architects, Edinburgh Quantity Surveyor: Morham and Brotchie, Edinburgh Structural Engineers: Scott Wilson Railways Solicitor: Burness, Glasgow Business Planning Consultant: CEiS, Glasgow Built in 1847, Pollokshaws West Station buildings to community-based organisations consists of one two-storey and one single- under its Adopt a Station scheme. It was Total investment: £727,938 storey building, either side of the railway via this scheme that the station came to line. It is one of only two surviving pre- the attention of a local charity, South West Other Sources of Funding: 1850s railway buildings in Glasgow. The Community Cycles. Glasgow Building Dean of Guild Court Trust (Merchants House of Glasgow): £5,000 buildings had been vacant since 1998, with Preservation Trust carried out an options Garfield Weston Foundation: £15,000 the windows boarded up and the interiors appraisal which demonstrated that the Glasgow City Council Better Glasgow Fund: stripped back to basic shells by Railtrack buildings could be converted into a base £20,000 as part of a programme of repairs. First for the charity’s cycling project which Glasgow City Council Landfill Scotrail now lets out redundant station provides safe, affordable cycling to Communities Fund: £50,000 Glasgow City Heritage Trust: £75,000 children and adults in South West Glasgow. Glasgow Regeneration Agency: £9,991 Additional services include a coffee shop Hugh Fraser Foundation: £10,000 in the smaller down platform building The Monument Trust: £50,000 which is available for hire. Early AHF Railway Heritage Trust: £200,000 support assisted the development of Robertson Trust: £35,000 ScottishPower Green Energy Trust: £11,280 detailed proposals. Trades House of Glasgow (Commonwealth Fund): £5,000 A tripartite lease was negotiated between Transport Scotland SCRF: £135,000 Network Rail, First Scotrail and Glasgow Trusthouse Charitable Foundation: £30,000 Building Preservation Trust (which was Consideration (South West Community Cycles): £46,667 assigned on to South West Community Cycles post completion). Work on site started in March 2012 and was completed just a year later.

First Scotrail now lets out redundant station buildings to community-based organisations under its Adopt a Station scheme.

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2 Vaughan Street/Bridge Street, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire Listed Grade I; Llanelli Conservation Area

Loan: £189,000 contracted November 2009, security – first charge Llanelly House PAG: £4,000 disbursed May 2008 POG: £6,185 disbursed November 2008 Cathrmar enshire Heritage Regeneration Trust PDG: £7,500 disbursed December 2009

Professional Team Architects: Austin Smith Lord Architects, Cardiff Craig Hamilton Architects, Radnorshire and London Structural Engineer: Opus International Consultants (UK) Ltd Quantity Surveyors and CDM Co-ordinators: Parry and Dawkin, Swansea Mechanical and Electrical Consultant: Robert Bloxham-Jones Built in 1714 as a town house for Sir Carmarthenshire Heritage Regeneration Main Contractor: Thomas Stepney, Llanelly House has been Trust sought to prevent the building being John Weaver Construction, Swansea described by Cadw as ‘the most outstanding sold on the open market and arrest its Archaeologists: domestic building of its type to survive in decay. However, as it has developed the Dr Warwick Rodwell and Richard Scott-Jones, Archaeology Wales Ltd South Wales’. Despite years of neglect, it is project, a wider recognition of the building’s Specialist Lighting Designer: distinguished externally by its ornamented importance has emerged, leading to its Kate Wilkins Lighting Design, London lead drainpipes and parapet topped by great integration into the regeneration of Llanelli Interpretation Design and Development: stone vases, and internally by its panelling town centre. Enigma Creative Solutions, Windsor and overmantle paintings. It has a three- ICT Development and AV Solutions: storey, seven-bay frontage with two wings The campaign to save the building Atlas AV, Swansea extending back towards what was once the was effectively started during the garden. When it first became involved, the BBC’s Restoration programme in 2003, Total investment: £7.1 million demonstrating the length of time that some Other Sources of Funding: projects can take and the long-standing Heritage Lottery Fund: £3,440,000 commitment from the Trust. The building Welsh European Funding Office: £2.5 million now contains a community heritage centre, Welsh Assembly Grants: £580,062 providing facilities including exhibition space, Cadw: £150,000 training and meeting rooms. It also houses Llanelli Town Council: £62,500 Carmarthenshire County Council: £61,437 a genealogy centre, a memorable historic Gift Aid income: £15,512 visitor attraction promoting research and Cwm Environmental (Grantscape): £10,000 an attractive restaurant on the ground floor. Wolfson Foundation: £10,000 The project is a triumph of community, Private donations: £9,793 archaeology, history, culture, building skills Go Wales (employment support): £950,000 and faith in Llanelli’s heritage.

… described by Cadw as ‘the most outstanding domestic building of its type to survive in South Wales’ …

24 Porthmeor Studios (see p.9) PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT

This year’s Annual Review features the usual wide range of projects both geographically and in building type. The diversity of our clients also continues to grow, varying between long-established building preservation trusts to newly-formed community groups.

Featured on this page are images of Hastings Pier, whose In Northern Ireland the Templemore Users Trust are remarkable story is now moving towards a happy ending working hard to save the Belfast Corporation Baths, despite the devastation wrought by the fire in 2010. The exemplifying another growing trend, that of communities commitment of the community in Hastings to rescuing and taking on buildings from local authorities and running them finding sustainable new uses for the Pier has been inspiring, as social enterprises. The Trust’s ambitious plans should and it is also notable that their imaginative approach to ensure a viable future for this much-loved venue. One of the fund-raising has included the issue of Community Shares, longest-running and highest-profile cases the AHF has been something we are beginning to see more regularly in the involved with is that of Mavisbank House, designed by William projects we support. Adam and rightly considered one of the finest buildings in Scotland. Despite many setbacks the local Trust continues In complete contrast is the Langham Dome, a plain to seek a sustainable solution for this extraordinary house, concrete structure in rural Norfolk whose interest is and has benefitted from the full range of AHF grants not so much in its materials or appearance but in the in doing so. significance of its use, to train torpedo bomber pilots and anti-aircraft gunners during the Second World War. Like Of equal heritage significance, at the highest level of listing, Hastings Pier this has received an offer of funding from the is Hay Castle in Wales, which like Mavisbank has suffered Heritage Lottery Fund, reflecting the importance placed from years of neglect and from fire damage. The Hay Castle on it by the local community and their involvement in Trust managed to acquire the site in 2011 and is working its restoration. hard to bring it back into use and re-open to the public.

The common ground for these and all the other projects currently supported by the AHF is the commitment of local people, without which none of them would be able to proceed. Key Many projects receive several different AHF grants and loans. These are abbreviated as follows:

FSG Feasibility Study Grant OAG Options Appraisal Grant CBG Capacity Building Grant PAG Project Administration Grant POG Project Organiser Grant PDG Project Development Grant RPDG Refundable Project Development Grant CSG Cold Spots Grant CFG Challenge Fund Grant

Grant and loan information is as at the end of the financial year (31 March 2013).

Where a grant or loan offer is shown as ‘withdrawn’, this does not necessarily mean that the project is not proceeding. The applicant may have been able to go ahead without it or the nature of the project may have changed and a new application submitted.

ALL PICTURES: Hastings Pier (see p.35)

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Cockthorpe Road, Langham, Norfolk Clophill Heritage Trust 1 Listed Scheduled Ancient Monument St Mary’s Old Church FSG: £2,247 disbursed February 2001 PAG: £4,000 disbursed July 2005 Church Path, Clophill, Bedfordshire The John Clare Trust 2 PDG: £8,500 disbursed May 2011 Listed Grade II* and Scheduled PDG: £6,700 offered December 2012 Ancient Monument The Exeter Arms PDG: £20,035 disbursed December 2011 Langham Dome was built in 1942–43 Church Lane, Helpston, Peterborough Loan: £150,000 offered March 2013 of concrete and metal mesh construction Listed Grade II*; Peterborough to contain a Link trainer and projection Conservation Area St Mary’s Church is situated on top of the equipment for training torpedo bomber Greensand Ridge footpath, which runs for Loan: £210,000 offered March 2013 pilots and anti-aircraft gunners. It is 40 miles between Leighton Buzzard and 12 metres in diameter, had been unused Hamlingay in Bedfordshire. The church is Helpston in Cambridgeshire is the since the end of the Second World War thought to be about 400 years old, but the home of John Clare (1793–1864). Widely and was in poor condition and vulnerable site is likely to have been in religious use regarded as one of the greatest of the to vandalism when the Trust first became since 1145 or earlier. After being replaced English poets, he lived in the village from involved. The Trust intends to reinstate by a new parish church in 1845, it was his birth until 1832. The Trust was formed the lighting and projection equipment used as a mortuary chapel until 1970. in 2005 to purchase his former dwelling, so that its original purpose can be Since then the building has suffered now known as John Clare Cottage, and demonstrated to visitors. However, structurally, not only from the removal of this was subsequently restored using the concrete reinforcement is corroded, stones, but more recently from anti-social traditional building methods, to create a asbestos has been found and services behaviour. It is now a roofless ruin. After centre where people can learn about John need to be brought to the site. The Trust considering a number of options for reuse, Clare, his works, how rural people lived has used an AHF Project Development the Trust have concluded the best way in the early 19th century and also gain an Grant to attract capital funding. The offer forward is to consolidate the ruin, making understanding of the environment. A loan of funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund the church tower safe and providing application was submitted for an adjacent (£446,400) and English Heritage (£199,000) an observation platform, with a new-build former public house, dating from c.1500, will now allow work to begin on site. heritage centre and a lodge for walkers which was used to lay out his body when offering overnight accommodation sited he died. The building will be restored and adjacent. St Mary’s is currently owned incorporated into the operation of the by Central Bedfordshire Council who Cottage, allowing the Trust to expand its have granted the Trust a 125-year lease activities, significantly enhancing its on a peppercorn rent. visitor, education and events programmes.

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Sir Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mills, Mill Lane, Cromford, Derbyshire Listed Grade I; Cromford and Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site CSG: £5,000 offered October 2012

In 1979 the Arkwright Society purchased Cromford Mills, then in an acute state of dereliction and heavily contaminated with industrial waste. It has brought many of the mill buildings, which are part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, back into use, and this phase of works involves a group of buildings that were originally part of the cotton mill complex, later becoming a laundry. The Trust has carried out external repairs and the 4 ground floor is currently used as retail space. It plans to convert the ground floor into a conference and function centre with Upminster Windmill Vivat Trust 4 5 catering facilities, the first floor to a multi- Preservation Trust 6–9 Ninhams Court purpose room, and the top two storeys Upminster Windmill to meeting venues. An Industrial Cold Norwich, Norfolk Spots Grant was offered toward the cost St Mary’s Lane, Upminster, Essex Listed Grade II*; of architectural work and of a heritage Listed Grade II* City Centre Conservation Area and tourism consultant as the Trust looks to develop the scheme further. PAG: £4,000 disbursed February 2006 OAG: £3,000 offered September 2012 CSG: £9,000 offered May 2012 6–9 Ninhams Court has 15th-century The Mill was built in 1803 at the peak origins, with 17th- and 18th-century of timber mill construction. It is one of additions. Restored again in the 19th only 49 smock mills that survive in this century it forms part of an important group country and one of eight with building within the city walls. It is constructed of and machinery dating from the early painted flint rubble with brick dressings, 19th century. It was last used for milling in and a pantiled roof. It is on two storeys with the 1930s and since then only piecemeal attics, on a complex, three-bay, ‘L’ shaped repairs have been carried out. The Mill plan, and is accessible only by a narrow is located near the centre of Upminster alleyway. In addition to its architectural and is surrounded by suburban housing, history, it has local importance as the although it is situated in a small area of birthplace of the Maddermarket Theatre, parkland. The project was awarded a now of international renown, which

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1 Dronfield Heritage Trust (formerly Peel Centre Charitable Trust) Benington Community Heritage Trust Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust Dronfield Hall Barn 3 All Saints Church 1 Easton House 2 Dronfield, Derbyshire Main Road, Benington, 88 High Street East, Glossop, Derbyshire Listed Grade II* Boston, Lincolnshire Howard Town Conservation Area OAG: £8,635 disbursed June 2009 Listed Grade I CSG: £4,487 offered March 2013 CSG: £5,000 disbursed March 2012 OAG: £7,500 disbursed May 2012 PDG: £12,500 disbursed November 2012 CFG: £200,000 offered December 2012 Easton House is two storeys high with PDG: £5,000 offered March 2013 a Welsh slate roof constructed in local All Saints Church dates from the 13th gritstone ashlar on its principal east Dronfield Hall Barn is a mid-15th-century century and was modified in the 14th and elevation and squared coursed rubble on timber-framed former manor house 15th centuries, before being restored in the north, south and rear west elevations. converted to a barn in the 17th century. the 19th century. The walls are limestone, It was built in 1857 and designed in a It is an ‘L’ shaped building of sandstone ashlar-faced with coursed rubble in the high Victorian style with a hipped, ridged construction, with a stone slate roof. The core. Notable features include the roof and seven large chimney stacks. quality of its surviving timber frame and 15th-century oak nave roof with arch- Although unlisted, it is a key building in details of its carpentry show this to be an braced collars and intermediate angels the Howard Town Conservation Area, outstanding example of late-medieval holding shields, an octagonal, late- and has lain empty since 2005. The Trust craftsmanship. The barn had been disused medieval font and finely-carved pulpit, intended to carry out an options appraisal for over 10 years and was deteriorating chancel screen and choir stalls. All Saints study with the offer of an East Midlands when gifted to the Trust, together with was closed for worship in March 2003, Cold Spots Grant to find a sustainable surrounding land in June 2005. The although the surrounding graveyard is still long-term use for the house. In the preferred option identified by the study in use. Since then there has been damage meantime an expression of interest was to create a mixed-use community to the windows and theft of lead from the to purchase the property was received facility including arts space, heritage roof leading to water ingress. A building from a private developer and High Peak interpretation and a café. A Project preservation trust was established to find Borough Council felt that, as they own Development Grant and Cold Spots Grant a suitable re-use for the building. The the building, they should underwrite the have enabled the Trust to develop the Diocese has offered to sell the freehold for cost of the options appraisal. The AHF’s scheme further in advance of its HLF £1 or offer a long lease at a nominal sum. grant offer was therefore withdrawn. Stage 2 application. An AHF-funded options appraisal study demonstrated that a mix of community and commercial activity was feasible, and 3 with the offer of a Challenge Fund Grant, the Trust is ready to apply to the Heritage Lottery Fund to secure the building’s long-term future.

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Park Road, Holbeach, Lincolnshire Listed Category II; Holbeach Conservation Area OAG: £4,000 offered March 2013

The buildings were constructed in 1854 as Anglican and Nonconformist chapels facing each other across the main driveway. Built of stock brick with limestone ashlar dressings, and an ornamental slate roof with stone-coped gables, the interiors contain lierne rib vaults with ornate bosses and angel corbels. Between the two chapels is a carriage porch surmounted by a short 5 tower and spire. The Anglican chapel has been deconsecrated and vacant for a number of years, and the Nonconformist GRT EA ER LONDON NORTHST EA chapel has been used as a storeroom for gardening equipment. The buildings have been maintained externally and the slate roofs have recently been repaired. An Options Appraisal Grant has been offered Turner’s House Trust (formerly 5 Tyne and Wear Building 6 to allow the Trust to explore all appropriate Sandycombe Lodge Trust) Preservation Trust uses. The parish council is prepared to offer a long lease at a peppercorn rent. Sandycombe Lodge Blackfell Hauler House

40 Sandycombe Road, Bowes Railway, Gateshead, Twickenham, Middlesex Newcastle upon Tyne Listed Grade II*; Cambridge Park Scheduled Ancient Monument Conservation Area CSG: £5,000 offered November 2012 OAG: £7,400 disbursed June 2012 CFG: £190,000 offered March 2013 PDG: £15,000 offered December 2012 CFG: £141,000 offered March 2013 Bowes Railway is one of the earliest and best-preserved rope haulage railways Sandycombe Lodge was designed by in the UK. Attributed to the renowned the artist J M W Turner as a country engineer George Stephenson it was retreat from which he mounted painting a system for transporting coal from the expeditions. His sketchbooks prior to North Durham coalfield to ships moored the completion of the building in 1812 are on the River Tyne. Blackfell, built in 1913, ST MIDLANDS • GR MIDLANDS ST E

filled with architectural ideas, some of is one of two remaining hauler houses A which found their way into the house, as did that powered the ropeway on the steep those of Sir John Soane, who Turner met inclines. In partnership with the Bowes at the Royal Academy. The villa is on two Railway Company, the Trust will restore storeys, built of brick, and painted white. the structure and external machinery. Although much of the surrounding land has The building can be utilised for a variety been sold off for suburban development, of uses and an objective is to link this it retains a garden on all four sides. with the Railway’s training and volunteer Following Turner’s death in 1826, the house programmes. With the offer of a passed through several different owners. Challenge Fund Grant, work is planned E

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Bridge Mill Road, Nelson, Lancashire Whitefield Conservation Area The Jewel on the Hill 3 PDG: £15,000 disbursed May 2010 Preservation Trust Loan: £400,000 withdrawn February 2012 Former Everton Library 1 Loan: £100,000 offered January 2013 109 Domingo Road, Liverpool Lomeshaye Bridge Mill, a steam-driven, Listed Grade II two-storey cotton spinning mill, was built in 1841 at the birth of the cotton industry PDG: £10,000 offered September 2012 in the area. Occupying a site adjacent to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, it is The former Everton Library was constructed of dressed stone over rubble completed in 1896 to the designs stone masonry with a slate roof and, of Thomas Shelverdine, Liverpool City together with the adjacent weaving sheds, Surveyor. It was built on a triangular the site once housed 1,286 looms. It plan to fit the Victorian street layout, remained in use for cotton production incorporating an unusual octagonal turret until 1935 after which it was used for with a Jacobean Arts & Crafts exterior finishing and dying cotton and garment and the former Main Reading Room has manufacture, rather than spinning and a glass barrel-vaulted ceiling. It was one weaving. Although not listed, the Mill of the earliest public libraries in Liverpool. is recognised as a significant building in Closed in 1999, it has been empty for the 1 the Conservation Area and has been last decade. The Trust aims to create designated a ‘critical project’ within the the ‘Jewel on the Hill’, a hub for local Whitefield Townscape Heritage Initiative. heritage and creative activities, providing Tyne and Wear Building 1 The Mill will be converted to provide a mix exhibition, social and performance space, Preservation Trust of business start-up units and first growth meeting and training rooms and a café. Jesmond Dene space with meeting facilities, reception The Trust, together with Hope Street Ltd, Banqueting Hall and post room services, secure on-site the proposed end user, has been awarded storage and archive facilities. The Trust a £284,400 HLF Stage 1 pass and a Project has been offered an AHF working-capital Development Grant will allow it to submit Jesmond Dene Road, Jesmond Dene, loan to allow it to commence work. capital funding applications. Newcastle upon Tyne Listed Grade II; Jesmond Dene Conservation Area OAG: £7,450 disbursed November 2012 PDG: £3,760 offered December 2012

The Banqueting Hall sits within Jesmond Dene, a public park, and was built between 1860–62 by John Dobson for William Armstrong. It is in an Italian style, constructed of rock-faced sandstone contrasted with ashlar blocks and red brick quoins. The interior was furnished with statues and dark oak roof timbers against pale blue plaster. The

T gatehouse and reception rooms to the S banqueting hall were constructed in E 1869–70 to the designs of R Norman Shaw using similar materials, though in a more gothic style. The roof of the Banqueting Hall was removed in 1978 following a failed attempt to restore the building. The options appraisal recommended a use centred on artist studios and workshops, A with the gate lodge being converted E into offices or holiday accommodation. A Project Development Grant was offered to help keep up the project’s momentum. 2 NORTH ST • NORTH W

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6 mill, constructed in 1862, with various minor additions made in the 19th and for a project officer. Listed Grade II; Park Green Conservation Area CSG: £9,990 offered December 2012 Lower Paradise Mill is a former silk 20th centuries. It is currently in private ownership. The Silk Heritage Trust owns and manages the former college building which houses the Silk Museum, and is sited adjacent to the Mill. The top floor of the Mill, which houses 26 jaquard looms, is leased by the Trust, and open to the public as a visitor attraction. The Trust wishes to undertake an options appraisal to assess how it might acquire the building, and how it could link with the three adjacent buildings already in its ownership, to create an enhanced silk museum and visitor attraction. Cheshire East Council has been strongly match-funding supportive,providing for the professional work, and funding Silk Heritage Trust Paradise Mill (Lower) Park Lane, Macclesfield, Cheshire

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of a water-powered corn mill. It was substantially rebuilt in 1839, although part of the structure may be much older. It is part of a complex, which includes and office space Trust.for the North of England Civic Trust Warwick Bridge Corn Mill Warwick Bridge, Carlisle, Cumbria Listed Grade II* FSG: £7,000 disbursed October 2003 CSG: £10,000 offered August 2012 The Mill is three storeys high with a slate roof and is an unusually large example the miller’s house, as well as a bakery, barns and stables. The milling machinery and tools were in use until There 1989. is a possibility for the Trust to acquire the mill and an Industrial Cold Spots Grant has enabled it to assess the viability of transforming it into an artisan bakery

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: £150,000 offered March 2013 n a o 5 Lowther Castle was built in 1806 by Robert Smirke on a site occupied by the Lowther family for 800 years. It is set in 130 acres of parkland, hidden from public view for 70 years until the formation of the Trust, which commenced restoration work It is emerging in 2011. as a potentially significant tourist destination in a somewhat overlooked part of the Lake District. The scope of the project is highly ambitious; the grounds and gardens are substantial and the restoration work to the Castle buildings will take a number of years. The views from the gardens, in particular an escarpment overlooking the Lakes, are particularly impressive. A restored wing of the Castle is due to open in the current year to display a significant collection of art and silverware owned by the Lowther Estate. Wedding bookings are being taken for 2014 and meeting space is available for hire. An AHF working-capital loan has been offeredso that phase two of the restoration can commence. Lowther Castle & Gardens Trust Lowther Castle Lowther, Penrith, Cumbria Listed Grade II* L 34 NORTH WEST • SOUTH EAST ENGLAND to expand its activities and operations. and activities its expand to plans continue to and hurdle huge this over get to Society the supported loan AHF An problems. flow cash severe with Society the left but December in out carried were works Emergency survival. railway’s the threatening collapsed, Nent and Tyne South the of confluence the at wall retaining river large a flooding, of period extended an after 2012, November In Beauty. Natural of Area Pennine North the in attraction tourist atop line, the on rides leisure from derived income of out costs most meets and repair and maintenance full for responsible is Society Preservation The buildings. and structures heritage unique or listed 30 than more includes railway the 1983, since stages in volunteers by 1976. in Built Rail British by closed and 1852 in opened Alston, to Haltwhistle from mines, lead local service to built line branch Carlisle and Newcastle former the of bed track the along Halt Lintley to Alston from running railway heritage gauge, anarrow is Railway Tynedale South The L Area Conservation Alston Cumbria Alston, Station, Railway The Wall Retaining River Alston Society Preservation Railway Tynedale South o a n £40,000 disbursed March 2013 March disbursed : £40,000

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Argos Lane, Argos Hill, Kent Listed Grade II* 5 CSG: £2,386 offered December 2012 Hastings Pier Charity 5 Argos Hill Windmill is one of only fifty surviving post-mills in the UK, with Hastings Pier remarkably intact internal machinery. This hilltop location has long been White Rock, Hastings, East Sussex occupied by a mill, although the current Listed Grade II; White Rock mill dates from 1835, and remained in Conservation Area use until the 1920s. The mill body, clad PDG: £13,367 offered September 2012 in weatherboarding, has three floors and (Western Bandstand Pavilion only) sits on a single-storey brick roundhouse. Development Loan: £50,000 6 Following storm damage in 1987, the mill contracted March 2013 was restored in 1990 and opened to the Loan: £700,000 offered March 2013 public, but again deteriorated. It has been Murston All Saints Trust 6 protected by scaffolding and sheeting, Hastings Pier was built to the design of Murston All Saints Old Church but needs significant work to renew the Eugenius Birch and opened on 5 August weatherboarding and repair some of the 1872, the country’s first bank holiday. Church Road, Murston, Kent structural timbers. Wealden District The 280-foot structure finally closed in Scheduled Ancient Monument Council has leased the building to the 2006 for health and safety reasons, but Trust, set up to restore the mill and open a devastating fire took place in 2010, OAG: £3,000 offered March 2013 it as a visitor attraction. It plans a five- destroying all but the Western Bandstand phase programme of repairs and Pavilion and severely damaging the The Church of All Saints, Murston restoration work. The first phase, to make structure. It has since withstood the was mentioned in the Domesday Book. the structure safe through the installation elements as little more than a charred The structure that survives today is the of a steel frame, is nearing completion. skeleton. The Trust has campaigned for remainder of that built in the 12th or 13th The remaining phases will make the mill many years, leading to the council serving century in the Early English style. During weatherproof and structurally sound, and a Compulsory Purchase Order on the the 19th century the centre of Murston’s finally restore the mill to working order. It owners. The Trust was awarded a Heritage settlement moved to the south, leaving the has been offered an Industrial Cold Spots Lottery Fund grant of £11.4 million in church isolated in increasingly industrial Grant to undertake detailed drawings November 2012. This will enable surroundings. A new church was built in and specifications. restoration of the iron super-structure, 1833, leading to the demolition of most of and provide funding towards a visitor All Saints, except for the central chancel, centre, an interactive heritage project, which was used as a mortuary chapel. shop, and space for film screenings, The Church’s altar, one of its bells, education projects, musical performances sundry corbels and three pillars were and an open space with a wide range of incorporated, and the last burial took place seasonal uses. The intention is for the Pier in 1920. The site’s increasing dereliction to be the ‘standout visitor attraction on the and generally unattractive aspect has led South Coast’. The AHF offered a Project to severe vandalism. The Trust wishes to Development Grant to help redevelop the explore the feasibility of creating new-build Pavilion and a working capital loan has artists’ studios elsewhere on the site, with been offered to contribute toward capital the former Church housing communal costs for the pier itself, with completion and exhibition space and a café; there are 4 and opening planned for the end of 2014. few other green spaces in the area.

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£10,000 offered March 2013 £7,500 disbursed April 2012 5 are in fair condition, although there has been a lack of maintenance over the years. The police station was still in use when the Trust first became involved, the courthouse is almost intact and the cells have been unused and unaltered since 1890. The Trust acquired the site from Devon County Council in 2010, and the Police have now moved to a purpose-built facility elsewhere in the town. The options appraisal study suggested residential accommodation in part of the building would allow the retention of the historic courthouse interior, and the Trust is now developing the scheme further with the help of an AHF Project Development Grant. a police station, courthouse, judge’s lodgings, cells and a fire station. It is the earliest surviving purpose-built combined police station and courthouse in England, as well as being important to the character and history of the town. The buildings Devon Historic Buildings Trust House Police Station, Trowte’s andGuildhall Complex Abbey Place, Tavistock, Devon Listed Grade II*; Tavistock Town Conservation Area OAG: PDG: Much of the centre of Tavistock is built on the site of the Abbey which was destroyed during the Dissolution. These buildings were erected in 1848 and incorporate some of the late-15th-century fabric. The Seventh Duke of Bedford, the local landowner, constructed them as an administrativeincorporating centre,

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it was completely reorganised as a very advanced steam-driven, electrically-lit roller mill. The building was formerly part of a much larger 19th-century industrial complex that was mostly demolished in the 1980s. The Trust is flexible as to the proposed end use for the building, which will depend on the outcome of an options appraisal funded by an AHF Industrial Cold Spots Grant. The Trust feels thatmixed use may well be the most viable choice. Preservation Trust when it was rebuilt on older foundations following a fire. Further extensions were added in 1877 and again in 1884, when CornwallBuildings Mill Loggan’s Haley, Cornwall Listed Grade II CSG: £10,000 offered November 2012 Loggan’s Mill is a large and imposing granite building situated on the eastern outskirts of Hayle. It dates from 1852,

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£7,500 disbursed March 2010 £5,995 disbursed March 2010 Lower Lodge Ashton Court, Ashton Road, Bristol Listed Grade II*; Lower Ashton Conservation Area OAG: PDG: CFG: £164,000 offered December 2012 Lower Lodge was originally a Gatekeeper’s Lodge for the Ashton Estate, built c.1805 for Sir John Hugh Smyth and designed by Humphrey Repton. The Lodge is of limestone ashlar, battlemented in Tudor style. It has three useable rooms, and was probably never inhabited full-time. It has been unoccupied for 50 years and a partial roof collapse has caused movement throughout the structure. Ashton Park School was built in the estate grounds, although the original house still stands. The options appraisal demonstrated that the Lodge would be suitable for use by the school as ancillary and office accommodation and further AHF development funding was subsequently offered. The proposed scheme provides a long-term solution for the building to conserve the structure and use it as a ‘gateway heritage hub’ and meeting space for use by the school and the local community, to include a learning, educational and interpretation component working with the school and the BedminsterCommunity Neighbourhood Partnership. A Challenge Fund Grant has been offered toward the capital costs. Bristol Building Preservation Trust ENGLAND

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CSG: £10,000 offered December 2012 King Edward Mine is the most complete 3 surviving mine-head complex in the Built in 1852 as a goods train shipment Cornish Mining World Heritage Site. The shed for broad and narrow gauge trains, Assay Office is a single-storey structure Paignton Heritage Society 3 the single-storey, 13-bay symmetrical shed built of rubble stone, with a weather has an entablature and cornice all around. boarded front. Originally understood Paignton Picture House The sides are a round-arched arcade with to have been the South Condurrow Mine stone keys and alternately blind and metal (1865–96) Assay Sample House, with an Torbay Road, Paignton, Devon framed round-arched windows. A rail track associated Wash House, the building has Listed Grade II* occupies one side of the interior, a wooden been vacant for approximately 40 years. OAG: £7,500 disbursed October 2012 platform occupies the other. Network The overall scheme for the wider site (to Devon Historic Buildings Trust) Rail is willing to pass on ownership of the includes the conversion of two redundant PDG: £5,400 offered March 2013 building, using an asset transfer model. buildings as office and workspace units, The Trust intends to use an AHF Industrial and the restoration of the core museum Designed by M B Hyams and D J Hogben Cold Spots Grant to undertake an options buildings to provide an improved visitor in the Free Edwardian style, the Picture appraisal, and further business planning. experience. The Assay Office will be House was built in 1913–14. It contains One possible use would focus on whether repaired and reused as a ‘destination Baroque and Jacobean detail, with an Art the building could be used to home café’ serving both the offices and the Nouveau flair. It was the first cinema in a rare example of an early steam train. museum, while also providing a stopping the area with air conditioning, requiring Alternative options for re-use include point on the Great Flat Lode mineral arched ceilings which provide excellent performance rehearsal space, of which tramway. A Challenge Fund Grant has acoustics. Many well-known patrons there is a local shortage. been awarded for the capital project. were known to attend in its heyday, the most famous being Agatha Christie. The building continued to show films until 1 1999, by which time it had been purchased by the adjacent Dart Valley Railway, which aimed to use its historic and architectural merits to enhance the railway’s appeal. However when the cinema operator pulled out the Railway was unable to find a suitable new use. Devon Historic Buildings Trust was interested in acquiring the building and was awarded an AHF Options Appraisal Grant. The study found a heritage arts cinema and associated café/ restaurant use would be viable. Since then the Paignton Heritage Society has taken the lead in establishing a new trust to deliver the project and has been awarded a Project Development Grant to develop the business plan for the project. SOUTH WEST • WEST MIDLANDS 39 6 6 6

£7,500 offered September 2012 S E Charterhouse Coventry Preservation Trust TheCharterhouse London Road, Coventry Listed Grade London I; Road Conservation Area OAG: The Charterhouse incorporates all that remains of the Carthusian Priory of St Anne, founded in by 1381, William, Lord Zouche of Harringworth on a 14-acre site. The surviving range is believed to have been the Prior’s cell and the monks’ refectory. It is constructed of local sandstone, with a timber-framed upper storey of 16th-century construction. The building has been altered and extended many times throughout its life, with a two-storey Victorian house the most obvious addition. It is situated close to the centre of Coventry and was used as a private residence between the Dissolution and 1940, when it was gifted to the community as part of the Wyley Bequest. The Prior’s House was occupied for many years by City College, Coventry, but the building was deemed surplus to requirements in 2010 and ownership was passed to the Trust, which considers that there is huge potential in the opening out of this little-known amenity to the community as a whole, and has ambitious plans to regenerate significant areas to the west of the city. W T MIDLANDS

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Listed Grade II* FSG: £5,500 disbursed October 2006 CFG: £125,000 offered July 2012 The Riding House is the oldest and Wolfeton Riding House Trust The Riding House Wolfeton Manor, Charminster, Dorset one of only a handful of such buildings still standing. It was probably constructed between by Sir 1600 George and 1610 Trenchard, the owner of the Wolfeton Estate. By the 18th century the building was used as a threshing barn, and later a cow house and agricultural store, but has been unused for about forty years. Repairs have been undertaken by the Trust on several occasions since acquiring the freehold A feasibility in 1997. study was completed in 2006 with AHF assistance; this recommended the reuse of the building as a venue forcommunity and educational purposes. However funding did not materialise and the project had to be divided into phases. have Two now been completed, with the walls being stabilised and the roof replaced to prevent any further deterioration. The Trust has been awarded a Challenge Fund Grant towards the cost of the final phase. This will involve the completion of stonework repairs, archaeological work, excavation and the reinstatement of the north doors, limewashing and the provision of services to the building. This will allow the Trust to market the Riding House as a venue for community events. 4 5

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Friends of Ingestre Orangery 1 Ingestre Hall Orangery

Ingestre, Staffordshire Listed Grade II OAG: £3,393 disbursed January 2013

Ingestre Hall was built in 1613 by Sir Walter Chetwynd. His grandson, another Walter Chetwynd, commissioned the nearby Ingestre Church, designed by Wren in 1676. Ingestre Orangery was added to the estate c.1770, built by Samuel and Joseph Wyatt to the designs of James ‘Athenian’ Stuart for the nearby orangery at Blithfield Hall. It is south-facing, with a temple structure at both ends and a Doric colonnade. It was subsequently incorporated into the landscaping scheme of ‘Capability’ 2 Brown. The estate was broken up in 1959 and the Orangery inherited by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. While Moseley Muslim 2 various owners have maintained the Community Association building to a minimum standard, it is now unused and in poor condition. The Trust’s Former Moseley School of Art AHF-funded options appraisal study demonstrated that community use for 496 Moseley Road, a building designed for plants rather than Balsall Heath, Birmingham people was feasible and viable financially. Listed Grade II* It intends to create a heritage, community OAG: £7,500 offered December 3 and arts centre. Local volunteers have been active in clearing the surrounding Moseley School of Art was the first grounds of undergrowth, and there is purpose-built branch school of the Prince’s Regeneration Trust 3 sufficient space for external events, Birmingham Municipal School of Art. It was (United Kingdom Historic access and car parking. Strong links have erected in 1899 to the design of the leading Building Preservation Trust) been established with other community local architect, William Bidlake, who used groups on the former estate. Roman classical orders in an inventive The Wedgwood Institute Arts and Crafts manner. The Moseley Muslim Community Association bought Queen Street, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent the building in 1984 when it had been empty Listed Grade II*; Burslem for some years. Although the building is Conservation Area not derelict, much of it is unused, the roof PDG: 3,750 offered September 2012 leaks, the windows are rotting and some are boarded up. A Condition Survey has In 1859 a public meeting held in Burslem been undertaken recently and the repair decreed that a working men’s educational costs have been identified. However, institute named after Josiah Wedgwood it is important that the building has an should be created in the town. In 1865 economically viable future. An AHF- work commenced on the building, which funded options appraisal study will housed a range of artistic pursuits therefore investigate possibilities for uses including ceramic design and decoration, by the wider community and determine and helped to train many working in the 1 a financially viable future for the building. local pottery industry. It became an annexe to Staffordshire University and Stoke-on-Trent College, before closing 1 3 in 1993. It has not been used since, with a lack of maintenance contributing to its deteriorating condition. The local authority, which owns the building, has promoted a range of uses without success. The Trust, which has been actively involved in the restoration of the nearby Middleport Pottery, was invited to find a solution. It would like to identify an educational tenant, to generate income and return the building to its original use. A Project Development Grant has been offered to help develop the scheme.

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Clopton Bridge, Bridgefoot, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire Listed Grade I; Stratford-upon-Avon Conservation Area OAG: £4,750 offered September 2012

The Toll House was constructed in stone in 1814 and attached to the 15th-century Clopton Bridge when it was widened. The 10-sided Toll House did not generate sufficient income and by 1820 it had fallen into disrepair with tolls no longer levied after 1839. James Cox moved his wood yard to the adjacent site and rented the Toll House for use as an office. It has been empty for 20 years, 5 and although the owners, Stratford District Council, have made it watertight, the roof has been temporarily repaired, Worcester Building 6 and external stonework to road frontage Preservation Trust is in a poor condition. Internally the first floor is missing, and plaster ceilings and Weavers’ Cottages walls are deteriorating. The basement was constructed to flood when the 20, 21 and 22 Horsefair, river reaches high levels so could not be Kidderminster, Worcestershire used for anything other than occasional Listed Grade II storage. An options appraisal will PDG: £4,850 disbursed January 2012 determine whether a sustainable 6 CSG: £9,875 offered November 2012 future can be anticipated. King Henry III granted an annual fair West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust to Kidderminster in 1238, and by 1690 this Foster, Rastrick had become too large for the city centre; it was therefore moved to this area in the 5 and Co Foundry north-east of the town. The fairs ceased around 1820, but by this time development Lowndes Road, Stourbridge, had surrounded the large, triangular West Midlands open area which remains today. Nos 20 Listed Grade II*/II; Stourbridge Branch and 21 Horsefair were built in the early Canal Conservation Area (part) 19th century as artisan housing. No 22 OAG: £8,458 disbursed April 2011 was constructed in the mid-18th century, CSG: £6,700 offered December 2012 and incorporates a purpose-built top-floor workshop, possibly for the This large former foundry site is accommodation of weavers. The buildings particularly significant, not least because have been unused and derelict for at steam locomotives designed by Richard least 10 years. They are owned by Wyre Trevithick, predating Stephenson’s Rocket, Forest Community Housing, which is were manufactured here. These included willing to pass on the freehold interest for the Stourbridge Lion, the first locomotive a nominal sum. The Trust has concluded to run on rails in the USA. Constructed that re-sale as private housing offered between 1809 and 1819, the site comprises the smallest conservation deficit. The the Foundry building, Riverside House Heritage Lottery Fund has supported the (formerly the manager’s residence) and project with a grant offer and the Trust the former canal dry dock and workshops. was offered a Project Development Grant The Stourbridge Canal adjoins the site and Industrial Cold Spots Grant to and the River Stour runs through it. develop the scheme in the meantime. The site finally closed in 2004 and was

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Age Concern Oldham 4 Cullompton Walronds 5 Heritage of London George Street Chapel Preservation Trust Trust Operations Ltd Oldham, Lancashire The Walronds New River Head Listed Grade II* Fore Street, Cullompton, Devon Islington CFG: £100,000 offered October 2011 Listed Grade I; Cullompton Town Centre Listed Grade II Conservation Area CSG: £5,000 disbursed July 2012 Arkwright Society FSG: £5,875 disbursed November 1997 Loan: £55,000 repaid June 2006 Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire 6 Building 17 CBG: £1,827 disbursed March 2009 Sir Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mills, OAG: £9,145 disbursed June 2008 Manor Farm House Mill Lane, Cromford, Derbyshire PDG: £1,854 disbursed March 2009 The Green, Helpringham, Lincolnshire Listed Grade I; Cromford and Derwent PDG: £4,000 disbursed April 2010 Listed Grade II* Valley Mills World Heritage Site Loan: £245,000 contracted May 2011 OAG: £10,890 disbursed January 2013 PDG: £25,000 disbursed September 2010 Derby Hippodrome Restoration Trust RPDG: £5,000 disbursed November 2011 Heritage Works Buildings 7 Loan: £450,000 offered September 2011 Derby Hippodrome Theatre Preservation Trust

Arkwright Society Derby Clergy House Listed Grade II* Buildings 1,7, 8 and 9 1 Barkerend Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire CSG: £5,000 disbursed April 2012 Listed Grade II; Cathedral Precincts Sir Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mills, Conservation Area Mill Lane, Cromford, Derbyshire Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust OAG: £7,500 disbursed August 2011 Listed Grade I; Cromford and Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Hoffman Kiln CSG: £5,000 disbursed October 2011 Oakwell Brickworks, Ilkeston, Derbyshire Listed Grade II OAG: £7,500 disbursed March 2012 PDG: £12,500 offered March 2012 OAG: £7,500 disbursed March 2012 Continued overleaf

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Kingswood Heritage Projects 1 Sneath’s Mill Trust The Vivat Trust 6 Dalton Young Building Sneath’s Mill Whorlton Castle Gatehouse and Clock Tower Lutton Gowts, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire Castle Bank, Whorlton, Hambleton, Champion’s Brassworks, Listed Grade I nr Selby, North Yorkshire Listed Grade I Tower Lane, Warmley, Bristol OAG: £7,500 disbursed July 2012 Listed Grade II; Warmley Conservation Area OAG: £3,000 disbursed June 2011 OAG: £3,000 offered March 2011 South London Theatre Building 5 PDG: £7,500 offered March 2012 Preservation Trust North of England Civic Trust 2 Tyne and Wear Building South London Theatre Preservation Trust Cowes’ Building 2a Norwood High Street, London Bottle Kilns 2 Love Lane and 64–66 Bridge Street, Listed Grade II; West Norwood Berwick-upon-Tweed Conservation Area Corbridge, Northumberland Listed Grade II*; Scheduled Listed Grade II; Berwick-upon-Tweed PDG: £5,000 disbursed April 2012 Conservation Area Ancient Monument OAG: £7,625 disbursed July 2012 South Yorkshire Buildings CSG: £9,000 offered February 2012 Preservation Trust North of England Civic Trust Tyne and Wear Building 1–2 Market Place Preservation Trust Western Lodge Thorne, nr Doncaster, South Yorkshire The Old Low Light Leazes Park, Newcastle upon Tyne Listed Grade II, Thorne Conservation Area Cliffords Fort, Fish Quay, Leazes Conservation Area OAG: £8,940 disbursed November 2009 North Shields, Tynemouth PDG: £8,036 disbursed July 2012 PDG: £20,000 disbursed February 2012 Listed Grade II; Fish Quay Conservation Area; Cliffords Fort Scheduled Ancient South Yorkshire Buildings Norton Priory Museum Trust 3 Monument Preservation Trust Undercroft of West Range CSG: £5,000 offered January 2012 Norton Priory, Tudor Road, 42–44 King Street Runcorn, Cheshire Thorne, nr Doncaster, South Yorkshire Waltham Forest Cinema Trust Listed Grade I Thorne Conservation Area Former Granada Cinema OAG: £9,166 disbursed October 2012 POG: £15,000 disbursed January 2008 186 Hoe Street, Walthamstow PAG: £4,000 disbursed February 2007 Listed Grade II* Norwich Preservation Trust Loan: £170,000 contracted March 2007 Supplemental Loan: OAG: £7,500 offered December 2011 Howard House £75,000 contracted April 2009 97 King Street, Norwich, Norfolk Supplemental Loan: Wells Maltings Trust 7 Listed Grade II*; City Centre £170,000 contracted October 2011 Wells Maltings and Stackhouse Conservation Area Supplemental Loan: £34,000 contracted February 2013 Staithe Street, OAG: £6,780 disbursed March 2012 Wells-Next-the-Sea, Norfolk Suffolk Architectural Heritage Trust Listed Grade II; North Norfolk Jicklings Yard Poltimore House Trust Conservation Area Wingfield House Poltimore House PDG: £15,930 disbursed November 2012 Market Place, Saxmundham, Suffolk Poltimore, Exeter, Devon Listed Grade II; Saxmundham Listed Grade II* West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust Conservation Area OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2007 OAG: £3,405 disbursed November 2012 59–60 Tower Street PDG: £20,000 disbursed October 2011 Dudley, West Midlands The Shrewsbury and Listed Grade II; Dudley Town Centre Severndroog Castle 4 Newport Canals Trust Conservation Area Building Preservation Trust PDG: £12,575 disbursed January 2012 Severndroog Castle Wappenshall Warehouse and Wharf Shooters Hill, London Listed Grade II* Wappenshall, Telford, Shropshire Listed Grade II PDG: £8,500 disbursed February 2013 Loan: £395,000 withdrawn February 2009 OAG: £7,500 disbursed March 2012 PDG: £12,500 offered March 2012

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174 Trust 1 The Manse

Former Duncairn Presbyterian Church, 160 Antrim Road, North Belfast PDG: £7,777 offered March 2013

The Church and surrounding buildings were built in 1862 to the designs of W J Barr, who also designed the Ulster Hall and Albert Clock. The former church had been vacant for approximately 20 years before restoration commenced. The Trust exists to promote reconciliation between communities in Belfast by providing leisure activities for young people. It wished to expand its existing ventures by creating a centre for the arts, culture and heritage. Phase I, for the restoration of the Church, was awarded a HLF grant of £959,600 in March 2011 and work is well underway. Phase II is for the refurbishment of the Manse which has latterly been used as office accommodation. Office accommodation for the Trust will be retained, but additional space for meeting and activity rooms and a crèche will also 2 be created, integrating with the wider body of works being undertaken by the Trust. A Project Development Grant will Glenarm Buildings Preservation Trust Richill Buildings Preservation Trust help facilitate the development of this phase of works. Seaview Hall 2 Richill Castle 3

New Row, Glenarm, Co Antrim 1–3 Castle Grounds, Richill, Armagh 1 Glenarm Conservation Area Listed Category A; Richill Village Conservation Area OAG: £3,666 disbursed December 2009 CBG: £1,923 disbursed May 2009 FSG: £4,235 disbursed November 2006 Loan: £90,000 offered December 2012 OAG: £5,000 offered September 2012

Built as a National School in 1888 to Richhill Castle was built in 1655 by Major resemble the adjacent church, Seaview Edward Richardson, MP for Armagh. The Hall has a steep, pitched slate roof with Castle sits on the hill top, set slightly back the front gable wall in the same basalt from the Square at the head of the village stone as the church. Both the Gothic street and is possibly the earliest surviving and circular windows of the church are example of an unfortified residence in the replicated in the ‘old school’. It became Province. Its shaped gables and panelled redundant in 1972 and adapted as a brick chimneys are its most distinctive parish hall the following year, but has been feature. It has a particularly fine staircase vacant for 20 years, although relatively constructed of bog oak using dowel joints weatherproof. In spite of the dereliction without any nails. About ten years ago the it stands in an attractive area to the north house was divided into three. The building east of Glenarm’s historic centre, situated has fallen into some disrepair, with along the Signature (Giant’s) Causeway damage caused by water penetration. An Coastal Route and opposite a limestone AHF-funded feasibility study was carried harbour, restored to include a 60-berth out in 2005 but the project subsequently marina. Seaview Hall is owned by the stalled when the Trust was not able to Diocese of Down and Connor which has resolve the issue of ownership. However, agreed a 30-year lease. The AHF-funded this matter appears to have been resolved. options appraisal report formed the basis The previous study suggested that of a business case, which has encouraged a wedding, conference and event facility, the Trustees to continue with the project. to be managed by the Trust, would be The building will be stripped out with new the best use. The Trust was offered a wings added, in similar style to the existing supplementary grant to revisit this solution building. The stonework and Gothic and consider any appropriate alternatives. Arched window to the front of the building will be refurbished, and low-energy 1 heating and lighting will be installed.

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Templemore Users Trust 4 Belfast Corporation Baths

Templemore Avenue, Belfast City Listed Category B+ OAG: £7,500 offered June 2012

Templemore Avenue Public Baths and Swimming Pools were opened in 1893. They were intended to meet the hygiene and public sanitary needs of the community in the highly industrialised area of East Belfast. The Baths have served generations of the community and many famous people, including George Best, have passed through its doors. The building was saved from closure by volunteers in the early 1980s, and has been run by the Trust since then. One of the pools remains in use, and the complex has a fully equipped gym, sauna and steam room. However, another pool, the slipper baths and laundry room are closed and derelict. The Trust has a long lease from the council and has ambitious plans for the building’s future, hoping that an aquatic centre, a wellbeing centre and community hub offering leisure facilities to the local community can be established. Templemore Avenue is an important route across East Belfast, and will be redeveloped to link these community facilities with the Titanic Quarter and other tourist attractions such as C S Lewis’s house.

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Carluke Development Trust 2 High Mill

Chapel Street, Carluke, South Lanarkshire Listed Category A

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The High Mill was built in the 1790s as a Belleisle Conservatory 1 wind-powered grain mill. It was converted to steam power around 1830 when the Belleisle Conservatory building was extensively remodelled including the construction of the drying Belleisle Park, Doonfoot, Ayr kiln and threshing mill. The power supply Listed Category B for the machinery was altered again in the early 20th century when a gas fired OAG: £5,000 offered June 2012 2 Tangye engine was installed. The Mill ceased operation some time before Belleisle Conservatory was built in 1879 the outbreak of the Second World War. by William Dickson, as part of a private The buildings continued in general use estate. This was sold to the Burgh of Ayr for some years after milling stopped but in 1926, and the Conservatory has since have been redundant for several decades. been the centrepiece of what became Much of the mill machinery survives, known as Belleisle Park. The park consists having been removed in 1990, and is of formal gardens, play areas, mature stored in shipping containers. The Carluke mixed woodland and open country estate Development Trust has partnered with and a golf course. The building has a Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust cast iron frame with internal tiling and to examine options for a sustainable use. finishes, with wooden window frames. It was substantially rebuilt in 1955 and remained open until 2005. Since then it has Clackmannanshire Heritage Trust 3 been the subject of sustained vandalism. All surviving window panes have been Alloa Tower Stables removed and the wooden frames are in an advanced stage of decay. The Trust Tower Square, Alloa, Clackmannanshire was formed in 2010 to facilitate rebuilding Listed Category B; Old Alloa Burgh 3 and find a sustainable community use. Conservation Area OAG: £3,000 offered March 2013

Alloa Tower is one of the earliest and largest tower houses in Scotland. Originally built c.1368 by the Erskine family to guard the River Forth Ferry, it has been substantially altered through the ages. Major alterations were made in the early 1700s by the Sixth Earl of Mar, who was inspired by the elegant villas he had seen on his Grand Tour of Europe. The stable block was built in 1853 and was part of the estate of a new house built by the Ninth Earl in 1834–38, which was demolished in 1959. It consists of a two-storey square courtyard building with two arched entrances, one topped by a square tower. The Trust owns a small section of the stables. The Tower is run on behalf of the Trust by the National Trust for Scotland as a visitor attraction. The Trust, concerned to keep the Tower sustainable, is looking into improving their facilities by turning their section of the stables into a small café.

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416–420 Great Western Road, Glasgow Glasgow Building Preservation Trust Glasgow Building Preservation Trust Listed Category A; Glasgow West Outstanding Conservation Area St Martin’s Church 5 Kirkhaven Hall 6 FSG: £6,410 disbursed May 2006 201 Ardencraig Road, Duke Street, Glasgow to Glasgow BPT Castlemilk, Glasgow Listed Category A RPDG: £15,435 disbursed January 2009 Listed Category B to Four Acres Charitable Trust PDG: £7,160 offered September 2012 CBG: £10,523 disbursed January to Four OAG: £5,150 disbursed March 2013 Acres Charitable Trust PDG: £22,500 offered March 2013 The former Kirkhaven Church Hall, Loan: £150,000 offered December 2012 built in 1858, was designed by Peddie St Martin’s Church sits nestled in the & Kinnear in the style of a neo-Greek Lansdowne Parish Church was built in grassy slopes and trees of Cathkin Braes classical temple. Together with Trinity 1863 to the designs of John Honeyman on Country Park. Built between 1959–61, Church next door, it forms a distinctive a cruciform plan in early Gothic style with it was designed by Isi Metzstein from urban block along Glasgow’s Duke Street. slender lancets throughout and a slim Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, an architectural The Trust has owned the Kirkhaven elegant steeple. It is the largest church practice renowned for their post-war complex since the mid 1990s. In 1996 in Glasgow, and is regarded as among the modernist buildings. The church is a it completed works on Wellpark School, most important Gothic Revival churches low box with the two-storey presbytery which is linked to Trinity Church, and in in Scotland. Adjoining the church to the prominently jutting out to the north. 2003 it completed works on the Church. east are a small church hall, two kitchens, Originally finished in shuttered concrete, Both were refurbished as offices. At the a vestry and toilet facilities. To the north grey bricks and with a copper roof, time of these projects’ completion, there is a three-bedroomed house, built for problems with water ingress and theft was insufficient demand or funding to officers of the church. The church has a meant the walls had been covered by undertake the repair of the hall. The Trust particularly fine timber-panelled interior render and the roof replaced with synthetic has continued minor works to maintain and the transepts contain two stained material. The original interior survives and the hall. In 2010, the Scottish Glass glass windows by Alf Webster, considered includes grey brick, coloured glass and Studios approached the Trust to express to be among the most important in polished wood. The walls are punctured an interest in relocating to the Hall. The Scotland. The Trust’s application to the by windows, in strongly coloured glass. AHF grant is helping with the development Heritage Lottery Fund for a grant towards The altar area is flooded with light from work to enable this proposal. a £3 million restoration scheme, including a complex glazed roof structure. The the creation of a bar/bistro in the existing options appraisal suggested a new use downstairs hall and a new restaurant as a facility for users of the nearby 2014 and kitchen in the courtyard behind, was Commonwealth Games mountain bike unsuccessful. The Trust has now prepared track after the games have finished. This is a leaner, phased scheme, of which the a sustainable proposal using an important conversion of the ground floor side hall to existing building, ensuring the longevity a bar/bistro to create a revenue-generating of the track and generating facilities and facility represents the first phase. jobs for the Castlemilk community.

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Beith, North Ayrshire Beith Outstanding Conservation Area 4 Merkinch Enterprise Ltd 4 OAG: £3,000 offered March 2013 Merkinch Welfare Hall

The building is a one-and-a-half-storey 30–34 Grant Street, Inverness cottage, constructed c.1858 of sandstone Listed Category C(s) with ashlar to the façade and rubble PDG: £23,500 disbursed August 2012 elsewhere. It has a pitched slate roof PDG: £5,000 offered March 2013 with stone end stacks, and two modern dormers added. It was originally a Police Built in 1914, the Merkinch Welfare Hall House with two small jails to the rear. was built by the ‘Catch my Pal Union’, The building is adjacent to others restored a temperance organisation, as their local by the Trust. The AHF grant enables the meeting hall. It has subsequently played Trust to establish costs for the re-use of Mavisbank Trust 3 an important part in local community the house as a residential property. Mavisbank House life, being used for dances, weddings and other social occasions and latterly as Highland Buildings Preservation Trust Lasswade Road, Loanhead, Midlothian the home of the Inverness Judo Club. It is Listed Category A a two-storey, three-bay traditional stone Viewhill House 2 building, now harled, with a slate roof. RPDG: £12,750 disbursed March 2005 A large decorative clock, thought to have CBG: £1,115 disbursed March 2009 1 Old Edinburgh Road, been salvaged from another building PDG: £16,000 disbursed November 2012 Inverness, Highland in Inverness, has been fixed through the PDG: £5,000 disbursed March 2013 Listed Category B; Inverness central dormer. The Hall has been unused Conservation Area since the 1980s and is in poor condition. Mavisbank House, designed in 1723 by Windows are broken, rainwater goods and OAG: £10,000 offered June 2012 William Adam in a neo-classical style lead flashings are missing and the stone is for Sir John Clerk, was considered to deteriorating. Internally, floors and walls The house was built as the primary have been one of the finest buildings in are saturated and the original plaster residence of Joseph Mitchell (1803–83), Scotland. During the 1960s the building finishes have been lost in places. There a civil engineer with links to Thomas suffered settlement damage and in is extensive wet and dry rot. The hoped Telford. He made a significant 1973 it was gutted by fire. Because of its for end use is a community hub with the contribution to Inverness, planning much derelict and dangerous state, Mavisbank key tenant being a local boxing club. of the first sewerage system and paving was almost demolished in 1988 but this Unfortunately a recent application to the many of the streets with Caithness flags. was prevented and Historic Scotland Big Lottery failed so an application to the He was also involved in the extraction carried out emergency works. For many Heritage Lottery Fund has been made. of the first water supply from the River years it was impossible to locate the Ness. Viewhill is an important survival. owners to serve statutory action. It has It is a five-bay villa with Jacobean detailing now been established that the named and painted harling. Of particular note owners do not exist, and a mechanism are the corbelled gablehead stacks, stone has been devised to acquire the building finials and gateways set in the boundary via Compulsory Purchase. An option walls. It was last used as a youth hostel appraisal recommended end uses of until it became surplus to requirements a holiday-let in the main building with in 1998. The interior was mainly destroyed studio space in the south pavilion and in a fire in 2007 and the building is interpretation and education uses in the propped up by scaffolding. However, the north pavilion. Unfortunately the Trust latest inspection in 2010 indicated that the recently learned it was not successful building ‘still has a degree of robustness’. in its latest Heritage Lottery Fund An AHF Options Appraisal Grant has been application but despite this set-back offered to consider various end uses. it continues to seek a viable solution. 3

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Moffat Town Hall 5 North East Scotland 6 Paisley Development Trust 7 Redevelopment Trust Preservation Trust Russell Institute Moffat Town Hall Former Sail-making Works and Cottages 30 Causeyside Street, Paisley High Street, Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway Listed Category A Listed Category B Back Green, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire OAG: £7,500 offered September 2012 PDG: £12,720 offered December 2012 Listed Category B; Scheduled Ancient Monument Designed by J Steel Maitland the Russell Institute is a monumental public building Moffat Town Hall was built in the neo- FSG: £5,280 disbursed October 2001 situated prominently in Paisley town classical style in 1827 by the Hope- OAG: £2,200 disbursed February 2011 centre on the corner of Causeyside Street Johnstone family as a Baths Hall and PDG: £3,370 disbursed May 2012 and New Street. No expense was spared in Assembly Rooms. It served visitors to the PDG: £10,570 offered June 2012 town who came to partake of the curative the construction of the building and this is evident from the use of bronze and stone water piped from Moffat well. The building Portsoy harbour developed as a busy sculpture on the exterior of the building was extended in 1860 with the addition of trading port in the 17th and early 18th and the high quality of the interior fixtures. an entrance hall and billiards room and is centuries. The buildings at Back Green are The Russell Institute was opened by HRH the largest public building in the town. It to the east of the Burn of Durn, which flows Princess Mary on 19 March 1927. It was was purchased by Moffat Burgh Council in into the Moray Firth at Links Bay. The site donated to Paisley Burgh by Miss Russell 1966 and currently provides an office base developed to manufacture thread from as a memorial to her two brothers, Robert for some council services, a small library flax. The reliable water supply from the and Thomas Russell. It was built as a child and public toilets. It hosts weekly markets burn made the ‘green’ ideal for bleaching welfare clinic and was used by the NHS in the summer and provides meeting the flax. In the early 19th century there until 2011 when the building was deemed space and a venue for various community were two groups of buildings. One to surplus to requirements and put up for activities. It is also registered for civil the seaward side operated as a rope- sale. It has been taken off the market marriages. However, the building has been making business while the manufacture while the Trust investigates options for declared ‘unfit for purpose’ and without of sails took place within the eastern keeping it as a public building for the considerable investment is in danger of range, adjacent to a row of cottages. people of Paisley. closure. An agreement has been reached The ropeworks fell into decline and have with Dumfries and Galloway Council to been lost. The sail-making lofts and transfer ownership to the Trust for £1. The three cottages, while derelict, remain Trust’s vision is to create a multi-purpose intact. A roofless shell now remains facility which will allow the existing though the wallheads are protected by services to be housed, with the addition lime mortar haunching. The cottage roofs of extra community facilities. The Project remain but are in poor condition, allowing Development Grant will allow the Trust water ingress. The scheme is part of to develop its options. a Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme with £148,000 funding confirmed. The main end use is a tourist hostel and some local organisations have made expressions of interest in running it.

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Braemar Listed Category A OAG: £3,000 offered September 2012

The Church was built between 1895 and 1901 to cater to the many Anglican English visitors to Braemar. The architect was John Ninian Comper. It is built of weathered pink granite, from nearby Callater Moors with dressings of Arbroath freestone and roofs of old stone from Mar Lodge, demolished in 1895. There is a spacious nave with a porch at the north-west, a crossing with tower above and an aisle on the south side with its own west porch, space left on the north side for 2 a future aisle, and a chancel with a small south vestry. The west front contains a large five-light window with bold plain Peter Pan Moat Brae House Trust 1 Scottish Historic Buildings Trust 2 intersecting tracery. The chancel is lower than the nave and has a big east Moat Brae House Grey Mill window with tracery similar to that of the west window, but with a quatrefoil at the 101 George Street, Dumfries Broadford Works, top derived from the east window of Listed Category B; Dumfries Medieval Maberly Street, Aberdeen Greyfriars, Aberdeen. On the south side is Town Conservation Area Listed Category A a small vestry, and the Lightfoot aisle, the OAG: £7,500 disbursed October 2010 OAG: £10,000 offered December 2012 oldest part of the church. Above it rises a PDG: £15,000 disbursed June 2012 square turret. The interior has white walls, PDG: £5,000 offered March 2013 Broadford Works has been in almost concentrating all attention on the rood continuous operation as a textile- screen and altar. The study will assess the Moat Brae House is a Greek Revival villa manufacturing site since 1808. It is the most viable and sustainable long-term use built in 1823 on two storeys with a raised largest collection of Grade A buildings for the building, including a fiddle school. basement, with five bays. It is in polished at risk in Scotland. The ‘Grey Mill’ is the red ashlar with a slated roof and corniced oldest and the oldest iron-framed mill in end stacks. The interior features a square Scotland. It has four storeys plus an attic central hall with a circular first floor with continuous roof lights in a pitched gallery and cupola. The plasterwork slated roof. Internally it is of a shallow features Greek Revival ornament and arched construction with tie rods on a Doric frieze. The house is notable for its slender columns with further columns association with J M Barrie, who said that added later. Red brick towers with ball the games he played in the garden as a boy finials have been attached to the outside. were the inspiration for Peter Pan. Last Since the Works’ closure in 2004 it has used as a nursing home, it closed in 1997, suffered from vandalism and arson. In 2011 it has since experienced years of neglect the Prince’s Regeneration Trust created and vandalism. The Trust aspires to create a plan that divided the site into sections Scotland’s first centre for children’s to sell to commercial developers. However, literature. Plans include a ‘Peter Pan the Grey Mill was identified as the most Experience’ exhibition; a heritage display significant building on site, suffering from 3 on the house’s architect, Walter Newall; a a substantial conservation deficit, and not library of children’s literature; an outreach attractive to a commercial developer. It will point for the Scottish Storytelling Centre; be developed by Scottish Historic Buildings 3 workshop space for children’s activities in Trust in a way that is capable of attracting association with the Scottish Book Trust; visitors to the site. SHBT will be a ‘pioneer and accommodation for children’s writers developer’ taking on this most important and artists in residence. Rooms will be and vulnerable historic building at an early hired out for community use, conferences, stage, thereby acting as a catalyst for weddings and civic functions. It is proposed commercial developers to gain confidence to build a new extension to accommodate a in taking on some of the other buildings. kitchen, café area and shop. The Trust has also acquired a parcel of land adjacent to the property, originally part of Moat Brae’s 1 garden, to develop ‘Neverland’, an outdoor activity space. The target is for the house and garden to be open to visitors in 2015.

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1 Glen Road, West Kilbride PDG: £8,700 offered March 2013

Kirktonhall is a three-storey house backing onto the main street in West Kilbride. There are three different date stones, from 1660, 1791 and 1807 and as 4 such it is a mix of different architectural 6 styles. The principal façade faces the rear towards the garden. It has a projecting Strathclyde Building 4 two-storey porch with a Gothic Palladian Traill Hall Community Trust 6 Preservation Trust window on the first floor, the lower stage Traill Hall The Clock Lodge of which is supported on corner columns. It has a ridge roof with large Victorian Stangerhill Bridge, Castletown, dormers and plain gables. The family of Kilmory, By Lochgilphead, Argyll Nr Thurso, Highland Robert Simson (1687–1768), professor of Listed Grade B Listed Category B mathematics at the University of Glasgow OAG: £4,000 offered September 2012 and translator of Euclid, lived here for OAG: £12,500 withdrawn April 2010 some generations. It was declared surplus OAG: £12,070 disbursed February 2013 Clock Lodge is early 19th-century and lies by the council in 2005 and is showing signs PDG: £10,000 offered March 2013 next to the east bank of Loch Gilp. It was of lacking routine maintenance. North intended as a gate lodge to Kilmory Castle Ayrshire Council undertook an open Traill Hall is a single-storey, five-bay and to link with a former causeway across bidding process to select a preferred building with adjoining cottage, built of the Lochgilphead Ebb. The building has bidder for asset transfer and selected sandstone with ashlar dressings. The a fortified appearance with a central Kirktonhall Creative Media Group in June main building functioned as a public hall archway flanked by narrow windows, 2012. During 2012 KCMG carried out and reading room, and was given to the with an upper storey which rises a tall studies including a costed condition report, community by Margaret Traill in 1866. Germanic roof, once equipped with the a conservation management plan and a The building went through various uses, clocks, which gave the lodge its name. business plan. These have indicated there including social club, temporary school, The building has been owned by the local is a viable use for the building as a creative services canteen during the Second World authority since 1975, has been vacant media centre and office rental but the War, and was last used as a food store, for over 20 years and is in very poor information needs to be brought together but has been vacant since the early 1990s. condition. It was put on the market to form a detailed delivery strategy for Several windows are missing and defective in early 2012. The Strathclyde Building the project. KCMG made contact with drainage goods have led to extensive Preservation Trust, in conjunction with Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust water penetration and rot. The interior is the Lochgilphead Phoenix Trust, a local in the summer of 2012 and the two groups completely derelict and lacks all services. charity, has developed a proposal. The have agreed to a formal collaboration to In 2004 the building’s owner, the Traill Council is supportive of the project. develop and deliver the project. Hall Trust, decided that, owing to a lack of funds for maintenance, it would be sold on the open market; the public outcry was such that this decision was reversed within the month. The recently-formed Community Trust has acquired the building and carried out an options appraisal, which recommended a wide variety of community uses. The Project Development Grant will allow the group to employ a professional organiser to help apply to major funders and generally take the project further.

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Ayr Building Preservation Trust 1 Forres Heritage Trust Glasgow Building 5 Darlington Church The Tolbooth Preservation Trust North Harbour Street, Ayr High Street, Forres, Moray South Rotunda Listed Category B Listed Category A; Forres Plantation Place, Mavisbank Quay, Conservation Area OAG: £3,900 offered December 2011 Govan, Glasgow OAG: £10,000 disbursed July 2012 Listed Category B Burgie Castle Preservation Trust 2 OAG: £15,000 disbursed April 2012 Burgie Castle Four Acres Charitable Trust Glasgow Building Preservation Trust Near Forres, Moray Former Dowanhill Church Listed Category A; Scheduled (Cottier Theatre) (Final Phase) St Margaret’s Church Ancient Monument 93–97 Hyndland Street, Glasgow 110 Polmadie Road, Oatlands, Glasgow OAG: £15,000 disbursed December 2011 Listed Category A; Glasgow West Listed Category B PDG: £18,000 offered March 2012 Conservation Area OAG: £12,500 disbursed April 2009 RPDG: £25,000 disbursed June 2003 PDG: 30,000 disbursed August 2011 Comrie Development Trust 3 PAG: £4,000 disbursed January 2005 Former Guards’ Block POG: £15,000 disbursed April 2007 Haining Charitable Trust Loan: £500,000 contracted September 2005 The Haining House and associated buildings Development Loan: £30,000 contracted Cultybraggan Camp, March 2012 Selkirk, Scottish Borders Comrie, Perth & Kinross Listed Category Listed Category A Four Acres Charitable Trust OAG: £15,000 disbursed March 2011 OAG: £9,000 disbursed January 2012 Lion Chambers Loan: £350,000 withdrawn January 2012 PDG: £22,000 offered March 2011 170–172 Hope Street, Glasgow Creetown Building Preservation Trust Listed Catergory A; Glasgow Central Kirkcaldy Old Kirk Trust St Joseph’s Church Conservation Area Kirkcaldy Old Kirk Hill Street, Creetown, Dumfries & Galloway PDG: £7,500 offered June 2010 Listed Category B Kirk Wyne, Kirkcaldy, Fife Glasgow Building Preservation Trust Listed Catergory B; Abbotshall & PDG: £9,500 disbursed November 2011 Central Kirkcaldy Conservation Area Broomloan Road Public Schools Dunoon Burgh Hall Trust PDG: £5,000 offered September 2011 4 71 Broomloan Road, Govan, Glasgow The Burgh Hall Listed Category B Leith Theatre Trust 195 Argyll Street, Dunoon, Argyll OAG: £7,500 disbursed August 2011 Leith Theatre Listed Category B Glasgow Building Preservation Trust Ferry Road, Edinburgh OAG: £7,500 disbursed January 2008 Listed Category B; Leith Conservation Area (to Strathclyde BPT) Kelvingrove Bandstand OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2010 PDG: £15,000 disbursed March 2012 and Amphitheatre PDG: £7,500 disbursed January 2013 (to Cockburn Conservation Trust) Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow PDG: £20,000 withdrawn September 2011 Listed Category B (to Scottish Historic Buildings Trust) PDG: £20,000 offered September 2011 PDG: £29,500 disbursed November 2012

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National Trust for Scotland Little Prince’s Regeneration Trust Houses Improvement Scheme (United Kingdom Historic Building Drum House Farm Preservation Trust) Drum Castle Estate, Drumoak, Castletown Mill by Banchory, Aberdeenshire Dunnet Road, Castletown, Listed Category A Caithness, Highland 6 OAG: £4,700 offered June 2011 Listed Category B OAG: £15,000 disbursed June 2012 New Lanark Trust 6 New Lanark Village Church Scottish Historic Buildings Trust New Lanark, South Lanarkshire Ham Girnal and Barrock Church Listed Category A; New Lanark World Barrock, Highland Heritage Site Listed Category B OAG: £6,650 disbursed April 2012 OAG: £7,500 disbursed June 2010 PDG: £30,000 offered June 2010 North East Scotland 7 7 Preservation Trust Scottish Historic Buildings Trust 8 Former School Riddle’s Court and Outdoors Centre 322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh School Lane, Ballater, Aberdeenshire Listed Category A; Edinburgh World Listed Catergory C; Ballater Heritage Site Conservation Area OAG: £12,500 disbursed June 2010 OAG: £6,705 disbursed May 2012 (to Cockburn Conservation Trust) PDG: £25,000 disbursed January 2013 North East Scotland Preservation Trust Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust Strichen Town House Old Gaol and Courthouse High Street, Strichen, Aberdeenshire Listed Grade A; Strichen Conservation Area 5 Bolgam Street, Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute 8 OAG: £7,500 disbursed January 2012 Listed Category B

Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust OAG: £5,500 disbursed May 2010 PDG: £7,500 offered September 2011 Lower City Mills PDG: £2,150 disbursed February 2012 Mill Wynd, Perth Listed Category A The Vivat Trust 9 OAG: £5,055 offered March 2012 Bona Lighthouse Lochend, Highland Listed Category B OAG: £3,000 disbursed April 2011 9 PDG: £16,000 disbursed December 2012

55 WALES

Llanelli Railway Goods Shed Trust 1 Former Goods Shed

Llanelli Railway Yard, Marsh Street, Llanelli Listed Grade II OAG: £7,500 disbursed January 2013

The Goods Shed was built for South Wales Railway in 1852, in the goods yard to the north side of Llanelli Station. It is a long, single-storey shed of lias rubble with a 17-bay slate roof and an attached office building at its west end. It has been unused for 25 years, and is deteriorating; a portion of the roof is gone, with rainwater goods missing and broken windows. Internal timbers have been badly affected by wet rot and the exposed external steel structure is showing signs of corrosion. Nevertheless the overall structure of the shed and office appears sound, with no evidence of structural movement. Network Rail is prepared to pass on ownership if a viable use can be found. The Trust’s study demonstrated that an array of community 2 arts-based uses could be accommodated, and it continues to develop the scheme. The Railway Heritage Trust has been Hay Castle Trust 2 Penarth Arts and Crafts Ltd 3 involved and is strongly supportive of the Trust’s efforts. Hay Castle Penarth Pier Pavilion

Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire The Esplanade, Penarth, 1 Listed Grade I; Brecon Beacons Vale of Glamorgan Conservation Area Listed Grade II; Penarth Seafront Conservation Area OAG: £3,614 offered September 2012 CSG: £7,050 offered June 2012 OAG: £7,500 disbursed August 2010 PDG: £8,000 disbursed February 2011 Hay Castle, built in the late 12th century, CSG: £5,000 disbursed December 2012 is one of the great medieval defence structures on the border of England and Penarth Pier was constructed in cast iron Wales still standing. In 1660, Castle and timber for the Penarth Promenade and 1 House, a Jacobean mansion, was built Landing Company in 1894. A pavilion was alongside the tower. The site, which is a added in 1929 and this became a popular Scheduled Ancient Monument, comprises venue for dances and entertainment. The the Grade I listed Castle, and several building is an early cast-in-situ reinforced other listed structures. The remnants concrete structure in a symmetrical of the castle include a four-storey keep Indian/Moghul style, designed by M F and arched gateway. The multi-gabled Edwards. The pier was restored in 1998, Jacobean manor was severely damaged along with the exterior of the Pavilion. by fire in 1939, and again in 1977. Remnants The long-term lack of use means that the of the 18th-century formal gardens and interior requires complete refurbishment. 19th-century terraced gardens can still The options appraisal showed that be seen. The property was surveyed in a multi-purpose entertainment venue 2012 and the structures vary from poor incorporating arts and community activity, to very bad. The Jacobean house is partly heritage interpretation, educational and inhabited and the disused section has environmental and sustainability not been repaired since the last fire. initiatives, workspace and studios could The castle keep, gateway and curtain wall be accommodated in the Pavilion. With the all require urgent attention. The site was assistance of a Project Development Grant purchased in 2011 by the Trust, which aims and a further South Wales Cold Spots to provide public access with the provision Grant, the Trust has continued to develop of a centre for arts and education that the scheme with support from the Vale will complement and support the nearby of Glamorgan Council, Heritage Lottery town of Hay-on-Wye. It plans to make use Fund, and Welsh Assembly Government of all areas of the site, including the shell Community Asset Transfer Unit. 3 of the fire-damaged building.

56 Welsh Georgian Trust 4 Plas Kynaston

Plas Kynaston Lane, Cefn Mawr, Wrexham Listed Grade II OAG: £7,495 disbursed March 2013

Cefn Mawr lies at the entrance to the Vale of Llangollen, which was transformed during the industrial revolution, when coal mining and iron smelting became prevalent. The Kynaston family were members of the Welsh gentry and constructed a substantial residence in 1700, unusually in the centre of the industrial complex rather than on the outskirts. Ownership passed to the Mostyn family through marriage and it remained a private residence, being remodelled in the early 19th century. It was gifted to the local community in the 1930s, latterly owned by the local authority. It went through a number of uses, including library and meeting place for local societies and youth groups. Plas Kynaston has been unoccupied for the last ten years, and therefore prone to vandalism, together with the usual risks associated with an unoccupied building. The Trust undertook 5 an AHF-funded options appraisal study which identified residential re-use as the most appropriate and financially viable Welsh Religious Buildings Trust 5 Other projects solution. It is now awaiting a decision from – Ymddiriedolaeth Addoldai the County Borough Council as to when supported in 2012–13 it will pass on ownership. Bethania Chapel Adfer Ban a Chwm Bethania Street, Maesteg, Powys Welsh Vernacular Listed Grade II* Buildings Project CSG: £8,714 offered December 2012 CSG: £5,000 disbursed December 2012 Originally constructed in 1858, the Bethania Chapel was enlarged in 1878 and Cadw Sir Gaerfyrddin Cyf substantially altered in 1908 in the Beaux Navigation Colliery Arts style by Sir William Beddoe Rees, the most prolific Welsh chapel architect Crumlin, Caerphilly of the early 20th century, who was born in Listed Grade II*/Grade II Maesteg. This is deemed to be one of his OAG: £8,685 disbursed December 2009 best surviving architectural achievements. PDG: £1,460 disbursed August 2011 The Trust acquired the building in 2006 and intends to convert it into a bilingual Cylch y Llan Buildings cultural heritage centre. The project will Preservation Trust include the conservation and repair of the original fabric, fixtures and fittings of the St Deiniol’s Church chapel auditorium, together with sensitive Llanuwchllyn Bala, Gwynedd interventions to meet the needs of new Listed Grade II*/II users. It will be a flagship project for the Trust, while finding a viable re-use for OAG: £5,280 disbursed October 2011 an important building. It has a link with Menter Bro Ogwr, a community-based organisation funded by the Welsh Language Board to raise the profile of the Welsh language in the locality. The AHF’s grant will cover additional professional work to develop the scheme further, and for the employment of an experienced 4 project co-ordinator.

57 Report on the AHF’s Financial Position

T he Statement of Financial Activities and Balance Sheet are not the full statutory accounts but are a summary of the information which appears in the full accounts. The auditor has issued an unqualified report on the full annual financial statements and on the consistency of the trustees’ annual report with those financial statements.T heir report on the full annual financial statements contained no statement under sections 498(2)(a), 498(2)(b) or 498(3) of the Companies Act 2006. The full accounts were approved by the Trustees on 4 December 2013 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 theC ompany. Detailed information about the AHF’s income and expenditure in 2012/13 and its overall financial position at the end of the year can be found in the statutoryR eport and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2013. Copies may be obtained from the AHF.

The AHF received the following government funding during 2013:

English Heritage £112,172 Historic Scotland £166,972 Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments £30,000 Department of the Environment: Northern Ireland £12,500 Total: £321,644

Expenditure Resources used during the year amounted to £3,076,266 against £1,267,899 in 2012. The rise of £1,808,367 over the previous year is largely accounted for by increases in grantmaking (£1,245,168) and the provision for bad debts (£488,146).

Surplus and forward commitments The total deficit for the year (“net movement in funds”) was £2,156,754, reducing the AHF’s total funds at 31 March 2013 Llanelly House (see p.24) to £13,639,246 (2012 – £15,796,000). At the year end, the AHF had £9,195,575 out on loan for Introduction preservation projects and forward commitments for loans and recoverable grants of £4,113,918 (2012 – total loans T he AHF’s overall income for the year amounted to £8,676,392 and forward commitments £5,063,100). £919,512 (2012 – £4,150,992). Expenditure amounted to £3,076,266 (2012 – £1,267,899). At the year end, Signed on behalf of the Members of the Council £9,195,575 (2012 – £8,676,392) was out on loan of Management. for preservation projects.

Deis ta l Income Total income decreased by £3,231,480 over 2012. Of this, John Townsend £3,300,000 related to various significant contributions Chairman made in the previous year: the endowment fund (£1,000,000 4 December 2013 – English Heritage), the Challenge Fund (£1,000,000 each – English Heritage and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation), Industrial Heritage at Risk (£300,000 – English Heritage). The offsetting balance of £68,520 derived from increases in other areas of revenue.

58 Auditor’s Statement

Independent Auditor’s Statement to the misstatements or material inconsistencies with the Members of The Architectural Heritage Fund summarised financial statements. The other information We have examined the summarised financial statements comprises only the Report on the AHF’s Financial Position. of The Architectural Heritage Fund for the year ended 31 March 2013. We have conducted our work in accordance with Bulletin 2008/3 issued by the Auditing Practices Board. Our Respective Responsibilities report on the charitable company’s full annual financial of the trustees and the auditor statements describes the basis of our opinion on those The trustees (who are also the directors of The financial statements. Architectural Heritage Fund for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the summarised Opinion financial statements in accordance with applicable United In our opinion the summarised financial statements are Kingdom law and the recommendations of the Charities consistent with the full annual financial statements and SORP. Our responsibility is to report to you our opinion the trustees’ annual report of The Architectural Heritage on the consistency of the summarised financial statements Fund for the year ended 31 March 2013 and comply with the with the full annual financial statements and the trustees’ applicable requirements of section 427 of the Companies annual report, and their compliance with the relevant Act 2006, and the regulations made thereunder. requirements of section 427 of the Companies Act 2006 and the regulations made thereunder. Nicholas Brooks (Senior Statutory Auditor) for and on behalf of Kingston Smith LLP, Statutory Auditor. We also read the other information contained in the Devonshire House, 60 Goswell Road, London EC1M 7AD summarised annual report and consider the implications 6 December 2013 for our report if we become aware of any apparent

B eneFActors and Friends in the year 1 APRIL 2012 TO 31 MARCH 2013

Benefactors (£10,000 or more)

Government English Heritage Historic Scotland Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments Department of Environment: Northern Ireland Charities, Companies and Individuals The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust The Pilgrim Trust Randall M Keils

Friends (£20 – £400)

Charities, Companies and Other Organisations Oxford Preservation Trust Streonshalh Limited Individuals S H Back Professor A H Gomme D K Robinson S P Salt P N Tomlinson Nigel M Waring Portland Works (see p.15)

59 Summarised Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2013

Endowment Restricted Unrestricted 2013 2012 fund fund fund Total Total £ £ £ £ £ Incoming resources Incoming resources from generated funds Voluntary income Donations and legacies – – 18,015 18,015 10,880 Government grants – 321,644 – 321,644 2,628,674 Other grants – 46,280 – 46,280 1,030,000 – 367,924 18,015 385,939 3,669,554 Investment income Interest receivable – on bank deposits – – 72,554 72,554 48,316 – on loans disbursed – – 407,982 407,982 371,848 Rent receivable – – 34,245 34,245 33,877 – – 514,781 514,781 454,041 Total incoming resources from generated funds – 367,924 532,796 900,720 4,123,595 Incoming resources from charitable activities – – 18,792 18,792 27,397 Total incoming resources – 367,924 551,588 919,512 4,150,992

Resources expended Costs of generating funds Generating voluntary income – – 17,464 17,464 18,092 Investment management – financial – – 4,947 4,947 5,472 – property – – 14,274 14,274 19,303 – – 36,685 36,685 42,867 Charitable activities Increase / (decrease) in the loan bad debt provision 250,300 – 222,846 473,146 (15,000) Other loan-related activities – – 126,633 126,633 84,482 Grantmaking – 1,975,347 78,564 2,053,911 808,743 250,300 1,975,347 428,043 2,653,690 878,225 Development and advocacy Capacity building – 40,594 225,871 266,465 228,183 Annual Review and other publications – – 59,886 59,886 58,342 Net contribution to the UK Association of Preservation Trusts – – 16,250 16,250 16,250 – 40,594 302,007 342,601 302,775 Total charitable activities 250,300 2,015,941 730,050 2,996,291 1,181,000 Governance costs – – 43,290 43,290 44,032 Total resources expended 250,300 2,015,941 810,025 3,076,266 1,267,899 Net (outgoing) / incoming resources (250,300) (1,648,017) (258,437) (2,156,754) 2,883,093

Other recognised gains / losses Loss on investment property – – – – (50,000)

Net movement in funds net (deficit) / surplus for the year (250,300) (1,648,017) (258,437) (2,156,754) 2,833,093

Balances at 1 April 2012 10,668,479 2,036,168 3,091,353 15,796,000 12,962,907

Balances at 31 March 2013 10,418,179 388,151 2,832,916 13,639,246 15,796,000

60 Summarised Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2013

2013 2012

£ £ £ £ Fixed assets Investment property 450,000 450,000 Other tangible assets 13,186 37,390 Programme related investments Loans disbursed for preservation projects 9,195,575 8,676,392

Total fixed assets 9,658,761 9,163,782

Current assets Debtors Loan interest receivable 808,437 1,118,808 Government grants receivable 73,842 72,831 Non-government grants receivable 616,280 830,000 Other accrued income and prepayments 78,993 62,740 1,577,552 2,084,379

Cash at bank and short-term deposits 5,725,922 6,453,751 7,303,474 8,538,130

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (3,322,989) (1,905,912)

Net current assets 3,980,485 6,632,218

Net assets 13,639,246 15,796,000

Funds Endowment fund 10,418,179 10,668,479

Restricted fund 388,151 2,036,168

Unrestricted funds Designated lending fund 2,266,466 2,543,034 General fund 566,450 548,319 2,832,916 3,091,353

Total funds 13,639,246 15,796,000

Programme related investments include £3,322,166 in loans outstanding which are due for repayment after more than one year (2012 – £3,112,600). Interest receivable on these loans amounted to £190,163 (2012 – £237,040). The financial statements were approved by the Members of the Council, and authorised for issue, on 4 December 2013 and signed on their behalf by:

John Townsend Roy Dantzic Chairman Trustee 4 December 2013 4 December 2013

61 About the Architectural Heritage Fund

Introduction Project Viability Grants This grant was introduced in April 2013 replacing the The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is a registered Options Appraisal Grant. The Project Viability Grant scheme charity and a company limited by guarantee, founded is intended to be an initial swift assessment of whether it in 1976 to promote the conservation of historic buildings is viable to bring a historic building back into sustainable in the UK. It does this by providing advice, information and use. In particular it aims to enable applicants to explore the financial assistance in the form of grants and competitive evidence of need for a suggested use, or uses, for a building loans for projects undertaken by building preservation and the sustainability of that use, with a view to the likely trusts (BPTs), other charities and eligible not-for-profit requirements of grant funders. organisations. The end report should provide sufficient information to help you decide whether to commit to further cost, risk and Fcainan i l Assistance from the AHF effort in developing the project. It should also indicate the principal areas of further work required, and be a useful Sources of AHF Funds tool in applying to other funders. The AHF will, in turn, use The AHF’s lending resources of some £12.7 million derive the report to judge whether the project is eligible to apply from government grants, donations and accumulated for further AHF development funding. surplus of income over expenditure. AHF grant programmes are financed by interest on loans and bank deposits, and The AHF offers grants of up to 100% of the cost of the grant-aid from English Heritage, Historic Scotland, Cadw, project viability grant report for eligible projects – no match the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland, the funding is required. The maximum grant is £3,000. Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and the Pilgrim Trust. Project Development Grants Eligibility This grant was introduced in April 2008 incorporating and Only charities and eligible not-for-profit organisations replacing the project administration, project organiser and can apply for financial assistance from the AHF for capacity building grants. The project development grant buildings that are listed, scheduled or in a conservation is intended to help with the costs of developing and co- area and of acknowledged historic merit. Projects should ordinating a project and taking it towards the start of work on involve a change either in the ownership of a property site after an options appraisal has established basic viability. or in its use. The maximum grant available is £25,000. Grants may be applied for in stages according to the needs of the project The following is a summary of the AHF’s grants and loan as it progresses. This may cover 100% of non-recoverable programmes. Please contact the AHF or refer to our website professional fees up to £15,000 or up to 75% of the cost www.ahfund.org.uk for further details. of a project organiser up to £15,000.

62 Cold Spots Grants Non-financial Assistance and Publications Additional funding is available for projects in the early The AHF plays a strong development role by encouraging stages of development in areas from which the AHF receives and advising on the formation of BPTs and providing relatively few applications, identified as ‘cold spots’. relevant guidance throughout the duration of an AHF- These are the East Midlands region of England; Wales; funded project. Several publications are available from and, generically, industrial heritage projects in England. the AHF and can be downloaded free of charge unless To qualify, buildings must appear on the Heritage At Risk otherwise indicated from www.ahfund.org.uk. Register maintained by English Heritage or on a local • D etailed Guidance Notes for Applicants for all AHF authority register of buildings at risk. financial programmes Applicants can apply in stages for pieces of development • Fully illustrated AHF Annual Review work as required, up to a maximum of £5,000. The grant can cover up to 100% of the total cost of the development • S tatutory Report and Financial Statements work – no match funding is required. However, applicants • F unds for Historic Buildings – A Directory of Sources are encouraged to seek donations from other sources and (this publication is available free as a downloadable should demonstrate clear financial need for the grant. internet file at www.ffhb.org.uk)

Loans • M odel Memorandum and Articles of Association AHF loans are intended to assist registered charities and for a Building Preservation Trust (available by email) eligible not-for-profit organisations by making short-term, • H ow to Rescue a Ruin – by setting up a local buildings competitive-rate loans for the acquisition and/or repair preservation trust (£8.50 incl p&p). and re-use of historic buildings. A loan may be used for the acquisition costs of a building, For further information please contact to support the working capital requirement during a project, The Architectural Heritage Fund. or to bridge anticipated grant payments. There may even be instances when having a loan offer from the AHF can Registered under the Charities Act 1960, No 266780 be helpful in giving credibility to a project, and in securing Company limited by guarantee registered in England, grant offers from elsewhere. Similarly, the AHF may be No 1150304 able to offer a loan for a project that is already on site and has hit unexpected difficulties. Security for a loan will generally be required. A loan will typically be repaid from grant income and/or from the proceeds of the sale of the building at the end of a project, or, if the building is retained, through ongoing trading income or by the applicant taking out a mortgage or other form of long-term borrowing.

FOR M LE T TO RIGHT: Castle House (see p.19), Portland Works (see p.15), 549 Lordship Lane (see p.12), Portland Works (see p.15), Moat Brae House (see p.52), Old Duchy Palace (see p.10)

63 Council of Management and Staff as at 31 August 2013

Council of Management John Duggan Chartered Certified Accountant. Non-Executive Director, JSM Indo John Townsend Chairman China Ltd. Chairman, Milton Keynes Trust; Assemble Community Member, South Northants Council, Chairman of Planning Partnership; LIFT. Member, the Investment Committee of the and Regeneration Policy Committee. Partner, The Old Hall Bridges Ventures Sustainability Fund; Advisory Council of the Bookshop; Newbottle Estate and Farm. Formerly: High Sheriff Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility. Deputy Lieutenant of Northamptonshire; Cabinet Member, Environmental Policy, of Buckinghamshire. Formerly: Chairman and Chief Executive, South Northants Council. National Trust Council Member and Gazeley. Chairman, Spazio Investment NV. Non-Executive Director, Regional Chairman (Thames and Solent Region). Trustee, SGL Vietnam Ltd. Stowe House Preservation Trust. Michael Hoare Chartered Accountant, INSEAD. Chairman, Watts & Co. Merlin Waterson cbe Deputy Chairman Author and historian. Panel Member, National Heritage Trustee Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Formerly: Consultant, Memorial Fund. Trustee, East Anglia Art Fund. Commissioner and C Hoare & Co. Chairman, National Churches Trust. Deputy Chairman, the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Formerly: Historic Properties Director, The National Trust. Adviser on Built Heritage Rita Harkin and Historic Properties, the Heritage Lottery Fund. Research Officer, Ulster Architectural Heritage Society. Trustee, Cathedral Quarter Trust. Committee Member, Environmental and Myra Barnes Planning Law Association NI. Board Member, Belfast Exposed Chartered Town Planner. Partner, Salisbury Jones Planning. Photography. Formerly: Heritage Officer, Belfast City Council. Board Member, Genesis Homes. Beanstalk Volunteer. Formerly: Researcher, Rachel Bevan Architects. Executive Committee Head of Planning, National Grid Property. Development Manager, Member, Northern Ireland Environment Agency. NI Regional Olympia & York Canary Wharf Ltd. Assistant to CEO, London Committee Member, Heritage Lottery Fund. Docklands Development Corporation. Phillip Kirby obe Civil and Structural Engineer. Director of Policy, Connect. Malcolm Crowder obe Chartered Surveyor. Surveyor and Secretary, Norwich Formerly: Managing Director, National Grid Property. Project Preservation Trust; North Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust. Director, Stanhope Properties. Member of Lord Rogers’ Project Adviser and Secretary, Broadland Building Preservation Urban Task Force. Chair, Cl:aire; Exsite. Trust. President, Heritage of London Trust Operations Ltd. Chairman, Bentley Hall Barn Building Preservation Trust. Thomas Lloyd obe Vice Chairman, UK Association of Preservation Trusts. Heritage Consultant. Solicitor (not practicing). Wales Herald Formerly: Chairman, UK Association of Preservation Trusts. of Arms Extraordinary. Chairman, Welsh Cathedrals & Churches Commission. Royal Commissioner on the Ancient and Historic Roy Dantzic Monuments of Wales. Vice-President, Friends of Friendless Chartered Accountant. Chairman, Interior Services Group plc. Churches. Trustee, Aberglasney Restoration Trust; Picton Castle Non-Executive Director, Airplanes Ltd. Trustee, The Portman Trust. Co-author, Pevsner volumes for three Welsh Counties. Estate. Formerly: Chairman, Development Securities plc; Formerly: Chairman, Historic Buildings Council for Wales; Managing Director, British Gas Properties Ltd. Finance Director, The Buildings at Risk Trust; Wales Region of Historic Houses Stanhope Properties. Association.

Doug Reid Elizabeth Davidson obe Principal, City Design Glasgow City Council. Trustee, Strathclyde Chartered Architect. Partner, James F Stephen Architects. Building Preservation Trust. Fellow, Royal Incorporation of Member, Royal Institute of British Architects; Institute of Historic Architects in Scotland; Royal Society for the Encouragement of Building Conservation. Fellow, Royal Incorporation of Architects Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce. Formerly: Project Director, in Scotland; Royal Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Director, Merchant City Townscape Heritage Initiative. External Examiner, Tayside Building Preservation Trust. University of Dundee, Dept. of European Urban Conservation. Member of the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland. Chair, Association of Preservation Trusts. Director, Glasgow Building Staff Preservation Trust. Chief Executive: Ian Lush Kate Dickson Finance Manager: Paul Tozer Director, Creative Heritage Consultants Ltd. Member, National Office Manager: Diane Kendal Trust Regional Advisory Board for the North West. Membership assessor and member, Membership and Ethics Committee of Projects Team the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. Chair, Midlands Loans Manager: Andy Richardson Regional Committee, UK Association of Preservation Trusts. Projects and Development Officer: Ian Rice Formerly: Member, National Trust Council; Heritage Lottery Fund Projects and Development OfficerN orth: Gareth Cheeseman Regional Committee for the North West. Director, Heritage Works Buildings Preservation Trust. Development Team Development Manager: Gavin Richards Regional Support Officers: Josephine Brown – South West Tessa Hilder – London, South East, East of England Jo Hill – North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber Lucie Thacker – East and West Midlands

64 Darlington Church (see p.54)

Annual Review 2012–13 Editor: Ian Lush Managing Editor: Diane Kendal Contributors: AHF Staff Design and production: Premm Design, London Proofreading: Catherine Prescott Photographs have been provided by loan and grant applicants, AHF staff and with our thanks for additional photographs by: Front Cover: Llanelly House, Carmarthenshire Heritage Regeneration Trust – Arthur Mallett Porthmeor Studios, Borlase Smart John Wells Trust – Paul Massey; Former Schoolhouse, Stick House and Coach House, Cotesbach Educational Trust – Mark Stewart; 549 Lordship Lane, Heritage of London Trust Operations – The Regeneration Practice; Portland Works Little Sheffield –L uis Arroyo, Colin Havard, Anya Sutton and Martyn Williams; St Helen’s House, Derby – C Alison White Photography; St John’s Church Hanley – Lathams; Hadlow Tower, Vivat Trust – PAYE Stonework and Restoration Ltd and Peter Jeffree Photography; Paradise Mill, Macclesfield, Silk Heritage Trust – Derek Johnson Printed on environmentally friendly paper by: Trident Printing Units 24–26 Armstrong Road, Woolwich, London SE18 6RS © Architectural Heritage Fund, October 2013 THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND Annu al Review 2012–13 2DD

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