ANNUAL REVIEW 2014–15 C O NTENTS

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: High Mill (p.18)

INSIDE FRONT COVER: Hutchesons’ Hall (p.21) CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD

The last year has seen radical change in the heritage sector, and in the Architectural Heritage Fund. Several of our funding partners are still in the throes of reorganisation and many recipients of our loans and grants have had to respond to the harsh economic climate in new and imaginative ways. All those who care about our built heritage, and understand how it can bring social and cultural benefit, can take heart from what has been achieved in the last 12 months.

The need for the AHF’s advice, loans and Finally, I would like to thank my fellow grants has never been clearer. To help Trustees for their wisdom and support, and meet our partners’ expectations the AHF all of the staff for the dedicated way in which has reduced its own management costs. they pursue the AHF’s work. There is a It is also strengthening its staffing in the shared sense of commitment, which makes regions, where there is most potential for involvement with the AHF such a pleasure. regeneration through better use of heritage assets. We shall be freeing up funds for the After 16 years on the Council I shall excellent work that our Support Officers be standing down, in many ways with are doing, by moving to a smaller London considerable regret because the AHF office with the Society for the Protection is moving in exciting new directions. of Ancient Buildings as our neighbours. I greatly appreciated the Council’s invitation to become Chairman, to help steer the The Council greatly appreciates the efforts organisation through choppy waters and that our partner organisations and our own to find an effective successor, and at the staff have made to secure the repayment time I made clear that I would not serve of a few substantial and long overdue loans. the usual full term. I could not be more Most clients understand that the terms delighted that Liz Peace is to succeed me of our loans have to be respected, and as Chairman, bringing all her experience repayments made in full, because that is as a former Chief Executive of the British the way that other worthwhile projects can Property Federation, a senior civil servant proceed. The AHF is a sympathetic lender, and a serving trustee of several leading and we will always listen to requests to alter conservation organisations. the terms of our loans if that is the best way to achieve our objectives. But this depends The AHF is also fortunate to have recruited on openness and the sharing of information Ian Morrison to succeed Ian Lush as Chief at an early stage. Failure to repay loans Executive and to build on his excellent threatens the very future of the AHF. work, described in last year’s Annual Review. Ian Morrison has joined us from the Heritage For the first time this Review includes a Lottery Fund, where he helped to initiate brief report on the impact of the AHF’s work several important new grant programmes, over the last 10 years. As you will see, the and where he got to know us well. I shall be figures are impressive and underline the leaving the AHF with plans for an expanding vital contribution made by the AHF to the role, and in exceptionally capable hands. conservation of the UK’s rich architectural heritage. Future Annual Reviews will include more detailed impact reports. These achievements have been made possible by the tremendous support and generosity of our sponsors, particularly Historic England Merlin Waterson and Historic Environment Scotland, Chairman to whom we are immensely grateful. October 2015

ABOVE (top; middle; bottom): Lomeshaye Bridge Mill (p.9) Sion Mills Stables (p.17) Dawes Twine Works (The Ropewalk) (p.8)

1 29 Braehead (p.49) CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REVIEW

It is a real privilege to succeed Ian Lush as Chief Executive of the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) and to write my first introduction to an Annual Review. Having only joined the AHF in late March, I can claim no credit whatsoever for the achievements listed in this report. The extraordinary variety of community-inspired projects across the country which the AHF has helped move forward is testament to the outstanding skill, knowledge and dedication of the AHF staff and trustees, both past and present.

Therefore, before I set out my priorities for the year ahead, it is fitting for me to review the achievements of the AHF over the last 10 years. The facts are compelling: 190 historic buildings at risk rescued across the UK thanks to £2.3 million of AHF grants and £33 million of AHF loans, and a staggering £278 million of additional investment levered in to these completed projects as a direct result of the AHF’s initial commitment (made up of £106 million from Lottery distributors, £34 million from central government, £15 million from local authorities and £123 million from trusts, foundations and private sources). Moreover, an analysis of a sample of projects that property markets. Yet, demand for AHF benefitted from an AHF early project grant loans is increasing significantly as a direct Impact of the AHF since 2004 over the last few years found that they were result of communities being encouraged far more likely to achieve success with their and empowered to take over the ownership grant application to the Heritage Lottery and management of historic buildings that 1 9 0 Fund than those projects that were not are currently in public ownership. A key historic buildings at risk repaired helped by the AHF. objective for the AHF is to grow our resources to meet this demand, and we These achievements are impressive and are very grateful to both Historic England 3 6 8 underline the vital role of the AHF. Our focus and Historic Environment Scotland for the organisations supported on providing advice and financial assistance additional investment provided soon after with an offer of a grant or loan early on can help ensure a project sets off my appointment to help achieve this goal. down the right path, saving valuable time and resources whilst also unlocking Despite the successes reported above, £ 2 . 3 m substantial investment. We will be seeking these remain very challenging times for of early project grants awarded to expand our advice and grants service the heritage sector, for the AHF’s clients in the years ahead. and for the AHF itself. The decline in public funding for heritage, which began its £ 3 3 m We also intend to increase the amount of downward trajectory as far back as 2003, of loans offered projects we are able to support through the is accelerating rapidly. The loss of grant provision of acquisition and working capital support, combined with the recent loans. The AHF was set up in 1976 as the inflationary pressures on construction £ 2 7 8 m ‘heritage bank’, and this remains a vital costs and the appalling drop in numbers of additional investment secured core part of our business. Since then we of local authority conservation officers, add have recycled our capital by a factor of 12 up to a very tough environment in which and have now awarded loans with a total to operate. Too many of the AHF’s clients 6 0 % value of £121 million to 870 projects across have been caught out by following business Heritage Lottery Fund success the UK. Our current lending resources have plans that were either heavily dependent rate for AHF-supported projects remained at almost an identical level over on public grant subsidy or that did not take the last ten years; no small achievement sufficient account of fluctuating market given the volatility of the financial and conditions (or both). ABOVE: Govanhill Baths (p.22)

3 Applications The heritage sector as a whole has little As a result, there is more demand than choice but to adjust to these new economic ever before for the services offered by the for our grants and financial realities and develop robust AHF. Our contracted Support Officers – Gavin are at a record business plans that focus on income Richards, Gordon Barr, Tessa Hilder, Lucie generation. That is why I introduced the Oakley and Josephine Brown – continue high, reflecting Heritage Enterprise Grant programme to field many hundreds of enquiries from the rise we whilst at the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), community groups each year, all of whom a scheme created specifically to encourage wish to save a local historic building that is have seen in the commercial use of historic buildings precious to them and turn it into a community the number of at risk. Heritage Enterprise was designed asset. Applications for our grants are at a with Building Preservation Trusts (BPTs) record high, reflecting the rise we have seen loan requests. in mind, as it can be a useful mechanism in the number of loan requests. The AHF whereby BPTs can both rescue a historic investment team – Andy Richardson and Ian building and also develop it as a commercial Rice – work tirelessly on assessing new loan enterprise that will generate an ongoing applications whilst also maintaining good revenue income (which can be reinvested communication with our existing clients. into new projects). We hope BPTs and other community organisations will embrace The AHF has always tried to be both the opportunities offered by Heritage flexible and supportive to our borrowers, Enterprise, and we intend to work closely renegotiating loan terms where possible with the HLF and with the Association of to ensure repayment schedules are realistic Preservation Trusts to help generate better and affordable. The result is that our quality projects. This joined-up approach loan book is generally in very good shape, is particularly important as we witness despite the difficulties outlined above. increasing numbers of publicly-owned Our bad debt provision is only 4.2%, which historic buildings and places falling out of is remarkably low given the risky nature of use and being earmarked for disposal. We the projects we invest in. Regrettably, though, need to provide communities with the advice there will always be casualties of the and resources they need to ensure these difficult operating environment. assets do not simply fall into the hands of inexperienced property speculators that The AHF has been and continues to lack the ability to develop and maintain be generously supported by our sponsors, them for public benefit. particularly by Historic England, Historic

4 Environment Scotland, Cadw, the Andrew Chairman, Merlin Waterson. I am extremely Lloyd Webber Foundation and the Pilgrim grateful to Merlin, for appointing me of Trust. The income we have received from course, but also for his unwavering support these organisations has bucked the trend and for his extraordinary commitment and has actually increased over the last to the AHF over his 16 years on the Council year, for which the AHF is extremely of Management. During the course of his grateful. Yet, despite this assistance we all-too-brief 18-month Chairmanship, cannot keep pace with demand, and we Merlin has steered the AHF through a very continue to explore many other avenues challenging transitional period. He has led of potential investment. The social finance by example, with a willingness to take tough market continues to grow as a result of decisions but always acting with the upmost strong government support, and this may integrity and with respect for the staff and for prove to be an area into which the AHF will our clients. The AHF is in much better health need to expand if we are to secure the funds as a result of his wise counsel and strong we need in the future. To unlock this market leadership, and he will be sorely missed. we will need to significantly improve the As too, will Diane and Paul, both of whom way we record and report on the difference have dedicated a significant part of their we have made through our advice, grant working lives to the AHF (Diane for 19 years and loan activities, hence, social impact and Paul for 11 years). Diane and Paul have measurement will be another priority for been the engine that has kept the AHF us in the year ahead. One only has to look moving forward, and their departure will at the projects that follow in this Review be felt for many years to come. I have been to appreciate the pivotal and invaluable role hugely impressed by their dedication, their played by the AHF in helping communities knowledge and their good humour in the across the UK realise their ambitions and short time I have worked with them both. transform the historic places where they I wish them all the best. OPPOSITE (top; bottom): live and work. There can be little doubt The Old Grammar School (p.13) that the story to be told of the AHF’s social St Margaret’s Church (p.51) impact will be inspiring. ABOVE (top; bottom): Hestercombe House (p.10) Finally, and with much sadness, I must The Guildhall (p.28) record the departure of two long-standing Ian Morrison BELOW (left; right): AHF staff, Diane Kendal and Paul Tozer, Chief Executive Dawes Twine Works (The Ropewalk) (p.8) as well as that of the AHF’s esteemed October 2015 Lomeshaye Bridge Mill (p.9)

5 High Mill (p.18) COMPLETED PROJECTS

The following review of projects completed over the last 12 months once again demonstrates the extraordinary ingenuity and tenacity of the AHF’s clients. Through their efforts a wide spectrum of building types that span over 800 years of architectural heritage have been saved and brought back to productive use across the length and breadth of the UK. Their inspiring work continues to demonstrate what is possible with careful planning, community collaboration and, above all, dogged persistence.

The end results are always heartening Another BPT that quietly gets on with and provide a wonderful showcase of the delivering project after project is the Tyne valuable benefits that historic buildings and Wear BPT. Its latest successful scheme can bring to today’s society. It is particularly is the repair and re-use of Blackfell Hauler pleasing to see so many projects brought House on the Bowes Railway complex to completion by Building Preservation near Gateshead, for which it won a Historic Trusts (BPTs). Often volunteer-run, BPTs England Angel Award. Visually nondescript, continue to play a central role in ensuring the hauler house is nonetheless an integral this country’s rich architectural heritage part of one of the earliest and best- KEY is conserved for future generations to preserved rope haulage railways surviving appreciate and enjoy. Whether operating in the UK. Without the active involvement of Many projects receive several as a single project trust, such as Newtown BPTs, this building and many other important different AHF grants and loans. These are abbreviated as follows: Market Hall BPT, or as a multiple project industrial relics like it would almost certainly ‘revolving’ trust, such as Glasgow BPT be lost. The Angel Award should perhaps FSG Feasibility Study Grant or Heritage Trust for the North West, be seen as wider recognition of the OAG Options Appraisal Grant these organisations frequently take on contribution made by BPTs towards the CBG Capacity Building Grant the most challenging historic buildings conservation and appreciation of the UK’s PAG Project Administration Grant and deliver amazing schemes that provide globally significant industrial heritage. POG Project Organiser Grant vital community facilities as well as often providing skills, job opportunities and The case studies that follow should, PDG Project Development Grant other economic benefits. therefore, be viewed as a celebration RPDG Refundable Project of the efforts of BPTs across the country. Development Grant The painstaking and high-quality restoration It is just possible that we might see a new CSG Cold Spots Grant of Sion Mills Stables near Strabane in “golden age” for BPTs over the next few CFG Challenge Fund Grant Northern Ireland is an excellent example of years as more opportunities arise through how a historic building which many thought government asset disposal and as a result had deteriorated beyond repair can be of a growing interest in historic buildings ABOVE: Seaview Hall (p.16) sensitively brought back into productive use, as future hubs of economic activity. BELOW: Lowther Castle (p.12) on this occasion as a centre for tourism and education that has provided a much-needed boost for the local economy. Perhaps even more importantly, the stables are now a source of pride and optimism for the people of Sion Mills whereas the crumbling building had previously been an unfortunate symbol of economic decline.

Sion Mills Stables can now be added to the portfolio of projects completed by Hearth Revolving Fund and its sister organisation Hearth Housing Association, which together have tackled nearly 150 historic buildings over the last 40 years – a staggering achievement. It is difficult to think of another small charity that has had such a major positive impact on the quality of place.

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Dawes Twine Works (The Ropewalk) COKER ROPE AND SAIL WORKS TRUST

94 High Street, West Coker, Somerset Listed Grade II*

CSG: £6,045 disbursed March 2012 CFG: £180,000 disbursed February 2014 Industrial Buildings Preservation Trust FSG: £2,665 disbursed January 1998 CBG: £972 disbursed September 2010 OAG: £7,500 disbursed April 2010

Professional Team Architectural Advisor: Richard K Morriss & Associates, Historic John William Dawe took ownership of the that the Industrial Buildings Preservation Building Consultants, Bromlow, Shropshire works in 1877, but twine had been produced Trust played an important role in seeking Structural Engineer: in West Coker since 1830, and used to a Compulsory Purchase Order and Patrick Stowe, Ottery St Mary stitch Coker Canvas which was highly investigating a new end use. The locally- Margaret Cooke, Integral Engineering, Bath regarded by the Royal Navy. The Ropewalk based Coker Rope and Sail Works Trust Barry Pilcher, Gary Gabriel Associates, Bath is a simple timber shed with 30 bays on a was finally able to take the scheme forward, Quantity Surveyor: single storey with an attic. It is open on all erecting scaffolding to stabilise the building, Martin Davidson, Chilton Polden, Somerset sides as the manufacturing processes allowing the realignment of the timber Main Contractor: The Carpenters’ Fellowship, required natural ventilation. The attic was frame. Its recent work has involved replacing Giddeahall, Tatton Keenell used for ‘walking’ or twisting the twine, the main oak posts to support the structure. Historic and Character Restorations, and the ground floor for finishing. It closed Children from the village junior school have West Coker in 1968 when the owner retired and modern been involved with educational visits and Planning and Funding Advisor: materials and manufacturing methods practical restoration tasks, and organised Mrs Erica Adams, Somerset Building rendered it redundant. Although partly activities to raise funds to pay for one of Preservation Trust used for storage, very little maintenance the new uprights. The AHF offered further Total investment: £280,000 had been undertaken and the building was development funding and a Challenge Fund in an extremely dangerous state. Grant for the capital phase. Beyond the Funders restoration of the historic structure, the The Hedley Trust (Sainsbury’s): £50,000 It appears to be the most complete surviving Trust intends to apply to the Heritage Lottery Prism (The Arts Council): £20,000 example in the UK of a late-19th-century Fund for a grant to construct new-build Somerset County Council: £20,000 plus compulsory purchase costs rural twine works and featured on the BBC’s visitor facilities, and is working toward Private donations: £10,000 Restoration Village in 1996, the same year obtaining full museum accreditation.

Children from the village junior school have been involved with educational visits and practical restoration tasks …

8 … the Trust worked alongside the local community to fight plans to demolish the Mill and over 400 houses.

Lomeshaye Bridge Mill Bridge Mill Road, Nelson, Lancashire Whitefield Conservation Area HERITAGE TRUST FOR THE NORTH WEST PDG: £15,000 disbursed May 2010 LOAN: £100,000 contracted September 2013

Professional Team Architect: Purcell, Manchester Structural Engineer: Blackett-Ord Conservation Engineering, Appleby-in-Westmorland Quantity Surveyor: David Humphries & Associates Ltd, Preston Main Contractor: Barnfield Construction, Nelson, Lancashire Sub-Contractor: Occupying a site adjacent to the Leeds- Mill, as was the Whitefield Townscape Conservation Services North West Ltd Liverpool Canal, Lomeshaye Bridge Mill Heritage Initiative, which designated it a was initially a two-storey, steam-driven ‘critical project’. Crucially this created the Total investment: £1,035,727 cotton-spinning mill. Built in 1841 of dressed primary source of funding for the restoration. stone over rubble stone masonry with a slate Funders HLF Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) roof, it was one of the first in an area that Several residential properties in the area grant: £760,121 became the heart of the country’s cotton have been restored by the Trust with AHF Trust’s own resources: Balance industry; the site once housed 1,286 looms. assistance (see Annual Review 2006–07 and Two further storeys were added together 2010–11), however, the Mill was a far larger with the weaving sheds in 1899 by the challenge and the AHF was able to offer Ecroyds, a prominent local family responsible a loan to provide cashflow during the capital for the creation of much of the model phase of works. The project now provides workers’ village of Whitefield. It remained a mix of business start-up units with in cotton production until 1935 after which meeting facilities, administration services, it was used for finishing, dying and garment secure storage and archive facilities. manufacture. In 2000, the Trust worked The Trust is responsible for an accredited alongside the local community to fight plans museum collection which will be housed to demolish the Mill and over 400 houses. The on one of the floors. Members of the local Whitefield Conservation Action Group fought Asian community see the re-use of the two Public Inquiries and in 2003 the second Mill as a reminder of the reason they came of these recommended that the buildings to the area to work in the cotton industry should be saved. The Conservation Area was and as a symbol of their long-standing subsequently extended to incorporate the efforts to save the building. ENGLAND

… ownership was passed to the Trust the following year for a nominal sum by Somerset County Council under the Community Asset Transfer scheme.

H e s t e r c o m b e H o u s e HESTERCOMBE GARDENS TRUST

Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton, Somerset Listed Grade II*; Hestercombe Conservation Area

PDG: £10,000 disbursed October 2014

Professional Team Architect: Robert Battersby, Architecton, Bristol Structural Engineer: Phillips Consulting Engineers, Taunton Project Manager: Oliver White Hestercombe is situated on the southern The Fire Brigade vacated the 80-room Main Contractor: slope of the Quantock Hills near Taunton. House in 2012, and ownership was passed Dunster Biomass Heating The estate is rich in history and has been to the Trust the following year for a nominal Exmoor Buildings continuously inhabited since Saxon times. sum by Somerset County Council under the Total investment: £352,000 Hestercombe House dates from the early Community Asset Transfer scheme. Since

medieval period, although there are few then a full programme of renovation has Funders remaining features. Major building work been undertaken; the principal rooms on Taunton Deane Borough Council: £10,000 was undertaken in 1720 by John Bampfylde the first floor are now a contemporary art The Ripple Trust: £300,000 and following acquisition in 1872 by the gallery, which hosted five exhibitions in its Trust’s own resources: £42,000 1st Viscount Portman, extensive expansion first year. A second-hand bookshop has Exhibition and Gallery Funding: and modernisation took place. Shortly raised £20,000 for the Trust and the Arts Council Grants for Arts: £48,000 Anonymous charitable foundation: £5,000 afterwards, the formal gardens were magnificent 18th-century Column Room Golsoncott Foundation: £2,000 remodelled by Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude on the ground floor contains a restaurant. Sylvia Waddilove Foundation: £2,000 Jekyll. The House was acquired by The upper floors have been let to other local Somerset County Council in 1977 and for charities and youth groups, with the top many years was the emergency call centre floor housing the Hestercombe Centre for for the Devon and Somerset Fire Brigade. Young Musicians. An AHF grant supported The Trust has managed the site since 2003 the employment of a project organiser to and has continued to restore the 18th- facilitate this crucial first phase and allow century landscape, Victorian terrace and the Trust to continue to develop the project. formal gardens. It completed the restoration Over 80 active volunteers help to run the of the watermill and barn in 2009 with AHF house and gallery. assistance (see Annual Review 2009–10).

10 130 Hoxton Lane, Hoxton Listed Grade II*; Hoxton Conservation Area

PDG: £10,000 disbursed June 2014 Hoxton Hall Professional Team Architect: Edmund Wilson at Foster Wilson Architects, London Theatre Advisor: John Whitaker, Theatreplan Quantity Surveyor: Fanshawe, London Main Contractor: Fairhurst Ward Abbotts, Dartford, Kent

Total investment: £2 million

Funders Heritage Lottery Fund: £1.4 million (capital element, part of a larger grant) Hoxton Hall is one of only three surviving with the upper balcony being declared Arts Council: £90,000 Theatres Trust: £5,000 salon-style music halls in the country. unsafe and unused since 1977. Urgent work Garfield Weston Foundation: £150,000 It has a high stage and two tiers of iron- was required to reinstate it, and in particular Biffa Award: £50,000 railed galleries on three sides. These are to increase the building’s capacity and Foyle Foundation: £50,000 supported on cast iron columns surrounding make it more financially viable. Manifold Trust: £2,000 the central space designed for a standing Westcroft Trust: £6,000 Charles Hayward Foundation: £20,000 audience. Opened in 1863, its reputation led The Hoxton Hall charity was awarded an Drapers Company: £15,000 to its closure within a few years. The Quaker AHF grant to help pay for professional work Heritage of London Trust: £2,000 Community took ownership and, retaining to assess the fabric in advance of capital Goldsmiths’ Company: £3,000 its internal layout, used it as a temperance funding bids for its adaptive re-use. Sylvia Waddilove Foundation: £4,000 hall with an emphasis on education and Although it closed for refurbishment in 2013, John & Ruth Howard Charitable Trust: £5,000 community support. Extensions to the the Young Hackney youth club were housed building in Arts & Crafts style provided elsewhere in the building and continued to a valuable community resource, promoting thrive. With the work completed, the Hall’s social and artistic activity, with the former capacity has more than doubled to 300. music hall used widely for filming and The theatre now houses state-of-the-art commercial events. Hoxton Hall underwent sound and lighting equipment, adding significant roof refurbishment funded by versatility to its potential uses yet remaining English Heritage in 2010, removing it from true to its historic origins, celebrating the its At Risk Register after 40 years. The work building’s music hall roots while developing was completed in 2012. However, due to a a 21st-century space for contemporary lack of funds, the Music Hall had only seen variety performance, with a real connection minimal maintenance since the 1970s to the communities of Hoxton.

… developing a 21st-century space for contemporary variety performance, with a real connection to the communities of Hoxton.

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L o w t h e r C a s t l e LOWTHER CASTLE & GARDENS TRUST

Lowther, Penrith, Cumbria Listed Grade II*

LOAN: £150,000 contracted April 2013

Professional Team Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley, London and Lloyds Evans Prichard, Manchester Structural Engineer: Arup, Manchester Quantity Surveyor: Lowther Castle was built in 1806 by Robert The Lowther Castle and Gardens Trust Donleys, Carlisle Smirke on a site occupied by the Lowther was established with the principal aim Valuation Surveyor: family for 800 years. A beautiful sculpture of creating a major visitor attraction. The Turner & Townsend, Leeds gallery with a decorative plaster ceiling was scope of the project is highly ambitious, Total investment: £11 million added in 1814; this is the only remaining but restoration work to reverse 70 years of

room of the castle, subsequently restored. deterioration started in 2011 and the AHF Funders It was commissioned by William Lowther, was able to offer a working-capital loan to Northwest Development Agency 1st Earl of Lonsdale, as a grand mansion in supplement existing funding. To date, around (now Department for Business, Innovation castellated style. The 5th Earl squandered 20 permanent jobs have been created, with and Skills): £7.5 million ERDF: £2 million the family fortune and the house was closed over 60 volunteers working on the whole English Heritage: £0.5 million in 1936. It was requisitioned by the Army site, stabilising architectural features, Lowther Estate Trust: £1 million during the Second World War but was restoring the stables courtyard, removing returned in poor condition. The roof was hundreds of tonnes of army concrete, and removed in 1957 although the north and installing modern services. The stables south façades and central tower still stand; courtyard now offers a café, shop, toilets, Pevsner describes it as a ‘melancholy meeting room and a display area where shell’. A large stable block, incorporating visitors can find out more about the what is left of a 17th-century house, still restoration. An increase in visitor numbers stands. It is surrounded by the remains of has benefited the local economy. Although 20 Edwardian formal gardens, containing 18 the project has proved more complex summerhouses and many other structures, than envisaged, further phased work to set in 130 acres of parkland, none of which complete the restoration of the castle was publicly accessible for 70 years. ruins is planned over the next five years.

To date, around 20 permanent jobs have been created, with over 60 volunteers working on the whole site …

12 This has opened it up for public use for the first time in decades …

T h e Old Grammar School THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL Hales Street, Coventry Listed Grade I

OAG: £6,575 disbursed December 2008

Professional Team Architect: Julian Marsh, Marsh Grochowski, Nottingham Structural Engineer: Collins Hall Green, Nottingham Quantity Surveyor: Focus Consultants, Nottingham The Old Grammar School is the only The charity caters for the area’s youth Main Contractor: surviving building of the 12th-century St and received an AHF grant for an options J Tomlinson, Nottingham John’s Hospital, founded in 1155 by Laurence, appraisal study to find sympathetic daytime Project Management: Prior of Coventry. The building originally use that would generate sufficient income Focus Consultants, Nottingham consisted of a chancel of two bays, an aisled to support its range of community activities. Project Co-ordinator: nave and north-west tower. The surviving This sparked the interest of local business, Gary Hall, Coventry Transport Museum architectural features suggest that it was and the adjacent Coventry Transport Total investment: £9.5 million rebuilt shortly before the middle of the Museum decided that it would be ideal 14th century. Internal alterations date from for use as exhibition and events space Funders its 16th-century conversion to a schoolroom as part of a £9.5 million refurbishment and European Regional Development Fund by local benefactor John Hales following upgrade. This has opened it up for public (ERDF): £3.1 million Heritage Lottery Fund: £5 million the Reformation. The school remained here use for the first time in decades as part of BIFFA Award: £500,000 until 1885 when the building passed into an educational resource that celebrates the Garfield Weston: £224,000 the hands of the Old Grammar School city’s proud automotive history. The original Arts Council England: £158,000 Trustees. It is constructed of local red school bell was cast in 1736 and this will Other funders and donations: £500,000 sandstone, which was much decayed owing go on display inside the building with a new to the building’s proximity to a main road. bell hung in the belfry. The Old Grammar Coventry’s oldest secular building had been School restoration now forms a central part damaged by bombing during the Second of the history of the city representing the World War, threatened by a road-widening renewed confidence it has in its history and scheme in the 1960s and, due to a lack culture as Coventry moves towards putting of funding, neglected and under-used a bid together for City of Culture. since the 1980s. ENGLAND

… a catalyst for the wider regeneration of the cemetery, ensuring that it remains open to all.

Nonconformist Chapel SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY TRUST

General Cemetery, Sheffield Listed Grade II*; Sheffield General Cemetery (Parks & Gardens) Conservation Area

OAG: £4,663 disbursed March 2012 PDG: £19,800 disbursed December 2012 CFG: £200,000 offered June 2013

Professional Team Architect: John Cunnington, Walker Cunnington Sheffield General Cemetery was one of uses for the Chapel. Further AHF Architects, Sheffield the first commercial landscape cemeteries development funding allowed the formation Main Contractor: in the UK. Opened in 1836, it became of a long-standing partnership with the Paul Mendham Stonemasons Ltd, Newark established as the city’s principal burial South Yorkshire BPT, which possessed Project Management: ground. It was designed by local architect greater experience in building restoration. Andrew Whitham and Catie Evans, South Samuel Worth with landscape design by A Challenge Fund Grant made a Yorkshire Buildings Preservation Trust

Robert Marnock, who also designed considerable contribution to the capital Total investment: £269,100 Sheffield’s Botanical Gardens and Weston sum required to enable the restoration work Park. The neoclassical Nonconformist to be finally undertaken. The Nonconformist Funders Chapel is one of nine listed buildings and Chapel is now a unique venue for schools, WREN: £60,000 monuments, including unique catacombs. community groups and individuals providing Sheffield City Council: £6,600 Alan Evans Trust: £1,000 The cemetery was closed for burials in 1978 a wide programme of arts, culture and Sharrow Vale Community Association: £500 and began a slow decline. The Chapel had music as well as facilitating the Trust’s Trust’s own resources: £1,000 been unused for more than 60 years, and volunteer and educational activities. although the structure was essentially sound, The space available for hire will provide it was difficult to adapt owing to its isolated economic benefit and a catalyst for the wider position in the centre of the cemetery. regeneration of the cemetery, ensuring that it remains open to all. The City Council is now The Trust was formed in 2003 from the developing a Heritage Lottery Fund ‘Parks existing Friends group, originally established for People’ bid to enable a wider programme in 1987 by local residents concerned about of restoration work in the cemetery. The the cemetery’s increasing dereliction. The project received a commendation from the AHF provided a grant to explore various 2015 Historic England Angel Awards.

14 Blackfell Hauler House TYNE AND WEAR BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST

Bowes Railway, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne Scheduled Ancient Monument

CSG: £5,000 disbursed August 2013 CFG: £190,000 offered March 2013

Professional Team Architect: Mosedale Gillatt Architects, Newcastle upon Tyne Bowes Railway is one of the earliest and not be lost. An AHF Cold Spots Grant allowed Structural Engineer: best-preserved rope haulage railways in further feasibility work to be carried out. 3E Consulting, Newcastle upon Tyne the UK. Attributed to the renowned engineer The AHF’s offer of a Challenge Fund Grant Quantity Surveyor: George Stephenson it was a system for enabled the Trust to refurbish the Hauler Thornton Firkin, Newcastle upon Tyne transporting coal from the North Durham House, and what had been a dangerous Building Control: coalfield to ships moored on the River Tyne. building, with its very survival in doubt, BlueKeep, Newcastle upon Tyne The site consists of a large number of is now in use as a workshop, leased to a Archaeology: AD Archaeology, South Tyneside workshops and ancillary buildings dating local yurt-maker with much of the original Main Contractor: from 1826 to the early 20th century. Blackfell, machinery left in situ. Gateshead Council is Historic Property Restoration, North Tyneside built in 1913, is one of two remaining hauler working with Historic England to commission houses containing the machinery that a condition survey of the railway track with Total investment: £220,000 powered the ropeway pulling loaded wagons the long-term aim of coal waggons running up steep inclines and across level ground. to Blackfell Hauler House once more. The Funders Pilgrim Trust: £5,000 It had not been used since the 1970s, and project has acted as a catalyst for further Joicey Trust: £2,000 had suffered from metal theft and vandalism. development and brought stakeholders Lamesley Ward Fund: £500 Local groups had fought to save the site together, while supporting the work of the Gateshead Council: £1,000 (in kind) without being able to find a viable new use, Bowes Railway Company in their quest to Trust’s own resources: £9,000 and it subsequently featured on the English promote the entire site, attract volunteers Heritage Buildings At Risk Register. and operate a museum for visitors. The project won the 2015 Historic England Angel In 2012 the Tyne and Wear Building Award for the Best Rescue of a Historic Preservation Trust produced a planning brief Industrial Building or Site. to examine potential uses, maintaining that the building’s industrial aesthetic should

The project won the 2015 Historic England Angel Award for the Best Rescue of a Historic Industrial Building or Site. NORTHERN IRELAND

S e a v i e w H a l l GLENARM BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST

New Row, Glenarm, Co Antrim Glenarm Conservation Area

OAG: £3,666 disbursed December 2009 CBG: £1,923 disbursed May 2009 LOAN: £50,000 contracted April 2015

Professional Team Architect: Jill Lambert, Glenarm Neil Moore, Kriterion Conservation Architects, Belfast Built as a National School in 1888 to capital. New wings with pitched roofs have Structural Engineer: Felix Magee Consulting, Belfast resemble the adjacent church, Seaview been added, in similar style to the existing Quantity Surveyor: Hall has a steep, pitched slate roof with the building, with low-energy heating and Gareth Davis, R Davis & Co, Belfast front gable wall in the same basalt stone lighting installed. It will now house a visitor Main Contractor: as the church. Both the Gothic and circular information centre, run by the Trust, and will Derryleckagh Contracts Ltd, windows of the church are replicated in the also serve as a multi-purpose community Warrenpoint, Co Down ‘old school’. It became redundant in 1972 space, equipped to accommodate talks, and was subsequently used as a parish training and exhibitions. It has served as Total investment: £480,000 hall, but has been vacant for approximately a medium for the wider regeneration of the Funders 20 years, used only for storage with all entire waterfront and village centre, creating Coastal Communities Fund: £265,000 services disconnected. However it stands a unique identity for Glenarm. A high-profile Northern Ireland Tourist Board: £89,980 in an attractive area in Glenarm’s historic local specialist craft business and tourist Larne Borough Council: £49,000 centre, situated along the Signature attraction has expanded recently, creating Ulster Garden Villages: £20,000 (Giant’s) Causeway Coastal Route and new employment opportunities and (plus interest-free loan) Garfield Weston Foundation: £20,000 opposite a limestone harbour, restored generating visitor numbers which will Trust’s own resources: £45,020 to include a 60-berth marina. serve the village as a whole. The newly- established Mid and East Antrim Council The Glenarm Building Preservation Trust has made Glenarm regeneration a priority was formed in 2004 with AHF advice. and the larger scheme will take account Funding was offered for an options appraisal of the Trust’s achievements. Many local report which formed the basis of a business residents remember this as their old school, case. The building’s owner, the Diocese of which they had seen fall into disrepair, and Down and Connor, agreed a 30-year lease are now proud of its creative re-use. and the AHF provided a loan for working

It has served as a medium for the wider regeneration of the entire waterfront and village centre …

16 The Stables are now very much a focus for community activity, the project has boosted morale in a village that lost so many jobs when the Mill closed …

Sion Mills Stables – Phase II HEARTH REVOLVING FUND

Melmount Road, Sion Mills, Strabane Listed Category B+ Sion Mills, a small village near Strabane finally able to obtain the building in 2010. An LOAN: £50,000 contracted September 2013 in Co Tyrone, was founded by the Herdman AHF loan was offered for working capital for family in 1828 as a linen mill. The Herdmans the first phase of works to stabilise the walls Professional Team built the neo-Elizabethan Sion House in 1884 and reinstate the roof (see Annual Review Architect: and its stable block is a prominent part of 2012–13). The second phase has completed Caroline Dickson Architects, Londonderry the Herdman’s Mill complex. General neglect the restoration. Hearth retains ownership Structural Engineer: and weathering had been exacerbated by and leases the building to Sion Mills BPT, Albert Fry Associates, Belfast fire and bomb damage. In 1995 the owner which will manage the Stables as a heritage Quantity Surveyor: was served with statutory action to carry education centre consisting of a small Rainey & Best, Belfast out repairs but did not comply; this was the museum, tearoom and offices in the old Main Contractor: first step towards compulsory acquisition. building, and a new classroom. The education Louerne Construction Ltd, Strabane

In 2008, Strabane District Council served project will enable the development of Total investment: £651,000 a dangerous buildings notice, and when schemes with local schools and digitise the unauthorised demolition began, the Northern collection of Mill artefacts and documents. Funders Ireland Environment Agency quickly As the only general museum in the Heritage Lottery Fund: £375,000 triggered a vesting notice and assumed Strabane area, it is working closely with the Ulster Garden Villages: £25,000 ARC North West (NI Rural Development ownership. Its engineers insisted on most of newly-established Derry-Strabane Council Programme): £220,000 the roof being removed, leaving little more on education and tourism. The Stables are Garfield Weston Foundation: £25,000 than the four walls, as the internal gables and now very much a focus for community Headley Trust: £25,000 clock tower had also been partly demolished. activity. The project has boosted morale in NI Environment Agency (formerly DoE NI): a village that lost so many jobs when the Mill £80,000 Danske Bank: £200,000 Hearth had been negotiating acquisition closed, and is actively promoting tourism Ulster Garden Villages: £50,000 of the stable block for many years and was to boost economic benefit in the area.

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… offering fantastic new opportunities for learning and community involvement.

H i g h M i l l DUNDEE HERITAGE TRUST

Verdant Works, West Henderson’s The High Mill is the oldest part of Verdant its recognised Collection of National Wynd, Dundee Listed Category A; Works, a rare surviving example of a Significance on public view for the first time Blackness Conservation Area courtyard mill with its original building (including the centrepiece exhibit of Leisure PDG: £25,000 disbursed July 2014 layout, constructed in 1833 for processing & Culture Dundee’s 1801 Boulton & Watt flax into linen. It consists of 13 bays on two steam engine). It will provide interpretation Professional Team storeys and an attic, and is built of rubble on new themes as well as offer fantastic Main Contractor: with a slate and timber roof and cast iron opportunities for learning and community George Martin Builders, Dundee columns internally. The Trust bought the involvement. These include a History Hub to Architect: site in 1991 and about half of the complex help people with research into local or family James F Stephen has already been restored and transformed history, and a ‘Red Box’ learning and activity Cost Consultant: into Scotland’s Jute Museum. The rest, pod where a wide variety of groups can meet KLM Partnership, Dundee consisting of the High Mill and the adjoining to take part in heritage-based activities. Structural Engineer: single-storey Glazed Alley, remained There will be a vibrant programme of Addison Conservation & Design, Glasgow derelict and unsafe. events including dance, drama and music Services Engineer: Hawthorne Boyle, Glasgow to engage diverse audiences. Following a successful funding award CDM Co-ordinator: John Duguid Partnership, Dundee from the Heritage Lottery Fund, work started in 2014 and the derelict buildings Total investment: £2.9 million have now been sympathetically restored and dramatically transformed into a unique Funders exhibition and events space. The project Heritage Lottery Fund: £1,895,800 Historic Scotland: £500,000 will almost double the size of the museum, Others: £475,000 allowing it to put significant amounts of

18 Websters Theatre (former Lansdowne Parish Church) –

416–420 Great Western Road, Glasgow Phase I Listed Category A; Glasgow West Outstanding Conservation Area FACT THREE FSG: £6,410 disbursed May 2006 to Glasgow BPT RPDG: £15,435 disbursed January 2009 to Four Acres Charitable Trust CBG: £10,523 disbursed January 2012 to Four Acres Charitable Trust LOAN: £150,000 contracted November 2013 Lansdowne Parish Church was designed Phase I, the conversion of the side hall by John Honeyman and built in 1863 on to a bar and bistro to create a revenue- Professional team a cruciform plan in early Gothic style with generating facility, now complete. An online Main Contractor: slender lancets throughout and an elegant crowdfunding campaign has raised 130% of Four Acres Charitable Trust steeple reputed to be ‘the pointiest in Europe’. its target to help with the restoration costs. Architect: It is regarded as one of the most important The main building is hosting a number Groves-Raines Architects Gothic Revival churches in Scotland. of regular theatrical performances using Cost Consultant: Adjoining the church to the east are a small a temporary theatre ‘tent’ in the sanctuary Gardiner & Theobald church hall, two kitchens, a vestry and while improvements for community use Structural Engineer: toilet facilities. To the north was a three- to the upper hall continue. Substantial The Structural Partnership bedroomed house, built for officers of the funding is still required for future phases Services Engineer: Harley Haddow church. The church has a particularly fine to create a permanent heated venue and timber-panelled interior and the transepts for repairs to the external fabric. Total investment: £386,944 contain two nationally important stained glass windows by Alf Webster. The building Funders has been renamed Websters after the artist. Resilient Scotland: £60,000 Glasgow City Heritage Trust: £77,944 Glasgow City Council: £40,000 The Trust’s application to the Heritage Pilgrim Trust: £25,981 Lottery Fund in 2008 for a grant towards a Crowdfunding Campaign: £32,310 £3 million scheme to restore the church for re-use as a performance space and venue to display Glasgow’s stained glass heritage was unsuccessful. The Trust has now prepared a leaner, phased scheme, with

An online crowdfunding campaign has raised 130% of its target to help with the restoration costs.

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Dreel Halls (former Hew Scott Hall, St Nicholas Tower and Anstruther Wester Anstruther, Fife Town Hall) – Phase I Listed Category A (Tower), Listed Category B (Hew Scott Hall), Listed Category C FIFE HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST (Town Hall); Anstruther Conservation Area OAG: £4,800 disbursed February 2008

Professional team The Dreel Halls is the new name for the ownership was transferred to Fife Historic Main Contractor: listed building complex formerly known Buildings Trust, who oversaw Phase I of John Smart & Son, Kirkcaldy as the Anstruther Wester Town Hall, the an ambitious capital project, working to Architect: Hew Scott Hall and the St Nicholas Tower. restore the external fabric of the building ARC Probably dating from the 16th century, so that it is weatherproof and sound. Early Cost Consultant: the four-storey St Nicholas Tower with its in 2014, at the end of Phase I, the building Ralph Ogg & Partners slated broach spire, is the oldest surviving was sold to the Anstruther Improvements Structural Engineer: David Narro Associates structure in this complex. The church was Association who was deemed to be the Services Engineer: remodelled in 1761 as a simple, Georgian most appropriate end-user given its status Max Fordham rectangular building and the adjacent as a community-led charitable organisation CDM Co-ordinator: Hew Scott Hall makes up the ‘L’ shaped and has been actively using the building Ralph Ogg & Partners grouping, having been rebuilt in 1795 for a series of public and private events. around an older structure. It formerly Phase II of the project will upgrade facilities Total investment: £750,000 contained the Town Hall on the first floor in both halls for performing arts events Funders and the Session House on the ground floor and community activities and will provide Townscape Heritage Initiative where the local school met before 1830. full disabled access. The AIA is currently (Heritage Lottery Fund): £320,000 investigating funding sources which Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme The buildings were owned by the Church will improve the building’s long-term (Historic Scotland): £155,000 of Scotland and Fife Council through the sustainability, extend its use and improve Fife Environmental Trust: £150,000 Fife Council: £60,000 Common Good Fund until 2013 when the experience of community users. LEADER in Fife: £44,500 Church of Scotland: £10,000 North East Fife Area Common Good Fund: £5,850 Fife Culture & Heritage Fund: £13,500

… was deemed to be the most appropriate end- user given its status as a community-led charitable organisation …

20 … seeking a sustainable reuse which would enable the public to have some access and ensure the building would be properly maintained.

H u t c h e s o n s ’ H a l l GLASGOW BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST

158 Ingram Street, Glasgow Listed Category A; Glasgow Central Conservation Area

OAG: £3,000 disbursed November 2009

Professional team Main Contractor: CBC (Glasgow) Ltd Architect: Pollock Hammond Partnership Hutchesons’ Hall is located in the During 2009–10 the Trust co-ordinated Cost Consultant: Merchant City district in the centre of comprehensive works to conserve and Morgan Munro Glasgow. Designed by David Hamilton, renovate the external fabric. These included Structural Engineer: often referred to as the ‘Father of Glasgow repairs to the roof, stonework, windows, RA Sykes Architecture’, it was built between 1802–05 doors, clock face and tower, and repainting. CDM Co-ordinator: to replace the 17th-century Hutcheson The repairs have significantly improved the Fairbairns

Hospital for aged men on Trongate, which condition and enhanced the appearance of Total investment: £456,000 was demolished with the development the building. The National Trust for Scotland, of Hutcheson Street. It is a white-painted the building’s owner since 1982, was seeking Funders three-storey building surmounted by a a sustainable re-use which would enable Glasgow City Council – Better Glasgow square tower and slim needle spire. Two the public to have some access and ensure Fund: £128,000 Glasgow City Heritage Trust: £100,000 full-height portrait sculptures dated 1647 the building would be properly maintained. The Merchant City THI: £100,000 of the Hutcheson brothers, the hospital Following this work, a new tenant was The National Trust for Scotland: £128,000 founders, are incorporated in niches on identified, and after a further package of the front elevation. These are believed to restoration works, the building re-opened be the oldest portrait statues in Glasgow. as a restaurant in late 2014. The interior was remodelled by John Baird in 1876, removing the second-floor rooms to create the magnificent double-height hall which contains detailed plasterwork, timber panelling, stained glass and tiled fireplaces.

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… reflecting the cultural, ethnic and socially diverse community and the importance of the baths to Govanhill.

Govanhill Baths – Phase I GOVANHILL BATHS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST

99 Calder Street, Glasgow Listed Category B

OAG: £7,000 disbursed September 2007 PDG: £7,500 disbursed February 2009

Professional Team Project Manager: The Prince’s Regeneration Trust

Total investment: £3.2 million

Funders Built in 1914, Govanhill Public Baths and 57 different organisations, offering many Heritage Lottery Fund: £1.2 million Wash House is an important and increasingly people a step back into their community, BIG Lotter Fund: £1 million Historic Scotland: £500,000 rare example of municipal Edwardian building confidence and skills and reflecting Glasgow City Council: £500,000 baroque bathing facilities in Scotland. It the cultural, ethnic and socially diverse comprises three swimming pools, an upper community and the importance of the baths area containing baths, a Turkish suite and to Govanhill. The AHF-funded business sauna and an area formerly used as a wash plan formed the basis of a revised plan house, known locally as a ‘steamie’. The in support of a £4.1 million restoration building was in continuous use until it was scheme to refurbish the building envelope, closed by Glasgow City Council in 2001. This open two of the three pools, create a Turkish provoked a lengthy sit-in by local residents suite and establish a permanent arts and opposed to the closure and led eventually to events space in the ‘steamie’. The Trust a near riot involving mounted police when the is now looking to appoint the remaining protesters were removed from the building. professional team, with a view to re-opening the Baths for swimming in 2018. The Trust grew out of the campaign group and the AHF provided it with funding towards an options appraisal and further support towards the cost of a business plan. The first phase of work has allowed the building to be re-opened to the public. The community meeting room, workshop space and kitchen have been used by

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Cardigan Castle Site Cardigan, Ceredigian Listed Grade I (Castle), other structures CADWGAN BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST Grade II* and II; Scheduled Ancient Monument

OAG: £7,500 disbursed March 2008 PAG: £4,000 disbursed March 2010 PDG: £15,000 disbursed July 2010

Professional Team Architect: Purcell Miller Tritton, Cardiff Structural Engineer: Andrew Scott Ltd, Port Talbot Quantity Surveyor: Parry & Dawkin, Swansea Main Contractor: The Cardigan Castle site is located on a occupied by an elderly private owner and Andrew Scott Ltd, Port Talbot promontory which dominates Cardigan not accessible to the public. Bridge on the River Teifi. It comprises the Total investment: £12 million extensive remains of the 12th-century The Cadwgan Building Preservation Trust Funders Castle, Castle Green House, 43 St Mary was established by local people in 2000 with Heritage Lottery Fund: £6 million Street, Ty Castell, various outbuildings and the initial aim of acquiring two 300-year-old European Regional Development Fund: the extensive curtain wall, gate and gate cottages which stand at the castle gates, £4.3 million piers. The Castle accommodated the great in order to save them from the threat of CAT/Big Lottery: £700,000 and first Eisteddfod in 1176 to celebrate its demolition. Once the possibilities became Cadw: £500,000 Fundraising/donations: £200,000 completion, and therefore occupies a apparent for the restoration of the Castle, special place in Welsh consciousness and it was able to utilise AHF development identity. Its construction began in 1136, and funding to assess the options for re-use it was added to and repaired principally by and apply for major capital funding. As Robert Waleran from 1248 to 1275. After the well as offering an insight into 900 years Glyndwr revolt, a new hall and tower were of history, the Castle will now offer visitor added. The Castle was damaged during the accommodation, a riverside restaurant Civil War, and by the early 18th century was and a summer events programme. It is set an abandoned ruin. In 1827, Castle Green to become a major tourist attraction for House was built in the centre of the site, and West Wales, boosting the local economy incorporates some of the Castle’s original and bringing in new jobs. One of the main masonry including the keep, dungeons attractions will be a permanent Eisteddfod and a 13th-century round tower to the rear. exhibition and this will emphasise the value It featured on the second series of BBC of the restored site in cultural terms. Restoration in 2004, when it was still

… set to become a major tourist attraction for West Wales, boosting the local economy and bringing in new jobs.

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N e w t o w n M a r k e t H a l l NEWTOWN MARKET HALL BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST

High Street, Newtown, Powys Listed Grade II

OAG: £3,000 disbursed January 2010

Professional Team Newtown Market Hall was built in 1870 roof and prevent further deterioration. Architect: as a seven-bay, open-plan trading hall A public outcry led to a local initiative George + Tomos, Machynlleth, Powys with mezzanine floor storage rooms. to find a new lease of life for the Market. Structural Engineer: The principal elevation and main entrance Roger Casey Associates, Carmarthen facing the High Street was considerably The Newtown Market Hall Building Quantity Surveyor: Bowen Consultants, Newtown altered in the 1970s, but the south-east Preservation Trust was established by the elevation facing Market Street remained Mid Wales Food and Land Trust, a not-for- Main Contractor: C Sneade Ltd, Montgomery relatively unchanged. During the Second profit organisation which exists to support World War the building was one of five the rural economy in Wales. The Trust was Total investment: £1.4 million in Newtown requisitioned for military use, offered a long lease if a viable scheme with the eastern side of the Market Hall could be found for the site. The AHF offered Funders housing an Admiralty victualing depot. funding towards an options appraisal which Heritage Lottery Fund: £600,000 The BIG Lottery: £500,000 The Royal Navy’s stock of rum was said to identified uses for generating greater Welsh Government Communities Facility have been kept in Newtown. In 2008, Powys income, whilst ensuring that the food and Activities Programme: £300,000 Council announced that it could no longer market remained with its heritage value afford to maintain the building; substantial preserved. After successfully raising the investment was required to repair the capital funding required, work began in June 2014. The building has not only been restored as a market hall, but as a focus for wider social and community activities, including the creation of community meeting rooms, establishment of two local food- based social enterprises and supporting new start-up businesses.

… has not only been restored as a market hall, but as a focus for wider social and community activities …

24 Hestercombe House (p.10) Sheerness Dockyard Church (p.34) PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT

The last twelve months has seen a significant increase in the number of enquiries and requests for grant support. It is too early to say whether this surge in interest is solely a result of recent changes in legislation that give communities increased opportunities to influence what happens in their neighbourhood or whether there are other factors at play, but what is certain is that there is no sign of any let-up.

The desire to save a locally valued historic building is often strong and sustained, and behind nearly all of the 140 projects listed here stands a very determined community group that is motivated to make the most of its heritage. Our experience has shown that the majority will be successful.

It is always difficult to pick out particular projects from such a diverse range of schemes, but one of the most striking trends that has materialised over the last few years has been the attraction of historic industrial buildings to creative industries, the fastest growing sector of the UK economy. Buildings, such as Manningham Mills in Bradford, Riddle’s Warehouse in Belfast Davidson Cottage Hospital in Girvan or Castlemills in Edinburgh, exude a strong are using their Heritage Enterprise grant KEY sense of history and innovation, which to develop their plans for the commercial Many projects receive several together with their flexible open spaces can re-use of two former publicly-owned different AHF grants and loans. provide inspirational places for companies buildings. The revenue generated from These are abbreviated as follows: working in the creative industries to set these end uses will ensure the buildings FSG Feasibility Study Grant up and grow their businesses. are maintained in the future and will OAG Options Appraisal Grant provide additional income for the charities CBG Capacity Building Grant The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is currently to further their objectives. researching this emerging relationship PAG Project Administration Grant between the industrial heritage and the The AHF believes the Heritage Enterprise POG Project Organiser Grant creative industries, the results of which will model is particularly important at a time PDG Project Development Grant be published later this year. Without wishing of reduced public expenditure and greater RPDG Refundable Project to predict what the outcome of this study disposal of heritage assets. As a result, Development Grant might be, it is just possible that we are on we continue to prioritise our early project CSG Cold Spots Grant the verge of a new wave of interest in former grants towards establishing the financial CFG Challenge Fund Grant industrial buildings and the role they could viability of project proposals and assisting PVG Project Viability Grant play in growing the economy. with the costs of preparing strong Heritage Enterprise grant applications. Over the next Grant and loan information is as at the Indeed, the economic potential of historic few years, it is increasingly likely that new end of the financial year (31 March 2015). buildings features very strongly in many owners will be sought for many more former Where a grant or loan offer is shown as of the projects that follow. The introduction publicly-owned libraries, fire stations, ‘withdrawn’, this does not necessarily of the HLF’s Heritage Enterprise scheme police stations, hospitals and schools. The mean that the project is not proceeding. has been very influential in this regard with projects that follow provide a good indication The applicant may have been able to many of the listed projects either already of the progress that can be achieved through go ahead without it or the nature of the benefitting from a Heritage Enterprise strong community support and sound project may have changed and a new grant or being actively considered for one. project management. We look forward to application submitted. Schemes such as the Old Police many appearing in the Completed Projects Headquarters in Bath or the former section in future Annual Reviews. ABOVE: The Guildhall (p.28)

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EASTERN REGION

Norwich HEART 1 The Guildhall

Guildhall Hill, Norwich, Norfolk Listed Grade I; City Centre Conservation Area PVG: £3,000 offered September 2014

Norwich Guildhall is one of the largest examples of a medieval civic guildhall in the country. The undercroft dates from 2 the 14th century and the former sessions court and council chamber contain original wood panelling, stained glass Youthscape 2 and an impressive pitch timber-framed Bute Mills ceiling. Nevertheless there are significant maintenance issues which severely limit public access. Norwich City Council has Guildford Street, Luton, Bedfordshire agreed a lease for the management of the Plaiters Lee Conservation Area building and its tenants, and an AHF grant PDG: £5,880 disbursed October 2014 has been offered to establish the project’s CSG: £8,000 offered November 2014 viability. The Trust plans to increase public access to the building and raise its profile Youthscape is a charity devoted to as an attraction, with a wide programme supporting the emotional and physical of events planned as it seeks to raise wellbeing of young people. Since its capital funds to enable full restoration. formation it has trebled in size and now needs more space and facilities. Bute Mills was built in 1910 as a steam flour mill. 3 1 It is one of the most recognisable buildings in Luton’s Conservation Area, adjacent to the ‘gateway’ into the town being EAST MIDLANDS developed by the Council and next to the railway station. It is built of red brick, on four storeys, with a distinctive iron water tank, and is a rare survivor of Luton’s wholesale redevelopment of the town Gresley Old Hall Welfare Centre 3 centre in the 1960s. It was refurbished for Gresley Old Hall light industrial use, but has been vacant since the departure of the last tenant five Gresley Wood Road, years ago. The AHF offered two grants Church Gresley, Derbyshire to examine the building as a suitable base Listed Grade II for its wide range of activities, and as accommodation for satellite organisations CSG: £5,000 disbursed February 2015 offering complementary youth services. Gresley Old Hall is a three-storey brick building with distinctive Dutch gables, dating from the late-17th century, but incorporating elements of an earlier timber-framed house, including the brick and stone chimney stacks. Dated graffiti in one of the upper rooms of the house suggests that it was complete in its current form by 1710. The Hall became a miners’ welfare centre in 1953, but the two upper floors may have been unused since before then. In recent years the exterior has suffered from extensive deterioration due to a lack of income. The South Derbyshire Mining Preservation Group occupies the ground floor and a Cold Spots Grant was awarded to investigate the development 1 of the upper floors for commercial use. EASTERN REGION • EAST MIDLANDS

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Quorn Old School Trust 4 The Old School

School Lane, Quorn, Leicestershire Quorn Conservation Area 7 CSG: £5,000 disbursed March 2015

The former village primary school of St Bartholomew’s was in use until 1972. GREATER LONDON The red-brick building was constructed in 1834 and extended in the late-19th century and, although unlisted, is a key part of the Conservation Area. It was used from time to time by local residents Emergency Exit Arts 7 for various purposes until it fell into Rothbury Hall disrepair in the 1990s. When it emerged that Leicestershire County Council was 6 Azof Street, Greenwich, London planning to sell the site for development, Listed Grade II local residents formed an action group, which resulted in the formation of the Wellow Church Schoolroom 6 PVG: £3,000 offered November 2014 Trust which subsequently purchased the Wellow Church Schoolroom building in 2009. The Trust plans to convert The former Congregational Mission, the building into a community library, café later the East Greenwich United Newark Road, Wellow, and shop, meeting room, exhibition area, Reformed Church, was built in 1893–94 Newark, Nottingham parish council office and community activity by W T Hollands, in red brick with stone Wellow Conservation Area rooms. It was awarded an AHF grant to voussoirs, distinctive bell-cast slate assess the feasibility of these options. CSG: £934 disbursed March 2015 roofs with a central cupola and prominent stacks and finials. Emergency Exit Arts The Schoolroom was built in the mid-19th has occupied the building for some years, Sneath’s Mill Trust 5 century to serve the small village of and has been offered long-term ownership Sneath’s Mill Wellow and was given in trust to the vicar by the local authority. It creates visual and church wardens of St Swithin’s for the performances, running a core programme education of the parish children. Although of outdoor events, entertainment and Lutton Gowts, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire unlisted, it retains many of its original workshops for the local community, often Listed Grade I features. The building was previously with free events that include carnival OAG: £7,500 disbursed July 2012 rented as workshop space, but has been processions, street theatre, music and CSG: £5,000 disbursed September 2014 unused for the last three years. The Cold fireworks. It uses the building as office Spots Grant enabled the assessment of the and meeting space, workshop and This is the oldest surviving tower mill in proposal to restore the building, add toilets storage. It was offered a Project Viability Lincolnshire and possesses many unique and a small kitchen for use as educational Grant to assess the full cost of repairs features. Octagonal in section, much of space, an information centre for tourists and potential sources of funding for this the internal wooden machinery survives. and a pop-up museum for the display and valuable community resource. It originally possessed cloth sails and a interpretation of local heritage. Wellow’s boat-shaped cap which was winched into maypole on the village green generates the wind by hand. The remains of early many visitors on Maypole Day. This will 6 windmill technology are of great be a modest project but would generate significance and have contributed to its enough income to cover maintenance and listed status. Although dated to 1779, some insurance costs, however it will provide of the workings predate that. Since the mill important facilities within the village for ceased working in the 1930s it has suffered the local community and visitors alike. from a long-term lack of maintenance. In 2009 English Heritage provided a grant so that urgent maintenance could be carried 5 out to safeguard the Mill’s future. The AHF first offered a grant in 2007 before the current Trust acquired the site, and the Cold Spots Grant looked at utilising other parts of the site to create business space for creative or artisan industries, as well as improving visitor facilities.

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Stanley People’s Initiative 3 Stanley Halls

South Norwood Hill, South Norwood, London Listed Grade II; South Norwood Conservation Area PVG: £3,000 offered November 2014

Stanley Halls is a collection of buildings donated to and designed for the people of South Norwood by William Ford Robinson Stanley, a prominent local 2 inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. The art gallery and concert hall date from 1903, and were added to a few years 1 South London Fine Art 2 later as the demand for their use grew. Gallery and Library The Stanley People’s Initiative was established by members of the local Former Fire Station community to lobby the council to repair, maintain and utilise the buildings in the 78 Peckham Road, London face of potential closure in 2011. The Listed Grade II following year they were placed on the PVG: £3,000 offered May 2014 asset transfer list and a long-term lease has now been agreed. The Initiative’s The building was the first purpose-built objective is for sustainable use of the fire station in London, and possibly the Halls by making the buildings more country, dating from 1867 and heralding accessible. The AHF grant has allowed the beginning of the London Fire Brigade. it to investigate a range of suitable end It is designed in the Gothic style and uses, their value to the community and Pitzhanger Manor Trust 1 retains most of its architectural features. attraction to potential funders. Pitzhanger Manor It became redundant after being replaced by a new fire station and was offered to Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, Ealing the Gallery by a private benefactor in NORTH EAST Listed Grade I; Ealing Green February 2014, with the proviso that it Conservation Area would not be redeveloped for residential or commercial use. The South London PDG: £10,000 disbursed August 2014 Gallery was founded in 1891 to be a PDG: £7,000 disbursed February 2015 ‘gallery for the people of South London Historic Chapels Trust 4 open to the public free, and on Sundays’. It Pitzhanger Manor was built in 1770 showed a changing programme of fine and Westgate Primitive as a private residence, to the designs of applied art exhibitions and began to collect Methodist Chapel and School George Dance. It was purchased in 1800 works of art including many relating by Sir John Soane, celebrated architect to the local area. The Gallery expanded Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham and, at that time, Surveyor to the Bank into a previously derelict neighbouring Listed Grade II*; Westgate, North Pennine of England. He intended it for use as his three-storey house in 2010 and has now Area of Natural Beauty family residence and remodelled the been offered an AHF grant to explore the house extensively, creating interiors PVG: £2,475 offered September 2014 viability of extending its range of artistic which made full use of light and space, and innovative education and outreach and an advertisement for his architectural This Primitive Methodist Chapel dated work with schools and community groups style. The house, which is of international 1873 was designed by George Race Jnr, still further, into the former fire station. significance, sits within Walpole Park, and a chapels specialist. There is also an the Trust was established to take on the integral school room with a flat and house by the local authority. Its intention outbuildings adjoining which date from is to restore Soane’s architectural vision, an earlier 1820s chapel on the site. reveal Pitzhanger Manor’s rich history, It was closed for worship in 2007 and make the building more accessible, transferred to the Trust in 2009. The engage with local communities and project viability report would have create a world-class heritage attraction. focused on the re-use of the integral The AHF grants assisted in the costs school room and flat, rather than the associated with major funding chapel worship space. Nevertheless the applications, and the award of a Heritage Trust was unable to source other funds Lottery Fund grant in 2014 has allowed to undertake the feasibility work, and restoration to commence. 4 the grant has been withdrawn. GREATER LONDON • NORTH EAST

30 Tyne and Wear Building 7 Preservation Trust Jesmond Dene Banqueting Hall

Jesmond Dene Road, Jesmond Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne Listed Grade II; Jesmond Dene Conservation Area OAG: £7,450 disbursed November 2012 PDG: £3,760 disbursed April 2013 PDG: £5,000 disbursed February 2014 PDG: £6,000 offered December 2014

The Banqueting Hall sits within the public park of Jesmond Dene and was built for William Armstrong in 1860–62 by John Dobson. It is in an Italianate style, 5 constructed of rock-faced sandstone contrasted with ashlar blocks and red- brick quoins. The interior was furnished North of England Civic Trust Tyne and Wear Building 5 6 with statues and dark oak roof timbers Ushaw College Farm Preservation Trust against pale blue plaster. The gatehouse St Hilda’s Colliery Head Stock and reception rooms to the banqueting Esh, County Durham hall were constructed in 1869–70 to the Listed Grade II* South Tyneside, Newcastle upon Tyne designs of Richard Norman Shaw using Listed Grade II similar materials, though in a more gothic PVG: £2,975 disbursed December 2013 style. The roof of the Banqueting Hall PDG: £5,000 offered September 2014 CSG: £3,600 disbursed March 2015 was removed in 1978 following a failed attempt to restore the building. An options Ushaw College Farm was built in 1851–52 St Hilda’s Colliery opened in 1810, appraisal recommended a use centred on in Gothic style to the designs of Joseph and played an important role in the artists’ studios and workshops, with the Hansom to serve the nearby Ushaw development of ventilation, lighting and gate lodge being converted into offices College, founded in 1808. Exploiting the safety in British mines after a disastrous or holiday accommodation. The Trust has gradient, the farm combines references gas explosion in 1839 killed 51 miners used the AHF’s grant funding to continue to the Gothic aesthetics of the college here. An imposing three-storey structure to develop the scheme. with the practical benefits of bank barns, in red brick with ashlar dressings, the providing level access to two of its three head stock building was constructed in floors, making this an exceptional the mid-19th century. It features large, agricultural building in both its concept round-headed, iron-glazed windows and and as a model of improvement. The main an arched doorway with iron gate. To the building dominates the farmstead cluster rear of the building is a single iron head of barns, workshops and pigsties, some of stock over the former mine shaft. The mine which are listed Grade II in their own right. closed in 1940. The exterior of the building Many original features survive, including was restored in 1999, with the surrounding the dramatic cathedral-like wooden barn land becoming a light industrial estate. The roof. AHF grant funding helped the Trust building has remained primarily an empty develop the site as a training centre for its shell since then with no services provided. Heritage Skills Initiative, which will also It is now the only surviving structure from house independent craft workshops, the Colliery. The Trust used a Cold Spots accommodation for residential courses Grant to investigate the potential costs and catering facilities. of making the building useable. 7

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Dingle 2000 2 2 Toxteth Reservoir Congleton Museum Trust 1 Bradshaw House High Park Street, Liverpool Listed Grade II 21 Lawton Street, Congleton PVG: £3,000 offered January 2015 Listed Grade II; Lawton Street Conservation Area Toxteth Reservoir occupies a strategic PVG: £3,000 offered July 2014 hilltop location at the traditional municipal and civic centre of Toxteth. Its round Bradshaw House is a merchant’s town tower is a local landmark, with slits and house built in 1820, and occupies the site a corbelled top. Originally built to provide of the former home of the regicide John clean and reliable water supplies to South Bradshaw, who played an important role Liverpool, it has been unused for the last in the English Civil War. Until recently, it 25 years. Continuing water penetration was used by the local authority as a family through the grass-covered roof is causing support centre and offices. Congleton the structure and fabric to deteriorate. The 2 Museum had already identified the need roof has the potential to be converted into a to expand its space when the building garden with spectacular views. Inside it is a became available, and this use offers striking, columned space, and in acquiring Hoghton Tower Preservation Trust a major opportunity to acquire, preserve the building it is the organisation’s and interpret this historic building. An aspiration to turn it into a valuable and Stables, Coach House AHF grant has been offered to assess unique community asset, in the form of a and Livery Tower 3 the financial viability of providing an flexible, multi-purpose venue suitable for a interactive and vibrant educational facility. wide range of activities and events, such as Hoghton Tower, Nr Preston, Lancashire The Bath House which was once part of the markets, exhibitions, music, film, meetings Listed Grade I and II estate was successfully restored with AHF and other gatherings. The AHF grant will assistance (see Annual Review 2010–11). allow these options to be explored. PVG: £3,000 offered January 2015

Hoghton Tower is the ancestral home 3 of the de Hoghton family. Rebuilt in 1565 by Thomas Hoghton, this ancient, fortified, hilltop manor house occupies a commanding position. The Stables were constructed c.1616 (Grade II) and the Coach House c.1890 (Grade II). The original use of the Livery Tower, c.1565 (Grade I) is unknown but the building was later used to store tack. All are interconnected. The buildings have been left unused for many years and are in a largely very poor condition; there is the potential danger of collapse in parts. The Tower has been restored, and is open as a visitor attraction, and the Trust has been offered AHF funding to investigate the re-use of the outbuildings to add to the scheme’s visitor appeal and fundability. Hooton Park Trust 4 Hangar 1

Airfield Way, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire Listed Grade II* CSG: £5,000 offered September 2014

Hangar 1 is one of three Belfast-trussed hangars erected in 1917 for the storage and maintenance of aircraft during the First World War. Historic England describes them as ‘a rare survival of significance within the context of early powered flight’. For a brief period in the 1930s Hooton Park was the only 6 commercial aerodrome in the north of England, and when it closed in 1958, Vauxhall Motors incorporated the hangars North of England Civic Trust 5 into its factory. The Hooton Park Trust was formed in 2000 and given the freehold of Warwick Bridge Corn Mill the site along with a £1 million endowment from Vauxhall Motors. Hangar 2 has been Warwick Bridge, Carlisle, Cumbria restored and is in good condition. However, Listed Grade II* Hangar 1 had to be vacated in 2013 due to FSG: £7,000 disbursed October 2003 the deteriorating condition of the roof. The CSG: £10,000 disbursed August 2013 Trust has been offered an AHF grant to PDG: £17,750 offered March 2014 identify a suitable end use for the building LOAN: £135,000 offered March 2015 incorporating educational facilities, and in September 2014 it was awarded 5 The Mill was substantially rebuilt in 1839, a Heritage Lottery Fund Start-up Grant although part of the structure may be to boost its development. much older. It is three storeys high with SOUTH EAST a slate roof and is an unusually large example of a water-powered corn mill with a unique and complete collection of milling machinery and associated tools. It was in use until 1989. The AHF first awarded Cowes Hammerhead Crane Trust 6 grant funding over a decade ago, and when the possibility of the Trust acquiring The Cowes Cantilever the Mill arose, further grant support was Hammerhead Crane offered to re-assess the viability of the scheme. The AHF has since offered a Medina Road, West Cowes, Isle of Wight loan to acquire the property, as an option Listed Grade II* to purchase was due to expire. The completed project will not only safeguard CSG: £5,000 disbursed December 2014 the future of the mill, but will supply skills training through the Heritage Skills The Hammerhead Crane is probably Initiative and provide a series of activities the earliest example in existence beyond for the community, including an artisan the Clyde and is the only remaining 5 bakery offering courses to the public. pre-First World War hammerhead crane in England. Built in 1911, it was commissioned for shipbuilders J S White 4 and was a key element of a new fitting- out quay, as part of White’s increased capacity for the production of naval warships. The 80-ton Crane dominates EAST • SOUTH WEST NORTH the skyline and is constructed of iron and steel with a 360-degree turning circle. It has been out of use since 2004. The Trust was established in 2005 to ensure that the Crane is restored in its historic public setting. The AHF grant has allowed the Trust to put forward a strong business case to incorporate the restored Crane within a redevelopment site of residential and retail space, providing a strong identity and an enduring reminder of Cowes’ marine industrial heritage.

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2 Sheerness Dockyard 2 Preservation Trust Sheerness Dockyard Church

Garrison Road, Sheerness, Kent 3 Listed Grade II*; Sheerness Royal Naval Dockyard and Blue Conservation Area PDG: £12,800 offered March 2015 The Society of Antiquaries of London Kelmscott Manor 3 The Dockyard Church was built in 1826–28 as part of the comprehensive Kelmscott, Lechlade, Oxfordshire redevelopment of the Sheerness Royal Listed Grade I; Kelmscott Village Naval Dockyard. Designed by George Conservation Area Ledwell Taylor, Surveyor of Building to the Navy, in an austere neoclassical PDG: £5,600 offered September 2014 design with a tetrastyle Ionic portico. Located outside the dockyard wall, it was From 1871 to 1896 Kelmscott Manor deconsecrated when the dockyard closed was best known as the summer home and became a commercial port in the of the co-founder of the Arts and Crafts 1960s. It was then used variously as a movement, William Morris. Dante Gabriel squash court and youth club before a Rossetti, the Pre-Raphaelite artist, was devastating fire in 2001 left it derelict. the co-tenant from 1871–74, and other It is located next to Regency Close, whose artists visited and worked here. The site buildings were saved by the Spitalfields includes the Manor House, its garden Trust (see Annual Review 2012–13) and an important group of barns, dovecot following a campaign by SAVE Britain’s and stables. The house contains an Heritage. Both were instrumental in internationally important collection of the facilitating feasibility work, leading to possessions and works of Morris and his the formation of a dedicated building associates, including furniture, textiles, preservation trust. In parallel, Swale carpets and ceramics. The estate is open Borough Council initiated a Repairs Notice to visitors selectively, but the Society would leading to a Compulsory Purchase Order, like to increase numbers substantially, allowing the building’s acquisition. The offering wider educational benefits but restoration will provide room for small without compromising the historic business units and a flexible events space, elements. The key to this is finding a viable combined with a visitor attraction. The re-use for some of the former agricultural 1 building is a focal point in the historic but structures surrounding the main house. run-down Blue Town area of Sheerness, The Society has therefore been offered with the potential for a catalytic effect an AHF grant to undertake development Romsey and District Buildings 1 on the regeneration of the area. work to facilitate capital funding bids. Preservation Trust

Former Latimer News 2

5 Latimer Street, Romsey, Hampshire Romsey Town Conservation Area PDG: £7,000 disbursed October 2014

Although unlisted, 5 Latimer Street is part of a prominent block of 18th- century buildings, situated within the Conservation Area in the centre of Romsey. A shopfront was added in the 19th century, with the first floor being used as residential accommodation until the late 1990s. The Trust, which has an enduring track record of restoring properties locally, intends to redress any inappropriate interventions and enhance the building’s external appearance and reinstate the living accommodation above the restored retail unit as an example to other shop owners. An AHF grant has allowed the funding of architectural work as part of the development process, and when completed, the scheme will significantly enhance the streetscape. SOUTH EAST

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Bristol Building Preservation Trust Clevedon Pier and Heritage Trust Lower Lodge 5 Clevedon Pier 6

Ashton Court, Ashton Road, Bristol Clevedon, North West Somerset Listed Grade II*; Lower Ashton Listed Grade I; Clevedon Conservation Area Conservation Area OAG: £5,995 disbursed March 2010 LOAN: £400,000 offered September 2014 PDG: £7,500 disbursed March 2010 CFG: £164,000 offered December 2012 Clevedon Pier was the UK’s ‘Pier of the CFG: £36,000 offered June 2014 Year’ in 2013 and is the only intact Grade I LOAN: £35,000 offered March 2015 listed pier in the country. Opening 364 days a year, it maintains a Victorian Lower Lodge was originally an outbuilding elegance and is located at the northern on the Ashton Estate, built in 1805 for end of Clevedon seafront, overlooking the Sir John Hugh Smyth and designed by Bristol Channel. It is 980 feet long and Humphrey Repton. It is of limestone has to withstand a tidal rise and fall of 46 ashlar, battlemented in Tudor style. feet twice daily. The Pier costs £1 million There are three useable rooms, but it was every decade to maintain, and the Trust is probably never inhabited full-time. It has seeking to increase its revenue-generating been unoccupied for 50 years and a partial capability so that it can create an annual 4 roof collapse has caused severe structural surplus sufficient to meet these costs. To movement. Ashton Park School was built achieve this, an AHF loan has been offered in the estate grounds, although the original to help to develop a range of facilities to SOUTH WEST house still stands. The Trust was offered include a new visitor centre with tearoom, a long lease and has been developing community space, observation deck and a scheme over a number of years. It is expanded gift area. working with the school and Bedminster Community Neighbourhood Partnership, Bath YMCA 4 which will provide a long-term solution The Old Police Headquarters for the re-use of the building as a ‘gateway heritage hub’ and meeting space for use (former CID Building) by the school and the local community. This will include a learning, educational Bridewell Street, Bristol and interpretation component. A Challenge Listed Grade II Fund Grant was offered toward the capital PDG: £10,000 offered June 2014 costs, and most recently, a loan to bridge a funding gap and provide working capital. 6 Built in 1928, it was designed by Ivor Jones and Percy Thomas as the Police Headquarters of the Bristol City Constabulary, and from 1975–2000 was used as the CID headquarters for Avon and Somerset Police. There are four listed buildings on the site, with the others being restored by Creative Youth Network (see p.36). Bath YMCA intends to convert the building into a 100-bed backpackers’ hostel, with nine bed spaces for vulnerable youngsters at risk from homelessness. It has a strong relationship with Creative Youth Network and its tenant organisations, which offer a range of youth support, creative services and activities. Having acquired the building in 2013, WEST SOUTH the YMCA has been offered an AHF grant to undertake professional development work. The project has recently been offered a Heritage Lottery Fund Heritage Enterprise Grant first-round pass. 5

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Creative Youth Network 1 Old Police Station

Nelson Street, Bristol Listed Grade II PVG: £3,000 disbursed June 2014 PDG: £10,000 offered June 2014

‘Bridewell Island’ is an iconic triangular site constructed around a central courtyard in the middle of Bristol housing the city’s fire station, police headquarters and magistrates court. The buildings became redundant over time and Creative Youth Network acquired the former fire station in 2011, restoring it as a base for its activities. The organisation provides 2 opportunities for young people from socially, financially and culturally disadvantaged areas to develop personal Grenville Manorhouse 2 Llanthony Secunda Priory Trust 3 and creative skills, improving life chances Buildings Preservation Trust and supporting reintegration into Medieval Range education, family and social networks. 1–3 Bridge Street (Place House) and Farmhouse In early 2014 it purchased the magistrates court which was in poor condition, having Bideford, Devon Llanthony Secunda Priory, been empty since 1965, and the police Listed Grade II; Bideford Llanthony Road, Gloucester station which was wind and watertight Conservation Area Listed Grade I; Scheduled Ancient and is now in partial short-term use as PVG: £2,400 disbursed December 2014 Monument; Gloucester Docks art studio space and a creative centre. Conservation Area AHF grant funding has allowed a number 1–3 Bridge Street is located in the CFG: £101,070 offered March 2015 of development costs to be met in historic core of Bideford. Recent research advance of capital funding bids to enable has found that it was the birthplace Llanthony Secunda Priory is a site of the organisation to restore the building of Sir Richard Grenville (1542–91) who national significance near the centre and expand its activities. participated in the fight against the of Gloucester. Many of Llanthony’s Spanish Armada. The three buildings, buildings were badly damaged in the which are interconnected, are currently Siege of Monmouth and most had been empty. Once the Royal Mail sorting office demolished by the end of the 17th and most recently a public house, it has century, when the site became a family been established that the building is on farm. The six surviving Grade I listed the site of, and possibly contains parts structures comprise the remains of of, the original Manor House of Bideford, the lay buildings of the Priory, with the owned by the Grenville family since 1189. medieval range and adjoining farmhouse Given the significance of this discovery at the heart. It was further threatened for the town of Bideford, a new Trust has in the 19th century by expanding industry, been established to secure ownership but despite being used as a scrap yard of the building and develop a viable future and lorry depot, the site survived. for it. The Trust was offered an AHF Gloucester City Council acquired the grant to undertake market research Priory in 1974, and following discussions and feasibility planning to develop the with English Heritage, transferred the project for use as a community hub site to a new Trust. In November 2013 the 1 and heritage learning centre. Trust secured a Heritage Lottery Fund first-round pass, with the Challenge Fund Grant offered by the AHF representing 3 a significant proportion of the match- funding required for the capital funding stage. This will bring the site back to life with a landscaped area for use by the public and a programme of community events and learning opportunities in a new interpretation centre. A permanent educational facility will be provided in the medieval range and leased to neighbouring Gloucester College. SOUTH WEST

36 Swanage Pier Trust 5 Marine Villas

Pier Approach, Swanage Listed Grade II; Swanage Conservation Area PDG: £15,000 offered March 2015

Marine Villas were built in 1825 by 4 William Morton Pitt as baths, billiard and 5 coffee rooms. They were subsequently remodelled as three villas in Regency Stroudwater Textile Trust 4 style, and are on two storeys, with 7 rendered walls and low-pitched slate Longfords Old Mill roofs. The buildings predate the construction of Swanage Pier, but were Avening Road, Minchinhampton, incorporated into the entrance of the site. Stroud, Gloucestershire The original Swanage Pier was constructed Listed Grade II*; Longfords Mill in 1859 for the transport of coal, timber Conservation Area and Purbeck stone. However, with CSG: £7,395 disbursed December 2013 increased traffic following the introduction PDG: £10,000 offered June 2014 of a steamer service, the current pier was built alongside in 1895. As well as the Pier There has been a mill on the site since having listed status, the sea bed beneath the Middle Ages and Longford’s Mill dates it is also of significant interest, containing from around 1760: a stone-built, four- several protected marine wreck sites. storey structure, constructed as an The Trust wants to develop the whole site ‘estate mill’. However, its most profitable into a visitor attraction and educational use was as a textile mill which supplied resource. A major role of the new centre high-quality cloth for military use. The will be to increase community engagement Totnes Community 7 Mill closed in 1990 and the surrounding in protecting the coastline and marine Development Society site has been redeveloped as housing, environment. An AHF grant has been The Pumping Station although the developer has maintained the offered to assess financial viability and Mill, carrying out exterior and stonework a Heritage Lottery Fund first-round pass Babbage Road, Totnes, Devon repairs. A long lease at a peppercorn has been awarded. rent has been offered to the Trust and Listed Grade II an AHF-funded options appraisal study CSG: £5,000 disbursed February 2015 recommended re-use as an education Tolpuddle Old Chapel Trust 6 CSG: £7,600 offered March 2015 centre, demonstrating the manufacture PDG: £7,400 offered March 2015 of woollen clothing in the former industrial Old Methodist Chapel ‘Five Valleys’ area around Stroud. Further The Atmospheric Railway pumping house Dorchester Road, Tolpuddle, Dorset AHF-funded development work is now was built in 1848 for the South Devon being undertaken in advance of funding PVG: £3,000 disbursed August 2014 Railway by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It applications to take the project forward. PDG: £12,000 offered March 2015 comprises the pumping engine house and boiler house, sitting beside the railway line This former Methodist Chapel, built in 1818, at the east end of Totnes station. However, is important because of its association the building was never commissioned due with the Tolpuddle Martyrs, at least four to the failure of the Atmospheric Railway, of whom used it as a place of worship. and has been used throughout its history The building may well have been in use for food production and storage. It has as a chapel until 1863, but for most of its been vacant for the last eight years and existence it has been used for agricultural is now in a dilapidated state. An Industrial purposes. It is a modest single-cell & Provident Society for Community Benefit building constructed with cob walls and was established in 2012 and the Society a clay-tiled roof, and is thought to be little is planning to submit a Community Right 4 altered from the 1830s. The Tolpuddle to Build Order for the land adjacent to Martyrs Festival and Rally annually the building. Part of the Neighbourhood attracts up to 10,000 visitors to the Planning regulations of the Localism Act village, and the Trust intends to bring the 2011, this enables communities to secure building back into use as a flexible space planning permission for new homes offering a facility for activities and events through a local referendum. The Society’s for the community and visitors. It received proposal is to restore the building as a WEST SOUTH AHF assistance to help demonstrate mixed-use venue to promote local produce. that the scheme would be viable and also It will accommodate a restaurant, flexible to prepare an application to the Heritage space for food markets, conferences, live Lottery Fund who have since offered a music, a micro-brewery, bar and office 6 Start-up Grant to boost its development. accommodation.

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Friends of Ingestre Orangery 3 Ingestre Hall Orangery

Ingestre, Staffordshire Listed Grade II OAG: £3,393 disbursed January 2013 PDG: £4,899 disbursed January 2014 PDG: £5,000 offered September 2014

Ingestre Hall was built in 1613 by Sir Walter Chetwynd. His grandson, another WEST MIDLANDS Walter Chetwynd, commissioned the nearby Ingestre Church, designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1676. Ingestre Orangery was added to the estate in 1770, built by Samuel and Joseph Wyatt to the Charterhouse Coventry 2 designs of James ‘Athenian’ Stuart. Preservation Trust It is south-facing, with a temple structure at both ends and a Doric colonnade. The Charterhouse It was subsequently incorporated into the landscaping scheme of ‘Capability’ London Road, Coventry Brown. The estate was broken up in 1959 Listed Grade I; London Road and the Orangery inherited by Sandwell Conservation Area Metropolitan Borough Council. While various owners have maintained the OAG: £7,500 disbursed June 2013 building to a minimum standard, it was PDG: £12,000 disbursed December 2014 unused and in poor condition. An 2 PDG: £7,000 offered December 2014 AHF-funded options appraisal study demonstrated that community use for The Charterhouse incorporates all that a building designed for plants rather UK Youth 1 remains of the Carthusian Priory of St than people was financially viable, and Anne, founded in 1381 by William Lord Avon Tyrell the Friends intend to create a heritage, Zouche of Harringworth on a 14-acre site. community and arts centre. Local The surviving range is believed to have Braggers Lane, Bransgore, volunteers have been active in clearing been the Prior’s cell and the monks’ Christchurch, Dorset the surrounding grounds of undergrowth, refectory. It is constructed of local Listed Grade I; New Forest National Park and there is sufficient space for outdoor sandstone, with a timber-framed upper Conservation Area events, access and car parking. Strong storey of 16th-century construction. The links have been established with other PVG: £2,540 disbursed January 2015 building has been altered and extended community groups on the former estate, many times throughout its life, with and further grant funding has been offered Completed in 1891, Avon Tyrell is an a two-storey Victorian house the most to continue developing the scheme. Arts and Crafts building designed by W R obvious addition. It is situated close to the Lethaby as a family seat for Lord Manners. centre of modern-day Coventry and was The house was requisitioned by the army used as a private residence between the during the Second World War as an Dissolution and 1940, when it was gifted intelligence gathering post and hospital; to the community as part of the Wyley the family never moved back in. In 1949 Bequest. The Prior’s House was occupied Lord Manners donated Avon Tyrrell to the for many years by Coventry City College, ‘Youth of the Nation’. It is currently used but the building was deemed surplus by around 20,000 young people and to requirements in 2010 and ownership members of the local community for was subsequently passed to the Trust. numerous activities, holidays and training It considers that there is huge potential courses. AHF funding was offered to in the opening out of this little-known investigate the viability of various options amenity to the community as a whole, to boost the future use of the property. and has ambitious plans to regenerate This dealt with the technical issues of an significant areas to the west of the city. appropriate programme of restoration, An AHF Project Development Grant has but included a robust financial assessment allowed the Trust to employ an architect to allow the organisation to make an and project organiser as it continues informed decision about its next steps. to develop the scheme. 3 SOUTH WEST • WEST MIDLANDS

38 Ledbury and District Society Trust Ruskin Mill Land Trust 7 The ‘Ledbury Places’ 4 The Standard Works

Six buildings in Ledbury, Herefordshire Vittoria Street, Birmingham Listed Grade I, II* and II; Ledbury 4 Listed Grade II; Jewellery Quarter Conservation Area Conservation Area PDG: £9,000 disbursed November 2014 CSG: £5,000 offered September 2014

The Ledbury Civic Society is at the core The Standard Works has a handsome of a wider strategic partnership to acquire curved three-storey façade which is six listed buildings that make up a huge a prominent feature in the heart of the part of the heritage of Ledbury, renovate Jewellery Quarter Conservation Area. and find viable new uses for them. Other The building was designed by Thomas agencies involved are the Town Council, F Williams and completed in 1880. It is an County Council, the Barrett Browning important early example of a large factory Institute and the Ledbury Area designed for multiple occupancy, originally Development Trust. The initiative has 4 containing 15 separate units. By 1900 the been supported as a pilot scheme for building was in use as one factory, the asset transfer by Locality and in principle ‘Standard Works’ of D & L Spiers Limited, agreement has been made to transfer Moseley Muslim 6 silversmiths. Most recently, it has reverted ownership of the buildings to a new charity Community Association back to use by a number of trades. The which came into existence following the Former Moseley School of Art Trust specialises in developing heritage AHF grant award. The Trust received a buildings into award-winning educational grant for development funding from Social and cultural centres for young people Investment Business, and an AHF Project 496 Moseley Road, with learning difficulties and disabilities. Development Grant to employ a project Balsall Heath, Birmingham It wishes to provide a variety of end uses organiser to work on public consultation, Listed Grade II* revolving around socially inclusive market research and identification of OAG: £7,500 disbursed February 2014 education using practical skills training other capital funding sources. PDG: £10,000 disbursed February 2015 and has received a grant from the Education Funding Agency to acquire Moseley School of Art was the first the building. It was subsequently offered 5 purpose-built branch of the Birmingham an AHF Cold Spots Grant to undertake Municipal School of Art. It was erected a professional assessment in advance in 1899 to the design of the leading local of further capital funding bids. architect, William Bidlake, who used Roman classical orders in an inventive Arts and Crafts manner. The Moseley Muslim 7 Community Association bought the building in 1984 when it had been empty for some years. Although the building was not derelict, much of it was unused, the roof leaked, and the windows were Ludlow and District 5 rotting. An AHF grant was offered so that Community Association the Association could investigate possible uses by the wider community, ensuring The Assembly Rooms a financially viable future in conjunction with other funders. The proposals include Ludlow, Shropshire a ground floor gallery for local artists, Listed Grade II; Ludlow Conservation Area community-led workshops and events PVG: £2,700 disbursed December 2014 and office accommodation for small local businesses. A Heritage Lottery Fund Built in 1840 as an Assembly Rooms first-round pass has been secured to and Museum by public subscription, the prepare a bid for capital repairs. building occupies a significant position in Ludlow on the corner of Castle Square. The first and second floors of the building 6 were renovated in 1993 as an arts and community centre by the Association and it has operated successfully since then. However in 2012, negotiations with Shropshire Council to acquire the ground floor began, leading to a full Community Asset Transfer. The Association received a grant from Social Investment Business to pay for professional fees and AHF funding to undertake a financial viability assessment. 6

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Abbot’s Staithe Heritage Trust 3 Abbot’s Staithe

Selby, North Yorkshire Listed Grade II*; Selby Conservation Area PVG: £1,900 disbursed February 2015 2 Built in the 15th or early 16th century, this two-storey building was constructed Stratford Historic Buildings Trust 1 as a warehouse for Selby Abbey. It was in continual use as a warehouse until 1995, The Old Toll House but has deteriorated since then and is now in poor condition. The newly formed Trust Clopton Bridge, Bridgefoot, hopes to provide a range of community Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire services from the building, including local Listed Grade I; Stratford-upon-Avon archive resource, community space, home Conservation Area to the town’s non-profit community cinema, 3 OAG: £4,750 disbursed May 2013 commercial spaces, heritage centre, PDG: £5,000 disbursed October 2014 museum and café. An AHF-funded viability PDG: £8,000 offered December 2014 report was commissioned to match the Urban Vision North Staffordshire 2 available spaces to their preferred uses, The Toll House was constructed in stone Carnegie Building assess the building’s condition and outline costs for conservation, restoration and in 1814 and attached to the 15th-century (Fenton Library) planned alterations. Further research into Clopton Bridge when it was widened. the history and uses of the building over The 10-sided Toll House did not generate Baker Street, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent the years was also included as part of this sufficient income and by 1820 it had fallen Albert Square Conservation Area work. This will now be used as the basis for into disrepair with tolls no longer levied further development in advance of major after 1839. James Cox moved his wood PVG: £2,975 disbursed March 2015 funding bids. yard to the adjacent site and rented the Toll House for use as an office. It has The Carnegie Building was built on been empty for 20 years, and although land donated by prominent local potter Manningham Mills 4 the owners, Stratford District Council, William Meath Baker, and opened in 1906 Community Association have made it watertight, the roof has only to provide local people with a free library been temporarily repaired and external and education centre. It is a substantial Buildings 16 and 19 stonework to the road frontage is in poor Edwardian building which forms part Manningham Mills condition. Inside plaster ceilings and walls of Fenton’s historic core. The Fenton are deteriorating and the first floor is Community Association has applied Beamsley Road, Bradford missing. The basement was constructed successfully for the building to be listed Listed Grade II*; Lister Mill to flood when the river reaches high levels as an Asset of Community Value, and Conservation Area so could not be used for anything other the City Council accepted Urban Vision’s than occasional storage. The Trust carried Expression of Interest towards potential CSG: £5,000 offered July 2014 out an AHF-funded options appraisal acquisition. It intends to acquire the which determined that the building has building on behalf of the local community Building 19 is a large warehouse on a sustainable future as a community and bring it back into productive use as three floors. The roof structure is highly resource, and has been offered further part of a community arts hub and a unusual and held up by laminated timber grants to develop the scheme for major location for micro-businesses and social beams. Building 16 was constructed in funders’ requirements. Historic England enterprise. The group has been offered 1887 on three storeys, with a fourth floor has awarded a development grant, and an AHF grant to allow it to undertake initial added in the 1920s; both the buildings are the Heritage Lottery Fund, a first-round appraisal of the building’s condition and in extremely poor condition with roofs and Heritage Enterprise Grant towards potential restoration and adaptation costs. floors in a state of collapse. The site was the project. The report will support the development acquired for housing and has been partially of the project and potential funding bids. redeveloped, however, finance to complete RKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER

O the works is not available. A condition Y 1 survey was funded by English Heritage in 4 2013, and further development funding has been offered by the AHF to establish how the buildings can be restored and re-used. It is considered that they would be best suited for use as start-up and incubator business units which would provide valuable workspace, whilst celebrating their important industrial heritage. WEST MIDLANDS •

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Alton Building Preservation Trust 5 Arkwright Society 6 Bridport Area Development Trust 7 Westbrook House Buildings 14–16 Literary and Scientific Institute 76 High Street, Alton, Hampshire Sir Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mills, 51 East Street, Bridport, Dorset Listed Grade II*; Alton Conservation Area Mill Lane, Cromford, Derbyshire Listed Grade II*; Bridport Conservation Area Listed Grade I; Cromford and Derwent OAG: £3,000 disbursed June 2014 CFG: £200,000 offered June 2012 Valley Mills World Heritage Site CSG: £10,000 disbursed August 2014 Argos Hill Windmill Trust LOAN: £60,000 repaid February 1994 LOAN: £107,000 repaid May 1995 Bridport Area Development Trust Argos Hill Windmill CSG: £5,000 offered October 2012 Argos Lane, Argos Hill, Kent Methodist Church Listed Grade II* Axminster Heritage West Bay, Bridport, Dorset Listed Grade II; West Bay Conservation Area CSG: £2,386 disbursed March 2015 Thomas Whitty House CFG: £23,000 offered March 2014 OAG: £1,500 disbursed March 2013 Silver Street, Axminster, Devon PDG: £4,550 offered March 2013 Listed Grade II Arkwright Society LOAN: £25,000 withdrawn October 2013 Cleveland Pools Trust 8 Building 17 CSG: £8,030 disbursed March 2015 Sir Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mills, Cleveland Baths Mill Lane, Cromford, Derbyshire Beckery Island Regeneration Trust Hampton Row, Bathwick, Bath Listed Grade I; Cromford and Derwent Listed Grade II*; Bath Conservation Area; Valley Mills World Heritage Site Baily’s West World Heritage Site Beckery Old Road, Glastonbury, Somerset PDG: £25,000 disbursed September 2010 OAG: £7,445 disbursed May 2006 Listed Grade II LOAN: £450,000 offered September 2011 PDG: £5,000 offered June 2013 CSG: £2,800 disbursed August 2014 Arkwright Society East Street Arts Buildings 1, 7, 8 and 9 Benington Community Heritage Trust St Patrick’s Church Sir Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mills, All Saints Church Rider Street, Leeds Mill Lane, Cromford, Derbyshire Main Road, Benington, Boston, Lincolnshire Listed Grade II Listed Grade I; Cromford and Derwent Listed Grade I PVG: £2,992 disbursed July 2014 Valley Mills World Heritage Site OAG: £7,500 disbursed May 2012 CSG: £5,000 disbursed October 2011 CFG: £200,000 offered December 2012 OAG: £7,500 disbursed March 2012 PDG: £12,500 offered March 2012 Continued overleaf

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Other projects supported in 2014–15 (continued)

Friends of Trowbridge Museum Courtfield House Polebarn Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire Listed Grade II*; Polebarn Road Conservation Area PVG: £2,385 disbursed August 2014

Gainsborough Community Theatre 4 Old Nick Theatre Spring Gardens, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire Listed Grade II; Britannia Works Conservation Area CSG: £4,225 disbursed September 2014

Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust Grimsby Ice Factory Gorton Street, Grimsby, Lincolnshire Listed Grade II* 1 2 CSG: £3,780 disbursed September 2012 OAG: £7,500 disbursed May 2013 Making the Most of Martock Old Library Arts Centre Acton CSG: £5,000 withdrawn March 2015 The Rope Walk Former Public Library Hastings Pier Charity Parrett Works, Martock, Somerset High Street, Acton Hastings Pier Listed Grade II Listed Grade II; Acton Town Centre Conservation Area White Rock, Hastings, East Sussex CSG: £2,950 disbursed January 2014 Listed Grade II; White Rock CSG: £5,000 disbursed February 2015 PVG: £3,000 disbursed August 2014 Conservation Area Merseyside Buildings Open Hand Open Space 2 PDG: £13,367 disbursed May 2013 Preservation Trust (Western Bandstand Pavilion only) The Keep DEVELOPMENT LOAN: £50,000 Welsh Presbyterian Church 571 Oxford Road, Reading contracted April 2013 Princes Road, Toxteth, Liverpool Listed Grade II LOAN: £350,000 contracted October 2014 Listed Grade II; Princes Road PVG: £2,900 offered October 2013 Conservation Area Holbeach Cemetery Chapels OAG: £5,000 disbursed February 2015 Oxford Preservation Trust Holbeach Cemetery Chapels LMS Railway Swing Bridge Park Road, Holbeach, Lincolnshire Murston All Saints Trust 1 Rewley Road, Oxford Listed Category II; Holbeach Murston All Saints Old Church Conservation Area Scheduled Ancient Monument Church Road, Murston, Kent OAG: £4,000 disbursed January 2015 CSG: £3,000 disbursed December 2014 Scheduled Ancient Monument King Edward Mine Ltd OAG: £3,000 disbursed March 2015 Paignton Picture House Trust Paignton Picture House King Edward Mine National Trust Torbay Road, Paignton, Devon Assay Office Complex, Troon, Hinemihi Camborne, Cornwall Listed Grade II* Listed Grade II* Clandon House, Surrey OAG: £7,500 disbursed October 2012 Listed Grade II CFG: £200,000 offered December 2012 (to Devon Historic Buildings Trust) PVG: £2,900 disbursed May 2014 PDG: £5,400 disbursed September 2014 Leigh Building Preservation Trust North Halifax Buildings Prince’s Regeneration Trust Leigh Spinners’ Mill Preservation Trust (United Kingdom Historic Building Park Lane, Leigh, Lancashire Preservation Trust) Listed Grade II* Illingworth Gaol and Stocks 121 Keighley Road, Illingworth, Halifax The Wedgwood Institute CSG: £5,000 disbursed December 2014 Listed Grade II* Queen Street, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent Listed Grade II*; Burslem Conservation Area PVG: £2,875 disbursed May 2014 PDG: 3,750 disbursed May 2014

42 Sudbury Gasworks Restoration Trust West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust The Old Gasworks Lye and Wollescote School Lane, Sudbury, Derbyshire Cemetery Chapels Listed Grade II; Sudbury Conservation Area Cemetery Road, Lye, West Midlands CSG: £5,000 disbursed October 2014 Listed Grade II OAG: £5,275 disbursed July 2007 Torr Vale Mill Preservation Trust RPDG: £12,255 disbursed September 2008 3 Torr Vale Mill CBG: £6,890 disbursed May 2008 PAG: £2,890 disbursed September 2012 Torr Vale Road, New Mills, PDG: £12,255 disbursed September 2008 High Peak, Derbyshire POG: £15,000 disbursed January 2009 Providence Chapel Charlwood Trust 3 Listed Grade II*; New Mills LOAN £350,000 withdrawn January 2011 Providence Chapel Conservation Area LOAN: £120,000 offered June 2013 Charlwood, Surrey CSG: £10,000 disbursed January 2015 Listed Grade II* Worcester Building Preservation Trust PVG: £3,000 disbursed July 2014 Transition Town Totnes 5 Weavers’ Cottages Birdwood House 20, 21 and 22 Horsefair, Kidderminster, Queen Street School 4 44 High Street, Totnes, Devon Worcestershire Preservation Trust Listed Grade II; Totnes Conservation Area Listed Grade II Salvation Army Citadel PVG: £2,950 disbursed September 2014 PDG: £4,850 disbursed January 2012 CSG: £9,875 offered November 2012 Queen Street, Barton-upon-Humber, LOAN: £308,500 offered December 2013 North Lincolnshire Turner’s House Trust (formerly CSG: £3,065 offered January 2014 Listed Grade II; Barton-upon-Humber Sandycombe Lodge Trust) LOAN: £12,000 offered April 2014 Conservation Area Sandycombe Lodge PVG: £2,470 disbursed November 2014 40 Sandycombe Road, Wymering Manor Trust 7 Twickenham, Middlesex The Reader Organisation Wymering Manor Listed Grade II*; Cambridge Park The Mansion House, Coach Conservation Area Old Wymering Lane, Wymering, Portsmouth, Hampshire House and Stable Courtyard OAG: £7,400 disbursed June 2012 Listed Grade II*; Old Wymering PDG: Calderstones Park, Liverpool £15,000 disbursed March 2014 Conservation Area CFG: £141,000 offered March 2013 Listed Grade II OAG: £7,500 offered June 2013 PDG: £10,000 disbursed October 2014 Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust Rokpa Trust Buddle Arts Centre Londesborough Lodge 258 Station Road, Wallsend The Crescent, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Listed Grade II Listed Grade II; Scarborough Conservation Area PVG: £2,700 disbursed December 2014 PVG: £3,000 disbursed May 2014 West Midlands Historic 6 Buildings Trust The Shrewsbury and Newport Canals Trust Foster, Rastrick and Co Foundry Wappenshall Warehouse Lowndes Road, Strourbridge, West Midlands Listed Grade II*/II; Stourbridge Branch 7 and Wharf Canal Conservation Area (part) Wappenshall, Telford, Shropshire OAG: £8,458 disbursed April 2011 Listed Grade II CSG: £6,700 offered December 2012 LOAN: £395,000 withdrawn February 2009 OAG: £7,500 disbursed March 2012 PDG: £7,500 disbursed March 2014 CSG: £5,000 disbursed October 2014

South Tynedale Railway Preservation Society Station House The Railway Station, Alston, Cumbria Listed Grade II; Alston Conservation Area PVG: £3,000 disbursed November 2013 6 5 CSG: £5,000 disbursed November 2014

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Hearth Revolving Fund 1 Portaferry and Strangford Trust 2 1 Riddle’s Warehouse 22–24 Ferry Street

Ann Street, Belfast Portadown, County Down Listed Category B Listed Category B PVG: £2,800 offered July 2014 PVG: £2,060 offered July 2014

This substantial four-storey brick and 22–24 Ferry Street was constructed in stone warehouse with extensive cast iron 1800–19 as a two-storey house on the galleries was built in 1865–67 by Thomas main road. A shopfront was added in the Jackson & Son for John Riddel, late-19th century, although many original ironmongers. When the firm moved out features remain. It was originally part of the building was acquired by the Royal a terrace of four houses, but the adjoining Ulster Constabulary to provide protection dwellings have since been demolished to the adjacent central police station. It has and it is now detached from other effectively been mothballed and hardly properties. It was in use until 1994 but used ever since, but has escaped serious has deteriorated since then. The Trust not damage and retains many of its original only restores buildings, but also develops features. It is hoped to restore the local maritime heritage, and the building building for use as a visual arts centre to forms part of the route to the historic enhance the city’s burgeoning arts scene, quayside. It has been negotiating with the with commercial uses such as a café, owner and has identified much-needed art shop and design studios providing social housing as being the possible end additional facilities. An AHF grant will use for the building. An AHF-funded allow Hearth to establish whether its viability report will allow it to test this 2 plans are viable financially. use against appropriate alternatives.

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Campbeltown Community Business Clan MacAllister Charitable Trust 5 The Picture House 4 Glenbarr Abbey

26 Hall Street, Campbeltown, Glenbarr, Argyll and Bute Argyll and Bute Listed Category B Listed Category A; Campbeltown PVG: £3,000 offered December 2014 Conservation Area PDG: £7,500 disbursed April 2014 Barr House was built in the early 1700s by PDG: £7,500 offered September 2014 the 1st Laird of Glenbarr. It was extended in 1815 in Gothic revival style to become 3 Sitting in a prominent position on the Glenbarr Abbey by the architect James waterfront, the Picture House is the oldest Gillespie Graham. It became the family continuously run, purpose-built cinema home of the MacAlisters of Glenbarr Ailsa Horizons 3 in Scotland still showing films. The in 1896. In 1986 the late 5th Laird gifted Former Davidson Hospital cinema celebrated its centenary in 2013 the property and 26 acres to the Clan and has been community-owned and run MacAlister Charitable Trust. The Trust The Avenue, Girvan, South Ayrshire since 1987. Designed by Albert V Gardner, wishes to provide a sustainable business Listed Category B; Girvan its Glasgow School, Art Nouveau design model for the Estate, and has been Conservation Area is unique. In the 1930s Gardner updated offered a grant towards the costs of the building with an ‘atmospheric’ interior, exploring the feasibility of utilising some PVG: £2,910 disbursed October 2013 including the ‘wee houses’ either side of the unused buildings to provide a new PDG: £10,000 disbursed February 2015 of the screen. Campbeltown Community function suite, expand the current bed Business are working on a project to and breakfast business and to look at the The former Davidson Cottage Hospital repair, conserve and upgrade the building, possibility of offering nature and adventure opened in 1922 and served the community incorporating an empty annex to create trails. The Trust is also applying for of Girvan and the surrounding areas for a larger foyer and café, and add a second Museum Accreditation for its collections almost 88 years, until a new hospital screen at the rear with an exhibition and plans to widen access and education replaced it in 2010. The building was area to show original artefacts from the opportunities for the local community. designed by John Watson and built in the cinema and the MacGrory Photographic Scots Renaissance style in Auchenleath Collection. AHF funding has enabled stone. It features a central one-and-a- the employment of a project organiser half-storey, three-bay block and includes to manage further funding applications a front door with moulded architraves, and develop a revised business plan bracketed name panel, scrolls and broken to demonstrate how these improvements pediment. The three upper-floor dormer would lead to a viable long-term windows sit above the front door with sustainable use. This has led to the group sloped gables, and the building has two securing almost all the funding required symmetrical single-storey wings facing in order to start capital works on site. the street with semi-circular outer bays. AHF funding has enabled Ailsa Horizons to establish the viability of the building as 4 an enterprise incubation centre and also to support the project organiser in helping the organisation to acquire the building and to achieve a successful first-round pass from the Heritage Lottery Fund Heritage Enterprise scheme. A second-round application has now been submitted. 4

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Dunoon Burgh Hall Trust 3 The Burgh Hall

195 Argyll Street, Dunoon, Argyll Listed Category B 2 OAG: £7,500 disbursed January 2008 (to Strathclyde BPT) PDG: £15,000 disbursed March 2012 Covesea Lighthouse 2 PDG: £7,500 disbursed January 2013 Community Company LOAN: £175,000 offered June 2014 Covesea Lighthouse Steading Dunoon Burgh Hall was designed in the Scots Baronial style and opened in 1874 Lossiemouth, Highland to celebrate the conferring of Burgh Listed Category A status on the town. The upper floors PDG: £15,000 offered March 2015 were closed in the 1980s and Argyll and Bute Council occupied offices on the The complex of lighthouse, keepers’ ground floor before selling to a housing cottages, steading and well were built association in 1993. The Hall was c.1844 to the designs of Alan Stevenson, transferred to another registered social a member of the famous ‘Lighthouse landlord in 2001, but proposals to convert Stevensons’ family. The steading is a long, the building to residential use failed in 1 single-storey stone building with a fine the face of local opposition. In 2008 it was open-arched cart bay, five doorways to transferred to the John McAslan Family independent cells and a slate hipped roof Trust, which funded emergency works Cowane’s Hospital Maintenance Trust with a long, central ridge. Although plain to eradicate dry rot and make it wind and Cowane’s Hospital 1 in design, the detailing, stonemasonry watertight. Windows were re-glazed and and finish suggests high standards of a Friends room decorated and fitted out, 49 St John’s Street, Stirling craftsmanship. It was originally intended allowing the building to take on temporary Listed Category A; Stirling Old Town to be converted into an airbase viewing uses. The building was transferred to the Conservation Area facility, however, further research Dunoon Burgh Hall Trust in 2013. The highlighted the unusually unaltered and plan is for the Burgh Hall to become a PDG: £15,000 offered December 2013 rare survival of the building. Instead, the community-run arts and cultural venue PDG: £10,000 offered December 2014 viewing facility and a school education with some office accommodation and centre will be constructed nearby and the a café and bar on the ground floor. The John Cowane was a wealthy Stirling steading will be restored to its original Trust has concentrated on getting the merchant whose ‘deadbed’ wish was to layout and detail to provide an additional building fit for use, attracting audiences use 40,000 merks to build ‘ane hospitall heritage attraction for visitors, using and demonstrating that there is sufficient or almshous’. The building was duly built individual rooms to tell different parts demand for cultural activities. The capital between 1637 and 1649 by the architect of the keepers’ stories. phase of the works is now underway. John Mylne and master mason James Rynd. It is on an ‘E’ plan on two storeys with crow-stepped gables and a central 1 four-storey tower with a statue of Cowane in a niche. Cowane’s Hospital Maintenance Trust was formed to take on the responsibility of looking after the hospital as it was felt the responsibility was at a tangent to the previous owner’s main activities. The project proposes all appropriate building conservation and alterations to include a small permanent exhibition telling Stirling’s story through the archive, some restored and recreated historic rooms including the original hospital kitchen and bedroom, a revitalised main hall providing the focus for a comprehensive and varied programme of events, activities and sessions and a restored amenity garden incorporating Scotland’s oldest bowling green.

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Polmuir Avenue, Aberdeen Listed Category B 4 PVG: £3,000 disbursed February 2015

Built before 1850 for the Aberdeen Fife Employment Access Trust 6 Railway Company, the Engine Shed Silverburn Flax Mill dates from the dawn of the railways. It is brick-built, unusual for Aberdeen, Silverburn Park, Nr Leven, Fife and is one of the few remaining railway Listed Category B structures in the area. When the Caledonian Railway expanded the site PDG: £15,000 offered March 2015 in the early 20th century, it built a large additional shed and installed a 70-foot The Russell family built Silverburn House turntable and sidings. The original shed and nearby Flax Mill on land purchased was converted for wagon maintenance outside Leven in 1866. The Mill closed in and remained in use until 1987 when about 1930. It is a single and two-storey, Aberdeen City Council purchased it for approximate ‘T’ plan, classically-detailed, vehicle storage. The site of the additional small industrial range converted to new shed is now a housing development agricultural use in 1985. Built in brick and Network Rail currently owns the site with large ashlar quoins and original that contains the sidings and turntable; it corrugated-iron roofs, it has round- has granted the Trust a 25-year lease. The headed openings and segmental recessed Trust, which is run entirely by volunteers, arches with lunette windows. The Trust Edinburgh Printmakers 4 intends to restore and maintain the is a long-established charity operating in complex as a self-financing railway Fife to support people with mental health Castlemills heritage visitor attraction with a museum issues to access employment and other and small workshop that will also, through meaningful activities. It plans to restore Former North British Rubber Company the turntable’s revival, allow Aberdeen to the Mill to include a hostel for walkers and Headquarters, Corner of Gilmore Park, once again become a popular destination other tourists, café and meeting place, with Dundee Street, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh for main-line steam charter trains with space for training activities and offices for Listed Category C famous locomotives like the Flying the Trust and the Fife Coastal Path Ranger. PVG: £2,950 disbursed March 2014 Scotsman. The project has recently been The grant will allow the management PDG: £30,000 offered March 2014 awarded funding from Historic Scotland. of further development work. LOAN: £100,000 contracted November 2014 6 Castlemills is a two-storey, 16-bay, near ‘L’ plan building with basement, in painted brick. It was built in 1894 for the North British Rubber Company and is one of the few local reminders of Edinburgh’s industrial heritage. Famous for pioneering the use of India rubber, it was here that the motor car tyre was invented and the Wellington boot was designed, manufacturing over a million pairs for soldiers during the First World War to cope with the flooded conditions in the trenches. From 1973 a brewery operated on the site until its closure in 2004. Edinburgh City Council bought the 11-acre site in 2011 with the intention of building a new school and selling off the remainder of the land, retaining Castlemills as the sole listed building within this masterplan. Edinburgh Printmakers operates as a centre of excellence for contemporary art in print, providing exhibition space and educational activities. It is developing the Castlemills building with a view to establishing it as a world-class visual arts centre of excellence, and has been awarded significant funding towards this through Historic Scotland and the Heritage Lottery Fund Heritage Enterprise Grant scheme.

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The Haining Charitable Trust 4 Haining House

The Haining, Selkirk, Scottish Borders Listed Category A LOAN: £250,000 offered September 2014 2 The Haining is a Palladian mansion set in 160 acres on the edge of Selkirk, Fife Historic Buildings Trust 1 Glasgow Building Preservation Trust constructed in 1794 and considerably remodelled in 1819. The Estate was 1 Adam Smith Close Kirkhaven Church Hall 2 purchased by John Pringle in 1701 and apart from a 20-year period in the 20th Kirkcaldy, Fife Duke Street, Glasgow century, remained in the family’s Listed Category C; Abbotshall and Listed Category A ownership until it was bequeathed by Central Kirkcaldy Conservation Area the late Andrew Nimmo-Smith in 2009 PDG: £6,183 disbursed November 2013 ‘for the benefit of the community of LOAN: £150,000 offered June 2014 PDG: £15,000 offered December 2014; Selkirkshire and wider public’. The Withdrawn July 2015 surrounding parkland was laid out in Long understood to occupy the site of the late-18th and early 19th centuries. Adam Smith’s birthplace, the 18th-century The former Kirkhaven Church Hall was The Estate also includes a listed stable building stands in the town centre just built in 1858 and designed by Peddie block, deer larder and wolf and bear off the seafront and has been empty for & Kinnear in the style of a neo-Greek cages. Phase I of the project involved the many years. It is built on three storeys of classical temple. Together with Trinity conversion of the former coach house piend-roofed, pantiled rubble construction Church next door, it forms a distinctive and stables to artist studios (see Annual with some raised ashlar surrounds urban block along Glasgow’s Duke Street. Review 2013–14). The overall vision for and quoins. The Trust are working in The Trust has owned the Kirkhaven the Estate is to create a ‘cultural hub’ partnership with the Adam Smith Global buildings since the mid-1990s and with gallery spaces, restaurant, artisan Foundation, who will take on the building subsequently restored the Church and workshops and offices, luxury camping once the restoration is complete. FFHB Wellpark School which is linked to it. and self-catering accommodation. Music received funding from Historic Scotland However, at the time these projects were and literature events will be hosted and via Kirkcaldy Conservation Area completed there was insufficient demand rooms will be available to hire for Regeneration Scheme to carry out external or funding to undertake the repair of the weddings, corporate events and craft repairs to the derelict building, which is Hall but the Trust continued minor works fairs. The AHF’s loan will enable the Trust now a restored shell, with no ground floor, to maintain it. Development work has to address the deteriorating condition of stairs, internal finishes or windows. Phase since been undertaken to investigate the the exterior of the main house. II works are required to complete the conversion of the building to training and restoration and enable public use. The first architect office space, but an associated floor will provide office space for the Adam Heritage Lottery Fund application was Smith Global Foundation and incubation unsuccessful, leaving the future of the space for new businesses and social building uncertain. enterprises. The ground floor will become a multi-functional space which will include the Adam Smith Exhibition and Visitor Grain Store Stranraer CIC 3 Experience that will also be used to support The Grain Store the Foundation’s wider aims including research, education, employability, 7–9 Bridge Street, Stranraer, regeneration, partnership and a hub Dumfries and Galloway for a growing events programme. Listed Catergory B PVG: £3,000 offered April 2014 4 1 Probably built with local material from Stranraer’s brickworks this is a good remaining example of a 19th-century brick grain store. It was left empty for over 25 years and subsequently used until recently as a private rubbish tip. The CIC are working to establish a viable new use for the building while opening it up to the local community for events, meetings and performances. The grant has allowed the organisation to develop their preferred scheme to incorporate a multi-purpose performance area, café, bar and workshop and training space, as they work towards a Heritage Lottery Fund Heritage Enterprise Grant application. 3

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Merkinch Enterprise Ltd 1 Merkinch Welfare Hall

30–34 Grant Street, Inverness Listed Category C(s) PDG: £23,500 disbursed August 2012 PDG: £5,000 disbursed July 2013 LOAN: £160,000 offered March 2015

Built in 1914, the Merkinch Welfare Hall was built by the temperance ‘Catch-My- Pal Union’ as their local meeting hall. It subsequently played an important part in local community life, being used for dances, weddings and other social occasions and latterly as the home of the Inverness Judo Club. It is a two-storey, 2 three-bay, traditional stone building, now harled, with a slate roof. A large decorative clock, thought to have been salvaged National Trust for Scotland Little 2 NVA 3 from another building in Inverness, has Houses Improvement Scheme St Peter’s College been fixed through the central dormer. Halligarth House The Hall has been unused since the 1980s Kilmahew Estate, Carman Road, and is in poor condition. There is extensive Baltasound, Unst, Shetland Islands Cardross, Argyll and Bute wet and dry rot, windows are broken, Listed Category C Listed Category A; Cardross Parish rainwater goods and lead flashings are Conservation Area missing and the stone is deteriorating. PDG: £6,000 disbursed June 2014 It is the first project in Scotland to be PDG: £9,000 offered March 2015 PDG: £10,000 disbursed January 2015 awarded funding through the Heritage PDG: £15,000 offered March 2015 Lottery Fund’s Heritage Enterprise Grant Built by the naturalist Dr Laurence scheme. It received a first-round pass Edmonston between 1832–39, Halligarth Built in 1966 by I Metzstein, J Cowell towards plans to house an amateur House and grounds are an integral and and A McMillan of Gillespie, Kidd and boxing club, an easily accessible centre significant part of the history of Unst. The Coia, in a brutalist style, the surviving for people requiring employment support, house consists of two one-and-one-half- buildings consist of a main block, convent and much-needed office space. storey ranges separated by a narrow gap block, sanctuary block and classroom with a small connecting passageway, both block. On one side of the quadrangle was in harled rubble with some ashlar edging. the Victorian mansion of the Allan family, 1 Of additional interest are a walled garden built in 1868. St Peter’s closed as a and a small wooded copse, planted to seminary in 1980 and later became a attract birds. The house remained in the drug rehabilitation centre, however, due ownership of the Edmonston and Saxby to a lack of maintenance the centre was families until their bequest to the National moved to the Victorian building. This was Trust in 1988, at which time the house was destroyed by fire in 1995 and the centre abandoned and in need of considerable closed. The remaining 1960s sections repair. The Trust has concentrated on have been described as a ‘building of keeping the building wind and watertight world significance’. In 2009 NVA received until a viable solution could be found. funding to develop temporary and The AHF grant has allowed the Trust to permanent artworks as part of the develop their plans to open one side of the redevelopment of the buildings and house and the designed landscape as a surrounding woodland, and has remained visitor centre that focuses on the natural involved ever since. They plan to heritage of Shetland and the role of the consolidate some buildings, restore Edmondston and Saxby families. The others and create a centre for culture, other side of the house will most likely be heritage and education with a large- used as accommodation for both holiday scale performance and exhibition space letting and volunteers. in the main block; teaching, exhibition, interpretation and library spaces in the classroom block with offices for NVA and temporary accommodation for visiting educational groups in the convent block. Initial works to remove the asbestos and loose material began this year.

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50 Scottish Redundant Churches Trust St Margaret’s Church 4

Castleton Terrace, Braemar, Aberdeenshire Listed Category A; Braemar (Outstanding) Conservation Area FSG: £3,000 disbursed March 2005 OAG: £4,500 disbursed September 2013 PDG: £9,665 disbursed February 2015 PDG: £3,345 offered March 2015

Designed by John Ninian Comper, St Margaret’s was built between 1895 and 1901 as an Episcopal church for regular visitors from England. It is built of weathered pink granite from nearby Callater Moors, with dressings of Arbroath freestone and roofs of stone from old Mar Lodge which was demolished in 1895. The interior has white walls, concentrating attention on the rood screen and altar. An 5 AHF-funded options appraisal has allowed the Trust to establish a sustainable long-term use for the building as a creative Shambellie House Trust 5 hub and performance venue, but mainly as Shambellie House a home for a Scottish fiddle school. Urgent work to stabilise and repair the most New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway vulnerable sections of stained glass began Listed Category B in 2014 when the first sections of restored glass were returned to the church, since PDG: £10,000 offered March 2015 when the building has been used to host a series of live performances. Shambellie House is a Scots Baronial mansion on two storeys with attics and a raised basement. It was designed by 4 David Bryce for William Stewart in 1858, and the family lived there until 1977 when 6 William’s great-grandson gifted the house to the nation, and it became the National Museum of Costume. The Museum closed Springburn Winter Gardens Trust in 2013 and the Scottish government has 6 indicated it will pass the property on to Springburn Winter Gardens the Trust if it can demonstrate there is both sufficient community interest in the Glasgow project, and a sound business plan that Listed Category A will ensure its long-term future. The Trust’s current priority is to provide a PVG: £2,525 offered September 2014 detailed business case to allow the asset transfer to take place. The grant will Once the largest glasshouse in Scotland, allow the Trust to explore their preferred the Winter Gardens are one of the last option of an arts and outdoor centre. This remaining historic buildings in one of the would involve the greatest public access most deprived areas of Glasgow. Built to the building and grounds, and the best in 1899–1900 the building is 180 feet long fit to the original intention of the gift. with tall red-brick walls punctuated by round-arched windows giving rise to seven arch-framed lattice girders supporting 6 the roof made up of wide overlapping layers of glass. Derelict since the early 1980s, it was spot-listed in 1985 two days before an application to demolish was due to be considered by the council, and has remained derelict ever since. The Trust was formed to save the building with a long-term aim to take on the ownership and management of the Winter Gardens as a viable social enterprise that delivers services to the deprived communities that surround it.

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Artists Collective Gallery 1 Highland Buildings 7 North East Scotland Preservation Trust City Observatory Preservation Trust Former Sail-making 38 Carlton Hill, Edinburgh Viewhill House Works and Cottages Listed Category A; Edinburgh UNESCO 1 Old Edinburgh Road, Inverness, Highland Back Green, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire World Heritage Site Listed Category B; Inverness Listed Category B; Scheduled PDG: £25,000 offered March 2014 Conservation Area Ancient Monument OAG: £10,000 disbursed November 2014 FSG: £5,280 disbursed October 2001 Cambo Institute 2 OAG:£2,200 disbursed February 2011 Cambo Stables Inverclyde Community 8 PDG: £3,370 disbursed May 2012 Development Trust PDG: £10,570 disbursed April 2013 St Andrews, Fife PDG: £6,060 offered March 2014 Listed Category B The Dutch Gable House LOAN: £250,000 offered March 2014 LOAN: £500,000 offered March 2014 14 William Street, Greenock Listed Category B; Greenock Town Centre Scottish Historic Buildings Trust Conservation Area Carluke Development Trust 3 Grey Mill PVG: £3,000 offered February 2014 High Mill Broadford Works, Maberly Street, Aberdeen Chapel Street, Carluke, South Lanarkshire Listed Category A Listed Category A OAG: £10,000 offered December 2012 OAG: £7,211 disbursed November 2013 OAG: £7,500 offered August 2013 PDG: £23,745 offered March 2014 Scottish Historic Buildings Trust Clackmannanshire Heritage Trust The Glasite Meeting House Alloa Tower Stables 33 Barony Street, Edinburgh Tower Square, Alloa, Clackmannanshire Listed Category A; Edinburgh UNESCO Listed Category B; Old Alloa Burgh World Heritage Site Conservation Area PDG: £25,000 offered March 2014 OAG: £3,000 disbursed April 2014 Scottish Historic Buildings Trust Dumfries Historic Buildings Trust 4 Riddle’s Court Former George Street 322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh School of Art Listed Category A; Edinburgh World Heritage Site George Street, Dumfries Dumfries Medieval Town Centre OAG: £12,500 disbursed June 2010 Outstanding Conservation Area (to Cockburn Conservation Trust) PDG: £25,000 disbursed January 2013 PVG: £3,000 offered November 2013 LOAN: £500,000 offered December 2013 Ericht Trust 5 Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust Former Hill Primary School Shawmuir Lodge Upper Allan Street, Blairgowrie, Perthshire 8 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow Listed Category B; Blairgowrie Listed Category B Conservation Area PDG: £27,375 offered March 2014 PDG: £25,000 disbursed September 2014 Jedburgh Community Trust 9 LOAN: £45,000 withdrawn March 2015 Glasgow Building 7 and 11 Exchange Street 6 Traill Hall Community Trust Preservation Trust and 4 Grahamslaw Close Traill Hall St Martin’s Church Jedburgh, Scottish Borders Listed Category A; Jedburgh Stangerhill Bridge, Castletown, 201 Ardencraig Road, Castlemilk, Glasgow Conservation Area Nr Thurso, Highland Listed Category B PDG: £3,000 offered September 2013 Listed Category B OAG: £5,150 disbursed March 2013 OAG: £12,500 withdrawn April 2010 PDG: £22,500 offered March 2013 Killin & Ardeonaig Community 10 OAG: £12,070 disbursed February 2013 Development Trust PDG: £10,000 disbursed March 2015 The Old Mill (St Fillian’s Mill) Main Street, Killin, Stirling Listed Category B; Killin Conservation Area PDG: £10,494 offered June 2013

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Gwrych Castle, Abergele, Sir Conwy Plas Teg, Pontblyddyn, Flintshire Listed Grade I Listed Grade I FSG: £7,195 disbursed October 2006 CSG: £5,000 offered September 2014 MG: £1,227 disbursed April 2006 CBG: £1,227 disbursed January 2007 The Coach House and Stables at Plas Teg PVG: £2,670 disbursed February 2014 were constructed in the late-18th century CSG: £5,000 disbursed March 2015 by the then owner, Lady Jane Dacre. It Brymbo Heritage 1 PDG: £5,000 offered September 2014 formed part of a neoclassically designed Pattern Makers’ Workshop courtyard, with opposing blocks of stable Gwrych is a mock-medieval castle and coach house. Plas Teg and its buildings conceived as a vast picturesque were abandoned in 1945 and derelict when The Old Ironworks, Brymbo, Wrexham monument, with numerous towers and purchased by the current owner, who set Scheduled Ancient Monument battlements, constructed by Lloyd about fully restoring the main house in CSG: £2,040 offered October 2014 Bamford Hesketh on the site of his 1986. Although emergency repairs were ancestral home. The four-storey building carried out on the Coach House, it remains Brymbo Ironworks contains its original stands on the edge of a limestone without a roof and in poor condition and blast furnace, cast house, foundry, pattern escarpment with spectacular views over further repairs are now urgently required. makers’ workshop and charging wall, all of the Irish Sea, backed by a 50-acre wood. The organisation has been offered a long which are scheduled ancient monuments. It was last occupied as a stately home in lease on the property and an AHF Cold The site dates back to 1794 and is an 1928, and after a number of failed uses, Spots Grant will investigate the restoration exceptional survivor of an 18th-century has lain empty for many years, having and reinstatement of the building as ironworks. It also contains late-19th- been reduced to little more than a shell by an educational interpretation centre with century buildings relating to the Blast squatters, persistent vandalism and arson. a café which will be open to the public. Colliery. The pattern makers’ workshop With ownership having changed recently, and the North and South sections of the there is now the prospect of the Castle Wilkinson Foundry survive from this time. becoming a hotel. The Trust has reached Extensive snowfall in 2013 led to severe agreement with the owner for a long lease roof damage and essential remedial work on part of the main Castle building and was undertaken with support from the grounds, which will include the old melon Welsh Assembly Government and Cadw. house, the conservatory and historic However, the South building roof has gardens, to create a visitor centre and collapsed and is now propped up by amenities with an emphasis on community cranes; this is threatening the collapse engagement. The project already enjoys of the North building roof. An AHF Cold strong community support, with a team of Spots Grant allowed for the appointment volunteers clearing the site of vegetation of a structural engineer to report on the and making it safe for walkers and visitors. work needed to remove the roofs safely The AHF has supported the Trust over before full reinstatement. The Brymbo many years and, following a viability report Heritage group received a Heritage which demonstrated a clear way forward, Lottery Fund Our Heritage Grant in 2013, further development funding has allowed and the ultimate aim is to reinstate the the employment of a project organiser whole site as an educational resource. to work on capital funding bids. 2

54 Welsh Georgian Trust 6 Plas Kynaston 6 Plas Kynaston Lane, Cefn Mawr, Wrexham Listed Grade II; Cefn Mawr St John’s House Trust 5 Conservation Area St John’s House OAG: £7,495 disbursed March2013 CSG: £8,240 offered March 2015 LOAN: £216,000 offered March 2015 Newcastle Hill, Bridgend Listed Grade II*; Newcastle Hill Cefn Mawr lies at the entrance to the Vale Conservation Area of Llangollen, which was transformed OAG: £7,500 disbursed December 2013 during the industrial revolution when CSG: £1,542 offered March 2015 coal mining and iron smelting became prevalent. The Kynaston family were St John’s House is the oldest habitable members of the Welsh gentry and secular building in Bridgend. It was constructed a substantial residence probably built before 1550, has some fine in 1700, unusually in the centre of the 4 architectural features, and was clearly industrial complex rather than on the built for someone of high status. It outskirts. Through marriage, ownership belongs to a class of buildings known as passed to the Mostyn family and remained 4 hearth-passage houses where the main a private residence, being remodelled in hall fireplace and chimney back onto a the early 19th century. It was gifted to the central passage, which serves to divide local community in the 1930s, and was the house into two main units. St John’s used for numerous activities, including House provides a key focal point for the a library and meeting place for local Newcastle Hill Conservation Area. The organisations and youth groups. Plas multiple proposed uses for the building Kynaston has been unoccupied for over a will allow the whole town to have access decade, and therefore prone to vandalism, to a significant element of their heritage together with the usual risks associated and in turn it is hoped that as well as the with an unoccupied building. The Trust general benefits that will be derived from undertook an AHF-funded options the communal access and use of the appraisal study which identified re-use building, it can be used to raise awareness as six much-needed residential units to of Bridgend’s heritage and in doing so be the most appropriate and financially Pembrey Mountain Trust engender an improved sense of place, viable solution. It has latterly been offered and thus be a positive force for social a further AHF grant to fund architectural Court Farm well-being. Beyond the offer of an Options development work, and a loan for working Appraisal Grant, the AHF has offered capital during the construction phase. Pembrey, Carmarthenshire further funding toward professional The Heritage Lottery Fund has also agreed Listed Grade II* development work in advance of capital to extend the boundary of the Townscape CSG: £5,000 disbursed March 2015 funding bids. It has now been granted a Heritage Initiative scheme to include the Heritage Lottery Fund first-round pass. building which will close the funding gap. Enjoying magnificent views over Carmarthen Bay, the once imposing 5 Court Farm now lies derelict. Built in the mid-16th century, possibly with a medieval core, it is constructed of local Pennan sandstone on two storeys, with mullioned windows and a number of impressive chimney stacks, built around three sides of a small courtyard. In the early 1700s, the house underwent drastic alterations, with substantial remodelling of the interior. A cowshed and barn complete the farmyard complex. Various uses have been sought over the years, and most recently, the Friends group, which was established some years ago, formed a Trust with strong support from the local MP, Nia Griffith. An AHF Cold Spots Grant has allowed them to identify a new and sustainable use for the community with an emphasis on providing an educational resource. Alongside this it has planned a number of sustainable commercial uses which respect the historic fabric. WALES

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Cardigan Building 1 Preservation Trust The Market Hall Cardigan, Ceredigion Listed Grade II* CSG: £3,000 disbursed December 2014

Carmarthenshire Heritage 2 Regeneration Trust Former YMCA Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tidfil Listed Grade II; Merthyr Tidfil Town Centre Conservation Area PVG: £3,000 disbursed December 2014 3 Cylch y Llan Buildings 3 Preservation Trust 4 St Deiniol’s Church Llanuwchllyn Bala, Gwynedd Listed Grade II*/II OAG: £5,280 disbursed October 2011 PDG: £7,000 disbursed November 2014

Kidwelly Heritage Trust 4 Kidwelly Town Hall 1 Lady Street, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire Listed Grade II; Kidwelly Conservation Area CSG: £2,040 disbursed November 2014 5 The Landmark Trust 5 Llwy Celyn Farmhouse Stanton, Llanvihangel Crucorney, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire Listed Grade I; Brecon Beacons National Park Conservation Area PDG: £5,000 disbursed August 2014

Llanelli Railway Goods Shed Trust 6 Former Goods Shed Llanelli Railway Yard, Marsh Street, Llanelli Listed Grade II OAG: £7,500 disbursed January 2013 CSG: £3,000 disbursed December 2013 CSG: £5,292 disbursed November 2013 1 PDG: £15,000 offered December 2013 CSG: £1,700 disbursed July 2014

56 The Standard Works (p.39) Report on the AHF’s Financial Position

The Statement of Financial Activities and Balance Sheet are not the full statutory accounts but are a summary of the information which appears in the full accounts. The auditor has issued an unqualified report on the full annual financial statements and on the consistency of the trustees’ annual report with those financial statements. Their report on the full annual financial statements contained no statement under sections 498(2)(a), 498(2)(b) or 498(3) of the Companies Act 2006. The full accounts were approved by the Trustees on 23 September 2015 and copies have been submitted to the Charity Commission and Registrar of Companies.

The summarised accounts may not contain sufficient information to allow for a full understanding of the financial affairs of the Company. Detailed information about the AHF’s income and expenditure in 2014/15 and its overall financial position at the end of the year can be found in the statutory Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2015. Copies may be obtained from the AHF’s website (www.ahfund.org.uk) or directly from the AHF.

The AHF received the following government funding during 2015:

English Heritage £639,000 Historic Environment Scotland £380,000 Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments £20,000 Total: £1,039,000

Expenditure Resources used during the year amounted to £1,512,472 against £1,669,198 in 2014. The fall of £156,726 over the previous year is largely accounted for by decreases in grantmaking (£140,232), capacity building (£58,898) and bad debt charge (£57,767) offset by bad debts not previously provided for (£91,412); other types of expenditure increased by a net total of £8,759.

Deficit and forward commitments The total surplus for the year (“net movement in funds”) was £45,410, increasing the AHF’s total funds at 31 March 2015 to £13,092,245 (2014 – £13,046,835). Lomeshaye Bridge Mill (p.9) At the year end, the AHF had £8,299,240 out on loan for preservation projects and forward commitments for loans INTRODUCTION and recoverable grants of £3,447,418 (2014 – total loans £8,649,913 and forward commitments £3,983,465). The AHF’s overall income for the year amounted to £1,557,882 (2014 – £1,026,787). Expenditure amounted Signed on behalf of the Members of the Council to £1,512,472 (2014 – £1,669,198). At the year end, of Management. £8,299,240 (2014 – £8,649,913) was out on loan for preservation projects.

DETAILS Income Merlin Waterson Income in the year increased by £531,095 over the Chairman 2014 total. Most of this increase derived from a higher level 23 September 2015 of government funding (£629,240), offset by falls in non- governmental funding (£65,746), loan interest receivable (£15,266) and other sources of income (£17,133).

58 Auditor’s Statement

Independent Auditor’s Statement to the Trustees misstatements or material inconsistencies with the and Members of The Architectural Heritage Fund summarised financial statements. The other information We have examined the summarised financial statements comprises only the Report on the AHF’s Financial Position. of The Architectural Heritage Fund for the year ended 31 March 2015. Basis of Opinion We have conducted our work in accordance with Respective Responsibilities Practice Note 11 issued by the Auditing Practices Board. of the trustees and the auditor Our report on the charitable company’s full annual financial The trustees (who are also the directors of The statements describes the basis of our opinion on those Architectural Heritage Fund for the purposes of company financial statements. law) are responsible for preparing the summarised financial statements in accordance with applicable United Opinion Kingdom law and the recommendations of the Charities In our opinion the summarised financial statements are SORP. Our responsibility is to report to you our opinion on consistent with the full annual financial statements and the the consistency of the summary financial statements with trustees’ annual report of The Architectural Heritage Fund the full annual financial statements and the trustees’ for the year ended 31 March 2015. annual report. Nicholas Brooks (Senior Statutory Auditor) We also read the other information contained in the for and on behalf of Kingston Smith LLP, Statutory Auditor. summarised annual report and consider the implications Devonshire House, 60 Goswell Road, London EC1M 7AD for our report if we become aware of any apparent 25 September 2015

BENEFACTORS AND FRIENDS IN THE YEAR 1 APRIL 2014 TO 31 MARCH 2015

Benefactors (£20,000 or more)

Government English Heritage Historic Scotland Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments Charities The Pilgrim Trust

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

In memory of John R Leadbetter

RIGHT: Dawes Twine Works (The Ropewalk) (p.8)

59 Summarised Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2015

Endowment Restricted Unrestricted 2015 2014 fund fund fund Total Total £ £ £ £ £ Incoming resources Incoming resources from generated funds Voluntary income Donations and legacies – – 1,101 1,101 2,903 Government grants 691,969 347,031 – 1,039,000 409,760 Other grants – 33,987 – 33,987 99,733 691,969 381,018 1,101 1,074,088 512,396 Investment income Interest receivable – on bank deposits – – 11,367 11,367 16,748 – on loans disbursed – – 429,978 429,978 445,244 Rent receivable – – 34,938 34,938 34,679 – – 476,283 476,283 496,671 Total incoming resources from generated funds 691,969 381,018 477,384 1,550,371 1,009,067 Incoming resources from charitable activities – – 7,511 7,511 17,720 Total incoming resources 691,969 381,018 484,895 1,557,882 1,026,787

Resources expended Costs of generating funds Generating voluntary income – – 30,663 30,663 18,391 Investment management – financial – – 6,028 6,028 6,608 – property – – 21,490 21,490 18,821 – – 58,181 58,181 43,820 Charitable activities Losses on loans not previously provided for 91,412 – – 91,412 – Increase / (decrease) in the loan bad debt provision 82,614 – 18,093 100,707 158,474 Other loan-related activities – – 173,073 173,073 165,554 Grantmaking – 563,566 180,005 743,571 883,803 174,026 563,566 371,171 1,108,763 1,207,831 Development and advocacy Capacity building – 35,446 191,682 227,128 286,026 Annual Review and other publications – – 67,223 67,223 73,172 Contribution to the UK Association of Preservation Trusts – – 5,000 5,000 13,375 – 35,446 263,905 299,351 372,573 Total charitable activities 174,026 599,012 635,076 1,408,114 1,580,404 Governance costs – – 46,177 46,177 44,974 Total resources expended 174,026 599,012 739,434 1,512,472 1,669,198 Net incoming / (outgoing) resources 517,943 (217,994) (254,539) 45,410 (642,411)

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

Net movement in funds net surplus / (deficit) for the year 517,943 (217,994) (254,539) 45,410 (592,411)

Balances at 1 April 2014 10,091,858 267,994 2,686,983 13,046,835 13,639,246 Balances at 31 March 2015 10,609,801 50,000 2,432,444 13,092,245 13,046,835

60 Summarised Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2015

2015 2014

£ £ £ £ Fixed assets Investment property 500,000 500,000 Other tangible assets 52,785 70,380 Programme related investments Loans disbursed for preservation projects 8,299,240 8,649,913

Total fixed assets 8,852,025 9,220,293

Current assets Debtors Loan interest receivable 765,475 641,958 Government grants receivable 334,263 157,538 Non-government grants receivable 260,000 426,013 Loan redemption funds held by solicitor 210,153 – Other accrued income and prepayments 34,088 44,656 1,603,979 1,270,165

Cash at bank and short-term deposits 5,334,113 5,686,115 6,938,092 6,956,280

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (2,697,872) (3,129,738)

Net current assets 4,240,220 3,826,542

Net assets 13,092,245 13,046,835

Funds Endowment fund 10,609,801 10,091,858

Restricted fund 50,000 267,994

Unrestricted funds Designated lending fund 1,812,444 2,066,983 General fund 620,000 620,000 2,432,444 2,686,983

Total funds 13,092,245 13,046,835

Programme related investments include £5,378,725 in loans outstanding which are due for repayment after more than one year (2014 – £4,661,603). Interest receivable on these loans amounted to £287,789 (2014 – £160,615). The financial statements were approved by the Members of the Council, and authorised for issue, on 23 September 2015 and signed on their behalf by:

Merlin Waterson Roy Dantzic Chairman Deputy Chairman 23 September 2015 23 September 2015

61 About the Architectural Heritage Fund

INTRODUCTION The following is a summary of the AHF’s grants and loan programmes. Please contact the AHF or refer to our website The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is a registered www.ahfund.org.uk for further details. charity and a company limited by guarantee, founded in 1976 to promote the conservation of historic buildings Project Viability Grants in the UK. It does this by providing advice, information and This scheme was introduced in 2013 replacing the Options financial assistance in the form of grants and competitive Appraisal Grant. The project viability grant scheme is loans for projects undertaken by building preservation intended to produce an swift initial assessment of whether trusts (BPTs), other charities and eligible not-for-profit it is viable to bring a historic building back into sustainable organisations. use. In particular it aims to enable applicants to explore the evidence of need for a suggested use, or uses, for a building FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE AHF and the sustainability of that use, with a view to the likely requirements of grant funders. Sources of AHF Funds The end report should provide sufficient information The AHF’s lending resources of some £12.4 million derive to help decide whether to commit to further cost, risk and from government grants, donations and accumulated effort in developing the project. It should also indicate the surplus of income over expenditure. AHF grant programmes principal areas of further work required, and be a useful are financed by interest on loans and bank deposits, and tool in applying to other funders. The AHF will, in turn, use grant-aid from Historic England, Historic Environment the report to judge whether the project is eligible to apply Scotland, Cadw, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, the for further AHF development funding. Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and the Pilgrim Trust. The AHF offers grants of up to 100% of the cost of the Eligibility viability report for eligible projects – no match funding Only charities and eligible not-for-profit organisations is required. The maximum grant is £3,000. can apply for financial assistance from the AHF for buildings that are listed, scheduled or in a conservation Project Development Grants area and of acknowledged historic merit. Projects usually This grant was introduced in April 2008 incorporating and involve a change either in the ownership of a property replacing the project administration, project organiser and or in its use. capacity building grants. The project development grant is intended to help with the costs of developing and co- ordinating a project and taking it towards the start of work on site after basic viability has been established.

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

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

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Websters Theatre (p.19); The Standard Works (p.39); Stanley Halls (p.30); The Old Grammar School (p.13); Cowane’s Hospital (p.46); Rothbury Hall (p.29)

63 Council of Management and Staff

COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT Rita Harkin Built Heritage Consultant. Trustee, Irish Landmark Trust. as at 31 March 2015 Committee Member, Hearth Housing Association and Hearth Revolving Fund. Formerly: Research Officer, Ulster Architectural Merlin Waterson CBE Chairman Heritage Society. Heritage Officer, Belfast City Council. Author and historian. Panel Member, National Heritage Memorial Researcher, Rachel Bevan Architects. Executive Committee Fund. Trustee, East Anglia Art Fund; Wentworth Woodhouse Member, Northern Ireland Environment Link. NI Regional Preservation Trust. Formerly: Historic Properties Director, The Committee Member, the Heritage Lottery Fund. Cathedral Quarter National Trust. Adviser on Built Heritage and Historic Properties, Trustee. NI Environmental Planning Law Association. Heritage Lottery Fund. Commissioner and Deputy Chairman, Royal Hospital Chelsea. Richard Keen Heritage & Tourism Consultant. Director, Comodum Trust; Roy Dantzic Deputy Chairman Timecentres UK. Trustee, Welsh Georgian Trust. Chair, Chartered Accountant. Chairman, Interior Services Group plc. Association of Preservation Trusts Wales. Formerly: Advisor, Non-Executive Director, Airplanes Ltd. Trustee, The Portman Welsh Landscape & Culture and Industrial Heritage, National Estate. Formerly: Chairman, Development Securities plc; Trust. Chairman, Historic Buildings Advisory Board for Wales. Managing Director, British Gas Properties Ltd. Finance Director, Member, Ancient Monuments Board for Wales; Heritage Lottery Stanhope Properties. Fund Committee for Wales. Myra Barnes Phillip Kirby OBE Chartered Town Planner. Partner, Salisbury Jones Planning. Civil and Structural Engineer. Director, Policy Connect. Independent Member, Assets Committee, Genesis Homes. Formerly: Managing Director, National Grid Property. Project Beanstalk Volunteer. Formerly: Head of Planning, National Grid Director, Stanhope Properties. Member of Lord Rogers’ Property. Development Manager, Olympia & York Canary Wharf Ltd. Urban Task Force. Chair, Cl:aire; Exsite. Assistant to CEO, London Docklands Development Corporation.

Liz Peace CBE Elizabeth Davidson OBE Governor, Peabody. Chairman, LandAid. Trustee, Churches Senior Project Manager, Mackintosh Restoration Project Glasgow Conservation Trust. Non-Executive Director, Morgan Sindall; School of Art. Trustee, Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust. Redrow; Holtby Turner. Chairman, Good Relations Property. Fellow, Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland; Royal Formerly: Chief Executive, British Property Federation. Director Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and of Corporate Affairs and Company Secretary, QinetiQ plc. CABE Commerce. Formerly: Principal, City Design Glasgow City Council. Commissioner. Non-Executive Director, Planning Inspectorate; Project Director, Merchant City Townscape Heritage Initiative. Turley. Chairman, National Planning Forum. External Examiner, University of Dundee, Dept. of European Urban Conservation. Member of the Historic Buildings Council Doug Reid for Scotland. Chair, Association of Preservation Trusts. Director, Chartered Architect. Partner, James F Stephen Architects. Glasgow Building Preservation Trust. Member, Royal Institute of British Architects; Institute of Historic Building Conservation. Fellow, Royal Incorporation of Architects Kate Dickson in Scotland; Royal Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Director, Director, Creative Heritage Consultants Ltd. Member, National Tayside Building Preservation Trust. Trust Regional Advisory Board for the North West. Membership assessor and member, Membership and Ethics Committee of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. Chair, Midlands STAFF Regional Committee, UK Association of Preservation Trusts. Council Member, Association for Industrial Archaeology. Formerly: as at 31 October 2015 Member, National Trust Council; Heritage Lottery Fund Regional Committee for the North West. Director, Heritage Works Chief Executive: Ian Morrison Buildings Preservation Trust. Investment Manager: Andy Richardson Policy and Loans Officer: Ian Rice John Duggan Chartered Certified Accountant. Non-Executive Director, Development Team JSM Indo China Ltd. Chairman, Milton Keynes Trust; Assemble Community Partnership; LIFT. Member, the Investment Operations Manager: Gavin Richards – Yorkshire, Committee of the Bridges Ventures Sustainability Fund; Advisory North East of England, Wales and Northern Ireland Council of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility. Support Officers: Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. Formerly: Chairman Gordon Barr – Scotland and Chief Executive, Gazeley. Chairman, Spazio Investment NV. Josephine Brown – South West of England Non-Executive Director, SGL Vietnam Ltd. Tessa Hilder – London, South East and East of England Lucie Oakley – Midlands and North West of England Michael Hoare Chartered Accountant, INSEAD. Chairman, Watts & Co. Trustee, Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Heritage of London Trust; La Sauvegarde de l’Art Français (Paris). Treasurer, Future for Religious Heritage (Brussels). Formerly: Consultant, C Hoare & Co. Chairman, National Churches Trust.

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Annual Review 2014–15 Editor: Ian Morrison 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 and with our thanks for additional photographs by: Front Cover: Erika’s Camera – Dundee Heritage Trust, High Mill Chris Barker – Coker Rope and Sail Trust, Dawe’s Twine Works; Jim Lefeuvre – Coker Rope and Sail Trust, Dawe’s Twine Works (Brownies visit); Jim Burns – Dundee Heritage Trust, High Mill; Pollock Hammond Ltd – Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, Hutchesons’ Hall; Paul Faith – Glenarm Building Preservation Trust, Seaview Hall; Master Callum Dolan – Heritage Building Preservation Trust, 29 Braehead, Beith; Architecton – Hestercombe Gardens Trust, Hestercombe House; Christian Dorley-Brown – Hoxton Hall during restoration Printed on environmentally friendly paper by: Trident Printing Units 24–26 Armstrong Road, Woolwich, London SE18 6RS © Architectural Heritage Fund, October 2015

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