ANNUAL REVIEW 2010–11 CONTENTS

1 Chairman’s Foreword

3 Chief Executive’s Review

6 Completed Projects

24 Projects Under Development

58 AHF Financial Information

62 About the AHF

FRONT COVER: Lissan House (see p.18)

INSIDE FRONT COVER: Sandycombe Lodge (see p.29) CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD

It is good to be able to start this 35th Anniversary year’s Foreword to the Annual Review with some positive news. We were delighted to be successful in our bid for the new £2 million ‘Challenge Fund for Historic Buildings at Risk’ which is generously co-funded by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and English Heritage. The AHF looks forward to making a real difference with this funding over the next three to five years. Our Chief Executive, Ian Lush, explains more about the Challenge Fund in his Review.

We were equally pleased to be asked authorities continue to be key to this, by Historic Scotland to run on their and we were pleased that so many Welsh behalf the three-year Buildings at Risk authorities were represented at our Initiative. This aims to bring the major buildings at risk seminar in Swansea in stakeholders in Scotland together to look March, showing their commitment to this at ways of tackling more projects, whether vital work. undertaken by the commercial, public or voluntary sectors, and to highlight good We hope to be able to extend the Cold practice and lessons for the future. Spots initiative over the coming year, and are working with English Heritage on their These new programmes, together with programme to highlight Industrial Heritage our ongoing work to increase activity in at Risk; we will announce details of this some cold spots around the UK, have in due course. given the AHF the opportunity to bring in additional resources at a time when most We said goodbye at the end of March to organisations are having to cut back. John Pavitt, a dedicated member of the We are particularly grateful to all of our Council of Management for 13 years. John major funders – English Heritage, Historic also acted as the AHF’s representative on Scotland, Cadw, the Northern Ireland the Board of the Association of Preservation Environment Agency, the Andrew Lloyd Trusts for many years. We are pleased to Webber Foundation, the J Paul Getty Jnr welcome Phil Kirby as John’s replacement. Charitable Trust and the Pilgrim Trust – for their continued and generous support I am indebted to my colleagues on the in these difficult times. Council of Management for their hard work over the last year, during which Helping projects to get underway in a time The Architectural Heritage Fund has also of economic uncertainty is a real challenge, produced a new five-year strategy and and one which the AHF cannot undertake operational plan and to our dedicated Lion Chambers (see p.45) alone. Our relationship with partners staff whose loyalty and commitment such as local authorities, government remains impressive. departments and agencies, other funders and third sector organisations is more important than ever, and it has been encouraging to see a continued willingness from so many of these to work with us to secure viable and sustainable futures John Townsend for buildings at risk. Despite the many Chairman pressures on their resources, local October 2011

1 35 YEARS CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REVIEW

This, the year in which we mark our 35th Anniversary, has been both an exciting and unusual one for The Architectural Heritage Fund. As our Chairman, John Townsend, has said in his Foreword, unlike many organisations in our sector, we have been fortunate to see significant growth in our resources and in our ability to help projects, especially in England. At the same time we have seen some of our regular clients facing real financial difficulties, in some cases threatening the existence of their organisation. This is also impacting on the ability of some of the AHF’s borrowers to repay their outstanding loans, which in turn affects the ‘revolving’ nature of the AHF’s endowment fund.

In the midst of all this one thing has initial grants in the Autumn. This is the remained apparent, which is that even in first time in its 35 year history that the AHF the face of economic and social challenges, has been able to give large capital grants, voluntary sector groups continue to as opposed to loans, and we look forward undertake projects restoring and finding to reporting on the impact these have had viable new uses for historic buildings in next year’s Annual Review. at risk throughout the UK. This Annual Review contains details of projects which The success of our Challenge Fund bid have been completed in the last year, plus showed the strength of our relationship many more that are making good progress with English Heritage, as does the support towards completion. The range of uses they have given to our Cold Spots initiative, and groups involved is impressive, and where we are working alongside their shows that the heritage sector had been focus on Industrial Heritage at Risk. The operating the ‘localism’ agenda years same can be said of our work with Historic before the expression was coined. Scotland, who endorsed their support of the AHF by inviting us to manage on One of the most exciting developments their behalf the new Buildings at Risk of the past year has been our successful Co-ordinator post for Scotland. Stuart bid to English Heritage and the Andrew Eydmann, an experienced conservation Lloyd Webber Foundation for support professional, emerged successful from a for what has now become known as the strong field of candidates for this role and Challenge Fund for Historic Buildings started his work in April; as I write, the at Risk in England – an accurate, if not first Stakeholder Forum meeting for this particularly snappy, title. The contributions initiative has just been held and interesting of £1 million over the next five years from ideas are already being generated by Stuart each organisation are remarkably generous in his discussions with people throughout in the current financial climate, and I am the historic environment sector in Scotland. especially grateful to Lord Lloyd Webber We are grateful to Ruth Parsons, Chief Dalton Young clock tower (see p.37) and Mark Wordsworth, Chairman of the Executive, and her colleague and our main Foundation, and to Simon Thurley, Chief contact at Historic Scotland, Martin Fairley, Executive of English Heritage, for their for their warm ongoing support. This is the first personal commitment to this initiative. In Wales we held a successful seminar time in its 35 year We have already received a large number in Swansea in March to look at ways of history that the AHF of enquiries and applications for support tackling buildings at risk in South Wales, has been able to from this Fund, even though the criteria as part of the Cold Spots initiative and are very specific – to qualify, projects must with a particular focus on bringing give large capital involve buildings of Grade II* or above, in together local authorities and the voluntary grants, as opposed England, which are on the Heritage at Risk sector. Working with the Association of Register – and we will be announcing the Preservation Trusts we were able to attract to loans …

3 ABOVE: most of the South Wales local authorities have benefited greatly from this support. South Rotunda, Glasgow and representatives from other funding Despite this we continue to work closely (see p.46) bodies and community groups, and several with the Northern Ireland Environment BELOW: potential projects have already been Agency and are grateful for their support Threadneedle Street, Peterhead identified as a direct result of the seminar. of our core work, especially given the (see p.20) pressures they also face. OPPOSITE: This year has also seen the AHF offer its Cultybraggan Camp (see p.44) first grants under the Cold Spots initiative, On the wider heritage, regeneration and with recipients so far including the Coker cultural sector issues, we have maintained Rope and Sail Trust in Somerset and a close watching brief on the Localism Bill, ‘ABC’ in Wales, who are working on rural working with our colleagues at the Heritage vernacular buildings with a view to turning Alliance, of which I remain Deputy Chair. them into social housing. The scheme is There are still concerns over the impact enabling us to help projects in their early this could have on the planning system, stages or at points where they have stalled but we welcome the opportunities that it for lack of other support, and we are hoping could present for communities through that we may be able to bring in some the potential transfer of assets. However, additional resources towards it during the issue remains with this and much of the this financial year. wider Big Society agenda that community groups will need both financial and capacity The picture in Northern Ireland has not building support to enable them to take been as positive as in the rest of the UK: advantage of these opportunities. the financial constraints there have led to the cessation of funding for the scheme we I wrote about this issue earlier this year for were running on behalf of the Government an article on the transfer of local authority to support the acquisition of historic assets in the Society for the Protection of buildings at risk. Although we understood Ancient Buildings (SPAB) magazine. This the reasons for this, it was disappointing, was picked up by the national press, my in particular because there were a number views on the threats and opportunities of projects waiting to go ahead which could then appearing in seven daily and Sunday

4 newspapers and in an interview for BBC Radio London. It is encouraging that this issue – the sale of publicly-owned historic buildings on the open market – has engendered such interest, as the AHF has argued for some time that local authorities and other public bodies need to have a coherent approach to asset transfer.

Financial pressures on local authorities can lead to a ‘fire sale’ of assets, which will inevitably mean that some historic buildings will be put at risk. However, when approached strategically and with the involvement of organisations such as the AHF in an advisory capacity, asset transfer can lead to highly successful community- based projects, bringing real benefits to their local areas.

I am grateful to my colleagues on the AHF’s staff, who have managed a challenging workload with their usual efficiency and good nature. It is encouraging that this issue – the sale of publicly-owned historic buildings on the open market – has engendered such interest, as the AHF has argued for some time that local Ian Lush authorities and other public bodies need to Chief Executive October 2011 have a coherent approach to asset transfer.

THE DUKE OF GRAFTON KG

It is with sadness that we report the death of the 11th Duke of Grafton who died on 7 April 2011 aged 92.

On 26 May 1976, at its inaugural meeting, The Duke of Grafton was elected Chairman of The Architectural Heritage Fund and guided it from its formative years to maturity. On his retirement in 1994, he was appointed the AHF’s first President, a post he held until his death.

A champion of historic building preservation, he sat on the Board of many of the architectural and amenity bodies. Hugh Grafton’s commitment to conservation was as wholehearted as it was selfless. His Grace the Duke of Grafton KG

5 Dewars Lane Granary (see p.8) COMPLETED PROJECTS

There is a vast contrast in the scale of schemes undertaken in this year’s completed projects section, including domestic architecture, KEY municipal and industrial heritage and country estate buildings. Many projects receive several different AHF grants and loans. These are abbreviated as follows:

Dewar’s Lane Granary, in Berwick-upon- closely with a housing association and a FSG Feasibility Study Grant Tweed, which leans more than Pisa’s charity dedicated to provide support for OAG Options Appraisal Grant famous Tower, required the insertion of a those with learning difficulties. Heritage steel frame to strengthen it, while Gybson’s Works was able to deploy its considerable CBG Capacity Building Grant Conduit in Norwich, was a relatively expertise in Halifax, alongside the local PAG Project Administration Grant straightforward stonework restoration, authority and Regional Development POG Project Organiser Grant although needing detailed research of Agency. Fife Historic Buildings Trust PDG Project Development Grant the original paintwork. and Vivat Trust have both settled on the RPDG Refundable Project combination of office accommodation for Development Grant Lissan House in Northern Ireland, their own use together with holiday letting Grant and loan information is as at which was runner-up in the first series in the same building. the end of the financial year (31 March of the BBC’s Restoration in 2003, has now 2011) but the text often includes more completed its first stage of restoration. Despite the difficult financial climate, recent developments. there is ample evidence here to 54–57 Albion Street (J W Evans & Sons), demonstrate that charities continue Birmingham offers an unusual visitor to succeed in attracting funding to restore experience, as it has been kept as faithful buildings that are beyond the reach of the as possible to its time as a manufacturer commercial market. Their main strength is of silverware and name plates. The their dedication, patience and commitment project was begun by the Birmingham to bring a project to an effective conclusion. BELOW LEFT: Conservation Trust, but eventually We also acknowledge the support of 6–8 King Cross Street (see p.14) purchased and restored with a light other funders and the involvement of BELOW RIGHT: touch by English Heritage. professionals in successful schemes. Gybson’s Conduit (see p.17)

Trusts are often able to forge partnerships with other organisations and agencies. The National Trust for Scotland has worked

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Dewars Lane Granary Dewars Lane, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland BERWICK-UPON-TWEED PRESERVATION TRUST Listed Grade II; Berwick-upon-Tweed Conservation Area

FSG: £5,290 disbursed February 2003 POG: £15,000 disbursed July 2006 RPDG: £25,000 repaid October 2008

Professional Team Architect: Bain Swan, Berwick-upon-Tweed Structural Engineer: Wren & Bell, Edinburgh Quantity Surveyor: D I Burchell, Berwick-upon-Tweed Project Management: The Granary was built in 1769, part of a of the facilities. The Granary opened in Berwick-upon-Tweed Preservation Trust densely-packed area of narrow streets spring 2011 as a vibrant multi-use facility Main Contractor: and alleyways that contained granaries, that acts as a catalyst for the development M&G Ballantyne & Son, Kelso maltings, workshops, smokeries, mills and regeneration of the lower part of the and icehouses. Six storeys high and built of town. The Youth Hostel Association, agreed Total investment: £4,762,000 coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings, to lease the top three floors providing 57 Sources of funding: it was badly damaged by fire in 1815, but beds, including disabled accommodation, One North East: £2,094,000 as the owners could not afford to rebuild, and have also agreed to take on the CABE/Sea Change: £100,000 it was propped up with buttresses. The maintenance of the entire site, ensuring its Berwick Borough Council: £400,000 building’s most remarkable feature, its long term viability. The second floor gallery YHA: £390,000 HLF: £350,000 dramatic lean – greater than the Leaning is run by a ‘not for profit’ organisation and English Heritage: £100,000 Tower of Pisa – dates from this time, and exhibits works from national collections. Northumberland County Council: £100,000 was portrayed in two L S Lowry paintings. The first floor seminar rooms are available Nearly 50 individuals and Small Trusts: It was used for storing grain until 1985 after for use by local organisations and the £330,000 which it became increasingly derelict. ground floor bistro is already popular with locals and visitors. Berwick-upon-Tweed Preservation Trust began looking at ways to restore it and work started at the end of 2008. Essential to the restoration was the insertion of a steel frame to preserve the lean and structure so it was able to support the high visitor numbers that are already taking advantage

The building’s most remarkable feature, its dramatic lean – greater than the Leaning Tower of Pisa – dates from this time and was portrayed in two L S Lowry paintings.

8 Hockley, Birmingham Listed Grade II*; Jewellery Quarter 54–57 Albion Street Conservation Area LOAN: £400,000 withdrawn March 2007

(J W Evans & Sons) Professional Team Project Manager: BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATION TRUST English Heritage Architect: Rodney Melville & Partners Structural Engineer: Richard Swift, SFK Consulting Quantity Surveyor: Bare, Leaning & Bare Main Contractor: Phase I: E Bowman; Phase II: Linford Bridgeman

Total investment: £2,213,000

In 2000 an English Heritage survey of an unusual case of direct action, English Sources of funding: English Heritage: £2.1 million Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter recognised Heritage decided to step in, and purchased Birmingham City Council: £113,000 the J W Evans silverware factory as being the premises and its contents in March 2008. probably the best-preserved example of a manufactory based in a row of four terrace … probably the best-preserved example of a houses built in 1837 with workshops to the rear complete with its machinery, steel manufactory based in a row of four terrace houses … dies, tools and business archive. The firm was founded by Jenkin Evans in 1881 and To preserve the extraordinary atmosphere remained in the same family until 2008. of the factory, a unique conservation approach was developed, never attempted The silverware trade was in decline from before in the UK. In the historic spaces, the 1980s, and by 2005 Anthony Evans the densely packed contents of the building (grandson of the original owner) decided were protected and retained in situ in their he would have to close the business. original positions throughout the building Birmingham Conservation Trust undertook work. J W Evans opened to the public a feasibility study on options to save the for guided tours in June 2011. English factory, with input from English Heritage Heritage is still seeking a trust to take over and Birmingham City Council. However, management of the building, so that public the Trust decided that the risks were too access can continue. great and that they could not proceed. In ENGLAND

The Bath House Bradshaw House, Colehill Bank, Congleton, Cheshire CONGLETON BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST Listed Grade II; Lawton Street/Moody Street Conservation Area

FSG: £2,140 disbursed June 2003

Professional Team Architect: John K Carter DA (Manc), DIP. Arch, RIBA, AABC, Congleton Structural Engineer: John Snelson, C F Mountain & Partners, Stoke-on-Trent Project Management: Congleton Building Preservation Trust Main Contractor: Roy Muncaster Builders Ltd, Congleton

The site comprises a triangular shaped Acquired by the Borough of Congleton in Total investment: £100,000 garden containing an 18th-century Bath 1944 as part of the estate of Bradshaw Other Sources of Funding: House and garden shelter. The Bath House House, it is now separated from the main Heritage Lottery Fund: £44,460 is a one-up, one-down brick built structure, grounds by a right of way connecting Congleton Borough Council: £17,197 fed by a natural spring that was used both Colehill Bank with a housing development. Other grants and donations: Balance for medicinal and cleanliness purposes. The poor condition of the roof had caused major water ingress and severe dereliction. The Bath House is a one- The Council agreed to transfer the building up, one-down brick built to the Trust at a nominal value. It has now structure, fed by a natural been restored for use as exhibition space and the Trust plan to plant a physic garden spring that was used in the grounds, containing many of the both for medicinal and plants used in medicine and industry over the centuries. cleanliness purposes.

10 The Charles Dickens Museum 48 and 49 Doughty Street, London WC1 Listed Grade I/II; THE DICKENS HOUSE AND THE DICKENS HOUSE FUND Bloomsbury Conservation Area LOAN: £15,000 contracted June 2010, security – first charge

Professional Team Architect: Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects, London Structural Engineer: Roderigues Associates, London Main Contractor: Philiam, London

Total investment: £55,000 The buildings were acquired by the Trust a scheme to convert part of the ground in 1925 for use as a museum, library floor of no 49 to a small café with garden. Other Sources of Funding: and gallery. No 48 is listed Grade I for its It raised a substantial part of the funding The Dickens Fellowship: £15,000 The Rose Foundation: £7,000 historical associations as the former home required but needed an AHF working capital Individual donations: £10,000 of Charles Dickens; no 49 is listed Grade II. loan so that it was able to start work at a Trust’s own resources: Balance The Museum houses the world’s most time that suited the seasonal pattern of important collection relating to the great its operations. Victorian novelist and social commentator. The Trust has maintained them in good The café is now open seven days a week and condition but was conscious that it is one forms part of a wider redevelopment timed of the few museums of its kind not to offer to coincide with the bicentenary of Dickens’s any catering facilities for visitors. It devised birth in 2012.

The Museum houses the world’s most important collection relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator.

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22 Main Street Heysham, Lancashire Listed Grade II; Heysham Conservation Area HERITAGE TRUST FOR THE NORTH WEST LOAN: £90,000 repaid November 2006, security – repayment guarantee (Lancashire County Council) FSG: £3,460 disbursed October 2005 POG: £12,000 disbursed December 2008 LOAN: £126,000 contracted July 2009, security – repayment guarantee (Lancashire County Council)

Professional Team Architect: Michael Harrison Chartered Architect, Tatham, Lancashire Project Management: Heysham Village is three miles south west A small part of the barn was retained by the Heritage Trust for the North West of Morecambe on the Lancashire Coast. The owner of 22 Main Street and on his death the Main Contractor: settlement dates back to Anglo-Saxon times Trust was able to purchase the remainder Conservation Services North West

and in the 19th century was developed as of the site with the aid of an AHF acquisition Total investment: £177,165 a fishing community and tourist attraction. loan. The options appraisal identified four 22 Main Street is part of a traditional early potential uses for the building and the Trust Other Sources of Funding: 17th-century longhouse with an attached concluded the most suitable was to retain Heritage Lottery Fund: £50,000 barn. Built into the rocky hillside, it is one the building as a dwelling, either for rent Lancashire Environmental Fund: £10,000 Fundraising: £54,600 storey, with an attic. The adjacent former or as a holiday let, while the remaining bay Mortgage: £62,365 barn, at 24–26 Main Street, was acquired of the barn would be used to extend the by the Trust in 1998 and converted into a exhibition space in the Heritage Centre. Heritage Centre. It contains a permanent exhibition on Heysham’s history, an education room and a retail area.

22 Main Street is part of a traditional early 17th-century longhouse with an attached barn.

12 158 Every Street Whitefield, Nelson, Lancashire Whitefield Conservation Area HERITAGE TRUST FOR THE NORTH WEST LOAN: £24,500 repaid January 2008, security – repayment guarantee (Lancashire County Council) SUPPLEMENTAL LOAN: £45,500 repaid January 2009, security – repayment guarantee (Lancashire County Council)

Professional Team Historic Building Consultants: JWRC, Morecambe Project Management: Heritage Trust for the North West Main Contractor: Conservation Services North West The Heritage Trust for the North West The Trust purchased the house in April 2005; has played an active role in the protracted in 2006 Elevate East Lancashire offered the Total investment: £81,560 campaign to save 400 stone-built terrace Trust a grant of £10,000 to use 158 Every (including acquisition)

houses from demolition in Whitefield, Street as an exemplar project to investigate Other Sources of Funding: Nelson, an important rare example of a the options and record best practice in Elevate (Housing Renewal): £10,000 late 19th century Victorian development heritage renovation and refurbishment, English Heritage (Pendle Borough Council): and intact model village. Following Public energy efficiency improvement measures £27,185 Inquiries in 2002 and 2003, plans to and developing sustainable building Trust’s own resources: Balance demolish the terraces were overturned solutions for heritage projects. and since then the Whitefield Regeneration Partnership has overseen the restoration Subsequently English Heritage adopted of the village. the project as part of its Hearth and Home research programme. The performance of English Heritage adopted the building was monitored and recorded before building work commenced, and the project as part of a record will be made for comparison of its Hearth and Home the performance of the building following improvement works. The research will research programme. be published in due course.

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2–4 and 6–8 King Cross Street HERITAGE WORKS BUILDINGS PRESERVATION TRUST

6–8 King Cross Street date from the late area wide study undertaken with Yorkshire 18th or early 19th century and were Forward Regional Development Agency Halifax, Calderdale originally built as two semi-detached and Calderdale Council funding. Listed Grade II; Halifax Town Centre Conservation Area houses, probably used for both residential and business purposes. No 6 incorporates Roof repairs revealed OAG: £5,000 disbursed August 2007 (2–4) an internal courtyard connected to LOAN: £155,000 withdrawn March 2008 (6–8)

Hopwood Lane by a passageway. The rear that this part of the Professional Team elevation shows evidence of a former shop building may pre-date Architect: front. Roof repairs revealed that this part Rob Craggs and James Pooley, of the building may pre-date the Georgian the Georgian frontage … Calls Architecture, Leeds frontage by some considerable margin, Structural Engineer: with the construction suggesting an earlier 2–4 King Cross Street were probably Byrom Clark Roberts, Leeds agricultural use. constructed in the 18th century and most Quantity Surveyor: likely built as stables or outhouses for Andrew Gaunt, Bernard Williams Associates The property was acquired in June 2007 Hopwood House although upgraded with under threat of CPO. The Trust then classical detailing to compete with their Legal advice: Mark Barker, Cobbetts, Manchester undertook a series of major repairs. During more elegant neighbours. Unfortunately, the renovation, three construction skills the demise of the RDA and its funding Total costs: £565,087 taster days were organised. package meant that the Council’s CPO could not proceed and the properties Other Sources of Funding: Heritage Works’ restoration and remain unrestored and vacant. Yorkshire Forward RDA: £287,087 Single Regeneration Budget: £60,000 refurbishment of the listed townhouses at Townscape Heritage Initiative: £218,000 6–8 King Cross Street emerged out of an

14 Anchor Quay, Norwich, Norfolk Scheduled Ancient Monument; Gybson’s Conduit City Centre Conservation Area OAG: £3,000 disbursed April 2009 NORWICH PRESERVATION TRUST Professional Team Architect: Purcell Miller Tritton, Norwich Conservator – Polychrome Analysis: Andrea Kirkham, Norwich Specialist Paintwork: Hare & Humphreys, London Project Management: Malcolm D Crowder OBE FRICS IHBC, Norwich Main Contractor: Universal Stone, Great Dunmow, Essex

Total investment: £103,500 St Lawrence’s Well delivered water to the restored in 1921 since when the stonework parish of St Lawrence as far back as the had eroded, requiring stabilisation, details Other Sources of Funding: 13th century. In 1576 the well and lane were had become obscured and the incorrect English Heritage: £44,204 The Norwich Society: £3,225 granted to Robert Gybson, a brewer, on heraldic colours faded. Originally sited The John Jarrold Trust: £1,000 condition that he brought the water from in Westwick Street, the stone arch was The Paul Bassham Charitable Trust: £2,000 the well by a pipe to the public street at moved to the other side of the wall after Norfolk County Council: £5,000 his own expense. Two years later he built the conversion of the Ballard’s Brewery Trust’s own resources: Balance this magnificent structure, which has an site in the 1980s. inscription describing how this kind act cost him a great deal of money and was The Trust assessed whether it could afford so appreciated by the local people. The to take on a project with no prospect of a monument also incorporated the Royal financial return. Thankfully it felt able to do Coat of Arms after the visit of Elizabeth I to so and the finished monument once more Norwich in 1578. The monument was last graces its surroundings.

In 1576 the well and lane were granted to Robert Gybson, a brewer, on condition that he brought the water from the well by a pipe to the public street at his own expense.

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Garden Barn The Wellbrook Estate, Stockley Hill, Peterchurch, Herefordshire THE VIVAT TRUST Curtilage listing to Manor, listed Grade I OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2009 LOAN: £576,000 contracted March 2010, security – first charge

Professional Team Architect: Benedict Goodall and Peregrine Bryant, Peregrine Bryant Architects, London Structural Engineer: Clive Dawson, Hockley & Dawson, Cranleigh, Surrey Quantity Surveyor: Paul Trueman, Greenwood Wellbrook Manor is a fine example of a Projects, Lichfield 14th century hall-house and is cited by Project Management: Pevsner as being one of the best examples Steve Crichton, Greenwood in Herefordshire. The estate comprises Projects, Lichfield the Manor House, Home Farm House, Main Contractor: Splitlath Construction, Hereford associated barns and outbuildings, a semi- detached cottage, gardens, orchards and Total investment: £890,000 150 acres of tenanted farmland. It was last owned by Mrs Joan Griffiths, who was a Other Sources of Funding: picture restorer at Hampton Court and the Country Houses Foundation: £100,000 Pilgrim Trust: £15,000 Victoria & Albert Museum. Upon her death Mrs Griffith’s endowment: Balance ownership passed to the Vivat Trust.

The Garden Barn was probably built in the late 18th century as a cow house or stable but has been altered considerably and is therefore difficult to date with any precision. unit at the studio end. The Trust intends It was used by Mrs Griffiths as her studio. to provide accommodation for some of the The Trust has now converted it for use as year to an artist in residence, in order to its own offices, with a small holiday letting reflect the life of Mrs Griffiths.

The Garden Barn was probably built in the late 18th century as a cow house or stable …

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The earliest information relates to a note from Elizabeth I to Captain Brunker in 1574 …

The White House THE WHITE HOUSE PRESERVATION TRUST

30–34 Whitehouse Park, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim Listed Grade B+

FSG: £5,000 disbursed July 2003 POG: £9,405 disbursed May 2008 PAG: £4,000 disbursed March 2008

Professional Team Architect: Consarc Design Group, Belfast The White House stands on the foreshore McLaughlin donated the building for use as a M & E Engineer: of Belfast Lough and was so called because Gospel Hall. It continued in this use until 1977. Semple & McKillop Ltd, Belfast of its limestone rendering which made it a Project Management: RMI Business Solutions, Newtownabbey navigation marker for ships. There was a The White House Preservation Trust was wooden structure on the site from the 1500s formed in 2000 with the remit of restoring Main Contractor: Hugh J O’Boyle Ltd, Downpatrick prior to the current stone structure which it for a cross-community education it is believed was built in the early 1600s and information centre. This involved Total investment: £1,042,000 in the style of a Plantation bawn. constructing a new building on a metal structure within the ancient walls. Upstairs, Other Sources of Funding: The earliest information relates to a note there is a meeting space. Downstairs there Biffaward: £500,000 Heritage Lottery Fund: £424,000 from Elizabeth I to Captain Brunker in 1574 is an exhibition which tells the story of the Ulster Garden Villages: £100,000 giving him the White House for his part in Williamite/Jacobite campaign. The history Northern Ireland Environment Agency: the Spanish wars. Other owners, included of the White House forms a central part of £18,000 Sovereign of Belfast, George Martin who was the exhibition. Visitors are able to see the chased from the area during the Cromwellian great fireplace and bread ovens and what wars. King William III rode to the White House the White House may have looked like, in 1690, where he met General Schomberg find out about Plantation bawns, and what before making his way to Belfast. still lies beneath the floors.

In 1839 the first Ordnance Survey records For the first time in the history of the that until 70 years previous it was four building it will be possible to walk outside storeys and used as a stable and barn of along the historic walls and take in views the adjoining house. Around 1923 William over Belfast Lough.

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… the house and demesne were continuously occupied by the Staples family for 400 years …

Lissan House and Yard Cookstown, Co Tyrone Listed Grade B1 THE FRIENDS OF LISSAN TRUST FSG: £7,500 disbursed December 2002 POG: £15,000 disbursed May 2007 RPDG: £15,000 disbursed June 2007 PAG: £4,000 disbursed October 2007 CBG: £5,000 disbursed June 2008 CBG: £1,308 disbursed June 2008

Professional Team Architect: Nick Groves Raines Architects Structural Engineer: Albert Fry Associates Quantity Surveyor: Gardiner & Theobald Runner up in the first series of the BBC’s The repair work has included re-roofing, CDM Co-ordinator: Restoration, Lissan House is situated two replacement of the windows to the original Elliot York miles north west of Cookstown, Co Tyrone Georgian style, re-plastering, electrical Project Management: and stands in the fold of a small valley and plumbing overhaul, and the installation Trevor McCaig (Terry Doherty Partnership) enclosed by a deep wood. The property of catering facilities. A new roadway and supported by the Lissan House Trust Board, Patsy McShane and Cookstown comprises a substantial house, the access to the estate, parking areas, and the Enterprise Centre Moneymore gate lodge, the yard and upper installation of interpretation facilities have Main Contractor: yard buildings including stables, large also been included in the works. Corramore barns, byres and turf houses, remains of an original ironworks and a four and a half The Trust plans to use Lissan House and the Total investment: £1,170,440 acre walled garden. Thomas Staples settled wider estate for weddings and as a centre to Other Sources of Funding: in Moneymore in 1600 and the house and support many creative and rural activities. Northern Ireland Tourist Board: £500,000 demesne were continuously occupied by the SWARD (NI Rural Development Agency: Staples family for 400 years, making it one £250,000 of the oldest family holdings in Northern Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Ireland. Following the death of Hazel £167,440 The Manifold Trust: £78,000 Radclyffe Dolling, the last of the Staples, Lissan House Trust: £75,000 in 2006, ownership of part of the estate Cookstown District Council: £60,000 passed to the Friends of Lissan Trust. The Ulster Garden Villages: £40,000 Trust acquired the remaining parts of the estate and the main house in early 2011 and was successful in raising over £1 million to complete Phase I of the project.

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Kinghorn Town Hall St Leonard’s Place, Kinghorn, Fife Listed Category B; FIFE HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST Kinghorn Conservation Area FSG: £1,500 disbursed January 1998

Professional Team Architect: Sinclair Watt Architects, Methil Structural Engineer: Robert Page Associates, Kinghorn and Sandy Fraser Associates, Dundee (Robert Page deceased during project and structural engineering service taken over by Sandy Fraser Associates.) Quantity Surveyor: Norman Wilkinson, Kinghorn The site of the present Town Hall has a For almost 150 years municipal business M & E Engineer: history reaching back over several hundred was conducted within the Town Hall until Enconsult Ltd, Dunfermline years and represents a steady period of regionalisation in 1974. After a few years of CDM Co-ordinator: continued Burgh governance. The previous sporadic use by local groups, it descended Craigian Building Services Ltd, Kirkcaldy building on the site was a medieval structure into inevitable dereliction during the 1980s. Project Management: which was the tower of the chapel of St Following a 20 year period of neglect, plans Sinclair Watt Architects, Methil Leonard. Part of this is thought to date were drawn up to restore the building which Main Contractor: back to the 12th century. Following the was undertaken by Fife Historic Buildings Cummings & Co, Perth (went into receivership during contract and contract reformation the building became the town Trust through the Kinghorn and Burntisland completed by Alexander Fairfoul, Newburgh) house and gaol, but it was subsequently Townscape Heritage Initiative. demolished and replaced by the current Total investment: £830,000 building. Built in 1826, and designed by Since its restoration, the Town Hall has Thomas Hamilton, it represents a wonderful provided an office base for Fife Historic Other Sources of Funding: Historic Scotland: £220,000 example of early 19th-century civic pride. Buildings Trust and operates a meeting Heritage Lottery Fund: £460,000 In a Tudor Gothic style with its castellated and archive space for Kinghorn Historical Fife Council: £77,000 stone structure and elevated site, the Society. The upper floors have been Fife Historic Buildings Trust: £73,000 building is highly visible on the approach carefully restored as a holiday apartment to the town centre. While the members let by the Vivat Trust. The apartment is of the Burgh Council availed themselves also used as a wedding venue. of the magnificent meeting room on the first floor, the inmates of the burgh jail were accommodated in less luxurious surroundings in two cells on the ground floor.

Built in 1826, and designed by Thomas Hamilton, it represents a wonderful example of early 19th-century civic pride.

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Peterhead, Aberdeenshire Listed Category B; Peterhead Central 2–4 Threadneedle Street Outstanding Conservation Area POG: £7,500 disbursed February 2008

and 32–36 St Andrews Street Professional Team Architect: NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND – LDN Architects, Forres LITTLE HOUSES IMPROVEMENT SCHEME Structural Engineer: A F Cruden Associates, Elgin Quantity Surveyor: McLeod & Aitken Ltd, Aberdeen M & E Engineer: Cameron Chisholm Dawson Partnership, Aberdeen CDM Co-ordinator: LDN Architects, Forres Project Management: The National Trust for Scotland’s Little National Trust for Scotland Houses Improvement Scheme acquired Main Contractor: this group of largely derelict Georgian A D Walker Ltd, Banff townhouses in 2005. The buildings contain interesting original features and form a Total investment: £1,943,700 key element in the important and historic Other Sources of Funding: streetscape of Peterhead’s old burgh where Heritage Lottery Fund: £738,000 much neglect and under-investment has Aberdeenshire Council: £308,000 occurred in the past. Tenants First Housing Co-operative: £197,000 Peterhead CARS: £189,000 The buildings have been repaired and SITA Trust: £100,000 adapted in association with Tenants Others: £411,700 First Housing Co-operative and Inspire – Partnership Through Life to provide community care housing for adults with The buildings contain learning, and in some cases physical, disabilities. The scheme is the first priority interesting original features project to be completed in the Peterhead and form a key element in Outstanding Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme and will help bring new life to the the important and historic old burgh. It is also hoped that the project streetscape of Peterhead’s will play a part in a larger conservation and regeneration programme within the town. old burgh …

20 Earlstoun Castle – Phase I VIVAT TRUST

St Johns Town of Dalry, Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway Listed Category A; Scheduled Ancient Monument

OAG: £3,000 disbursed August 2007 PAG: £4,000 disbursed August 2008 POG: £14,993 disbursed October 2008 Earlstoun Castle is an ‘L’ shaped tower A single-storey extension was added in the house, constructed c.1615 for John Gordon 19th century and is known as the sawmill. In Professional Team of Airds. The building went through several 2008 the owners organised for internal and Architect: changes of ownership until acquired in external scaffolding to stabilise the structure ARPL Architects 1784 by William Forbes of Callendar. It has and to prevent the loss of further fabric. Structural Engineer: Arup remained in the Forbes family ever since Quantity Surveyor: The Vivat Trust is converting the building ARPL Architects into holiday accommodation and has now Some 17th-century CDM Co-ordinator: internal timber panelling, completed an emergency package of works ARPL Architects which constitutes Phase I of the project. Main Contractor: and cornicing still survives. The work has focussed on strengthening the Fleming Masonry building’s fabric by repointing areas of failing but has not been inhabited for about four mortar; replacing eroded masonry; and Total investment: £461,500 hundred years. It is built of greywacke rubble replacing rotten floor and roof timbers as Other Sources of Funding: with sandstone dressings, with a pitched well as missing roof slates. It has included Historic Scotland: £316,000 timber roof finished in traditional graded the recording and safe storage of the very EAST (inc. Gift Aid): £125,000 Scottish slate. Some 17th-century internal special panelling in the former Great Hall. Barscobe Heritage Trust: £15,000 timber panelling, and cornicing still survives. Funding for Phase II is being sought. Mann Foundation: £2,000 Hillhouse Trust: £2,000 Tay Charitable Trust: £1,000 Lady Jardine Charitable Trust: £500

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It opened in 1860 and housed corn, wool, meat and produce markets …

The Guildhall Courtyard The Guildhall, Cardigan, Ceredigion LOAN: £25,000 offered December 2010, CARDIGAN BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST security – repayment guarantee (Ceredigion County Council)

Professional Team Architect: Acanthus Holden, Waterman’s Lane, The Green, Pembroke Structural Engineer: Acanthus Holden, Waterman’s Lane, The Green, Pembroke Project Management: Menter Aberteifi Cyf Main Contractor: Teifi Installations The Guildhall, together with the attached school room. The clock tower was added two-storey covered market, was designed in 1892. In more recent years, the building’s Total investment: £166,778 by R J Withers, and was the first civic importance to the town has diminished, building in Britain to follow the Ruskinian partly due to its unmodernised services Other Sources of Funding: Rural Development Project (Capital element) Gothic style of architecture. It opened in and lack of disabled access. Welsh Assembly Government: £128,378 1860 and housed corn, wool, meat and Cadw: £8,400 produce markets, the Borough Chambers, Restoration of the Guildhall has been Ceredigion County Council – Cardigan Area Mechanics’ Institute, library and grammar undertaken in three phases and has Renewal: £30,000 largely been funded from Cardigan’s THI scheme, Welsh Assembly Government and Cadw, assisted by Menter Aberteifi, a local community regeneration company. The previous phases provided accommodation for community groups and voluntary organisations, an art gallery and public hire space (see Annual Review 2008–09, p.24).

The final phase has allowed the re-paving of the courtyard area and the installation of new drainage, lighting, seating and planting. The cement mortar on the front and rear walls of the main block of the building has also been replaced, together with roof repairs.

22 Threadneedle Street and St Andrews Street, Peterhead (see p.20) The Florence Institute for Boys (see p.31) PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT

The buildings included this year represent a microcosm of the architectural styles and periods of the built heritage of the UK. KEY Many projects receive several different AHF grants and loans. Norton Priory in Runcorn, Grade I listed and Newport not featuring at all and some These are abbreviated as follows: and a Scheduled Ancient Monument, English cities have long been absent from FSG Feasibility Study Grant is one of the oldest buildings featured, this publication – Leeds, Leicester and originally dating from the 10th century Nottingham among them. In response to OAG Options Appraisal Grant while the Grade II* listed Shrine of Our this, the AHF’s development work is being CBG Capacity Building Grant Lady of Lourdes in Blackpool was built in targeted at some of these ‘cold spots’. PAG Project Administration the 1950s. In the Highlands, the Scottish Grant Historic Buildings Trust is in the process An options appraisal is usually the first POG Project Organiser Grant of converting Ham Girnal, a former corn step for a charity in developing a scheme PDG Project Development Grant mill in Caithness for use as a centre for the to save a building at risk but it can take a RPDG Refundable Project performing arts, and nearly 800 miles to the number of years for a sustainable project to Development Grant south, Cornwall Building Preservation Trust emerge and there are signs that the typical is developing a scheme for the Old Duchy period of development following an options Grant and loan information is as at the end of the financial year (31 March Palace in Lostwithiel. In between, there appraisal is lengthening. Establishing a 2011) but the text often includes more are former churches and chapels, castles, viable end use becomes more challenging recent developments. mills, schools, town houses and town halls. when the economy is weak and public sector cuts are beginning to take effect. Where a grant or loan offer is Projects are often clustered in particular shown as ‘withdrawn’, this does not areas, explained in part by the fact that The support that the AHF continues to necessarily mean that the project is not proceeding. The applicant may have there are some very active Trusts operating offer through its Project Development been able to go ahead without it or the in these locations, many employing paid Grant scheme is invaluable to many BPTs nature of the project may have changed staff, continually working on a programme and we are working with other funders to and a new application submitted. of projects. However, there are large areas try to help projects to move through this of inactivity throughout the country, for crucial development stage. Our recently example in South Wales, activity is updated Funds for Historic Buildings website concentrated mostly in the rural south west, (www.ffhb.org.uk) also provides valuable with the main cities of Cardiff, Swansea information on other sources of support. BELOW: The Walronds (see p.36)

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EASTERN REGION Norwich Preservation Trust 6–9 Ninhams Court 1 Norwich, Norfolk Listed Grade II*; City Centre Mid Essex Historic Buildings Trust North Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust Conservation Area The Woodrolfe Granary 1 Langham Dome 2 OAG: £5,688 disbursed August 2010

Woodrolfe Road, Tollesbury, Essex Cockthorpe Road, Langham, Norfolk 6–9 Ninhams Court has 15th-century Listed Grade II Listed Scheduled Ancient Monument origins, with 17th- and 18th-century FSG: £4,650 disbursed November 2004 FSG: £2,247 disbursed February 2001 additions, restored again in the 19th OAG: £1,981 disbursed September 2010 PAG: £4,000 disbursed July 2005 century. It forms part of an important PDG: £8,500 offered September 2009 group within the city walls. It is The Granary is located in a boatyard constructed of painted flint rubble with beside the Woodrolfe Creek, a tributary Langham Dome was built in 1942/43 of brick dressings, and a pantiled roof. It is of the Blackwater River. Dating from the concrete and metal mesh construction on two storeys with attics, on a complex, 19th century, it is a simple two-storey to contain a Link trainer and projection three-bay, ‘L’ shaped plan, and is wooden structure supported on timber equipment for training torpedo bomber accessible only by a narrow alleyway. beams mechanically fixed to wood piles. pilots and possibly anti-aircraft gunners. In addition to its architectural history, Although used as a granary it was It is 12 metres in diameter, had been it has local importance as the birthplace probably originally constructed for sail or unused since the end of the Second of the Maddermarket Theatre, which net repairs. In 2003 the Trust was offered World War and was in poor condition and started in an upstairs room, and is now a 25-year lease at a peppercorn rent if vulnerable to vandalism when the Trust of international renown. However, it is a viable scheme could be identified, and first became involved. The Trust intends beyond commercial repair and the Trust obtained AHF funding to undertake a to reinstate the lighting and projection has been offered a long lease by the study, however, this did not result in a equipment so that its original purpose local authority. An AHF-funded options sufficiently robust scheme. The Trust can be demonstrated to visitors. However, appraisal demonstrated that a residential retained its interest in the building and the concrete reinforcement is corroded, scheme would be viable. was offered a supplementary grant by asbestos has been found and services the AHF to re-visit the potential end uses need to be brought to the site. The Trust but it has finally concluded that current received a HLF first-round pass in March circumstances make this unlikely and 2011, and has helped to establish a local it will be seeking alternative projects. friends group to improve accessibility.

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Norwich Preservation Trust 3 41 All Saints Green

Norwich, Norfolk Listed Grade II; City Centre Conservation Area OAG: £7,500 offered September 2010

This former town house, dating from the 18th century, is constructed on three storeys of red brick with a black pantile roof, with five bays, a central doorway with attached Doric columns supporting architrave and flat hood. It is sited in a central location and was last used as offices. There is a busy road at the front, with little space to the rear. Norwich City Council owns the building and has maintained the exterior and roof. It has offered the Trust a long lease, and they are undertaking a study of appropriate 3 uses to safeguard its future.

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Norwich Preservation Trust 4 Howard House

97 King Street, Norwich, Norfolk Listed Grade II*; City Centre Conservation Area 6 OAG: £6,840 offered March 2011

Built for Henry Howard, brother of the Arkwright Society 6 Duke of Norfolk, Howard House dates EAST MIDLANDS from the 17th century and is on two Building 1 storeys, built in red brick, rendered on the street facades, with a pantile roof and Sir Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mills sash windows. One of its prime features Mill Lane, Cromford, Derbyshire Arkwright Society is a fine staircase with openwork panels; 5 Listed Grade I; Cromford and Derwent it also possesses an off-centre door with Building 17 Valley Mills World Heritage Site pilasters supporting an open pediment. OAG: £7,500 offered December 2010 It is sited on the corner of Mountergate, Sir Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mills which leads to the River Wensum and King Mill Lane, Cromford, Derbyshire Built c.1785, this four-storey ‘L’ shaped Street, one of the most historic streets Listed Grade I; Cromford and Derwent structure is of coursed and squared in Norwich. Since the 1990s the site has Valley Mills World Heritage Site gritstone with a hipped Westmoreland passed through the hands of a number of slate roof and was constructed as an developers, while steadily deteriorating. PDG: £25,000 disbursed September 2010 RPDG: £40,000 offered December 2010, annexe to the main cotton mill. It is The AHF offered an options appraisal believed to be part of the last phase of grant in June 2008; this resulted in the security – repayment guarantee (Derbyshire County Council) development of the Cromford Mills site. owner undertaking some emergency A fire in 1890 caused serious damage repairs and the grant offer was to the roof and upper storey. In 1927 it withdrawn. The owner subsequently went In 1979 the Arkwright Society purchased Cromford Mills, then in an acute state was purchased by the Troy Laundry and into receivership and the building is now remained in use as a laundry until 1967. held by the liquidator, while continuing of dereliction and heavily contaminated. It has brought many of the mill buildings, It was acquired by the Society in 1979 as to deteriorate despite emergency part of the wider site. It is in a prominent scaffolding and roof coverings being put which are part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, back into position as the first building approached in place. The Trust has re-applied for from the main car park. The Society have a grant to assess potential end-uses. use. Building 17 is the largest of the Grade I buildings on the site and has undertaken an options appraisal as part EASTERN REGION • EAST MIDLANDS REGION • EAST EASTERN approximately 1,500 square metres of a wider master plan for the whole site. Possible end uses include catering, office 5 of space on five floors. Although decontamination works took place in accommodation and conference and 1995 and its exterior was repaired in 2004, adult learning facilities. its interior is derelict and unused. A new facility will be created on the ground floor of the building as the starting point for visitors to the World Heritage Site. The upper floors will consist of suites of small offices with shared supporting accommodation. AHF funding has allowed the Trust to develop the scheme, resulting in support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, which has increased its grant offer following the withdrawal of funding from the Regional Development Agency.

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Cotesbach Educational Trust 1 Former Schoolhouse, Stick House and Coach House

Cotesbach Hall, Lutterworth, Leicestershire Unlisted but within curtilage of Cotesbach Hall (Grade II*) 1 PDG: £13,500 offered December 2010 PDG: £6,500 offered March 2011 Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire 2 3 The Cotesbach Estate has been in the 116 High Street long-term ownership of one family and has survived as a remarkable example Boston, Lincolnshire of architectural and social history. Listed Grade II*; Boston Town Cotesbach Hall remains in private Conservation Area ownership, but strong links have been developed between the Trust and the OAG: £12,500 disbursed December 2009 owners of the main house. The three PDG: £11,250 disbursed November 2010 ancillary buildings are modest in scale PDG: £4,460 offered March 2011 and create an informal cluster. The School House was purpose-built in the late 18th Built in the early 18th century in red brick century and although in poor condition, with ashlar dressings, 116 High Street remains structurally sound. The Stick was chosen by William Garfit JP as the St James the Less Preservation Trust House was constructed in the early 19th site of Boston’s first bank. It consists of 3 century as a cart or livestock shed to two storeys with a five-bay frontage, and St James the Less Church serve the adjacent farm buildings and is was extended to the rear in the late 18th in very poor condition. The two-bay Coach and early 19th centuries. Two panelled Spring Bank, New Mills, House was built at around the same rooms of this date survive. The building High Peak, Derbyshire time and is structurally sound. The Trust was used as a private house for many Listed Grade II; New Mills Spring Bank intends to renovate the buildings as a base years, before becoming vacant in the Conservation Area to explore the Estate and its environment, early 1980s and subsequently falling into OAG: £4,485 disbursed June 2007 and provide an educational resource and disrepair. The Trust has received support CBG: £553 disbursed June 2007 study centre for the extensive Estate from English Heritage and the Heritage POG: £13,000 disbursed September 2009 records. Two AHF project development Lottery Fund and acquired the building in OAG: £1,947 disbursed February 2009 grants were offered to employ a project April 2010. Restoration is now underway PDG: £11,500 disbursed December 2009 organiser and meet professional costs. and Lincolnshire Community Foundation LOAN: £100,000 offered December 2010, The Trust has also been offered a will be using the building as a centre for security – repayment guarantee (High Heritage Lottery Fund grant and awaits social enterprise, offering services to Peak Borough Council) the results of other funding applications. the local community. This compact, simple church was built in the Early Decorated style by W Swinden 2 Barber in 1878–80. Constructed of dressed local stone with ashlar dressings it has a roof of green Westmoreland slate and forms part of a group with the adjacent almshouses and nearby school. Highly coloured internal decorations were applied by Powell Bros of Leeds although some are now obscured. From 1980 St James’s was used jointly by Anglican and Methodist worshippers, the new congregation providing funds towards its upkeep and facilities. The Methodists left in 2003 and the Anglican congregation were unable to maintain the building which resulted in the Parochial Church Council declaring it redundant in 2005. St James’s is in a fair condition and the Trust has been active in maintaining and securing it while developing the restoration scheme, putting on concerts and events. It has now acquired the Church from the Diocese of Derby, together with an adjoining strip of land to construct a new extension and work is underway to convert it into an arts centre for the benefit of the community. EAST MIDLANDS EAST

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Ullesthorpe Preservation Trust GREATER LONDON Sandycombe Lodge Trust 5 Ullesthorpe Windmill Sandycombe Lodge

Windmill Road, Ullesthorpe, 40 Sandycombe Road, Leicestershire Twickenham, London Listed Grade II Heritage of London Trust 4 Listed Grade II*; Cambridge Park Operations Ltd Conservation Area PDG: £11,500 offered March 2010 549 Lordship Lane OAG: £7,400 offered March 2011 Ullesthorpe Windmill is a tower mill constructed c.1800 and was financed Southwark, London SE22 Sandycombe Lodge was designed by by 29 local people purchasing 88 shares. Listed Grade II the artist J M W Turner as a country Their intention was to build a mill that retreat from which he mounted painting OAG: £7,500 disbursed December 2008 would alleviate poverty by lowering expeditions. His sketchbooks prior to PDG: £17,500 disbursed December 2010 the price of flour locally. It ceased the completion of the building in 1812 LOAN: £660,000 offered March 2010, functioning as a windmill in the 1890s are filled with architectural ideas, some security – repayment guarantee (London but the site remained in use. The project of which found their way into the house, Borough of Southwark) comprises the mill, which contains most as did those of Sir John Soane, who of the original wooden machinery, and Turner met at the Royal Academy. This domestic dwelling was built c.1873 associated buildings: granary, stable, The villa is on two storeys, built of brick, as a Parsonage to St Peters Church courtyard, privy, bakehouse, miller’s and painted white. Although much of and was part of the rapidly expanding office and piggeries. The Trust has been the surrounding land has been sold off development of the Dulwich College negotiating with the current owner, for suburban development, it retains Estate which followed the relocation a descendant of the original majority a garden on all four sides. Following of the Crystal Palace to Sydenham. shareholder, to acquire a 75-year lease. Turner’s death in 1826, the house passed Designed by Charles Barry Jnr, also It runs regular open weekends and had through several different owners. In architect for Dulwich College, 549 received an HLF first-round pass; an 1947 it was purchased by Professor Lordship Lane was constructed using LONDON • GREATER MIDLANDS EAST AHF grant to fund a project organiser Livermore who bequeathed it to the Trust Drake’s patent concrete building has assisted its fundraising campaign. in 2010, together with a large collection apparatus, the outer walls being of of prints and drawings by Turner and his innovative concrete construction using contemporaries and a library of books. ‘burnt ballast’ and Portland cement Professor Livermore’s wish was that the without steel reinforcement. It is Gothic building should be used as a tribute to in style, with pointed arches to the large the artist and his work, and the study will bay windows which also have ornate examine all appropriate end uses that stucco reveals. The building had fallen reflect this desire. into a state of extreme dereliction when the London Borough of Southwark took positive action, successfully serving a Compulsory Purchase Order and a back- to-back agreement with the Trust to take on ownership. Restoration work is about to commence to convert the building into 4 five social housing units.

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South London Theatre Building 1 Preservation Trust The Old Fire Station

South London Theatre Centre, 2a Norwood High Street, London SE27 Listed Grade II; West Norwood Conservation Area FSG: £7,500 disbursed July 2008 NORTH EAST NORTH WEST CBG: £1,148 disbursed November 2006 PDG: £5,000 offered March 2011

The Fire Station was built in 1881 in red brick with the gothic detailing typical North of England Civic Trust 2 Charnock Richard 3 of Victorian municipal buildings, it Western Lodge Community Centre Trust dominates the streetscape through its Old School and School House most prominent feature, a tall octagonal Leazes Park, Newcastle upon Tyne tower. This originally functioned as a Leazes Park Conservation Area Charnock Richard, Lancashire look-out point to watch for fires and Listed Grade II also contained a vertical shaft in which PDG: £12,385 offered December 2010 canvas hoses were hung to dry. In 1913, OAG: £7,000 offered September 2010 the building housed a station officer, Leazes Park lies to the west of Newcastle nine firemen, two coachmen, two pairs city centre, next to St James’s Park The Old School and School House occupy of horses, one fire engine and one hose football stadium. It is the city’s oldest a triangular plot close to the parish cart. It became redundant in 1915 with the park, opened in 1873, and it is on English church and almshouses in Charnock advent of motorised fire engines which Heritage’s Register of Historic Parks Richard. All were endowed by James were too large to be accommodated in the and Gardens. In 2004 the park reopened Darlington, a prosperous local mine building. After being used as a church hall following a £4.5 million restoration, owner. The former school and adjoining for many years, in 1967 it was converted funded substantially by the Heritage headmaster’s house were built in into a 96-seat proscenium arch theatre Lottery Fund. The Western Lodge, 1858 in the Gothic style, of Houghton by the architect Owen Luder, and the originally known as the Head Gardener’s Towerstone, a local brown sandstone, South London Theatre was established Lodge, was constructed c.1870 and is with ‘V’ cut Welsh slates laid on steeply in the same year to promote, improve and designed in a Victorian Medieval style. It pitched roofs forming an asymmetrical advance the education of the public by the is a two-storey red brick villa with a steep grouping. The school moved in 1969, production of educational plays and the pitched Welsh slate roof with fish scale and from the 1970s local residents used encouragement of the arts. The Trust was decoration to some pitches and carved the building for community activities offered an AHF grant to employ a project timber barge boards to the numerous on an informal basis, as there was and organiser to seek further funding. gables. Most recently used as the Park still is no other community centre in Superintendent’s house and later as the village. The former headmaster’s offices, it is now derelict. It remains in house was let as a dwelling until 1995, 2 the ownership of Newcastle City Council, since when it has been vacant and which has indicated that it will offer a long subjected to vandalism. After the school’s lease to the Trust. The Trust intends to closure the buildings received very little bring it back into use as its own offices maintenance and gradually deteriorated. and has been offered an AHF grant to The Trust acquired a 50-year lease develop the scheme. on both buildings from the Blackburn Diocesan Board of Education in July 2009 and intends to provide a more modern community facility in the former school buildings, and to develop a ‘local heritage hub’ linking into an existing heritage trail. The options appraisal study will examine this in more detail.

30 Cumbria Building Preservation Trust The Florence Institute Trust 4 Greater Manchester Building 37–39 Main Street The Florence Institute for Boys Preservation Trust Tonge Hall Sedbergh, Cumbria 377 Mill Street, Liverpool Listed Grade II Listed Grade II William Street, Middleton, OAG: £4,375 offered June 2008 LOAN: £253,265 contracted March 2011, Rochdale, Lancashire security – repayment guarantee (Diocese Listed Grade II* 37–39 Main Street is a three-storey of Liverpool) LOAN: £120,000 contracted April 2010, building, probably mid 19th century, security – repayment guarantee fronting the main commercial street in For a hundred years the Florence (Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council) Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Institute for Boys, or ‘The Florrie’ as it Park. Three retail units once occupied is known locally, has served the youth of Tonge Hall is a substantial late 16th- the ground floor, with the most recent the tough dock-side area of The Dingle in century timber-framed house, with uses as a butcher and an antiques shop. Liverpool. A local landmark, it was built a single cross-wing to the east and a A 19th-century wooden shop front in 1889 by Sir Bernard Hall, a West Indies hall range that appears to have had extends along the width of the property. merchant, Alderman and former Mayor two storeys. At the rear the frame has There was residential accommodation of Liverpool, and was a fine example of been encased in brick but the main on the upper floors. It is separated from late Victorian architecture with delicate front and the side wall of the cross-wing properties on either side by narrow use of terracotta. The building was retain elaborate exposed framing with alleyways, leading to a yard containing officially opened in 1890 and was the first decorative quatrefoil panels, coved jetties some two-storey buildings which are in Britain to be specifically constructed and projecting gables. A solid oak spiral probably older than the main building. as a boys’ youth club. Bernard Hall staircase remains in the wing which All parts of the property are built of stone dedicated the building to his daughter also has a parlour lined with moulded but the front façade has been rendered Florence’s memory. In 2004 its sorry panelling, most of which appears to date and painted. The property has been condition was featured as part of the from c.1700. The building was already empty for at least ten years and was in a Liverpool Echo’s “Stop the Rot” campaign in a poor condition when a devastating dilapidated state when the Trust became which raised the profile of the derelict fire broke out in June 2007. Debris fills involved. The building is understood to be building. The Florence Institute Trust the ground floor and the building is structurally sound but immediate repairs was formed later that year. It obtained now considered too dangerous to enter. are required to timber lintels to upper the freehold of the Institute in June 2010 Rochdale Council was prepared to floors to prevent collapse and structural and work is underway to restore the use statutory powers to acquire it and deterioration. The study will examine building to provide managed workspace carry out emergency repairs but has options for re-use. for local entrepreneurs and businesses, successfully negotiated with the elderly flexible community space for events, owner to pass ownership to the Trust for conferences, exhibitions and youth a peppercorn rent. They will undertake Cumbria Building Preservation Trust activities and a multi-functional hall. emergency works and repair the shell. Prince Charlie’s House Despite having a fully funded project, the Trust has sought an AHF working capital loan to cover anticipated delays 95 Stricklandgate, Kendal, Cumbria in drawing down grant offers. Listed Grade II; Kendal Conservation Area OAG: £5,108 offered June 2008 4 The property is in a prominent location on the east side of Stricklandgate, Kendal’s main thoroughfare. It is part of a row of three-storey terrace properties, all of 17th-century origin and within the Kendal Conservation Area. Bonnie Prince Charlie slept here on his advance into England in 1745 and again during his retreat, with the pursuing Duke of Cumberland sleeping here on the following night. Since 1918 it has been in the ownership of the local YWCA and for many years it was run as a residential hostel. The ground floor is currently let as a café but due to access problems the first and second floors are unoccupied. The building is structurally sound but the roof is in need of complete overhaul. The YWCA can no longer afford to maintain the property and wishes to dispose of it to the Trust, which is undertaking an appraisal of all appropriate uses before committing to ownership. ENGLAND

Heritage Works Buildings 3 Preservation Trust Former Ancoats Dispensary

Old Mill Street, Ancoats, Manchester Listed Grade II OAG: £5,785 offered December 2010

Ancoats Dispensary is the only building remaining on the former Ancoats Hospital site. It was opened in 1873 to treat outpatients and dispense medicines to the inhabitants of East Manchester. Its interior was depicted in a painting by L S Lowry in 1952 and it is a significant architectural symbol and one of only two historic buildings remaining in the New Islington area of Manchester. The hospital closed in 1987, following which the building was inhabited by squatters and damaged by fire, before being acquired as part of a 30-acre redevelopment site 1 in 2003. A commercial development was proposed for the ground floor, with apartments above. However the sudden Heritage Trust for the North West 2 withdrawal of funding following the Lytham Hall 1 demise of the Regional Development Agency led the developer to engage with the Trust to find a solution. Sadly the Ballam Road, Lytham, Lancashire options appraisal report concluded that Listed Grade I at this difficult time, there is insufficient POG: £4,525 disbursed November 2003 funding to make the restoration PDG: £21,500 disbursed May 2010 scheme viable.

Lytham Hall was commissioned by Sir Thomas Clifton in 1752 to replace Historic Chapels Trust a previous house on the site, the seat Heritage Trust for the North West of the Clifton family. The eminent Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes architect, John Carr of York spent ten Long Street Methodist Church years completing the design, which Whinney Heys Road, Blackpool incorporated some of the earlier 16th- Long Street, Middleton, Manchester 2 Listed Grade II* century house, the remains of which are Listed Grade II*; OAG: £4,390 disbursed September 2010 still visible in the Courtyard and West Middleton Conservation Area Wings. The fine Palladian house, which OAG: £5,000 disbursed October 2010 The Shrine was built in 1957 to the stands in 80 acres of mature park and designs of Francis Xavier Velarde, a woodland, survives little altered today Methodism was of increasing influence Liverpool-based church architect. It is and is regarded as one of his best works. in the Manchester area after John constructed in Portland stone, with a The Trust acquired a long lease in 2000 Wesley preached there in 1766. The copper-clad roof and traceried windows and has spent a considerable sum on congregation had outgrown its previous following a contemporary geometric development in order to submit a HLF bid. accommodation twice when Long Street pattern. The exterior is dominated by An AHF project development grant has Methodist Church was built in 1899 by a central carved relief and figurative allowed further work to be carried out. celebrated local architect Edgar Wood. corner pinnacles by the local sculptor It consists of a chapel, Sunday school David John. Spot listing in 1999 saved the and ancillary buildings surrounding a building from demolition and the shrine 3 garden courtyard. Built in red brick on an was finally declared redundant in 2001. ashlar plinth and matching buttresses, The Trust acquired the building in 2002 its Free Gothic style also incorporates but recognised that it needed to find Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau details. regular sources of income to pay for its Many original internal features survive upkeep. The study examined possible and the stalls, pews, panelled doors and end uses and end users. sanctuary chairs were all designed by Wood. As an endowment fund to carry out repairs dwindled, the Trust was approached and carried out an options appraisal. This recommended community use and the Trust now owns the site and is developing the project further. NORTH WEST

32 Theatre Royal Onward SOUTH EAST Theatre Royal

Corporation Street, Hyde, Cheshire Listed Grade II Clophill Heritage Trust 5 FSG: £3,500 disbursed November 2002 CBG: £3,534 disbursed December 2008 St Mary’s Old Church OAG: £12,500 offered September 2008 Church Path, Clophill, Bedfordshire 4 The Theatre Royal was built in 1902 by Listed Grade II* and Scheduled Campbell and Horsley of Manchester. Its Ancient Monument elaborate symmetrical frontage is nine PDG: £15,000 offered December 2010 bays wide, with a broad bay at the centre, and is constructed on three levels, with St Mary’s Church is thought to be about stalls, circle and gallery providing 1,120 400 years old, but is likely to have seats. It is notable for its lavish terracotta originated from 1145 or even earlier. After and brick decoration; the balconies and being superseded by a new parish church decorative areas remain intact, along in 1845, it was used as a mortuary chapel with the large auditorium. It showed until 1970. It is now a ruin, with no roof, films and live shows until 1972, when and a target for anti-social behaviour. the internal layout was modified to take It is owned by Central Bedfordshire two cinema screens. The Proscenium Council, and the Trust is in the process arch survives but is marred by the of negotiating a long lease. The Trust alterations. The theatre closed in 1992 wishes to reinstate the building as a and has suffered from years of neglect. walkers’ hostel, as it lies at the heart of It was listed in 2000 and the Trust was the Greensand Ridge footpath, which runs formed shortly after and a feasibility for 40 miles between Leighton Buzzard 4 study undertaken. This was inconclusive and Hamlingay in Bedfordshire. There and in the meantime ownership changed is scope to incorporate other elements hands. In 2008, the AHF offered a further involving tourism, education, health and Norton Priory Museum Trust 4 grant to assess the building and examine fitness. The employment of a project Undercroft of West Range, a range of end uses. Following this the organiser has allowed the scheme to Trust hopes to develop the scheme as be developed further. Norton Priory part of the wider regeneration of Hyde.

Tudor Road, Manor Park, Runcorn, Cheshire Listed Grade I and Scheduled Ancient Monument OAG: £10,000 offered September 2010

Originally a two-storey range, the Undercroft is the last surviving building of the former Augustinian Priory founded by the Baron of Halton in 1115. Parts of the building date from c.1180. Following the Dissolution, a Tudor house was built on the site in 1545 which was replaced in 1730. This was demolished in 1928, leaving a single story structure with a Victorian porch attached. It is constructed of local red sandstone with a stone vaulted ceiling. The site was acquired by the Runcorn Development Agency, which developed part of the site as a trading estate, but the monastic ruins and immediate surroundings were passed to the Trust in the mid-1970s. In the early 1980s a lightweight structure was erected over the Undercroft to provide a viewing platform. Although open to visitors, the building has no specific use. The lower parts of the walls are sagging and damp, and work has been necessary as areas of the Victorian tiled floor have sunk. The Trust is to identify a wide range of uses to utilise the building. 5

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Faversham Buildings 1 Preservation Trust The Assembly Rooms and Cottage

Preston Street, Faversham Listed Grade II; Faversham Town Centre Conservation Area LOAN: £210,000 offered September 2010, security – repayment guarantee (Swale Borough Council)

Assembly Rooms were constructed on the site in the 1830s and although these buildings were destroyed by fire they were replaced with the present buildings within a year. In 1869, with greater entertainment competition, the buildings were hired long-term to the Volunteers – the counterpart of today’s Territorial Army – and have remained in military use ever since. The site comprises a yard containing the Assembly Rooms, the Cottage and the Gun Room, and is still used by the local Army Cadet Force and the Air Training Corps. The MoD wished to dispose of the Assembly Rooms and Cottage, and the 2 Trust has been offered an AHF loan for an exceptional five-year period to allow it to acquire the two buildings and develop its Old Fort Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust plan to reinstate the Assembly Rooms as Old Fort Regency Close and former an entertainment venue. Chief Superintendent’s House Old Fort Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex Residential Quarter, Sheerness 2 Scheduled Ancient Monument Dockyard, Blue Town, Sheerness, OAG: £7,500 disbursed November 2010 Isle of Sheppey, Kent Listed Grade II* and Grade II; Lord Palmerston (Prime Minister Sheerness Dockyard Conservation Area 1855–58) is best remembered for his LOAN: £650,000 contracted March 2011, aggressive foreign policy at a time when security – first charge the United Kingdom was at the height of its power. The realisation that a Sheerness Dockyard lies on the western French army under Napoleon III could be tip of the Isle of Sheppey, off the North landed on the south coast within hours coast of Kent. There has been a dockyard meant that two new forts were built to on the site since the 15th century, supplement existing fortifications. The occupying an important position at the Fort at Shoreham was completed in 1857 mouth of the Rivers Thames and Medway. on a spit of shingle that overlooked the In around 1815 a new dockyard was harbour and its approaches but its six erected in one phase of construction. guns were never fired in anger. During the It was meticulously planned with each Second World War, gun and searchlight building designed for a specific purpose. batteries were installed. The coastguard The eight-acre residential site within tower was constructed in the 1950s on the Dockyard comprises the Grade II* top of (and incorporating elements of) the Commissioner’s House and a terrace west magazine, but has been redundant of five officers’ houses, Grade II South for a number of years. The Fort is a Gate House and Dockyard Cottage and Scheduled Ancient Monument and at the former stables. The site had been owned 1 time of the grant offer, English Heritage by a property developer who, having confirmed that the coastguard tower had several inappropriate planning benefited from statutory protection. applications refused, finally agreed However, this designation was altered to to sell to the Trust. exclude the tower shortly before the study was completed. The AHF will therefore not be able to support the project financially in the future, although there is every chance that it will be successful. SOUTH EAST SOUTH

34 The Vivat Trust 3 The Vivat Trust 4 Hadlow Tower The Assumption

Hadlow Village, Tonbridge, Kent Hartwell, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Listed Grade I; Hadlow Conservation Area Listed Grade II* PAG: £4,000 disbursed February 2005 OAG: £3,000 offered March 2011 POG: £15,000 disbursed February 2005 LOAN: £100,000 contracted May 2005, Built 1753–55 to the designs of Henry security – repayment guarantee Keene, the church is an early example (Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council) of the Gothic revival style. Keene was Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster The Tower, servants’ quarters, stables Abbey between 1752–76, and some of and coach house are now all that remain the details used at Hartwell may have of Hadlow Castle. Construction work been based on originals in the Abbey. on the Castle was begun in 1790 and The plan of the church is a simple continued for several decades. Modelled octagon with battlemented parapets on the tower at Fonthill Abbey, the and east and west towers. It is set in the 4 Tower at Hadlow was built in 1835. The grounds of Hartwell House, which is lantern was added in 1840 but it was now a hotel. The church was described never furnished or decorated. In 1975 the as ruinous in 1951 and was given to the Bristol Buildings Preservation Trust building was converted to residential use Churches Conservation Trust in 1975 and has been in private ownership ever who are prepared to offer a long lease to Lower Lodge since. Having had no maintenance work the Vivat Trust if the single-use options done since its construction, Tonbridge appraisal demonstrates holiday letting Ashton Park School, Ashton, Bristol and Malling Borough Council undertook will provide sufficient income to cover Listed Grade II*; Bower Ashton emergency repairs in 1992, which maintenance costs. Conservation Area included the dismantling of the lantern, OAG: £5,995 disbursed March 2010 gables, all pinnacles and the parapets PDG: £7,500 offered March 2010 to the tower and stair tower. Following a SOUTH WEST Compulsory Purchase Order being served Lower Lodge was originally a by the local authority in 2010, restoration Gatekeeper’s Lodge for the Ashton work is now underway for conversion Estate, built c.1805 for Sir John Hugh to holiday letting, with the rebuilding of Smyth and designed by Humphrey the lantern, gables, buttresses and roof, Beckery Island Regeneration Trust Repton. The Lodge is of limestone ashlar, reglazing, and installation of a lift to Baily’s Factory and battlemented in Tudor style. It has only offer access to all levels. three useable rooms, and was probably The Mill House 5 never inhabited full-time. It has been unoccupied for 50 years and a partial Beckery Old Road, Glastonbury, Somerset roof collapse has caused movement Listed Grade II throughout the structure. Ashton Park OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2007 School was built in the estate grounds, PAG: £4,000 disbursed May 2010 although the original house still stands. The options appraisal demonstrated that There have been tanneries on this site the Lodge would be suitable for use by the since the middle ages, when the Abbots school as office accommodation. English of Glastonbury provided a mill stream Heritage offered development funding as a source of power. The 15th-century but government cuts led to this being Mill House is the last surviving partly withdrawn. The local authority has met medieval building, built predominantly the cost of emergency scaffolding to stop in the local Lias. It was part of the group further deterioration. The Trust is hopeful 5 known as Baily’s Factory and the Morland that the project may be eligible for Works which closed in 1992. In 2001, the funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Regional Development Agency acquired the main body of the site for development 3 as a mixed-use business park, and WEST • SOUTH EAST SOUTH removed the majority of the structures. Although the Trust carried out a study on all the historic buildings, the majority of the site was subsequently placed on the open market. Nevertheless it was able to acquire the Mill House for a nominal sum. The options appraisal identified conversion to office use as the most viable and the Trust continues to raise funds for the project.

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Cornwall Building Preservation Trust Cullompton Walronds Devon Historic Buildings Trust 2 Preservation Trust Old Duchy Palace 1 Police Station, Magistrate’s The Walronds House and Guildhall Complex Quay Street, Lostwithiel, Cornwall Listed Grade I Fore Street, Cullompton, Devon Abbey Place, Tavistock, Devon PDG: £4,965 disbursed February 2011 Listed Grade I; Cullompton Town Centre Listed Grade II*; Tavistock Town Conservation Area Conservation Area The Duchy Palace is probably the largest FSG: £5,875 disbursed November 1997 OAG: £7,500 offered March 2011 secular medieval building to survive in LOAN: £55,000 repaid June 2006, Cornwall. It was built by Edmund, Earl security – first charge Much of the centre of Tavistock is built on of Cornwall c.1292 as the administrative CBG: £1,827 disbursed March 2009 the site of the Abbey which was destroyed centre of his estate. It contained spacious OAG: £9,145 disbursed June 2008 during the Dissolution. These buildings living accommodation but was never used PDG: £1,854 disbursed March 2009 were erected in 1848 and incorporate as a residence by the Earls of Cornwall; PDG: £4,000 disbursed April 2010 some of the late-15th-century fabric. instead it had a strong room, wine cellar, LOAN: £245,000 offered September 2010, The Seventh Duke of Bedford, the local a ‘tinners’ gaol’ and was the venue of the security – first charge landowner, constructed them as an County Court and Stannary Court, latterly administrative centre, incorporating being used as the Tinners’ Convocation Completed in 1605 by Sir John Petre, the a police station, courthouse, judge’s Hall. In 1852 it was acquired by the Duchy Walronds is one of the most important lodgings, cells and a fire station. It is of Cornwall before being sold to the historic town houses in Devon and the earliest surviving purpose-built Restormel Lodge of the Freemasons in has been little altered. Early 17th- combined police station and courthouse 1878. Changes made at this time include century work of the highest quality in England, as well as being important the addition of a porch, re-glazing, new includes decorative ribbed plaster to the character and history of the town. stairs, re-flooring and re-fitting. By ceilings, fireplaces with elaborate The police station is still used in part, 2008 the Freemasons wished to dispose dated overmantles, oak panelling the courthouse is almost intact and the of the building owing to the inability to with renaissance details such as ionic cells have been unused and unaltered meet repair costs. A mix of office rental pilasters and inlay work, barley-sugar since 1890. The Trust acquired the site and targeted hire was proposed by the balusters and original joinery. The from Devon County Council in 2010, and Trust, with the emphasis on business, house stands on the street front of its a lease-back arrangement has been education and training, arts and crafts, original plot that was laid out in the late agreed whereby Devon and Cornwall local authority and community use; medieval period. The enclosed garden Police will stay until a purpose-built the undercroft will house a permanent contains formal and informal areas and facility elsewhere in the town has been heritage display. An AHF grant has allowed a number of substantial trees. The house completed. The buildings are in fair further development of the project. was bought in 1954 and subdivided to condition, although there has been a form three separate dwellings that were lack of maintenance over the years. The occupied until the last resident died study will need to incorporate a viable use 1 in 2006, when the Trust inherited the whilst preserving the important historical whole site. Emergency repairs have been narrative contained within the building. carried out and it is opened regularly for events by a team of volunteers. The project will see the building repaired and restored to make the ground floor and main part of the garden available for public use while the upper floors and courtyard garden will be let to the Vivat Trust on a 50-year lease, for use as holiday accommodation. Great Torrington Buildings Preservation Trust The Town Hall

Great Torrington, Devon Listed Grade II; Great Torrington Conservation Area FSG: £4,920 disbursed August 2004 CBG: £1,588 disbursed June 2007 SUPPLEMENTAL FSG: £2,500 disbursed August 2006 PAG: £4,000 disbursed May 2008 RPDG: £25,000 withdrawn July 2008 CBG: £1,975 disbursed September 2008 POG: £15,000 disbursed June 2009 CBG: £3,000 disbursed October 2009 LOAN: £91,000 offered September 2010, security – first charge

The Town Hall dominates the centre of this small North Devon town. Its imposing classical façade has a rusticated 4 limestone lower storey and red brick with stone dressings above. The central pedimented section projects outwards Industrial Buildings 3 Kingswood Heritage Projects 4 from the building into the town square Preservation Trust Dalton Young Building and is supported by arched vaults that Dawe’s Twine Works provide a cobbled and paved area beneath and Clock Tower the original assembly hall. The first (The Ropewalk) phase of construction started in 1761 Champion’s Brassworks, although there would be a gap of 100 94 High Street, West Coker, Somerset Tower Lane, Warmley, Bristol years between that and completion in Listed Grade II* Listed Grade II; Warmley Conservation Area 1861. Accommodation consists of three FSG: £2,665 disbursed January 1998 main halls and a council chamber on the SUPPLEMENTAL FSG: £500 withdrawn OAG: £3,000 offered March 2011 first floor with storage and offices on the February 2008 ground floor alongside the undercroft CBG: £972 disbursed September 2010 This former industrial complex was which is open to the High Street. The OAG: £7,500 disbursed April 2010 the first in Europe to produce zinc on council chamber is still used for regular LOAN: £110,000 withdrawn March 2011 a commercial basis. In 1739 William meetings while the assembly hall housed Champion established the Brassworks the town museum until recently. The There has been a twine works in West site, smelting copper, brass and the Trust’s long-term objective is to restore Coker since 1830 but it was not until 1877 newly-patented zinc, and employed up and upgrade the building to make it more that John William Dawe took ownership. to 600 local people. Today it contains accessible for a wider range of uses, The Ropewalk, a simple timber shed with nine listed structures. The Dalton Young creating a self-supporting community 30 bays, is single storey with an attic floor building (also known as the Windmill facility. However, the recent discovery of in the roof space and is open on all sides Tower) comprises a rare industrial dry rot has meant that remedial works as the manufacturing processes required windmill built c.1750 to crush ore, and will take priority. natural ventilation. The attic was used other buildings which were added in the for “walking” or twisting the twine, and 19th and 20th centuries. It now houses the ground floor for finishing. It appears the Kingswood Heritage Museum, run 3 to be the most complete surviving by volunteers. The Clock Tower was built example of a late-19th-century rural as a pin factory at the same time, and twine works in the United Kingdom. It has is now largely unused, despite some been redundant since 1968 and although refurbishment in recent years. The parts of the property have been used for Dalton Young Building and Clock Tower storage, very little maintenance has been are the two principal buildings capable of undertaken and the building was in an re-use. South Gloucester District Council extremely dangerous state. The erection is willing to grant a long lease. This is the of scaffolding has stabilised the building first application to the AHF for a ‘reduced’ and allowed the realignment of the timber options appraisal grant which will focus frame. Restoration work is being carried upon income streams and potential out by the Carpenters’ Fellowship, a sources of funding for the two buildings.

not for profit organisation established SOUTH WEST by those interested in traditional or contemporary timber framing. Industrial BPT has now stepped aside to allow the end user, the Coker Rope and Sail Trust, to acquire the building and raise funds.

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Poltimore House Trust 1 Poltimore House

Poltimore, Exeter, Devon Listed Grade II* OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2007 PDG: £8,000 offered September 2009 LOAN: £50,000 offered December 2009, security – repayment guarantee (East Devon District Council) PDG: £12,000 offered June 2010

Poltimore was built by Sir Coplestone Bampfylde in the 17th century. His ‘L’ 1 shaped Tudor house now forms the rear and east ranges of a large mansion that has undergone considerable alteration WEST MIDLANDS The Shrewsbury and 2 and expansion, mainly in the late 17th and Newport Canals Trust 19th centuries when several principal Wappenshall Warehouse rooms were refurbished, and in 1908 when a new western range was added. and Wharf The house was the residence of the Lords Birmingham Conservation Trust Poltimore until the 1920s. During the Wappenshall, Telford, Shropshire Second World War it became a hospital, Newman Brothers Ltd (Coffin Listed Grade II and was last used as a private nursing Furniture Manufacturers) LOAN: £395,000 withdrawn February 2009 home. When this closed in the 1980s, OAG: £7,500 offered June 2009 Poltimore endured years of savage 13–15 Fleet Street, Birmingham vandalism and looting. The Trust acquired Listed Grade II*, Jewellery Quarter In 1797 the tub boat canal network in the building in 2000 and proposes to Conservation Area Telford was extended to Shrewsbury transform the house into a centre for LOAN: £310,000 withdrawn and in 1835 a new section of canal creativity, business innovation, education December 2002 was constructed from Wappenshall and training. There are also planned POG: £10,000 disbursed August 2008 to the main Shropshire Union Canal in partnerships with other organisations POG: £5,000 disbursed December 2009 Staffordshire, connecting the Wharf and social enterprises, and it is envisaged PDG: £5,000 disbursed February 2011 to the national network. A two-storey that Poltimore will become part of the warehouse was constructed at this time, global ‘hub’ network, bringing together Located in Birmingham’s historic followed by a three-storey warehouse in entrepreneurs and professionals. English Jewellery Quarter, Newman Brothers is 1838. The route was abandoned in 1944. Heritage has offered £500,000 for the a remarkable survival of a late Victorian Subsequently the Wharf was sold to a first phase of works to make the building purpose-built factory, complete with road haulage company and the basin was watertight, anticipated to begin towards large quantities of stock, machinery filled in for parking. In 2007 the owner put the end of 2011. and paper records. In its heyday the it up for sale, having acquired planning factory employed over 100 people and permission to convert the two buildings its fittings were a byword for quality, for residential use. This application appearing on such illustrious coffins was strongly resisted by the Trust, who as those of Joseph Chamberlain and submitted an alternative application to Winston Churchill. However cheap foreign retain the site for community access and imports and changes in funeral practice was offered an AHF acquisition loan; the caused the business to fall into decline the Local Authority was persuaded to and production ceased in 2000. Newman intervene and obtain freehold ownership, Brothers featured in the first series of allowing the loan offer to be withdrawn. the BBC’s Restoration in 2003 and in The Trust has now been given a long the same year an AHF acquisition loan lease. Although superficially dilapidated, offer was withdrawn when Advantage the buildings are structurally sound West Midlands purchased the building. and watertight. The Trust has obtained It was anticipated that a partnership planning permission for a canal museum between the two would be workable but and heritage centre on the site, but its the Government’s decision to disband options appraisal study will examine Regional Development Agencies led to all appropriate uses. the withdrawal of funding for the scheme. Despite this the Trust acquired the building in July 2010. It now wishes to carry out a programme of repairs to create an innovative visitor attraction combined with commercial work units that will subsidise the public elements. The offer of an AHF project development grant has enabled 2 the Trust to develop the scheme further.

38 West Midlands Historic 3 YORKSHIRE AND Buildings Trust THE HUMBER Weavers’ Cottages

20, 21 & 22 Horsefair, Buildings at Risk Trust Kidderminster, Worcestershire Listed Grade II Victoria Cottage PDG: £5,200 offered March 2011 23–25 Lowgate, Sutton, King Henry III granted an annual fair to Kingston upon Hull Kidderminster in 1238, and by 1690 this Listed Grade II had become too large for the city centre; LOAN: £155,000 contracted August 2010, it was therefore moved to this area in security – first charge the north-east of the town. The fairs ceased around 1820, but by this time Built in the mid 17th century, the property development had surrounded the large, originally comprised three cottages on triangular open area which remains two storeys, with the bedrooms located in today. Nos 20 & 21 Horsefair were built the roof space. Later additions to provide in the early 19th century as artisan a bathroom and porch were incorporated housing. No 22 was constructed in the when the buildings were made into a mid 18th century, and incorporates single dwelling. It is of brick construction a purpose-built top-floor workshop, with a pantile roof, although it is thought to possibly for accommodation of weavers. have originally been thatched. It is now in The buildings have been unused and a very poor condition. The Trust acquired derelict for at least 10 years. They are the building from Hull City Council and owned by Wyre Forest Community will restore and convert it to provide Housing, which is willing to pass on a one-bedroom unit for let and a two- the freehold interest for a nominal sum. bedroom unit for sale. It has been offered 4 The Trust has concluded that re-sale an AHF working capital loan, repayable as private housing offered the smallest when the residential units are sold. conservation deficit. The Heritage Lottery Renewable Heritage Trust 5 Fund has indicated that it may be willing to support the project under certain Heritage Works Buildings 4 Howsham Mill – Phase II conditions and the Trust has applied for Preservation Trust an AHF project development grant to Howsham, North Yorkshire employ a project organiser. Clergy House Listed Grade II OAG: £4,230 disbursed November 2005 1 Barkerend Road, PAG: £4,000 disbursed January 2008 Bradford, West Yorkshire LOAN: £50,000 offered December 2006/ Listed Grade II; Cathedral Precincts October 2007, security – first charge Conservation Area PDG: £7,500 offered March 2011 OAG: £7,500 offered June 2010 The Trust’s aim is to restore the Mill The building was constructed in the 18th building for use as an environmental century and is an important survival of study centre, promoting renewable WEST MIDLANDS • YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER THE AND • YORKSHIRE MIDLANDS WEST Georgian Bradford. A cast iron hopper energy, local history and wildlife. It head indicates the date 1766 but little is will also be available for use as a local 3 known of the building’s early history. It community venue. The intention is to is a double-fronted town house, built of make the site self-sustaining, using natural coursed sandstone, with a slate revenue from power sales to fund future 5 roof. It was acquired by the Cathedral in restoration and conservation work. the 1920s, when it was subdivided into Phase I of the project, the restoration of flats and bedrooms, to house Cathedral the Granary and Wheel Chamber, was staff, visitors and ‘needy’ tenants. completed in 2007 (see Annual Review Although maintained into the 1970s, the 2007–08, p.11). The waterwheel has building was vacated in 2004 when it was been reinstated and an Archimedes declared unfit for human habitation. It has Screw electricity generator is now fully since suffered from theft and vandalism. connected to the National Grid. These The Dean has been proactive in seeking provide an ongoing source of income, and solutions for under-used property within the Trust’s website provides a regular the Cathedral precinct and it was through update on the amount of energy produced. his discussions with English Heritage and The second phase of the project will entail the AHF that Clergy House was drawn the restoration of the main mill building, to the Trust’s attention. A long lease has and will involve significant educational been offered subject to the findings of the and community benefits. The offer study. The Trust intends to investigate all of an AHF grant will allow for further appropriate end uses. development of the scheme.

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South Yorkshire Buildings The Vivat Trust 1 2 Preservation Trust Whorlton Castle Gatehouse 1–2 Market Place Castle Bank, Whorlton, Thorne, Nr Doncaster, South Yorkshire Hambleton, North Yorkshire Listed Grade II, Thorne Conservation Area Listed Grade I OAG: £8,940 disbursed November 2009 OAG: £3,000 offered September 2010 PDG: £15,000 offered September 2009 PDG: £5,000 offered December 2010 Whorlton Castle was the stronghold of the Meynell family, and was originally 1–2 Market Place represent one of constructed in the 12th century as a only two remaining groups of historic motte and bailey castle. The Gatehouse buildings within the medieval core of dates from the 14th century, and is the the town of Thorne. The property was only surviving structure on the site, originally a single house dating from apart from a vaulted undercroft. It was the mid 17th century. It was largely built on three storeys and three bays remodelled in the 1750s and there were wide, with sandstone elevations and further alterations and additions in the mullioned windows. By the mid 17th List of other projects 19th and 20th centuries, including division century the buildings were vacated and supported in 2010–11 into two shop units. It was last in use as the estate turned over to agricultural an ironmonger’s, which closed in the use, and a large amount of stonework Bennington Community Heritage Trust late 1980s. In 2000 the Trust completed a was taken from the site. The Gatehouse study to identify the building’s significance is currently derelict, with no roof or All Saints Church floors. Inadequate security means and find a new community use and Main Road, Bennington, that the building is vulnerable to has since campaigned against three Boston, Lincolnshire vandalism and fire. There are also applications for total or partial demolition. Listed Grade I In February 2007 the owner finally offered signs of structural movement, despite in principle to transfer ownership to the consolidation works having been carried OAG: £7,500 offered June 2009 Trust for £1 offset by the acquisition of out approximately 30 years ago. The adjacent land from Doncaster Council. single-use study will examine holiday Bibury Community Trust 2 In September that year the Trust became letting as a suitable option for the Arlington Mill aware of internal collapse brought about building. English Heritage has stated by water ingress and subsequent failure that it is supportive of restoration to use Bibury, Gloucestershire of the supporting structure. It has since as a dwelling because of its virtually Listed Grade II complete state of preservation. It carried out a scheme of emergency LOAN: £178,500 withdrawn October 2010 repairs, funded by English Heritage and considers that the reinstatement of any missing elements need not compromise Doncaster Council. The options appraisal Buildings at Risk Trust highlighted the preferred use of a phased the existing fabric, although side and rear scheme involving the vertical division of elevations might require a more creative Mansfield Brewery the building into three town houses, with solution than speculative restoration (The Maltings) three cottages developed in the range at of the original form. the rear. AHF project development grants Midworth Street, Mansfield, have provided the potential to develop Nottinghamshire the scheme further. Listed Grade II LOAN: £458,000 withdrawn July 2010

1 Bury St Edmunds Town Trust 6 Angel Hill Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Listed Grade II*; Bury St Edmunds Town Centre Conservation Area OAG: £2,732 disbursed February 2008 LOAN: £15,000 contracted December 2009, security – repayment guarantee (St Edmundsbury Borough Council)

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Heritage of London Trust 3 Heritage Trust for the North West Heritage Works Buildings 4 Operations Ltd Lomeshaye Old School Preservation Trust The Spotted Dog Public House Lomeshaye Road, Whitefield, Old Hall Hotel 212 Upton Lane, Forest Gate, London E7 Nelson, Lancashire High Street, Sandbach, Cheshire Listed Grade II Whitefield Conservation Area Listed Grade I OAG: £6,000 disbursed August 2009 LOAN: £151,265 withdrawn February 2011 OAG: £5,100 disbursed February 2010 PDG: £10,000 offered December 2009 Heritage Trust for the North West North Craven Building Heritage of London Trust St Mary’s Church Preservation Trust Operations Ltd Manchester Road, Nelson, Lancashire 4, 6 & 8 Chapel Street St George’s (Royal Listed Grade II; Settle, North Yorkshire Garrison) Church Whitefield Conservation Area Settle Conservation Area Repository Road, Woolwich, London SE18 LOAN: £164,500 repaid February 2004 FSG: £500 disbursed February 1994 Listed Grade II POG: £15,000 disbursed February 2005 LOAN: £40,000 repaid 1986 PDG: £11,500 offered September 2008 OAG: £3,000 offered September 2009 LOAN: £98,750 repaid August 1997 LOAN: £311,916 withdrawn March 2011 LOAN: £52,500 withdrawn March 2011 Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire Heritage Trust for the North West North Craven Building Manor Farm House Higherford Mill Preservation Trust The Green, Helpringham, Lincolnshire Gisburn Road, Barrowford, The Folly Listed Grade II*; Nelson, Lancashire Helpringham Conservation Area Settle, North Yorkshire Listed Grade II; Listed Grade I CBG: £978 disbursed August 2008 Higherford Conservation Area OAG: £10,890 offered December 2008 LOAN: £216,000 offered 1999, withdrawn FSG: £4,150 disbursed April 2001 LOAN: £210,000 repaid September 2000 LOAN: £350,000 repaid March 2002, Heritage Trust for the North West LOAN: £584,000 contracted February 2010, security – repayment guarantee security – repayment guarantee (North The Presbytery (Lancashire County Council) Yorkshire County Council) POG: £7,000 disbursed November 2006 Mcleod Street, Nelson, Lancashire LOAN: £95,500 contracted January 2009, River Lea Tidal Mill Trust 5 Whitefield Conservation Area security – repayment guarantee LOAN: £145,000 withdrawn October 2010 (Lancashire County Council) The House Mill and Miller’s House Heritage Trust for the North West Heritage Trust for the North West Three Mill Lane, Lomeshaye Bridge Mill The Bothy Bromley-by-Bow, London E3 Listed Grade I (House Mill) Grade II Bridge Mill Road, Whitefield, Bank Hall, Bretherton, (Miller’s House) Nelson, Lancashire Nr Chorley, Lancashire Whitefield Conservation Area Listed Grade II* OAG: £3,000 disbursed October 2010 PDG: £15,000 disbursed May 2010 POG: £12,000 offered June 2007 LOAN: £400,000 offered March 2010, security – repayment guarantee (Pendle Borough Council)

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List of other projects supported in 2010–11

School Charity of William Pennoyer Suffolk Architectural Heritage Trust Vivat Trust Pennoyer’s School Wingfield House Bolton Percy Gatehouse Pulham St Mary, Diss, Norfolk Market Place, Saxmundham, Suffolk Bolton Percy, York Listed Grade II Listed Grade II; Listed Grade II* and Scheduled Saxmundham Conservation Area Ancient Monument LOAN: £150,000 contracted February 2010, security – first charge OAG: £5,870 offered December 2008, OAG: £3,000 disbursed March 2008 increased by £500 March 2009 PDG: £17,927 disbursed June 2009 Severndroog Castle Building 1 LOAN: £43,000 contracted January 2010, Preservation Trust Tone Mill Trust security – first charge

Severndroog Castle Tone Mill West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust Shooters Hill, London SE18 Wellington, Somerset Lye and Wollescote Listed Grade II* Listed Grade II* Cemetery Chapel PDG: £11,250 disbursed June 2009 OAG: 7,500 disbursed September 2009 Cemetery Road, Lye, West Midlands Sneath’s Mill Trust Vivat Trust Listed Grade II Sneath’s Mill The Wellbrook Estate OAG: £5,725 disbursed July 2007 RPDG: £12,255 disbursed September 2008 Lutton Gowts, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire Stockley Hill, Peterchurch, Herefordshire CBG: £6,890 disbursed May 2008 Listed Grade I Listed Grade I PAG: £4,000 offered September 2007 OAG: £7,500 offered September 2008 OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2009 PDG: £12,255 disbursed September 2008 LOAN: £576,000 contracted March 2010, POG: £15,000 disbursed January 2009 LOAN: £350,000 withdrawn January 2011 Somerset Building 2 security – first charge Preservation Trust Vivat Trust West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust Castle House North Lees Hall Cruck Barn Foster, Rastrick & Co Foundry Taunton Castle, Taunton, Somerset Lowndes Road, Stourbridge, West Midlands Listed Grade I; Castle Green Birley Lane, Hathersage, Derbyshire Listed Grade II*/II; Stourbridge Branch Conservation Area Listed Grade II; Stanage Edge Conservation Area Canal Conservation Area (part) OAG: £10,500 disbursed February 2010 OAG: £8,458 disbursed March 2011 PDG: £19,700 offered March 2010 OAG: £5,000 disbursed April 2010

South Essex Building Vivat Trust Wiveliscombe Town Hall Trust Preservation Trust Norman Arch and Cottage Wiveliscombe Town Hall 269–275 Victoria Avenue Abbey Grounds, Cirencester, Wiveliscombe, Somerset Listed Grade II; Prittlewell, Essex Gloucestershire Wiveliscombe Conservation Area Listed Grade II, Prittlewell Listed Grade I Conservation Area OAG: £3,000 disbursed March 2008 OAG: £5,000 disbursed March 2008 CBG: £2,530 disbursed December 2008 OAG: £7,500 offered March 2010 PDG: £25,000 offered September 2008 OAG: £1,665 offered March 2009

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Lisburn, Co Antrim Listed Grade B OAG: £4,000 disbursed March 2011

This property, known as Castle Arcade and formerly the rectory for Lisburn Cathedral, is in the historic centre of Lisburn on Castle Street, which dates back to the establishment of the city in the 17th century. It is a late-19th-century three- storey terraced house which, along with the adjoining former Masonic Hall, forms an important outlook on the approach to the Castle Gardens, the Town Hall and Castle House. The rear of the property extends to form an enclosed courtyard stepping down from three storeys to two storeys. The rear wall forms a boundary with the grounds of the Cathedral, while the yard is accessed from a covered coach entrance. The original internal room layout remains, but water ingress through defective parapets and gutters has taken its toll. Part of the ground floor fronting Castle Street is occupied by Art Act, a charitable artists’ collective gallery and arts promotion space.

List of other projects supported in 2010–11

Conway Mill Preservation Trust 2 Conway Mill 5–7 Conway Street, Belfast Listed Grade B2 LOAN: £500,000 contracted November 2008, security – first charge PAG: £4,000 disbursed March 2009 SCOTLAND

Brough Lodge Trust Brough Lodge

Fetlar, Shetland Listed Category A POG: £1,500 withdrawn March 2009 PAG: £2,000 disbursed November 2007 CBG: £5,555 disbursed February 2008 PDG: £3,830 disbursed November 2010

Built c.1820 on the summit of a low hill commanding the Ness of Brough, Brough Lodge is a castellated villa sited in a carefully laid out designed landscape centred on an iron-age broch on which a contemporary observation tower was built for Arthur Nicolson, who enclosed the Fetlar lands for sheep and cleared the tenants. It remained in the family until acquired by the Trust in 2007, but has been unoccupied since 1988. The Trust has carried out an options appraisal and concluded that the future use most 1 likely to prove viable is as a centre for residential courses. An application to the Heritage Lottery Fund was unsuccessful Comrie Development Trust Dunoon Burgh Hall Trust 1 but the Trust is now taking a phased approach to the project, with emergency Former Guards’ Block The Burgh Hall works to make the building wind and and associated buildings watertight as the first phase. Cultybraggan Camp 195 Argyll Street, Dunoon, Argyll & Bute Listed Category B PDG: £15,000 offered December 2010 Burgie Castle Preservation Trust Comrie, Perth & Kinross Listed Category A Burgie Castle Dunoon Burgh Hall is typical of a genre of OAG: £9,000 offered December 2010 buildings constructed by local authorities Near Forres, Moray in the second half of the 19th century to Located in rural Perthshire, Cultybraggan Listed Category A; provide a public hall alongside municipal Camp is one of the best preserved Scheduled Ancient Monument offices. Designed in the Scots Baronial purpose-built Second World War prisoner style, the Hall was opened in 1874 to OAG: £15,000 offered March 2010 of war camps in Britain. Built in 1941, it celebrate the conferring of Burgh status was originally intended as a labour camp on the town. The upper floors were Burgie Castle is a square tower which for Italian prisoners but by December closed in the 1980s but Argyll & Bute once formed part of a larger ‘Z’ plan 1944 it was holding 3,988 German POWs. Council continued to occupy offices fortified house, now demolished. Cultybraggan became known as ‘Nazi 2’, on the ground floor before selling the Burgie was the seat of the Dunbars of one of the two maximum security camps building to a housing association in Grange and Burgie Castle was built by in Britain which held a high proportion of 1993. The Burgh Hall was transferred Alexander Dunbar for his son Robert. prisoners classified as the most ardent to another registered social landlord, The six-storey tower, which dates from Nazis and potential troublemakers. Fyne Homes, in 2001, but proposals to 1602, is remarkably well-preserved. The camp gained notoriety when, on convert the building to residential use Unusually the roof is intact and this 22 December 1944 a kangaroo court failed in the face of local opposition. Fyne has ensured the survival of its unique was held and Sergeant Wolfgang Homes continued to use the building as interior detailing, including plasterwork, Rostberg was murdered as an informer temporary office accommodation until cornices, fireplaces, panelling, windows by fellow prisoners. It was disbanded 2005, since when it has stood empty. and doors. In addition to the tower, the as a POW camp in 1947 and the site was In 2008, the Hall was transferred to site includes a Category B listed doocot, subsequently used as a training centre the John McAslan Family Trust, which a summer house and boundary walls. and location for Territorial Army summer subsequently funded emergency works Under the management of Highland camps. It remained in military use until to eradicate dry rot and make the building BPT, emergency works to stabilise the 2004. The site covers eight acres of flat wind and watertight. Windows were re- tower were undertaken in 2008. These land and is composed of approximately glazed and a Friends room was decorated were only a temporary solution and there 80 Nissen huts, with some additional and fitted out, allowing the building to remains an urgent need for a scheme of post-1945 structures. Four of the take on temporary uses. The Trust has permanent repairs to secure the future structures are listed Category A and agreed to a nil cost transfer to the newly of the monument. a further 30 huts are B listed. Comrie established Dunoon Burgh Hall Trust Development Trust acquired the camp once capital funding is in place for the and 90 acres of land in 2007 under the project. Strathclyde BPT is assisting Community Right to Buy legislation. the new Trust in developing its plans for community use.

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416–420 Great Western Road, Glasgow Listed Category A; Glasgow West Outstanding Conservation Area 2 FSG: £6,410 disbursed May 2006 to Glasgow BPT RPDG: £15,435 disbursed January 2009 Fife Historic Buildings Trust to Four Acres Charitable Trust CBG: £10,523 disbursed January 2009 Old Platform Building to Four Acres Charitable Trust LOAN: £350,000 offered June 2010, Forth Place, Burntisland, Fife security – first charge Listed Category B; Burntisland Conservation Area Lansdowne Parish Church was built in LOAN: £125,000 offered March 2011, 1863 to the designs of John Honeyman on security – first charge a cruciform plan in early Gothic style with slender lancets throughout and a slim Burntisland Station opened in 1847 elegant steeple. It is the largest church and was the first rail ferry terminal in in Glasgow, and is regarded as among the Scotland. From 1850 trains were ferried most important Gothic Revival churches from the adjacent dock on what was the in Scotland. Adjoining the church to the first roll-on roll-off train ferry in the east are a small church hall, two kitchens, world. The Platform Building formed a vestry and toilet facilities. To the north the original waiting rooms, toilets and is a three-bedroomed house, built for ticket office for the Station. The railway officers of the church. The church has a line was redirected and extended to particularly fine timber-panelled interior link with the new Forth Bridge in 1890 and the transepts contain two stained and although the Platform Building was glass windows by Alf Webster, considered no longer needed for its original use, it to be among the most important in became part of a regional rail centre in Scotland. The Trust’s application to Burntisland before being converted into the Heritage Lottery Fund for a grant a railwaymen’s social club. It has been towards a £3 million restoration scheme, unoccupied for around 20 years and is including the creation of a bar/bistro in becoming increasingly derelict. The Trust the existing downstairs hall and a new plans to convert the building into four restaurant and kitchen in the courtyard business units/studios for rent. behind, was unsuccessful. The Trust has now prepared a leaner, phased scheme, Four Acres Charitable Trust 4 of which the conversion of the ground Forres Heritage Trust 3 floor side hall to a bar/bistro to create a Lion Chambers revenue-generating facility represents The Tolbooth the first phase. 170–172 Hope Street, Glasgow High Street, Forres, Moray Listed Category A; Glasgow Central Listed Category A; Conservation Area 3 Forres Conservation Area PDG: £7,500 offered June 2010 OAG: £10,000 offered March 2011 An early ‘skyscraper’ constructed in The Tolbooth is a landmark building in 1905, the Lion Chambers has a façade Forres, jutting out into the street at its of canted bay windows towering eight highest point and providing a focal point storeys above the street. Designed by to the High Street. Built on the site of an Salmon Son & Gillespie, the building earlier structure, the current building is important as it marked the first use dates from 1838–39 and was built by in Glasgow of the Hennebique system, William Robertson in the Scots Baronial the earliest to make possible the style. It is a three-storey courthouse and construction of very tall buildings using jail with an imposing three-stage clock a reinforced concrete frame. An example tower and belfry with a crowning cupola of Glasgow ‘Art Nouveau’ style, the lower and weather vane. The building was closed floors contained lawyers’ chambers and to the public in 1991 and is now unoccupied the upper floors, which corbel out above apart from a couple of offices used by the bewigged heads of judges cast in Moray Council. The courtroom is also concrete, were artists’ studios. Today, all used occasionally for community council the upper floors are empty but the ground meetings. The Forres Heritage Trust and basement levels are in intermittent wishes to acquire the Tolbooth on a long retail use. The Trust is investigating the lease, undertake the necessary repairs feasibility of converting the building for and restore it as a community facility. use as budget hotel accommodation.

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Glasgow Building Preservation Trust South Rotunda 2

1 Plantation Place, Mavisbank Quay, Glasgow Listed Category B OAG: £15,000 offered September 2010

The South Rotunda is one of a pair which were built to provide access to three parallel tunnels for the Glasgow Harbour Tunnel Company under the River Clyde. Built between 1890–95 on each bank of the river, the rotundas covered vertical shafts containing hydraulic lifts and stairs to take vehicles and pedestrians to 2 and from the tunnels, two of which were for horse-drawn traffic and the third for pedestrians. The rotundas were never Glasgow Building Preservation Trust Glasgow Building Preservation Trust financially viable and closed in 1907 but were reopened in 1912 and bought by the St Margaret’s Church 1 Gartnavel Royal Glasgow Corporation in 1926. The two Hospital Chapel vehicle tunnels were closed in 1940 and 110 Polmadie Road, Oatlands, Glasgow the machinery was removed as scrap Listed Category B Shelley Road, Glasgow metal for the war effort. The pedestrian OAG: £12,500 disbursed April 2009 Listed Category B tunnel was sustained by annual grants from the city authorities but closed in PDG: £30,000 offered December 2009 OAG: £7,500 disbursed November 2008 1980. The vehicular tunnels were infilled PDG: £7,500 disbursed June 2010 in 1986/7. Briefly redeveloped during St Margaret’s Church was built between PDG: £12,500 disbursed June 2010 the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival as the 1897 and 1902 and remained in use until PDG: £10,000 offered December 2009 ‘Dome of Discovery’ and later as an ice 1984. By 1990 it had changed hands LOAN: £187,600 offered September 2010, cream parlour, the South Rotunda has several times and was added to the security – first charge Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland. been vacant and unused since then. The North Rotunda was used as a casino The church currently stands isolated The chapel, built in 1904 and designed and more recently has been developed in an area which has seen large-scale by J J Burnett in the Arts and Crafts as a restaurant. clearance of housing and industry. The style, sits in the grounds of Gartnavel Trust has completed an options appraisal Royal Hospital, originally the City Lunatic and this recommended the provision of Asylum. The building consists of a single Glasgow Building Preservation Trust space for both community and business storey at the gable closest to the hospital use which appears to be viable when and two storeys at the opposite end, with Kelvingrove Bandstand anticipating the radical changes planned a bell tower. The interior has an arched, and Amphitheatre 3 to take place in this part of Glasgow. The ribbed ceiling and a nave separated need for a community facility has been by an arched arcade. The chapel was identified in regeneration plans for the Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow redundant by 1999 and has subsequently Listed Category B area, where a new neighbourhood is to suffered from vandalism and a lack of be created. The Trust is proceeding with maintenance, leading to water ingress and PDG: £8,500 offered December 2010 discussions with Glasgow City Council, outbreaks of wet and dry rot. The Trust a local housing association, and the has developed proposals to convert the Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre, development company which owns building to a therapy centre and offices for in Kelvingrove Park in the West End of the building. Cancer Support Scotland, which currently Glasgow, was built in 1924 by Glasgow occupies premises within the same NHS Corporation Public Parks Department. site. Works were due to start on site in It is a short walk away from the recently summer 2011 following a successful refurbished Kelvingrove Art Gallery fundraising campaign, including support & Museum. It is the only free-standing, from the Heritage Lottery Fund. theatre style bandstand with oval amphitheatre remaining in Scotland and is a well-known local landmark. The 3 structure became unsafe in 1999, was closed, and has been on the Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland since 2004. Its risk level is now classified as ‘critical’. It remains in local authority ownership and there has been a long-running campaign by the Friends of Kelvingrove Park to bring it back into use.

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Govan Workspace Ltd 4 Govan Old Parish Church

866–868 Govan Road, Glasgow Listed Category A, Scheduled Ancient Monument OAG: £12,000 disbursed October 2010

The Parish Church of St. Constantine was built in 1883–88 by Robert Rowland Anderson and is considered to be one of Scotland’s most important urban centres of worship and the site of the oldest known place of Christian worship on the Clyde. Its design is inspired by Italian Franciscan basilicas and the Pluscardine Priory at Elgin, and contains stained glass 5 windows by Charles Eamer Kempe. An exceptional collection of Early Christian sculpture, most of which was brought The Haining Charitable Trust 5 Highland Buildings Preservation Trust into the church from the graveyard in 1926, occupies the nave and west The Haining Estate 30 Princes Street 6 transept. There are 31 notable sepulchral monuments in all, among them five Selkirk, Scottish Borders Thurso, Caithness ‘hogback’ carved stones of Viking origin Listed Category A Listed Category B; Thurso Conservation Area or influence, and a sarcophagus. The OAG: £15,000 disbursed March 2011 preferred scheme identified in the options LOAN: £350,000 offered March 2011, OAG: £7,500 disbursed April 2010 appraisal envisages a mix of community security – first charge use and commercial office space to let. PDG: £22,000 offered March 2011 The property is a classical two-storey Successful redevelopment will depend townhouse dating from c.1800 built of on the co-operation of the local authority The Haining is a Palladian mansion squared Caithness rubble with raised and the creation of a ferry crossing to the set in 160 acres on the edge of Selkirk, margins indicating that it was originally new Riverside Museum on the opposite constructed in 1794 and considerably harled. Despite its poor condition, bank of the Clyde. The study proposes a remodelled in 1819. The Estate was an elegant oval staircase survives phased programme of development over purchased by John Pringle, an advocate, together with some good plasterwork. a 12-year period, the first phase being in 1701 and apart from a 20-year period The building forms part of Sir John the re-display of the Govan Stones and in the 20th century has remained in the Sinclair’s grid iron plan for the new town improvements to the graveyard. family’s ownership ever since. It has a of Thurso and, due to its pivotal position, terrace with a row of marble statues by makes a significant contribution to the Antonio Canova looking out over Haining townscape. It was last in use as social Loch. The surrounding parkland was housing but this ceased some years ago laid out in the late 18th and early 19th because of the deteriorating condition centuries. The Estate also includes an of the building. Slates, rainwater goods A listed, crescent-shaped stable block, a and render were removed following the deer larder and wolf and bear cages. The serving of a Dangerous Buildings Notice overall vision for the Estate is to create a by the Highland Council. Highland BPT ‘cultural hub’ with gallery spaces, a café/ is prepared to enter into a back-to- restaurant, luxury camping, self-catering back agreement with the Council if accommodation and artisan workshops acquisition by Compulsory Purchase and offices. Music and literature events Order is completed. will be hosted, linking with exisiting local festivals. Rooms will also be available for hire for weddings, corporate events 6 and craft fairs.

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Grey’s Place, Main Street, Lybster, Caithness Listed Category B OAG: £12,500 disbursed December 2010 3 St Mary’s Church dates from 1836 and was designed by William Davidson, an architect from an old established Maybole Castle Community Trust 2 North East Scotland 3 Caithness farming family. The church was Preservation Trust built to an austere classical design with Maybole Castle symmetrical pointed arch openings and Former Sail-making a bellcote at the apex of the gable facing High Street, Maybole, Ayrshire Works and Cottages the Main Street. Disused since the 1980s, Listed Category A the church is in a semi-derelict condition OAG: £5,000 disbursed June 2010 Back Green, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire and the interior has been stripped out, Listed Category B; although the raked gallery at first floor Built as the town house of the Earls of Scheduled Ancient Monument level remains. Fragments of the interior Cassillis, Maybole Castle is the oldest FSG: £5,280 disbursed October 2001 decorative scheme survive, including a inhabited house in the town and a OAG: £2,200 disbursed February 2011 stencilled frieze in the entrance vestibule, significant local landmark. The original wood grained panelling and trompe part of the castle is thought to date from Portsoy harbour developed as a busy l’oeil arcading to the front gallery. The 1540 and is typical of a Scots ‘L’ shaped trading port in the 17th and early 18th proposed user of the building is North tower house. There is a great hall on the centuries. The buildings at Back Green, Lands Creative Glass, a charity which first floor, dining rooms and bedrooms owned by the Trust, are situated to the operates a glass-making facility opposite above and vaulted cellars and kitchen east of the Burn of Durn, which flows into St Mary’s. The preferred scheme below. Several changes have taken place the Moray Firth. The site was originally involves retail space and exhibition area over time and the layering of history is developed to manufacture thread from at ground floor level with four lettable evident; the most significant alterations flax. The area of ‘green’ was utilised for studios located under the gallery, plus occurred between 1805 and 1812 when bleaching flax. In the early 19th century kitchen, toilet and office facilities. The it was extended and gentrified. Water the site contained two groups of buildings first floor will accommodate two large ingress and dry rot has damaged the – the one to the seaward side operated design studios and toilets with an archive/ upper floors which are no longer in as a rope-making business while the general storage area located on a new use. Some plasterwork and the timber manufacture of sails took place within mezzanine floor. stair have been removed. Work was the eastern range, adjacent to a row of undertaken in 2008 to repair the roof, but cottages. The ropeworks fell into decline the Castle remains on the Buildings at and have been lost. The sail-making lofts 2 Risk Register. An adult education group and three cottages, while derelict, remain used the ground and first floors until intact. Since the loss of the pantiled roof 2004, and since then the building has over the sail-making lofts the floors been used as a heritage centre and family have collapsed. The shell now remains research facility for those with links to with the wallheads protected by the use the area. A single-project trust has been of lime mortar haunching. The roofs of established and been offered a 175-year the cottages remain, although these lease by the owner. are severely damaged, allowing water ingress. The Trust has been offered a supplementary options appraisal grant to update a previous study completed in 2001.

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Boyndie, Banff, Aberdeenshire Listed Category B OAG: £4,500 disbursed December 2010 4

Boyndie Kirk, properly known as St Brandon’s Kirk, was built in 1773 and The OpenSpace Trust was the Church of Scotland Parish East Kirk of St Nicholas Church for the village until its closure in 1996. It was sold to a private owner in 5 Back Wynd, Aberdeen – Phase I 1998 and converted into an art gallery. Listed Category A A serious fire in 2000 left the building a LOAN: £175,000 contracted March 2011, burnt-out, roofless shell. It is now owned North East Scotland 6 security – first charge by Aberdeenshire Council following Preservation Trust a Compulsory Purchase Order. It is a simple rectangular church, harled with Former School and The Kirk of St Nicholas, known as Mither tooled ashlar margins and dressings. Outdoors Centre Kirk, is recorded as having been on the There are six plain square-headed site since 1157. By medieval times it was so well used it had to be enlarged with the window openings regularly spaced in the School Lane, Ballater, Aberdeenshire creation of St Mary’s Chapel. By 1500 it south elevation and round-headed gallery Listed Category C(S); had been expanded to create the largest window openings in each gable. A bellcote Ballater Conservation Area is situated at the west gable with a ball burgh church in Scotland. The building finial at the east. There is a single-storey, OAG: £6,705 offered March 2011 was divided into two separate sanctuaries two-bay vestry at the rear and a gabled in 1596. The West Kirk dates from 1755 porch, dated 1922, projects from the west The site consists of a Victorian school and was built by the Aberdonian architect, gable. The options appraisal identified and pair of schoolhouses located in James Gibbs. It remains largely as he conversion to residential accommodation Ballater, in the Cairngorms National designed it, is in good condition and is as the best use for the building. Park. Built in 1877, the school is a single still the Civic Church for Aberdeen. The storey with an irregular plan form. It was East Kirk was rebuilt in 1837, and again clearly divided for girls and boys with in 1879 following a fire. Although unused North East Scotland 5 separate entrances and playgrounds. for a number of years it is structurally Preservation Trust The schoolhouses, originally built for sound and watertight but the interior is the headmaster and headmistress, are an empty shell as the floors have been Strichen Town House situated on either side of the school removed to enable an archaeological buildings with four other ancillary excavation. OpenSpace plan to transform High Street, Strichen, Aberdeenshire buildings also located within the site, the building into a new multi-purpose Listed Category A; which extends to approximately 1.5 facility, including a health and well-being Strichen Conservation Area acres. The school closed in the 1960s centre, life skills training kitchen, IT OAG: £7,500 offered December 2010 and the buildings were converted into a learning centre, a café, social enterprise residential outdoors centre. This in turn retail units, office, meeting and training The Town House is the major landmark in closed in 2000 and the buildings have space, an events venue and a chapel. Strichen, a planned settlement founded by lain empty and unused since, with the Phase I of the project is progressing well Lord Strichen in 1764. It was built in 1816 exception of one of the schoolhouses with the roof more than half complete in mixed Tudor and classical style and is which is now a private residence. and 80 panels of glass replaced. attributed to the Aberdeen architect John Smith. The four-storey tower and spire 6 is of traditional Scots Tolbooth outline, in granite ashlar. The two-storey hall block has hood-moulded windows and a crenellated parapet. The ground floor arcade was originally open and provided a covered market. The building is owned by Aberdeenshire Council but has recently been declared suplus to requirements. The Council has given the Trust the first opportunity to acquire the building in line with a long-standing formal agreement between the two. SCOTLAND

1 The Prince’s Regeneration Trust The Prince’s Regeneration Trust 1 Paton’s Mill Castletown Mill

Johnstone Mill, 1 High Street, Dunnet Road, Castletown, Highland Johnstone, Renfrewshire Listed Category B Listed Category A OAG: £15,000 offered September 2010 OAG: £7,500 disbursed October 2010 Castletown Mill is a large three- Paton’s Mill was the first Scottish mill storey ‘T’ plan rubble mill with Welsh to adopt an Arkwright-type scale of and Caithness slate roofs. It is one production. It was constructed in 1782 at of a number of large grain mills in the same time the new town of Johnstone Caithness built to process corn from the was being laid out, and was therefore surrounding area but was last used for fully integrated in its planning. It is the this purpose in the 1930s. The building oldest surviving cotton mill in Scotland stands on a prominent corner site on and the last to retain its industrial use. the main coast road between Thurso Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust It remains the only Category A listed and Wick, north-east of Castletown and building in Renfrewshire. Paton’s close to the beach. It was built c.1818 for Moat Brae House acquired the complex in 1896 and it was James Traill of Rattar, Sheriff-Depute last used to manufacture shoelaces, of Caithness and owner of substantial 101 George Street, Dumfries until its closure in 2004. The mill has a estates in the area. It was Traill who Listed Category B distinctive white harled exterior on five established the planned village of OAG: £7,500 disbursed October 2010 and six storeys, with dual-pitched slate Castletown to house quarry workers PDG: £7,500 offered June 2010 roofs. A water tower housing stairs was and their families. The mill is privately added at a later date and a chimney owned and is not currently on the market. Moat Brae House is a Greek Revival villa constructed in 1880. The interior retains However the owner has indicated a built in 1823 on two storeys with a raised its wooden floors supported by cylindrical willingness to sell for an amount set by basement, with five bays. It is attributed cast iron columns. Other buildings were valuation, subject to the findings of an to the Dumfries architect Walter Newall. added to the complex over the years. options appraisal. The interior features a square central It has proven difficult to protect the site hall with a circular first floor gallery from vandals and, whilst the options Scottish Historic Buildings Trust 2 and a cupola. The house is notable for appraisal was underway, large fires on its association with J M Barrie who two separate occasions have caused Ham Girnal and the former significant damage. It is not yet clear visited the house as a boy and who said Barrock Free Church that the games he played in the garden whether a viable project can be on the banks of the River Nith were the salvaged from the burnt-out remains Barrock, Highland inspiration for Peter Pan. Last used as of the structure. Listed Category B a nursing home, it closed in 1997 and has since suffered years of neglect and OAG: £7,500 disbursed June 2010 2 vandalism. An action group was formed PDG: £30,000 offered June 2010 and this has become the Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust. The Trust’s vision is to create Ham Girnal, in the far north of Scotland, Scotland’s first centre for children’s is often referred to as the ‘Great Girnal’ literature. Plans include a ‘Peter Pan as it was one of the largest grain stores Experience’ exhibition; a heritage display in the Highlands. It was purpose-built in on the house’s architect; a library of local Caithness flag stone as a three- children’s literature; an outreach point storey grain store in the first half of the for the Scottish Storytelling Centre; 18th century before being converted to a workshop space for children’s activities corn mill in the late 18th century. Around in association with the Scottish Book the turn of the 19th century an additional Trust and accommodation for children’s storey was added, a kiln was erected writers and artists in residence. and a mill lade was constructed. It has not been used for over 100 years and is derelict. Plans are being developed to 2 create a hub for the performing arts for a variety of organisations, with the primary user being the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. About a mile away, Barrock Free Church, built in 1844 and also B listed, has been vacant since 1964, apart from some storage use. It may be developed in conjunction with the Ham Girnal project as a performing arts venue.

50 Scottish Historic Buildings Trust 3 Riddle’s Court

322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh Listed Category A; Edinburgh World Heritage Site OAG: £12,500 disbursed June 2010 (to Cockburn Conservation Trust) PDG: £10,000 offered March 2010

The Riddle’s Court buildings are in a prominent position at the west end of Edinburgh’s Lawnmarket on the Royal Mile, close to Edinburgh Castle. They are the remains of two three-storey ‘L’ plan houses built by Baillie John McMorran c.1590. The north wing of the East house was demolished in the late 19th century and the south wing now forms 4 the north of Riddle’s Close. Riddle’s Close and Court were reconstructed for the renowned Scottish urban planner Scottish Historic Buildings Trust 4 and educationalist Patrick Geddes, who Leith Theatre owned the buildings, as University Halls, in 1892–93. The City of Edinburgh Council Ferry Road, Edinburgh has been the owner since 1947 and Listed Category B; reconstructed the buildings as education Leith Conservation Area rooms in 1964. A number of very fine historic interiors have been retained, OAG: £7,500 disbursed September 2010 including 17th-century plasterwork (to Cockburn Conservation Trust) 5 ceilings, a painted beam ceiling and PDG: £20,000 offered September 2010 a painted ceiling by the celebrated Leith Theatre is part of a town hall and 19th-century Edinburgh decorator, Strathclyde Building 5 Thomas Bonnar, together with timber- library complex completed in 1929–32 Preservation Trust panelled rooms with decorative fireplace in the Art Deco style, with characteristic surrounds. The Trust is working with the curved loggia, and a fine classical Old Gaol and Courthouse Friends group to enable Riddle’s Court to interior. There are two main buildings: continue its educational use and develop the ‘D’ shaped library and Registrar’s 5 Bolgam Street, Campbeltown, as a multi-functional learning centre. office and a nine-bay rectangular building Argyll and Bute The proposals include office space incorporating the Theatre (formerly the Listed Category B town hall) and the Thomas Moreton Hall, for the existing tenants, the Workers’ OAG: £5,500 disbursed May 2010 Educational Association. which is available for public hire. The Theatre, which consists of a 1500-seat The old Gaol and Courthouse is two- capacity auditorium and ancillary rooms, storey, three-bay building with terraced was closed for public performance in frontage and a courtyard to the rear 1983. The other parts of the site remain surrounded by two-storey ranges. Dating in use. The whole complex is owned by from the mid 18th century but possibly the City of Edinburgh Council. The Trust incorporating some earlier structure, has undertaken an options appraisal and it was remodelled in 1852. It retains identified a potential tenant: Dance Base, many features of note and is particularly Scotland’s National Centre for Dance. remarkable for a rare timber pegged oak It has secured a grant from the Scottish roof in the south range. The building is Arts Council to refurbish and equip the in an advanced state of disrepair and is Thomas Moreton Hall as a dance studio. at significant risk of partial or total loss. The Trust intends to phase the repair Structural timbers have suffered from rot and refurbishment of the Theatre, and safe lintels are missing in a number allowing funding to be raised in of locations. Complicated ownership is achievable packages. an issue in finding a suitable new use. The ground floor of the south range has been occupied by a café since the 1930s, and this led the local authority to split it into two when it disposed of the building in 1992. Ownership of the main part of the complex is uncertain. Further discussions are required with the local authority and with potential funders to 3 ensure a viable scheme can be developed.

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Traill Hall Community Trust 1 The Vivat Trust 2 Traill Hall Liberton Tower

Stangerhill Bridge, Castletown, Highland Liberton Drive, Edinburgh Listed Category B Listed Category A; City of Edinburgh Conservation Area OAG: £12,500 withdrawn April 2010 OAG: £12,070 offered March 2011 LOAN: £70,000 offered June 2010, security – first charge Traill Hall is a single-storey, five-bay building with adjoining cottage, built of Liberton Tower dates from c.1500 and sandstone with ashlar dressings. The is a near perfect example of a mid-15th- main building functioned as a public hall century tower house, the characteristic and reading room, and was given to the form of laird’s houses in late medieval community by Margaret Traill in 1866. Scotland. Situated to the south of Central The building went through a variety of Edinburgh, it was built by the Dalmahoy 4 uses, including social club, temporary family who owned the Upper Liberton school, services canteen during the Estate. It is a four-storey square plan Second World War, and was last used as a keep and contains many features List of other projects food store, but has been vacant since the including deep walls, slit windows and supported in 2010–11 early 1990s. Several windows are missing a listening hole known as a “laird’s lug”. and defective drainage goods have led The Tower was sold in 1587 to William Clackmannanshire Heritage Trust to extensive water penetration and rot. Little, a Provost of Edinburgh from The interior is completely derelict and 1586 to 1591. Little built Liberton House Tullibody Old Kirk lacks all services. In 2004 the building’s in around 1600, abandoning the less Menstrie Road, Tullibody, Alloa, owner, the Traill Hall Trust, decided that, convenient Tower, subsequently using Clackmannanshire owing to a lack of funds for maintenance, it for agricultural storage. It remained Listed Category A it would be sold on the open market; the in agricultural use until its purchase by public outcry was such that this decision the Castles of Scotland Preservation OAG: £3,000 withdrawn December 2010 was reversed within the month. With Trust in 1992. The Vivat Trust has been the help of the Castle of Mey Trust the letting the property for a number of years Creetown Building Preservation Trust recently-formed Community Trust is in but in recent months a series of roof St Joseph’s Church the process of acquiring the building. Its and guttering problems have caused goal is to utilise Traill Hall as a genuine significant water ingress into the top Hill Street, Creetown, Dumfries & Galloway community asset, however, this will need floor. It now intends to purchase the Listed Category B to encompass a wide variety of uses to lease and carry out urgent repairs. PDG: £9,500 offered March 2009 fulfil this requirement and an appraisal of all options is necessary. Glasgow Building 2 3 Preservation Trust Broomloan Road Public Schools 71 Broomloan Road, Govan, Glasgow Listed Category B OAG: £7,500 offered September 2009

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Glasgow Building Preservation Trust The Knockando 5 Scottish Redundant Churches Trust Pollokshaws West Station Woolmill Trust Cromarty East Church Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow Knockando Woolmill and Croft Church Street, Cromarty, Ross-shire Listed Category B Knockando, Aberlour, Moray Listed Category A(S); Cromarty Outstanding Conservation Area OAG: £3,000 offered December 2007 Listed Category A PDG: £30,000 offered March 2010 FSG: £7,173 disbursed May 2001 PAG: £4,000 disbursed April 2006 PAG: £4,000 disbursed August 2008 LOAN: £220,000 contracted December Highland Buildings 4 POG: £15,000 disbursed August 2008 2008, security – repayment guarantee Preservation Trust RPDG: £25,000 disbursed September 2007 (Highland Council) CBG: £20,000 disbursed October 2008 Merkinch Welfare Hall LOAN: £500,000 contracted May/December Tayside Building Preservation Trust Grant Street, Inverness, Highland 2010, security – repayment guarantee Seamen’s Chapel Listed Cagtegory C(s) (Moray Council) 15 Candle Lane, Dundee OAG: £12,500 offered December 2008 Penicuik House 6 Listed Category B; Dundee Central Conservation Area Kintyre Amenity Trust Preservation Trust Penicuik House FSG: £5,000 disbursed September 2004 Former Free Church School OAG: £2,300 offered September 2008 (The Old School) Penicuik, Midlothian Listed Category A; The Vivat Trust 7 Big Kiln Street, Campbeltown, Argyll & Bute Scheduled Ancient Monument Listed Category B; Bona Lighthouse Campbeltown Conservation Area FSG: £5,000 disbursed November 2003 POG: £14,524 disbursed March 2007 Lochend, Highland OAG: £7,342 disbursed December 2008 LOAN: £500,000 contracted May 2008, Listed Category B LOAN: £200,000 withdrawn December 2010 security – first charge OAG: £3,000 offered March 2009

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Cadw Sir Gaerfyrddin Cyf 1 Navigation Colliery

Crumlin, Caerphilly Listed Grade II*/Grade II 3 2 OAG: £8,685 disbursed December 2009 PDG: £5,500 offered March 2010 Cadwgan Building Preservation Trust Carmarthenshire Heritage Built between 1907 and 1911, Navigation Regeneration Trust Colliery was a show-pit of the period with Cardigan Castle Site 3 high quality buildings and up-to-date Llanelly House machinery. It was one of the earliest Cardigan, Ceredigion collieries in South Wales to be built Listed Grade I (Castle), other 2 Vaughan Street/Bridge Street, in brick rather than local stone. Each structures Grade II* and II; Llanelli, Carmarthenshire structure is of red brick, with yellow brick Scheduled Ancient Monument Listed Grade I; Llanelli Conservation Area dressings and slate roof. The colliery OAG: £7,500 disbursed March 2008 LOAN: £189,000 contracted November shut in 1968 and numerous uses have CBG: £3,500 withdrawn February 2009 2009, security – first charge been suggested since its redundancy; the PAG: £4,000 disbursed March 2010 PAG: £4,000 disbursed May 2008 Trust’s options appraisal demonstrated PDG: £15,000 disbursed July 2010 POG: £6,185 disbursed November 2008 that external restoration and landscaping PDG: £7,500 disbursed December 2009 would enhance the site’s appeal to end Cardigan Castle was built c.1110. By the users. The Trust wished to develop early 18th century it was an abandoned Built in 1714 as a Townhouse for its funding strategy by bringing in an ruin and was partly demolished in the Sir Thomas Stepney in the latest experienced project organiser to work early 19th century to provide the site contemporary style, Llanelly House has alongside the lead professional, local and and stone for Castle Green House. Built a three-storey, seven-bay frontage with statutory authorities. The Trust has been in 1827 the house incorporates some of two wings extending back towards what working closely with Caerphilly County the Castle’s original masonry including was once the garden, and still contains Borough Council to develop the scheme. the keep and castle dungeons and a most of its original fittings despite 13th-century round tower to the rear. years of neglect. Since 2004 the Trust The Trust is now developing a scheme for has been engaged in identifing a viable Cadw Sir Gaerfyrddin Cyf 2 the whole site including conservation of future for this very important building, Court Farm the gardens, the reuse of Green Street once described by Cadw as ‘the most cottages as a heritage centre, the repair outstanding domestic building of its Pembrey, Carmarthenshire of the glasshouse to provide a café, type to survive in South Wales’ and has Listed Grade II repair and conversion of the 19th-century obtained a £3.4 million grant from the parts of Castle Green House for a Welsh Heritage Lottery Fund. It is in the process FSG: £6,555 disbursed April 2004 language centre, repair and conversion of restoring the building to include a OAG: £1,900 disbursed November 2010 of the east wing of Castle Green House, heritage interpretation and exhibiltion the Gardener’s Cottage and 43 St Mary’s space, together with a restaurant and The once impressive Court Farm now Street as holiday accommodation in meeting rooms. A wider recognition of lies derelict. Built in the mid 16th century, partnership with the Vivat Trust and the building’s importance has emerged, possibly with a medieval core, it is repair and conversion of the stables and leading to its integration into the constructed of local Pennan sandstone on coach house to provide a garden centre. regeneration of Llanelli town centre two storeys formed around three sides of Ceredigion County Council has offered with the local authority re-routing the a small courtyard with mullioned windows the Trust a 125-year lease. one-way system to accommodate it. and a number of impressive chimney stacks. The house would have been the most important property in the parish and 1 legend has it that Oliver Cromwell once stayed there. In the early 1700s the house underwent drastic alterations to convert it into two separate dwellings. A cow shed and barn completed the complex. The Trust undertook a feasibility study in 2004 with the assistance of an AHF grant but the building has since deteriorated further. In 2006 it appeared in the third series of the BBC’s Restoration. The building had been redundant for at least 40 years when the Trust finally acquired it in 2009. Its poor condition made this an exceptional case for a small additional grant to revisit the options.

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Cylch y Llan Buildings 4 Montgomery Community Narberth Museum 5 Preservation Trust Buildings Preservation Trust The Bonded Stores St Deiniol’s Church Montgomery Town Hall Church Street, Narberth Llanuwchllyn Bala, Gwynedd Broad Street, Montgomery, Powys Narberth Conservation Area Listed Grade II*/II Listed Grade II*; OAG: £5,000 disbursed September 2007 Montgomery Conservation Area OAG: £5,280 offered March 2009 CBG: £1,923 disbursed October 2008 OAG: £10,016 disbursed April 2009 PDG: £4,000 disbursed November 2010 The parish church of St Deiniol, PDG: £7,000 disbursed June 2010 PDG: £3,200 offered September 2010 Llanuwchllyn was built in 1873 in ‘mixed Gothic’ style to replace its medieval Montgomery Town Hall dates from 1748, The Bonded Stores is a former bonded predecessor. It retains its stained glass but lost its civic function in 1974. Since warehouse dating from 1906 and built by and incorporates an especially fine stone then it has accommodated a variety of James Williams, a local beer and spirit effigy of Ieuan ap Gruffudd ap Madog uses, with a food market taking place merchant. A large two-storey building, ap Iorwerth dated 1395 from the earlier on the ground floor twice a week and it is constructed of stone with brick church, one of the most important of its the upper floor used by local groups as window surrounds and the customs type and date in North Wales. The lych a meeting space. The configuration and office still exists in a corner of the ground gate, built in 1725, walls and railings are condition of the ground floor severely floor. The building was gifted to the separately listed Grade II. It is sited on inhibits use, preventing the generation of Museum, which is currently in temporary ground rising above the flood plain of the sufficient income, and the local authority accommodation, who undertook an River Dee, at the west end of Llyn Tegid in sought a means of disposal. An AHF- options appraisal to test the viability of the Snowdonia National Park. The church funded option appraisal concluded that using the Bonded Stores as a new home is structurally sound and in reasonable the Town Hall should remain accessible for its collection. Its study demonstrated condition. However, it is slowly as a public building, but should be that the proposal to relocate the museum, deteriorating due to redundancy and it upgraded and adapted to maximise its together with other complementary uses, will need restoration to meet current commercial usage. The Trust will take could be sustainable. The Trust obtained standards. The Church in Wales has over responsibility for the project, raising a Heritage Lottery Fund grant for the offered the Trust a 25-year lease, pending the funds required and then taking on the project and has sought AHF development the outcome of the options appraisal management of the refurbished building funding toward administration costs and report. The village of Llanuwchllyn in the long-term. A major element of its the employment of a project organiser. attracts significant numbers of visitors plan is to apply to the Big Lottery Fund’s during the summer months and the Trust ‘People and Places’ grant scheme. It believes that this may offer opportunities was offered an AHF project development for income-generating activities such as grant to meet professional fees to obtain art exhibitions, concerts or conferences. planning and listed building consent.

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Penarth Arts and Crafts Ltd 1 The Rhondda Powerhouse Trust 2 List of other projects Penarth Pier Pavilion The Rhondda supported in 2010–11 Powerhouse Project The Esplanade, Penarth, Cardigan Castle Building Vale of Glamorgan Llwynypia, Rhondda Cynon Taff Preservation Trust Listed Grade II; Penarth Seafront Listed Grade II Conservation Area Ty Castell CBG: £811 disbursed December 2010 OAG: £7,500 disbursed August 2010 3 Green Street, Cardigan, Ceredigion Listed Grade II PDG: £8,000 disbursed February 2011 The Powerhouse was constructed in 1905 and is a rare surviving example LOAN: £225,000 contracted August 2008, Penarth Pier was constructed in cast iron of a colliery engine house. It is a two- security – repayment guarantee and timber for the Penarth Promenade storey building of yellow and red brick, (Ceredigion County Council) and Landing Company in 1894. A with round-headed windows, stone PDG: £1,000 disbursed April 2009 pavilion was added in 1929 and this dressing and a slate roof. The interior became a popular venue for dances and is an impressive space, containing entertainment. The building is an early an original travelling crane. During cast-in-situ reinforced concrete structure the Tonypandy Riots of 1910, miners in a symmetrical Indian/Moghul style, converged on the Powerhouse in an designed by M F Edwards. The pier was effort to halt the engines and bring the restored in 1998, along with the exterior colliery to a standstill. The Cambrian of the Pavilion. The long-term lack of Colliery Strike, as it was known, came use means that the interior requires to an end in 1911 and the unrest played complete refurbishment. The options a significant role in the establishment appraisal showed that a multi-purpose of the Minimum Wage in Great Britain. entertainment venue incorporating A feasibility study identified a mixed arts and community activity, heritage use, including space for businesses, interpretation, educational and voluntary sector organisations and social environmental and sustainability enterprises, which will bring in long-term initiatives, workspace and studios could economic and social benefit to the area. be accommodated in the Pavilion. With The Trust was offered an AHF capacity the assistance of a project development building grant to obtain legal advice on an grant, the Trust has continued to develop outstanding charge on the building, and the scheme with support from the Vale has been awarded an HLF first-round pass. of Glamorgan Council, Heritage Lottery Fund, and Welsh Assembly Government Community Asset Transfer Unit. 2

56 The Old Fire Station (see p.30) 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 21 September 2011 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 2010/11 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 2011. Copies may be obtained from the AHF.

INTRODUCTION Expenditure Resources used during the year amounted to £1,014,188 The AHF’s overall income for the year amounted to £890,923 against £916,481 in 2010. The increase of 97,707 over (2010 – £776,277). Expenditure amounted to £1,014,188 (2010 the previous year is accounted for in large part by a – £916,481). At the year end, £8,275,543 (2010 – £7,544,307) variance of £183,196 in the bad debt provision (from a was out on loan for preservation projects. reduction of £68,205 in 2010 to an increase of £114,991 in 2011) substantially offset by an overall fall of £80,316 DETAILS in grantmaking. Income Net grant offers fell by £72,386 over 2010, from £430,751 Total income increased by £114,646 over 2010, £90,000 to £358,365. attributable to grants receivable from the J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust and £23,826 to an increase in overall Deficit and forward commitments investment income. The total deficit for the year (“net movement in funds”) was £123,265, reducing the AHF’s total funds at 31 March The AHF received the following government 2011 to £12,962,907 (2010 – £13,086,172). funding during 2011: At the year end, the AHF had £8,275,543 out on loan for English Heritage £133,785 preservation projects and forward commitments for loans Historic Scotland £175,224 and recoverable grants of £3,714,449. (2010 – total loans Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments £31,000 £7,544,307 and forward commitments £3,954,849). Department of the Environment: Northern Ireland £20,000 Signed on behalf of the Members of the Council Total: £360,009 of Management.

John Townsend Chairman 21 September 2011

58 Auditors’ Statement

Independent Auditors’ Statement to the Members We have conducted our work in accordance with Bulletin of The Architectural Heritage Fund 2008/3 issued by the Auditing Practices Board. Our report We have examined the summarised financial statements on the company’s full annual financial statements describes of The Architectural Heritage Fund for the year ended the basis of our opinion on those financial statements. 31 March 2011. Opinion Respective Responsibilities of the trustees and the auditor In our opinion the summary financial statements are The trustees (who are also the directors of The Architectural consistent with the full annual financial statements of Heritage Fund for the purposes of company law) are The Architectural Heritage Fund for the year ended 31 responsible for preparing the summary financial March 2011 and comply with the applicable requirements statements in accordance with applicable United Kingdom of section 427 of the Companies Act 2006, and the law and the recommendations of the Charities SORP. regulations made thereunder. Our responsibility is to report to you our opinion on the consistency of the summary financial statements with the Nicholas Brooks (Senior Statutory Auditor) full annual financial statements, and their compliance with for and on behalf of Kingston Smith LLP, Statutory Auditor. the relevant requirements of section 427 of the Companies Devonshire House, 60 Goswell Road, London EC1M 7AD Act 2006 and the regulations made thereunder. 27 September 2011

BENEFACTORS AND FRIENDS IN THE YEAR 1 APRIL 2010 TO 31 MARCH 2011

Benefactors (£20,000 or more) Government English Heritage Historic Scotland Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments Department of Environment: Northern Ireland Charities, Companies and Other Organisations J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust

Friends (£10 – £1,000) Charities, Companies and Other Organisations Oxford Preservation Trust Streonshalh Limited The Townsend Family Charitable Trust Individuals S H Back Professor A H Gomme Stephen Marks D K Robinson S P Salt P N Tomlinson Nigel M Waring

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59 Summarised Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2011

Endowment Restricted Unrestricted 2011 2010 fund fund fund Total Total £ £ £ £ £ Incoming resources Incoming resources from generated funds Voluntary income Donations and legacies – – 1,418 1,418 921 Government grants – 360,009 – 360,009 358,524 Other grants – 90,000 – 90,000 – – 450,009 1,418 451,427 359,445 Investment income Interest receivable – on bank deposits – – 53,834 53,834 82,865 – on loans disbursed – – 332,598 332,598 285,977 Rent receivable – – 36,805 36,805 30,569 – – 423,237 423,237 399,411 Total incoming resources from generated funds – 450,009 424,655 874,664 758,856 Incoming resources from charitable activities – – 16,259 16,259 17,421 Total incoming resources – 450,009 440,914 890,923 776,277

Resources expended Costs of generating funds Generating voluntary income – – 18,517 18,517 21,494 Investment management – financial – – 5,010 5,010 4,952 – property – – 15,810 15,810 18,004 – – 39,337 39,337 44,450 Charitable activities Financial assistance for historic building projects Loan-related activities 98,200 – 102,456 200,656 24,735 Grantmaking – 360,009 132,283 492,292 572,608 98,200 360,009 234,739 692,948 597,343 Development and advocacy Capacity building – 9,625 160,494 170,119 170,882 Annual Review and other publications – – 55,005 55,005 58,294 Net contribution to the UK Association of Preservation Trusts – – 19,000 19,000 12,155 – 9,625 234,499 244,124 241,331 Total charitable activities 98,200 369,634 469,238 937,072 838,674 Governance costs – – 37,779 37,779 33,357 Total resources expended 98,200 369,634 546,354 1,014,188 916,481 Net incoming / (outgoing) resources (98,200) 80,375 (105,440) (123,265) (140,204)

Net movement in funds net surplus / (deficit) for the year (98,200) 80,375 (105,440) (123,265) (140,204)

Balances at 1 April 2010 11,179,713 – 1,906,459 13,086,172 13,226,376

Balances at 31 March 2011 11,081,513 80,375 1,801,019 12,962,907 13,086,172

60 Summarised Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2011

2011 2010

££££ Fixed assets Investment property 500,000 500,000 Other tangible assets 35,678 44,598 Programme related investments Loans disbursed for preservation projects 8,275,543 7,544,307 Total fixed assets 8,811,221 8,088,905 Current assets Debtors Loan interest receivable 861,013 712,586 Government grants receivable 55,904 136,689 Non-government grants receivable 60,000 – Other accrued income and prepayments 33,591 62,303 1,010,508 911,578

Cash at bank and short-term deposits 4,786,218 4,764,117 5,796,726 5,675,695

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 1,645,040 678,428

Net current assets 4,151,686 4,997,267

Net assets 12,962,907 13,086,172

Funds Endowment fund 11,081,513 11,179,713

Restricted fund 80,375 –

Unrestricted funds Designated lending fund 1,187,000 1,155,000 General fund 614,019 751,459 1,801,019 1,906,459

Total funds 12,962,907 13,086,172

Programme related investments include £2,142,265 in loans disbursed which are due for repayment after more than one year (2010 – £3,507,151). Interest receivable on these loans amounted to £97,587 (2010 – £170,891). The financial statements were approved by the Members of the Council, and authorised for issue, on 21 September 2011 and signed on their behalf by:

John Townsend RoyRoy DantzicDantzic Chairman Trustee 21 September 2011 21 September 2011

61 About the Architectural Heritage Fund

Introduction Options Appraisal Grants The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is a registered The AHF offers grants of up to 75% of the cost of an initial charity, limited by guarantee, founded in 1976 to promote options appraisal of a project likely to qualify for a loan. the conservation of historic buildings in the UK. It does this The maximum grant is normally £7,500, but in exceptional by providing advice, information and financial assistance circumstances this may be raised to £10,000. In rare cases in the form of grants and competitive loans for projects the AHF may offer grants for options appraisals which undertaken by building preservation trusts (BPTs) and examine the feasibility of only one option, but the grant other charities. offered will be a maximum of £3,000. An appraisal eligible for an AHF grant will look at the key conservation issues Financial Assistance from the AHF affecting the building, examine all options and consider in Sources of AHF Funds outline the viability of the most beneficial option. It should The AHF’s lending resources of some £12.3 million derive also explore all possible sources of funding for the project. from grants, donations and accumulated surpluses. AHF The charity must bring together the findings in a report that grant programmes are financed by interest on loans and indicates the likelihood of success or failure in conservation bank deposits and grant-aid from English Heritage, Historic and financial terms, the implementation strategy and the Scotland, Cadw and the Department of the Environment further work that needs to be carried out to develop the in Northern Ireland. preferred option.

Eligibility Low-interest loans Only organisations with charitable status are eligible AHF loans provide working capital to allow BPTs and for financial assistance from the AHF. Any charity with a other charities to purchase a building and/or finance the qualifying project is eligible to apply for an options appraisal cost of the capital works. Interest on loans is charged at grant or a loan, but the AHF’s other grant programme is 5% simple (7% on acquisition loans), payable at the end of reserved for BPTs – charities established specifically to the loan period. The recipient must have, or acquire, title preserve historic buildings. to the historic building to be repaired. Loans are usually subject to a ceiling of £500,000 and security is required Financial assistance is available only for buildings that for every loan. Security can be offered in the form of a are listed, scheduled or in a conservation area and of repayment guarantee from a local authority, bank or other acknowledged historic merit. Projects must involve a acceptable institution or as a first charge over any property change either in the ownership of a property or in its use. to which the applicant has free and marketable title. The The following is a summary of the AHF’s grants and loan normal loan period is three years or until the time when the programmes. Please contact the AHF or refer to our website building is sold, whichever is earlier. The AHF will always for further details. consider allowing extra time if this is requested before the loan falls due for repayment.

62 Development loans Non-financial Assistance and Publications Development loans are intended to help BPTs and other The AHF plays a strong development role by encouraging charities to finance the cost of professional work required and advising on the formation of BPTs and providing to develop a project to the point where it is ready to go on relevant guidance throughout the duration of an AHF- site. Under this scheme the AHF is able to lend up to a funded project. Several publications are available from maximum of £50,000 for a period of up to eighteen months. the AHF and can be downloaded free of charge unless A development loan will attract an interest charge of 2½% otherwise indicated from www.ahfund.org.uk. simple and will require security in the form of a repayment • Detailed Guidance Notes for Applicants for all AHF guarantee. A development loan will not be subject to financial programmes: extension. Should the borrower find itself unable to repay at the end of the loan period, the AHF will call upon the – Options appraisal grants guarantor to settle the debt. – Loans – Project Development Grants

Additional Grants for Building Preservation Trusts • Historic Building Preservation Trusts information sheet Project Development Grants Following a major review of the AHF’s non-refundable grant • Funds for Historic Buildings in England and Wales – schemes during 2007/08, the project development grant A Directory of Sources (this publication is available free was launched on 1 April 2008, incorporating and replacing as a downloadable internet file at www.ffhb.org.uk) the project administration, project organiser and capacity • Model Memorandum and Articles of Association for a building grants (see below). The project development grant Building Preservation Trust (also available by email) is intended to help BPTs with the costs of developing and co-ordinating a project and taking it towards the start of • How to Rescue a Ruin – by setting up a local buildings work on site after an options appraisal has established preservation trust (£8.50 inc p&p) basic viability. • Fully illustrated AHF Annual Review A project development grant will not normally exceed • Statutory Report and Financial Statements for each £20,000. Grants may be applied for in stages according to financial year. the needs of the project as it progresses. This may cover 100% of administration costs up to £1,000; 100% of non- For further information please contact the Architectural recoverable professional fees up to £7,500 or up to 75% of Heritage Fund. the cost of the project organiser up to £15,000. In addition, new BPTs or those undertaking a project after a gap of at Registered under the Charities Act 1960, No 266780 least five years are able to apply for mentoring support Company limited by guarantee registered in England, before undertaking an options appraisal, up to a maximum No 1150304 of £3,500, and in exceptional circumstances, post options appraisal up to a maximum of £7,500.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Lytham Hall (see p.32), Dunoon Burgh Hall (see p.44), Llanelly House (see p.54), Lansdowne Church (see p.45), Leith Theatre (see p.51), Long Street Methodist Church (see p.32)

63 Council of Management and Staff as at 31 August 2011

COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT

John Townsend Chairman Michael Hoare Chairman of the Policy Review and Development Committee, Chartered Accountant, INSEAD. Chairman, National Churches South Northants Council. Partner, The Old Hall Bookshop; Trust; Watts & Co. Trustee Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Newbottle Estate and Farm. Formerly: Cabinet Member, Formerly: Consultant C Hoare & Co. Environmental Policy, South Northants Council National Trust Council Member and Regional Chairman (Thames and Solent Fionnuala Jay-O’Boyle CBE DL Region). Trustee, Stowe House Preservation Trust. Public and Government Affairs Consultant. Principal, Jay Associates Public Affairs. Founder and Patron, Belfast Merlin Waterson CBE Deputy Chairman Buildings Preservation Trust. Patron, TOSINI. Trustee, Peter Author and historian. Trustee, East Anglia Art Fund. McLachlan Community Development Trust; The Prince of Wales’s Commissioner, the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Formerly: Historic Regeneration Trust. Deputy Lieutenant of Belfast. Formerly: Properties Director, The National Trust. Adviser on Built Heritage Chairman, Belfast Civic Trust. Member of the Historic Buildings and Historic Properties, the Heritage Lottery Fund. Council, Council for Northern Ireland. Director, Irish Landmark Trust. The Attingham Trust. Curatorial Adviser, The Prince’s Regeneration Trust. Phillip Kirby OBE Civil and Structural Engineer. Director of Policy, Connect. Colin Amery Formerly: Managing Director, National Grid Property. Project Architectural historian, writer and consultant. Honorary Fellow, Director, Stanhope Properties. Member of Lord Rogers’ Urban Royal Institute of British Architects. Formerly: Director, World Task Force. Chair, Cl:aire; Exsite. Monuments Fund in Britain. Hon. Member National Trust Architectural Panel. President, the Lutyens Trust. Chairman, Thomas Lloyd OBE Fabric Committee St Edmundsbury Cathedral. Trustee, the War Heritage Consultant. Solicitor (not practicing). Wales Herald Memorials Trust; Art and Christianity Enquiry; The Heather of Arms Extraordinary. Royal Commissioner on the Ancient Trust for the Arts. Governor, Compton Verney. and Historic Monuments of Wales. Vice-President, Friends of Friendless Churches. Trustee, Aberglasney Restoration Trust; Malcolm Crowder OBE Picton Castle Trust. Co-author, Pevsner volumes for three Welsh Chartered Surveyor. Surveyor and Secretary, Norwich Counties. Formerly: Chairman, Historic Buildings Council for Preservation Trust; North Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust. Wales; The Buildings at Risk Trust; Wales Region of Historic Secretary, Haringey Building Preservation Trust. Project Adviser Houses Association. High Sheriff of Dyfed. and Secretary, Broadland Building Preservation Trust. President, Heritage of London Trust Operations Ltd. Chairman, Bentley Hall George McNeill Barn Building Preservation Trust. Vice Chairman, UK Association Director, Scottish Historic Buildings Trust. Management of Preservation Trusts. Formerly: Chairman, UK Association Committee member, Edinburgh Direct Aid. Vice Lord Lieutenant. of Preservation Trusts. Formerly: Chief Planning Officer, West Lothian. Chairman, Built Environment Forum Scotland. West Lothian. Regional Board Roy Dantzic Member, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency. Chairman, Chartered Accountant. Chairman, Interior Services Group plc. APT Scottish Region. Non-Executive Director, Airplanes Ltd. Trustee, The Portman Estate. Formerly: Chairman, Development Securities plc; Managing Director, British Gas Properties Ltd. Finance Director, STAFF Stanhope Properties. Chief Executive: Ian Lush Elizabeth Davidson OBE Finance Manager: Paul Tozer Principal, City Design Glasgow City Council. Trustee, Strathclyde Office Manager: Diane Kendal Building Preservation Trust. Honorary Member of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. Formerly: Project Projects Team Director, Merchant City Townscape Heritage Initiative. External Loans & Grants Manager: Barbara Wright Examiner, University of Dundee, Dept. of European Urban Projects and Development Officer: Ian Rice Conservation. Member of the Historic Buildings Council for Projects and Development Officer North: Gavin Richards Scotland. Chair, Association of Preservation Trusts. Director, Glasgow Building Preservation Trust.

John Duggan Chartered Certified Accountant. Non-Executive Director, JSM Indo China Ltd. Chairman, Milton Keynes Trust; Assemble Community Partnership; LIFT. Member, the Investment Committee of the Bridges Ventures Sustainability Fund; Advisory Council of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility. Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. Formerly: Chairman and Chief Executive, Gazeley. Chairman, Spazio Investment NV. Non Executive Director, SGL Vietnam Ltd.

64 Annual Review 2010–11 Editor: Ian Lush Managing Editor: Diane Kendal Contributors: AHF Staff Design and production: Premm Design, London Proofreading: PerfectWord, Telford Photographs have been provided by loan and grant applicants, AHF staff and with our thanks for additional photographs by: Front Cover: Norman Bell – Lissan House, Cookstown, Co Tyrone Text Pages: English Heritage – J W Evans & Sons, Birmingham; Hind Hill – Long Street Methodist Church, Middleton, Manchester; John K Carter DA (Manc), DIP. Arch, RIBA, AABC – The Bath House, Congleton; Norman Bell – Lissan House; Prince’s Regeneration Trust – The Old Dutchy Palace, Cornwall; Purcell Miller Tritton – Gybson’s Conduit, Norwich; Rebecca Tate – The Assumption, Aylesbury; Sinclair Watt Architects – Kinghorn Town Hall, Fife Printed on environmentally friendly paper by: Trident Printing Units 24–26 Armstrong Road, Woolwich, London SE18 6RS © Architectural Heritage Fund, October 2011 Norton Priory Norman Arch (see p.33) Alhambra House 0AU WC2H London Road, Cross Charing 27–31 Tel: 020Tel: 7925 0199 Fax: 020 7930 0295 [email protected]: www.ahfund.org.uk