Grange Farm - Basing House Property Services SCALA Public Building of the Year Award 2012 Conservation RIBA Conservation Award 2011 - Shortlisted Location: Old Basing, Basingstoke, Hampshire Client: Hampshire County Council Value: £2.3m Completed: August 2010 Specialist teams: Building Conservation: HCC Property Services QS: Wheeler Group LLP Structural Engineer: Gifford Mechanical & Electrical Engineers: White Young Green Interpretation Designer: PLB Projects Ltd Grange Farm is dominated by the Great Barn, the only surviving building from the Visitors to the new History extensive Tudor palace, Basing House, which was destroyed during the Civil War. Park“ and Lodge museum will The farm fell out of use in the 1980s and was acquired, together with the ruins of the house, by Hampshire County Council. The Council was able to safeguard the Grade be able to gain a much clearer 1 listed Great Barn and undertook extensive repair work on it. understanding of the scale and In order to rescue the farmyard complex, the seventeenth century farmhouse importance of this once great was sold off to generate match funding for an HLF grant application which was house, its inhabitants“ and its successful. This made it possible to repair and convert the listed 18th and 19th final destruction at the hands of century farm buildings around the Great Barn. The brief was to restore the derelict Oliver Cromwell. buildings so that they could be safely opened to the public and used to provide a new visitor centre for the Great Hall and the nearby ruins of Basing House. Head of Heritage Lottery Fund Extensive repair work was carried out on all the buildings. In the Great Barn the oak South East England roof structure was discreetly reinforced and lighting was added which dramatically shows off the magnificent trussed roof and allows greater use to be made of this space. The rammed chalk floor was restored and the brick and flint threshing floors between the two sets of opposite doors were reinstated. The 18th century Little Barn attached to the Great Barn was transformed internally to make a new visitor centre with ticketing, shop, café and exhibition areas. The Victorian stable range now contains an education room and toilets. Other restored open-sided structures provide shelter for school group activities. Key Benefits • Rescue of a significant historic farmyard complex. • Exemplary standard of conservation work on brickwork, floors, structural timber and woodwork. • Improved access and facilities for visitors to Basing House. • New education room and an extended activities programme. • Co-ordination with museum and interpretation designers. Contact: Giles Pritchard| 01962 847801 | [email protected] | www.hants.gov.uk/propertyservices Grange Farm - Basing House.