Do you want to know more about the buildings featured in series three of Restoration? You can find information on the progress made since 2006 below.
South East
MASSEY'S FOLLY, ALTON
Ownership issues are hampering progress and until the situation is resolved, funding applications are on hold and no restoration work is being carried out.
Massey's Folly on the Farringdon Village website
WATTS GALLERY, COMPTON
In December 2007, the gallery received a £4.3m grant to add to their own fundraising efforts which still continue. The gallery closed to the public in November 2008 and restoration work has started. Part of the collection in on tour and the rest is being packed away. The Gallery is due to re-open in 2010.
Watts Gallery website
WOODROLFE GRANARY, TOLLESBURY
A bid for funding was rejected in 2008. The Buildings Trust are now looking for a suitable tenant and are waiting for business plans for a rural study centre with which they will reapply for funding.
Woodrolfe Granary on the Mid Essex Historic Buildings Trust website
South West
DAWE'S TWINE WORKS, WEST COKER
They have been awarded £80,000 from English Heritage and £45,000 from Somerset District Council which means they now have enough money to stabilise the building or take it down ready to rebuild. They have passed Stage I of their HLF bid for funds with two more stages to go.
NEWLYN TRINITY METHODIST CHAPEL, NEWLYN
Work on the adjoining former Sunday School - "The Centre" - was completed in November 2006. The next stage is the development of the chapel. Funding was turned down but the Chapel have contracted a conservation architect to design plans to present to potential funders. The cost of making the building sound is now estimated at £700,000.
Newlyn Trinity Methodist Church website
WELCOMBE BARTON, DEVON
No progress to date. The trust have not, so far, been able to attract any funding.
MIDLANDS & EAST ANGLIA
ALL SAINTS, BECKINGHAM
In September 2007 All Saints' nave roof and north aisle roof were redone with the help of a grant from English Heritage who also helped to fund repairs to the south aisle roof are due to start shortly. This will make the building water tight and enable work to start on the interior of the building. Planned future expenditure includes the installation of solar panels to provide heating and lighting. All Saints is currently open for services on the second and fourth Sundays of the month.
CHEDHAM'S YARD, WELLESBOURNE
The campaigners behind Chedham's Yard which won 'Restoration Village' had a disaster when hit by terrible floods in 2007, but they managed to remove all of the precious tools that made the yard so important and are currently undergoing a meticulous process of cataloguing them. With thousands of individual items it appears to be a never ending task, but thankfully the friends group supporting the building has doubled their energies. After the initial set back every effort is being made to save the tools for posterity while plans are drawn up to begin work on the yard itself.
Chedham's Yard website
PENNOYER'S SCHOOL, PULHAM ST MARY
The school has secured funding and building work began in February this year. Provided further funding can be found for the furnishing and fitting out of the building, it is hoped that Pennoyer's will be ready to re-open its doors to the public by March 2010.
Pennoyer's website
THE NORTH
HEUGH BATTERY, HARTLEPOOL
The Heugh Gun Battery was formally opened by the Duke of Gloucester in November 2008 after a £600,000 restoration project. HLF provided £378,000 of the funding. The remainder came from One North East, the local Regional Development Agency, as part of its Single Regeneration Budget. Work started in November 2007 and was completed in July 2008. The funding has also paid for two part-time staff which will allow the site to be open to visitors and school groups during the week as well as at weekends.
Heugh Gun Battery website
HIGHERFORD MILL, HIGHERFORD
Phase 1 of the restoration work was completed in 2006 at a cost of £1m. This included structural repairs and the construction of 12 workshops which are now occupied. As at the end of last year, Phase 2 was underway with plans to provide a further 24 units and reception facilities. This will be completed in stages due to restricted funding. The start of work on Phase 3 will depend on the availability of funds.
Higherford Mill on the Heritage Trust for the North website
HOWSHAM MILL, N. YORKSHIRE
The first phase of the restoration of the granary was completed in 2007. More than £100,000 came from DEFRA (Dept. of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) under their social enterprise scheme. The next phase will be the restoration of the main mill building and they are in the process of seeking funding for this. The Archimedean Screw turbine is now working and a trench has been dug for cables to be laid so they can be hooked up to the National Grid in May this year. This will mean the mill can begin to generate its own income.
Howsham Mill website
SCOTLAND
CROMARTY EAST CHURCH, BLACK ISLE
Cromarty East Church was awarded a major grant in 2007 by the HLF towards project costs of £1.3 million. Historic Scotland and The Highland Council are also major funders. Work started in September 2008 and the project will be completed in 2010. Traditional skills and materials are being used by a team of expert craftspeople and conservators to repair the centuries-old church. The project also includes training, education, and community involvement. There is a full programme of associated activities with guided tours, lectures, workshops, school visits, exhibitions, graveyard recording, and open days.
Cromarty East Church website
DENNIS HEAD OLD BEACON, NORTH RONALDSAY
Awaiting funding for Phase 1 which is planned as the restoration of the cottage with the aim to rent it thus generating income. Phase 2 and a major part of the restoration project will be the installation of an internal staircase to the top of the tower. Currently this can only be reached via external scaffolding. The final phase will be the building of the visitor's centre.
GREENLAW TOWN HALL, BERWICKSHIRE
Fundraising to save Greenlaw Town Hall has reached the £1 million mark and restoration work is due to start in June 2009. Grants have been awarded from Historic Scotland and Scottish Borders Council as well as local residents. They estimate that they need to raise another £1 million for full restoration of the Town Hall and hope that further grants will be awarded.
Greenlaw Town Hall Website website
WALES
PEMBREY CWRT, PEMBREY
In October 2008 the estate's owners finally agreed to hand over Pembrey Cwrt (the main farmhouse) and the Barn to Carmarthenshire Building Preservation Trust. Paperwork is currently being drawn up and the Trust expect to take possession later this year. Earlier in 2008 the Friends of Court Farm successfully challenged a proposal to build 100 houses on Pembrey Estate, in the field just below Pembrey Court. In March 2009, a phase 1 application for a grant was made to CADW for £150,000 for essential repairs to make the building safe. They expect to hear in the next month whether the application is successful.
Friends of Cwrt Farm Website website
PEN YR ORSEDD QUARRY, CAERNARVON
Little progress has been made.
THE PRICHARD JONES INSTITUTE, NEWBOROUGH
In the spring of 2007 the Pritchard Jones Institute received an HLF grant to work up plans. Not long after, restoration funding was secured from a variety of sources. The restored Institute has been available for community meetings since the end of September 2008 and will be formally opened in July 2009. The Prichard Jones Institute and Cottage Homes Trust are still working on an HLF bid to pay for the "interpretation" of the building and expect to submit this shortly.
NORTHERN IRELAND
CUSHENDUN FORMER PARISH CHURCH, CO. ANTRIM
At the end of last year Cushendun Preservation Trust were still in negotiation to lease the building from the Dublin-based RCB (Representative Church Body of the Church of Ireland). The discussions have centred on the proposed uses of the building. But the Trust have been awarded funding to develop their plans.
Cushendun Old Church website
GRACEHILL OLD PRIMARY SCHOOL, BALLYMENA
Restoration work on Gracehill Old Primary School is now nearing completion and it is scheduled to open at the end of 2008 or the beginning of 2009. The project has come in on budget to the tune of £1.5 million with funding from a variety of sources. Gracehill Old School Trust received an HLF Stage 1 Pass of £1 million. Following this, they were able to persuade Northern Ireland's Environment and Heritage Service (now the Northern Ireland Environment Agency) to donate £120,000 of the £150,000 they needed to purchase the building. So successful was their campaign that the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has now agreed to set aside £500,000 a year for similar projects. The remaining funds came from Ballymena Borough Council (£150,000) and various other agencies.
THE WHITE HOUSE, BELFAST
In September 2007 the White House Preservation Trust were awarded £424,000 from the HLF. Additional funding of £454,000 from Biffaward (a landfill communities fund scheme) along with support from the Architectural Heritage Fund, Ulster Garden Villages and Newtonabbey Borough Council means they now have the full £952,000 they need for restoration. Work began in November 2008 and is due to be finished December 2009 ready for the The White House to be opened to the public in January 2010. An official opening is scheduled for Spring 2010.
White House website
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