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7 months

Please help us and object to this outrageous scheme to build a 42-storey tower over a Grade II building in #Birmingham . It would set a terrible precedent for listed buildings within the city. See the plans: 📷 : CGI image from Design & Access statement

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Another one bites the dust. Despite objections from @hbap1924 and @C20Society , @cityoflondon has approved the demolition of a fine pair of Portland stone buildings b.1921 on Farringdon Street. The new building also obliterates Turnagain Lane, which has existed since C13.

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These side by sides showing the proposed changes at Liverpool Street Station are pretty shocking. We need your help to save this historic station. See the documents and ways to object here: #SeeItSaveIt #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation

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We have joined a partnership with @thevicsoc , @SAVEBrit , @C20Society , @GeorgianGroup , @SpitalfieldsT , @civic_voice , and @LondonHistorian to stop the insensitive and harmful plans Liverpool Street Station. #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation

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We've submitted our official comment on the review into @CityWestminster Street lighting upgrade programme. We do not support this programme and believe the existing lights should be refurbished and repaired to make them more efficient, rather than replaced. (1/2)

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4 years

The Grade II* listed Mapledurham Watermill in Oxfordshire, which dates to the 15th century, forms the backdrop in the cover photo of Black Sabbath’s eponymous debut LP issued in 1970, a classic of the heavy rock genre. #albumcovers #vinyl #heritage

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3 years

The criss-cross lattice design on the frontage of Archibald Leitch’s 1929 main stand at Roker Park, Sunderland, repeated a motif also used in his designs for Rangers at Ibrox Park in Glasgow and Everton, at Goodison Park in Liverpool.

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2 years

📣We are pleased to announce Liz Power has been appointed as the Director of Historic Buildings & Places. We are delighted to have her join our team in February 2023! Read more about it here:

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Snapshots from Ross: The petite Gd II listed Thomas’s Chop House. Built in 1901 on a narrow site overlooking St Ann’s Passage, it's a great example of turn-of-the-century free style architecture. It has a wonderful tiled interior and is one of #Manchester ’s little gems. #heritage

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We will be submitting an objection, along with @thevicsoc , to the proposed demolition of Grade II listed Overstone Hall in #Northamptonshire . The developer purchased it as a ruin and needs to value it as a #heritage asset, not a development site.

Charity to fight developer's plans to demolish 'beautiful' Grade II listed Overstone Hall

The charity said the proposal was “callously financial” and suggested money mattered more than heritage

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We have objected to a proposed out of scale 23 storey tower next to London Victoria Station in @CityWestminster . It would harm the setting of several nearby listed buildings, including the Grade I listed Westminster Cathedral. 📷: Image from planning application

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The proposed development at Liverpool St Station presents a real risk of establishing an unwelcome precedent for the construction of cantilevered buildings over listed buildings, something we strongly oppose. #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation #SeeitSaveit

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6 years

Our #buildingoftheweek is Everton Library in #Liverpool , built in 1896 by Thomas Shelmerdine, and listed at grade II. Liverpool City Council are inviting expressions of interest for its regeneration:

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3 years

These pictures just go to show you that you never know what amazing things you will find behind cladding! This is the former Dominion Cinema in #Harrow , designed by Frank E Bromige c.1930, now known as the Safari #Cinema . #london #lookup #heritage #architecture #historicbuildings

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4 years

The Rolling Stones 1971 compilation album ‘Hot Rocks’ showed them posing, somewhat precariously, at the Grade I listed Swarkestone Hall Pavilion, dating to 1632. At the time fallen into disrepair, the Pavilion was restored by @LandmarkTrust in 1985. #albumcovers #vinyl #heritage

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🚨Owners of the Crooked House Pub, which infamously burned down two weeks after being sold last summer, have been told to rebuild. #CrookedHouse #Dudley

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Here are 18 Art Deco gems in London that are worth a visit according to @Londonist . Have any of you seen these, or have a favourite? #Heritage #ArtDeco #Architecture #London

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3 years

Disappointed to see Coventry City seeking to demolish C.1820s former Black Horse Pub, Spon End, for road widening to 'reduce local vehicle emissions’.

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When we first encountered Grade II* Handforth Hall in #Cheshire , it was boarded up and the subject of an application to demolish. We objected to the building’s demolition repeatedly. In the end it was the market that protected it – as it was purchased and saved from demolition.

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Some good news this week! The application for the demolition of #Debenhams in Taunton has been withdrawn. We originally objected to the application noting that the complete loss of the existing Debenhams building would represent harm to Taunton’s historic environment...(1/2)

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Happy St David’s Day! St David's Cathedral as it stands today was begun in 1180. The Grade I listed cathedral was a popular place of pilgrimage throughout the Middle Ages. It is considered one of the most important medieval ecclesiastical building in Wales. 📷: Mike Erskine

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6 years

Our #buildingoftheweek is Grade I listed Temple Mill, Leeds (1838-43). Featured in our last newsletter, it ‘had a green roof where sheep would be allowed to graze, taken up and down by a special sheep lift which survives’

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Timeless as ever, the Grade II* Daily Express Building (1939) in Ancoats, #Manchester . This is just one of three Daily Express buildings by Sir Owen Williams. The other two are in London and Glasgow. #ArtDeco #Architecture

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We are delighted that the ‘Three Ships’ mosaic mural in Hull has been listed at grade II, and its contribution to public art recognised by @DCMS and @HistoricEngland – well done to @HULL_HeritageAG and all who campaigned for it. @BhsMuralHull @C20Society #1960s #heritage #Hull

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The Turkey Cafe with its striking Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) facade in Granby Street, #Leicester , England. Designed by Arthur Wakerley of Leicester for J S Winn, and built in 1900-1901. Grade II listed. #Heritage #LookUp #Architecture

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We objected to the unjustified demolition of Edgehill Manor, a locally listed Edwardian house in Barnet’s Mill Hill Conservation Area. The applicant appealed the refusal, and we are pleased the refusal was upheld this week by the Planning Inspector. 📷: Barnet Local Heritage List

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5 years

Great letter in the FT from Duncan Wilson, Chief Exec of @HistoricEngland : "Recycling plastic bottles is a normal part of our daily lives, but reusing our existing historic buildings would be a much more powerful way to improve our environmental impact."

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The benefits of restoration and retrofit being recognised yet again in this @guardian article. More retrofit and less demolition please! Read more 👉 #Heritage #Retrofit #RetroFirst #Architecture #Uk #ClimateCrisis #Sustainabilty

How retrofitting the UK’s old buildings can generate an extra £35bn in new money

Heritage and property groups outline plan to boost energy efficiency at historical sites to create jobs, cut emissions and meet net-zero targets

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1 year

Another historic building tragically lost to fire. #CrookedHouse

Fire engulfs historic pub famed for being wonkiest in Britain

Firefighters called to tackle blaze at the Crooked House in Himley, West Midlands

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This Grade ll listed 1930s Odeon in Chester got a new lease of life in 2017 after a decade being shut, when it was transformed into a mixed-use community hub. Now called Storyhouse, the building houses a theatre, cinema, library and restaurant. #refurb #reuse #retrofit #heritage

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The Ancient Monuments Society is now Historic Buildings & Places! Visit our new website to find out more: #hbap #heritage #historicbuildings #rebrand

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2 years

Demolition of Newcastle’s grade 2 Carliol House will be considered by planning committee next week. We objected to the scheme, which only retains the façade, as it hasn't been demonstrated that this magnificent art deco building has no viable use. (1/2)

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3 years

Well done ⁦ @SAVEBrit ⁩ et al! Listing saves cinema visited by George Harrison and John Lennon - BBC News

Listing saves cinema visited by George Harrison and John Lennon

A cinema where George Harrison and John Lennon spent teenage afternoons is saved from demolition.

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Arts and Crafts masterpiece, Munstead Wood, has been acquired by the @nationaltrust . The house and gardens are the work of architect Edwin Lutyens and the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. Read more:

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6 years

The Hoover Building (1933) conversion is complete and it’s our #buildingoftheweek – Pevsner called it a ‘modernistic atrocity’ but Elvis Costello was right: ‘one of these days the Hoover factory is gonna be all the rage in those fashionable pages…’ (1/2)

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Fantastic news for flagship M&S store on Oxford St!

SAVE Britain's Heritage

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1 year

💥AMAZING NEWS!! 🎉Secretary of State rejects M&S's plan to demolish its flagship Oxford St building. Huge victory for campaign led by SAVE Britain’s Heritage ♻️🌍 #SAVEMandSOxfordSt #SAVEcampaigns

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We are concerned about @CityWestminster 's approach to removing listed gas streetlamps and those attached to listed buildings. Read about the campaign to save them by @LondonGasketeer and how you can support them: #Heritage #Conservation #GasLamps

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The Three Mills are former working mills and an island of the same name on the #RiverLea . It is one of #London ’s oldest surviving industrial centres. One of these mills is the iconic Grade II listed Clock Mill, with its three storey drying kilns with conical slated roofs.

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Sutton House was a Grade II listed site near London's Victoria Station. It's history and architecture were unique. It was a purpose-built inter-war pawnbroker's shop and pledge offices with a detailed #Moderne façade. Several years ago it was demolished and replaced (img 2).

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3 years

CharlesRennie #Mackintosh was born on this day in 1868. Here is Hill House in Helensburgh (1902-1904).

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Our #buildingoftheweek is Aylesbury Quaker Meeting House (1726-27) newly listed at grade II. This week @HistoricEngland celebrates this and 16 other Quaker meeting houses through listing:

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We've supported @C20Society by objecting to the destruction of #PostModern “Angel Square”. Designed in the 1980s by Rock Townsend, this richly composed structure balances the domed Grade II Angel Hotel opposite, & forms a gateway to #Islington High Street. (1/2)📷:Derwent London

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Historic Grade 2 listed Moseley Road Baths in #Birmingham reopened last week after large restoration led by @HistoricEngland with funding from @HeritageFundUK . #Heritage #HistoricBuidlings #MoseleyRoadBaths @MoseleyRdBaths

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We are extremely disappointed with the use of permitted development rights to demolish St Anne’s, an Arts and Crafts style church in St Leonards-on-Sea. We objected to a planning app that was refused due to the loss of a community facility. 📷: Nick Wiseman #Heritage #C20

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6 years

Derby Historic Buildings Trust launches campaign to rebuild the long-decaying Hippodrome and return it to a theatre: #FridayFundraising @Theatres_Trust

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The wonderful grade II Carliol House (c.1925) in #Newcastle . Sadly a fight we lost and is now just a facade attached to the new HMRC Headquarters under construction on the block behind. #facadism #saveourheritage

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The successful campaign in the 1970s to save Liverpool Street Station from redevelopment (shown below) led to its sensitive restoration and extension in the 1980s. We now join the campaign again to #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation . #Heritage #Planning #LiverpoolStreetStation

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5 years

The AMS deals with many cases of ‘humble heritage’: lower-status buildings that are architecturally and historically important. Good to see farm buildings in Yorkshire recognised here:

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'Twas the night before Christmas... An evening glow over the Church of St Andrew, Weaverthorpe, Yorkshire. The Grade I listed building consists of a 12th century tower, nave and chancel, with Victorian refurbishment by architect George Edmund Street. #ChristmasEve #Heritage

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1 year

It’s #InternationalTeaDay and we had to share one of our favourites again. The Grade II listed Turkey Cafe in #Leicester , built in 1900-1901, initially opened as a tearoom. It remained as a café through most of its history. Do you have a favourite tearoom?

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Great to see these historic gas lamps receive listing in #CoventGarden ! @LondonGasketeer #Heritage #GasLamps

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4 historic gas lamps in Covent Garden, London, have been listed at Grade II 🎉 They were installed in 1910 to mark the beginning of King George V's reign. The listings have been welcomed by @twocitiesnickie , @LondonGasketeer and @thevicsoc . Read more ➡️

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Did you know there are over 860 caves underneath Nottingham – more than any other British city? Technical guidance (thanks to Heritage Action Zone funding from @HistoricEngland !) will soon be available for cave owners:

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Our #buildingoftheweek is the Isle of Dogs Pumping Station by John Outram (1986-88), listed last year at grade II*. Great to see @historicengland have just listed 17 more #PoMO buildings:

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Birmingham Central Library was designed by John Madin Design Group in the #brutalist style. It served as the main public library in #Birmingham until 2013, and was subsequently demolished in 2016. #Architecture #BirminghamCentralLibrary

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The House in the Clouds celebrates 🎉 its centenary year. Built to improve the look of Thorpeness's water tower, the main water tank was removed in 1979 to fully convert the building into a house. It has been Grade II listed since 1995. 📷: Rod Jones Photography, CC BY 2.0

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The 3-storey entrance block to the Union Works (later the Gwenda Works) on Legge Lane, in #Birmingham ’s Jewellery Quarter. The Grade II listed building, dated 1913, was built for Henry Manton, a silversmith and manufacturer of cut glass, whose name is inscribed on the façade.

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We call on @cardiffcouncil to throw full force of the law against the developer for clearly and deliberately ignoring the council’s stop work notice and violating planning law. Historic buildings are a finite resource and once gone, they are lost forever.

Cardiff: Guildford Crescent facade knocked down without consent

Thousands of people campaigned in 2019 to save the Victorian terrace from the wrecking ball.

www.bbc.co.uk

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2 years

Newark's town centre businesses return to period shop fronts. Two Grade II listed buildings are to be transformed with funding from @HistoricEngland and Newark and Sherwood District Council. #Heritage #HistoricHighStreets #NewarkOnTrent

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Matthew Saunders with Lucie Carayon, Director of @AMS1924 and Rachel Morley, Director of @friendschurches – handing over the baton to the next generation!

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A sad site in Dudley.

Dudley Hippodrome FCG

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And "eyesore" boards (been there for decades) come down. How can DMBC demolish this? Original 30s Crittall windows. @bclmdirector @C20Society @dudleymbc @hbap1924 @HistoricEngland @luhc @SAVEBrit @WMHBT @TheatresTrust @WeAreBCR

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In this #heatwave we are having in the UK, we can't think of a better way to cool down than swimming at a historic lido like this one in #Plymouth . Tinside Lido was designed in 1935 by John Wibberley. This sea water bathing pool is now Grade II listed. 📷: Ian Capper

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Help our petition to #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation reach 15,000 signatories. We strongly oppose the insensitive and harmful plans for these Grade II and Grade II* listed buildings. Sign 📝 here: #SeeItSaveIt #LiverpoolStreetStation #Heritage

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Can you believe the London Underground has been opened for 160 years? Happy birthday to the London Underground 🥳🎉! 📷: Baker Street, 1863 - 1869 #OnThisDay #OTD #London #Tube #LondonUnderground

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We are pleased to see the Secretary of State has rejected plans for the demolition of the flagship M&S Oxford Street store. The message is clear – the priority is to reuse and retrofit. Well done to @SAVEBrit ! #SAVEMandSOxfordSt #RetroFirst #Reuse

Marks & Spencer refused permission to demolish and rebuild Oxford Street store

M&S says ‘short-sighted act of self-sabotage’ leaves no choice but to review position on UK’s premier shopping street

www.theguardian.com

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The proposed development at Liverpool St Station presents a real risk of establishing an unwelcome precedent for the construction of cantilevered buildings over listed buildings, and is something we strongly oppose. Read our full statement: #SeeitSaveit

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Lamb House is a grade II* listed 18th century house in Rye, East Sussex. The American novelist Henry James lived there from 1897 to 1914 and it was also later occupied by E.F. Benson, author of the Mapp and Lucia novels. It is now a @nationaltrust property. #heritage #HenryJames

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8 years

Our #buildingoftheweek is Whitechapel Bell Foundry, here since 1740s, closing in May. History via @SurveyofLondon

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5 years

Our #buildingoftheweek is the Engine Shed at the University of Northampton adapted by @Purcelluk - worthy winner of the Association for Industrial Archaeology’s 2019 Creative Reuse Award! @AIndustrialArch #industrialheritage

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At the end of May @HistoricEngland announced it would award £252,000 to repair the UK’s oldest surviving #railway goods shed. The Grade II* building formed part of the Stockton and #Darlington Railway and was designed by its chief engineer Thomas Storey.

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Our #buildingoftheweek is Pinner Court (1935) by local architect H.J. Mark – one of several ‘metro-land’ highlights we spotted on a recent visit. Photo: ©stevecadman on Flickr

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You can submit your objections for this application here:

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We welcome Shropshire Council’s decision to reject plans for Hinton Hall, a remarkable Victorian 'time capsule' and a rare example of a relatively unaltered country house. While we support introducing a new and viable use of the hall...(1/2)

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Williamson's Tunnels in Liverpool are an enormous underground mystery – they’re also our #buildingoftheweek as we are so impressed by the work of @FoWT to bring them to a wider audience.

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Read about @SAVEBrit 's report that highlights the risk of dilapidation and potential demolition of landmark department stores. #Heritage #BuildingsAtRisk

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Our #buildingoftheweek is the grade II* listed Roundhouse, Derby, the world’s first and oldest surviving railway house (1839!), which this year celebrates 10 years off the Heritage At Risk Register with @HistoricEngland involvement:

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Rare surviving example of a #Tudor wooden-framed house in #Bolton could receive "specialist support and funding” to reopen to the public again.

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Grade II* listed Wingfield Station in #Derbyshire is undergoing a £1.7m restoration and is due to reopen 28 October! Find out more about the ongoing project:

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Looking for a new home for a former WWI Army hut and a 1908 Speirs corrugated iron classroom in #Northumberland . The Edwardian huts need relocation due to the upcoming redevelopment of the Grade II* former Grammar School in Berwick-upon-Tweed. (1/2)

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On #LifeinColour Day 4 we had to choose the beautiful emerald-green tiled interior of Victoria Baths, Manchester @victoriabaths #ROYGBIV #Day4 #green

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Our Deputy Chair Anthony Peers makes the case for 'Preserving Historic Farm Buildings Through Re-Use': via @HistoricEngland

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Funding offered by @ArchHFund towards viability study of Grimsby smokehouse buildings, in a ‘first move’ for the historic Kasbah area

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Lovely watercolours by @eleanor_crow throw the spotlight on some of London’s most enduring shopfronts in new book published 5 Sept:

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Great News! The Grade I listed Garden House at Charlton House is to undergo conservation work @charlton_house

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The AMS has joined SAVE Britain's Heritage, the Council for British Archaeology (CBA), the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) and others in objecting to the application to demolish this Grade II-listed building.

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Building of the Month December 2019: Cholleys Farmhouse, Hordon on the Hill, Essex - grade II 16th century house threatened with demolition #heritageatrisk @SPAB1877 @AMS1924

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The former Higgins & Sons brewery, now part of @higginsbedford site which underwent refurbishment and opened in 2013. The site united the former Cecil Higgins Art Gallery with the Bedford Museum and Bedford Gallery. #Heritage #Retrofit #Reuse #Bedford

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The ruined Pump House at Govan Graving Docks in #Glasgow overlooks a site which has been derelict for many years but is now to be redeveloped for industrial, heritage and cultural use after proposals for housing and commercial building were rejected in September 2020. @ClydeDocks

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We have called on Enfield Council to refuse plans for tower blocks next to Charles Holden’s Grade II #CockfostersStation , the historic Trent Park, and the Green Belt. A more appropriate scale development would suit this transitional city fringe site. Photo: S Cadman CC BY SA 2.0

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Today, 8 Feb, we mark the bicentenary of John Ruskin (1819-1900) & his contribution to the conservation movement. Events can be found here: including free exhibition ‘John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing’ at @TwoTemplePlace #ruskin200

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Grade II listed Holy Trinity Church, Twydall Lane, Gillingham, Kent, built in 1963-1964 by Arthur Bailey. The building is almost completely unaltered, with many of its original fittings and fixtures. #Church #Gillingham #Kent #Architecture

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4 years

"Young Woman on the Balcony of a Gothic Palace in Venice" by Ludwig Johann Passini (1866).

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11 months

We have officially said goodbye to Vestry Hall, which has been our home for the last 30 years! If you need to contact us at our new address, please check our website for the details.

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2 years

Grade I listed #CardiffCastle . The #Victorian gothic revival reconstruction of the castle, built for the 3rd Marquess of Bute by William Burges has some stunning features. The Arab Room (first image) in the Herbert Tower is considered one of Burges's masterpieces. #Wales

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7 years

Having a browse of @SAVEBrit Buildings at Risk catalogue launched this week - some gems in there for the brave!

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11 months

The plans to demolish much of the Grade II* listed Liverpool Street Station to build a private office building and hotel are now live. You can object to Stellar's damaging plans here: #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation

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2 years

Planning application submitted to convert Grade II listed derelict Yorkshire mill into 58 apartments. #Yorkshire #Halifax #Heritage

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5 years

The George Inn, Norton St Philip is a historic pub extraordinaire. Grade I listed, built C14/15 century with ‘C16 oversailing timber frontage to front upper floors, added after a fire’ List Entry no. 1174953 #historicpubs #heritage #beer #fridayfeeling

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7 years

A hidden gem of @openhouselondon - our #buildingoftheweek W. Plumb the butcher, w/splendid Victorian interior

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2 years

Coventry’s medieval Charterhouse opens to public after 11-year rescue effort: #Coventry #Charterhouse #Heritage @HistCovTrust

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2 years

5 people have been fined for the illegal demolition of Grade II listed Punch Bowl Inn, Hurst Green, Lancashire. Those involved have been ordered to rebuild the pub within 12 months. #Heritage #ListedBuilding #Lancashire

Five fined £20,000 for demolishing Punch Bowl Inn - and ordered to rebuild pub

Five people have been fined £22,250 and ordered to pay further costs of £46,625 after illegally demolishing the Punch Bowl Inn in Hurst Green.

www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk

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7 years

We stumbled across this memorial by JC Loudon recently and think it deserves to be our #buildingoftheweek – a really unusual design and motto… #Pinner #Loudon

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