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Tollesbury could use...
The Tollesbury Granary...
MEHBTThe Mid Essex
Historic Buildings Trust
The Opportunity to Rescue
The Woodrolfe Granary,
Tollesbury, Essex.
Alan Coday MEHBT Project
Organiser
www.MEHBT.org.uk
The Opportunity to Rescue The Tollesbury Granary.
MEHBTThe Mid Essex
Historic Buildings Trust
Introductions - The Trust - The Trustees
Our Inaugural Project - Artisans Cottage,
MaldonIntroducing the Woodrolfe GranaryThe Possibilities The ProblemsThe Feasibility Study Future FundingPossible PlayersDiscussions: Chairman - Andrew White.
Introductions - The Trust
- TheTrustees•Registered Charity•Non Profit-making Building Preservation Trust•9 volunteer Trustees, 2 advisors.•2 architects
•2 solicitors •former MDC Head of Planning•County Councillor•CPRE & former Chair of MDC•MDCllr & former Chair of MDC•BDC Cabinet Member• Co. secretary/Accountant• Conservation Consultant
MEHBTThe Mid Essex
Historic Buildings Trust
MEHBT inaugural project ‘The Artisans, Cottage, Maldon in 1990
MEHBT inaugural project ‘The Artisans, Cottage’, Maldon After a 24 week £70k restoration project in 2001
The Tollesbury Granary has Great Potential to be a local Maritime Museum,
& Natural History Visitor Centre and Tourist Gateway ...
Aerial photograph courtesy of Tollesbury Boatyard
• Grade 2 Listed
• 19th century
• Approx 5 m x 10 m
• 2nd storey modified 1920
• ? Granary
• Local knowledge?
The Tollesbury Granary could be ...
As welcoming as …the National Maritime Museum Falmouth
NMMC photo from www.cornwall-online.co.uk
•a focal point for all visitors
•a gateway to local features and businesses
The Tollesbury Granary could be ...
...As informative as the Millenium Signpost, Scout Scar, Cumbria.
Directing visitors to local features, facilities and businesses
•an informative gateway signposted to everything
the locality has to offer
The Tollesbury Granary could be ...
As meaningful as …the West Hanningfield EWT Visitor Centre
EWT photos from www.essexwt.org.uk
•A centre for conveying facts about the local coast, countryside and custom
The Tollesbury Granary could be ...
As versatile as …Great Dunmow Maltings
•a place to demonstrate Tollesbury’s pride in its heritage and happenings
The Tollesbury Granary could be ...
As specialist as …the RSPB at Bradwell St Peter on the Wall
•a place to focus upon local natural history, with versatile facilities for local and distant communities to explore and enjoy
What is the Best Use of the Tollesbury Granary?
What are the opportunities? What are the problems?
The MEHBT Feasibility Study:
Cost £6200
Grateful to …
Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) £4600
Woodrolfe Boatyard Maldon District Council(Conservation Grant)Tollesbury Parish Council
•Analysis of... all Potential Uses
•Planning Issues/Access/Sanitation
•Tenure (potential for lease)
•Car Parking (potential licence)
•Access (New exterior steps & Lift)
•Flooding Frequency/Impact
•Extent of Repairs
•Cost of Repairs (£110k)
•Full Restoration Project (£251k)
The Tollesbury Granary has its problems ...
The MEHBT Feasibility Study presents a fully detailed condition survey by Hilary Brightman Conservation Architect & The Morton Partnership
The Tollesbury Granary needs funds...
The MEHBT Feasibility Study prompts the Trust to find and secure £251,000 to rescue this building
The MEHBT Feasibility Study presents professionally researched Costings to Repair and Convert The Woodrolfe Granary into a Visitor Centre
The Tollesbury Granary has Great Potential to be a local Maritime Museum,
& Natural History Visitor Centre and Tourist Gateway ...
The MEHBT Feasibility Study confirms that a Maritime and Natural History Visitor Centre
would be the best use of this building, securing its decaying fabric for a sustainable future.
The Feasibility Study presents the full details of professional research.7
The Tollesbury Granary needs to appeal to ...
The MEHBT Feasibility Study empowers the Trust to rescue this building...
...but only if we can find and involve suitable end-user groups
•The Community, via Tollesbury Heritage Group
•The Blackwater Project (Maldon DC)
•Essex Wildlife Trust
•The RSPB
•The National Trust
•The Ramblers Association
•Visitors from Land and Yachts & Boats
•Educational visitors / training establishments
•Charitable grantors (HLF, AHF, MAYA, Thames G/W etc)
The Tollesbury Granary needs ...
The Feasibility Study brings these visions one step closer to reality. Can you or your organisation… actively support this project?
•To secure Suitable End Users
•To secure Funding
•To finalise Lease negotiations for ‘community use’
•To procure a Restoration Contract
•Potentially to hand over the Management of the restored building to a Community Based Heritage Group
To create an attractive, functional, catalytic coastal focus: Tollesbury’s ‘Maritime and Natural History Visitor Centre’
MEHBTThe Mid Essex
Historic Buildings Trust
“Champions of the Hopeless Building…”
Project Organiser:Dr Alan Coday 01245 227948
Mr Andrew White01787 227488
Registered Address:The Custom House112b High Street
MaldonEssex CM9 5ET
Backdrop: MEHBT inaugural project ‘The Artisans, Cottage’, Maldon after a 24 week £70k restoration project in 2001
All photos by AEC unless creditted
What is the MEHBT and what does it do?
This non-profit making registered charity seeks to rescue Built Heritage in the
Mid Essex Region. It is backed by the Architectural Heritage Fund (tel 0207 925 0199) and
can attract Grant Aid and preferential Restoration Loans
only available to Building Preservation Trusts.
The Trust comprises 9 Trustees with professional experience in
Planning, Law, Building Conservation, and
Architecture. It has dedicated advisors on Finance, Law,
Building Surveying & Contract Management
Through acquisition and redeployment, we seek to
rescue Heritage Buildings that have become misused, redundant, obsolete or
dilapidated for whatever reason – whether through
commercial, financial, legal, personal, or domestic crises.
Is the MEHBT part of the Local Authority?
No. The Trust is a registered charity that
has developed very close links with Braintree,
Chelmsford, & Maldon District Councils as well
as Essex County Council. Our close but independent relationship allows us to
understand and negotiate with these statutory
bodies but allows us the freedom to explore the best possible potential
outcome for any particular heritage
building that may be at risk.
MEHBT A Non Profit-Making Charitable
TrustRegistered Charity No 1073943Ltd by Guarantee & Registered
in England No 3643047