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Tollesbury could use...
MEHBT
The Mid Essex
Historic Buildings Trust
The Opportunity
to Rescue
The Woodrolfe Granary,
Tollesbury, Essex.
Alan Coday
MEHBT Project Organiser
www.MEHBT.org.uk
The Tollesbury Granary...
The Opportunity to Rescue
The Tollesbury Granary.
Introductions - The Trust
- The Trustees
Our Inaugural Project
- Artisans Cottage, Maldon
Introducing the Woodrolfe Granary
The Possibilities
The Problems
The Feasibility Study
Future Funding
Possible Players
Discussions: Chairman - Andrew White.
MEHBT
The Mid Essex
Historic Buildings Trust
Introductions - The Trust
- TheTrustees
MEHBT
The Mid Essex
Historic Buildings Trust
•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
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 ...
• Grade 2 Listed
• 19th century
• Approx 5 m x 10 m
• 2nd storey modified 1920
• ? Granary
• Local knowledge?
Aerial photograph courtesy of Tollesbury Boatyard
The Tollesbury Granary could be ...
•a focal point for all
visitors
•a gateway to local
features and businesses
NMMC photo from
www.cornwall-online.co.uk
As welcoming as …the National Maritime Museum Falmouth
The Tollesbury Granary could be ...
•an informative gateway
signposted to everything
the locality has to offer
...As informative as the Millenium Signpost,
Scout Scar, Cumbria.
Directing visitors to local features, facilities and businesses
The Tollesbury Granary could be ...
•A centre for conveying
facts about the local
coast, countryside and
custom
EWT photos from www.essexwt.org.uk
As meaningful as …the West Hanningfield EWT Visitor Centre
The Tollesbury Granary could be ...
•a place to demonstrate
Tollesbury’s pride in its
heritage and happenings
As versatile as …Great Dunmow Maltings
The Tollesbury Granary could be ...
•a place to focus upon
local natural history, with
versatile facilities for local
and distant communities
to explore and enjoy
As specialist as …the RSPB at Bradwell St Peter on the Wall
What is the Best Use of the Tollesbury Granary?
The MEHBT
Feasibility Study:
•Analysis of... all Potential Uses
Cost £6200
•Planning Issues/Access/Sanitation
Grateful to …
•Tenure (potential for lease)
Architectural
Heritage licence)
•Car Parking (potential
Fund (AHF) £4600
•Access
(New
exterior steps & Lift)
Woodrolfe
Boatyard
Maldon
District
Council
•Flooding
Frequency/Impact
(Conservation Grant)
•Extent
of Repairs
Tollesbury
Parish Council
•Cost of Repairs (£110k)
•Full Restoration Project (£251k)
What are the opportunities?
What are the problems?
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 presents
professionally researched Costings
to Repair and Convert
The Woodrolfe Granary into a Visitor Centre
The MEHBT Feasibility Study prompts the Trust to
find and secure £251,000 to rescue this building
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.
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The Tollesbury Granary needs to appeal to ...
•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 MEHBT Feasibility Study empowers
the Trust to rescue this building...
...but only if we can find and involve suitable end-user groups
The Tollesbury Granary needs ...
•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’
The Feasibility Study brings these visions one step closer to reality.
Can you or your organisation… actively support this project?
What is the MEHBT
and what does it do?
MEHBT
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 Mid Essex
Historic Buildings Trust
Chairman:
Mr Andrew White
01787 227488
“Champions of the
Hopeless Building…”
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
Registered Address:
The Custom House
112b High Street
Maldon
Essex CM9 5ET
Is the MEHBT part of the
Local Authority?
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.
All photos by AEC unless creditted
Project Organiser:
Dr Alan Coday
01245 227948
[email protected]
MEHBT
A Non Profit-Making Charitable Trust
Registered Charity No 1073943
Ltd by Guarantee & Registered in
England No 3643047
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.
Backdrop: MEHBT inaugural project
‘The Artisans, Cottage’, Maldon after a 24 week £70k restoration project in 2001