Surrey Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) has announced the shortlist for the Surrey Heritage Awards 2017. The Awards have been created to celebrate Surrey’s rich and diverse architectural heritage, highlighting Best Practice in historic building conservation and restoration.   There are six shortlisted building projects:   St Martha’s Priory in Chilworth is a 1930s timber-framed Arts and Crafts house. It is a very fine example of the Surrey vernacular style but had been vacant for over 10 years and neglected. Now, with new owners, the challenge was to extend the house without detracting in any way from...

The Chairman and Trustees of Surrey Historic Buildings Trust are delighted to announce the launch of our new annual Surrey Heritage Awards. The aim of the award scheme is to highlight best practice in conservation, preservation, care, repair and enhancement of Surrey’s historic buildings. The new Heritage Awards scheme is being publicised to all eleven of Surrey’s district and borough councils, and we are encouraging local authorities to seek nominations from within their district in addition to making their own nominations. The Awards will be actively promoted in local press and media. The first of...

We are delighted to report that Mr Michael More-Molyneux, who recently succeeded Dame Sarah Goad as Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant for the County of Surrey, has accepted the invitation from Surrey Historic Buildings Trust to become our Patron. Mr More-Molyneux is the first Patron in the history of the Trust. He is, of course, not only the owner of one of Surrey’s finest historic houses, namely Loseley Park, but is a longstanding and active supporter of the cause of heritage conservation in Surrey, and as such is ideally qualified to be our first-ever Patron. We welcome Mr More-Molyneux to the Trust and...

Surrey Historic Buildings Trust has agreed a further £8,000 in grants for building conservation and restoration projects across Surrey. These included: Funds for the replacement of damaged weatherboarding and an oak door on the 17th century barn at St Piers School, Lingfield Repairing the walls of a medieval hall house, the Old Farmhouse, Outwood Re-rendering the wall of a former coachman’s house at Brockham Warren, Box Hill Repairing the 19th century clock tower at Clockhouse Mews, Godalming Repairing the chapel windows of St Catherine’s School, Bramley. All the buildings for which grants have been...

Surrey Historic Buildings Trust has announced its latest grants towards the preservation of historic buildings in Surrey : Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace , East Molesey : Surrey Historic Buildings Trust has made a donation of £3,000 towards the conservation, repair and refurbishment of one of the disused former “Grace and Favour” apartments at Hampton Court Palace, enabling the room to be brought back into active use, this time as a café for students and visitors to the Royal School of Needlework, which is based within the Palace. Andy Smith , Administrator of Surrey...