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

alan.coday@mehbt.org.ukChairman:

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