Craft and restoration

Read, watch and listen as we share our varied and ongoing maintenance projects across the country

The Mayor’s Parlour lock, Maison Dieu, Dover: a new Landmark for 2025

In a new blog, Project Development Manager Alastair Dick-Cleland offers a glimpse of work currently underway in the Mayor’s Parlour at Maison Dieu in Dover. We’re delighted to be playing our part in a much larger project led by Dover District Council, with the Mayor’s Parlour to become a Landmark for six opening in 2025.

Read Alastair's blog

Re-imagining a painted ceiling from Renaissance Scotland

Paul Mowbray, the talented artist behind Fairburn Tower’s painted ceiling, shares his process.

Saving Fairburn Tower

As Fairburn Tower's magnificent restoration is complete, Landmark's Director, Dr Anna Keay, looks back at the very first visit to a crumbling Fairburn in ruin.

Read Anna's blog

Culture Recovery Fund unlocks vital repairs

After the months of uncertainty following closures due to Covid, we were delighted to receive support thanks to the Culture Recovery Fund designed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Two major grants administered by Historic England enabled critical work at Landmarks across England.

The projects that benefitted

Award-winning Landmarks:

Five trophies from RIBA

We are delighted to have received significant recognition for both Cobham Dairy and Winsford Cottage Hospital in the Royal Institute of British Architect’s Regional Awards 2022.

Find out more about the awards

Repairs and alterations at Sackville House

In this blog, Architect Nicola Westbury takes us through the extensive project over at Sackville House.

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The impact of your holiday

Every break safeguards precious places

With each holiday booking, we can thatch and plaster. We can gild, grain and harl, reapply limewash, repoint and redecorate. Here we highlight a handful of recent maintenance works, each renewing and revitalising precious places.

Take a look

Blogs

Podcasts

In the spirit of Voysey

Furniture makers Alice Blogg and Alasdair Kilpatrick were both commissioned to make furniture for the community rooms at Winsford Cottage Hospital. Here they talk about following in the footsteps of the hospitals designer, CFA Voysey.

You can read the transcript of the podcast here.

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