The impact of your holiday
Each break ensures that precious places survive in our society, culture and landscape.
Our charity rescues and restores historic buildings. The rental income we generate flows directly back into our buildings, not into shareholder returns or executive bonuses. It means we can put over £2 million every year into repairs and maintenance to keep properties looking their best and meeting customer expectations. Our teams work with networks of tradespeople and conservators, boosting regional employment and contributing to local economies on a national scale. These contractors are often family run businesses, their relationship with Landmark dating back generations. Together we source locally produced materials and British-made products wherever possible. Often we're reviving near-lost traditional craft techniques, training the next generation of crafts people too.
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 projects, each revitalising precious places.
Alton Station
Staffordshire
Surveyor Stuart Leavy and a team of specialists have conserved Alton's 170-year-old Minton floor tiles, plus upgraded access, furniture and storage arrangements. Watch the project unfold in two new videos.
Tower Hill
Pembrokeshire
Contractor Steve Kind, whose specialist eye has been cast over several Landmarks in south Wales, recently spent two months refurbishing Tower Hill in St David’s. Meet Steve and his team, plus learn about the changes to this longstanding Landmark in a video.
Keeper's Cottage
Bedfordshire
In the pinewoods of the Shuttleworth Estate in Old Warden, Mark Smitten, Matt Cannell and Rose Andrews from Landmark’s craft team have refreshed and redecorated this cottage reminiscent of fairytales.
The Mackintosh Building
Perthshire
Residents have long been enjoying a soak in the bath in this first-floor flat designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 119 years after this elegant building's construction, Landmark’s surveyor for Scotland Zac Manning has sympathetically introduced a shower unit too.
The Priest's House
Devon
Landmark's surveyor for 37 properties in the south-west Mark Cox leads sensitive bathroom improvements at this church house from c.1500.
Ascog House
Argyll and Bute
A new electric vehicle charger, full internal decoration and landscaping are amongst the list of extensive works at this Isle of Bute House.
The Saddell Estate
Argyll and Bute
We first came to Saddell three years before Paul McCartney and Wings performed ‘Mull of Kintyre’ on its shoreline. Nurturing the estate over several decades, recent work has included roof repairs and two new gates.