Future restoration projects
Buildings on our horizon
RAF Ibsley Watch Office
Hampshire
• A rare surviving example of a World War II control station.
• Constructed between 1941-2, it saw active service, including the D-Day invasion, for both the RAF and US Air Force.
• Its significance lies in the part it played during a period of great peril in our national history.
• Used as the location for the wartime film 'The First of the Few'.
• The Watch Office could make a comfortable, thought-provoking Landmark for eight.
• We have £721, 507 left to raise to save it from further dilapidation and vandalism.
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Wentworth Woodhouse
Rotherham
• Wentworth Woodhouse is one of the largest and most famous 18th century houses in England.
• Working in partnership with the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust, we hope to create a Landmark for two in the South Tower of the East Front.
• This Palladian mansion is set in an equally important landscape, today rescued from open-cast mining during the mid-20th century.
• Built by the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Rockingham from 1730.
• The upper chamber of the South Tower is an important survival of feminine taste in the Georgian period.
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Mavisbank House
near Edinburgh
• One of the most important buildings at risk in Britain.
• Built by celebrated Scottish architect William Adam in 1723.
• The house was a summer residence for John Clerk of Penicuik, a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, and signatory of the Act of Union (1707).
• 300 years after it was built and 50 years after it almost burnt to the ground, a major grant of £5.3m from the National Heritage Memorial Fund means the Landmark Trust can now begin rescuing Mavisbank House.
• The NHMF grant will enable Landmark to pursue phase one of a rescue plan to see the crumbling building and pavilions stabilised before any more historic fabric falls away.
• In order to complete phase one of the project, a further £505,000 still needs to be raised.
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The Clock Tower, Wemyss Bay
Firth of Clyde
• This Italianate clock tower is part of James Miller’s magnificent 1903 Wemyss Bay Station on the Firth of Clyde.
• One of Scotland’s finest railway buildings and Category A listed, the station concourse is remarkable for its sweeping use of glass and steel.
• Built by the Caledonian Railway Company, this Edwardian masterpiece still greets passengers travelling from Glasgow to catch the ferry to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute.
• Attached to the main station building, The Clock Tower is in urgent need of repair.
• If the funds can be raised, The Clock Tower will become a Landmark for two.
There are nearly 1,500 buildings at risk of neglect, decay or inappropriate change in England alone. Each year we are approached with as many as 150 places in need of rescue or a new use. We consider all types and ages of buildings across England, Scotland and Wales, but are especially on the look out for small and significant industrial; 20th century military; seaside and leisure; small vernacular buildings; and those connected to urban regeneration and/or in historic town centres.
To read the criteria we follow to identify Landmarks or if you’d like to propose one, please click here.
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