More than £450,000 has been awarded to Wollaton Hall for water damage repairs at the historic landmark. Nottingham will benefit from the government's Cultural Investment Fund to the tune of £594,347, with funding being allocated to Wollaton Hall and the city's library service.
A total of £469,992 will be used to carry out repairs to the roof, windows and timbers, guttering and drainage at Wollaton Hall. This will ensure it is weathertight before carrying out restoration following earlier water damage to the Tudor kitchen walls and a fresco in the south stairwell.
This work will start this spring and will be complete by 2026. Nottingham City Council’s Portfolio Holder for Leisure, Culture & Planning, Pavlos Kotsonis, said: “We are really pleased to have secured this funding from the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as part of a highly competitive bidding process, managed by Arts Council England (ACE) with support from Historic England.
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“The funding for Wollaton Hall will enable repairs to take place to the roof, windows and timbers, guttering and drainage. This will ensure it is weathertight before carrying out restoration following earlier water damage to the Tudor kitchen walls and a fresco in the south stairwell. This work will start this spring and will be complete by 2026."
The city's library service will also get a boost, with £124,355 to be awarded from the Libraries Improvement Fund. This will be spent on new furniture and flooring, as well as extending Nottingham City Council's tablet loaning scheme.
Mr Kotsonis added: “The award from the Libraries Improvement Fund will help our libraries look more welcoming and inviting for our customers and improve the space available to support increased library activities and events.
“It will enable us to replace large staff desks in five of our libraries with smaller pods, buy a range of soft furnishings for public use in three libraries, replace the flooring in two libraries and extend our tablet loaning scheme to three more libraries, helping to reduce digital poverty in our more deprived communities."
Papplewick Pumping Station will also receive funding to support repairs to the 37m tall chimney, ornate engine house porch and 70m long boundary wall. The Victorian freshwater pumping station with an original steam plant, buildings and grounds in North Nottinghamshire.
Peter Knott, Midlands Area Director for Arts Council England said: “We want people across Nottinghamshire and beyond to experience, enjoy, discover and learn from our fantastic regional museums. Through their history and collections, museums can open our eyes to the wonders and challenges of the world and help us find our place in it.
“We’re pleased to be supporting Papplewick Pumping Station and Wollaton Hall so they can protect their unique buildings and collections for visitors long into the future.”
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