Landmark Autumn 14

2015 DIAry

Cornishware on Lundy

Golden Weekend Open Days A Landmark open free within 50 miles of almost everyone in Britain (including many Landmarks not normally opened for open days).

We hope you’ll come and join our 50th anniversary celebrations!

A previous open day at Clavell Tower, Dorset

Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 May Alton Station, Staffordshire Astley Castle, Warwickshire Auchinleck House, Ayrshire Cavendish Hall, Suffolk Cawood Castle, North Yorkshire Clavell Tower, Dorset Clytha Castle, Monmouthshire Crownhill Fort, Devon Dolbelydr, Denbighshire Fort Clonque, Channel Islands The Grange, Kent House of Correction, Lincolnshire Lengthman’s Cottage, Warwickshire

The Captain’s House, Lower Porthmeor, Cornwall Millcombe House, Lundy Martello Tower, Suffolk Morpeth Castle, Northumberland The Music Room, Lancaster The Old Parsonage, Oxford Princelet Street, London Rosslyn Castle, near Edinburgh Saddell Castle, Argyll and Bute West Blockhouse, Pembrokeshire Wilmington Priory, East Sussex Woodspring Priory, Somerset

Heritage Open Day weekend Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 September, some for longer: Astley Castle, Warwickshire Freston Tower, Suffolk The Grange, Kent Queen Anne’s Summerhouse, Shuttleworth, Old Warden Clavell Tower, Dorset

The Ruin, North Yorkshire The White House, Shropshire Peake’s House, Essex Gothic Temple, Buckinghamshire Dolbelydr, Denbighshire

More open days at other times: Gothic Temple, Buckinghamshire Sunday 22 February Freston Tower, Suffolk Friday 6 to Monday 9 March Queen Anne’s Summerhouse, Shuttleworth, Old Warden Saturday 7 to Monday 9 March

Astley Castle, Warwickshire Saturday 6 to Sunday 7 June Auchinleck House, Ayrshire Saturday 6 to Sunday 7 September Wilmington Priory, East Sussex Friday 20 to Tuesday 24 November

Please always check our website for precise opening times.

Shottesbrooke Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 3SW www.landmarktrust.org.uk Charity registered in England & Wales 243312 and Scotland SC039205

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old Chelsea china has been a familiar sight in Landmarks since the 1960s.

However it has not been in commercial manufacture for some years and our stocks have run perilously low. Having tried without success to secure our own licence to reproduce it, we have decided to introduce a second classic blue and white pattern into a small number of our buildings. in the coming weeks our Lundy buildings, the Martello tower, the West Blockhouse, Fort Clonque and Crownhill Fort will all be receiving shipments of Blue Cornishware. Cornishware has its own proud British heritage, and was first designed and manufactured by t.G. Green in Derbyshire in 1926.

With its bold blue stripes, inspired by the sky and sea of Cornwall, we feel it will quickly look at home in the often simple but splendid interiors of our coastal buildings.

By making this change we can release enough old Chelsea to keep the rest of our buildings in good supply for many years to come. We hope you will feel this is a good solution to a problem that has been mounting for some time. We remain delighted to receive donations of the items of old Chelsea we use; should you come across it, please contact Simon Verdon at Landmark.

Landmark News Autumn 2014

The latest holiday and building restoration news from the Landmark Trust.

New Friends of Landmark scheme launches Benefits now include priority booking rights

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andmark has a lot to be grateful for. the legacy of Sir John Smith’s genius both for business and buildings has led to our guardianship of some 200 beautiful Landmarks. the pleasure of experiencing life in these buildings has also gathered us a tribe of particularly loyal and enthusiastic supporters: the Friends of Landmark.

Founded over twenty years ago, the Friends do an enormous amount to

support the charity through their membership subscriptions, house parties and bookings, but also as volunteers and ambassadors. As we approach our 50th year, we felt it was time to improve the scheme. We’ve added some new benefits, including priority booking rights, while keeping old favourites, like a free copy of each new Handbook. there’s never been a better time to join - for details visit the ‘Support Us’ section of our website.

Inside this issue

2 Llwyn Celyn gets a royal visit

4 Landmark’s 50th Anniversary Plans

Meet Ed Percival, Head of Communications Ed joined Landmark in April 2013 after 7 years with the Prince’s Trust. As an architecture graduate and son of an architect, Ed’s Landmark role allows him to combine marketing knowledge with his passion for buildings. ‘Landmarkers care deeply about what we do. My challenge is to encourage people to share the secret, so that we always have the money to keep our buildings fit for the future.’ Under Ed’s guidance, 70% of bookings are now made online. ‘We’re delicately evolving and adapting to a changing world. I tell everyone I meet about Landmark.’

6 Update on Belmont

7 Friends’ reception at The Georgian House, May 2014. Credit: Jeff Griffiths

Our first Landmark Craft Apprentice starts

Landmark News

Welcome

As you’ll see we have been having an incredibly busy time at Landmark, in a year which has been our busiest for bookings in a decade. people staying in and enjoying our buildings is the principal way we fulfil the second of our two charitable ‘purposes’, which is about inspiring people’s interest in historic places. But as well as this mainstay we are really proud of a series of new schemes.

Among these is our apprentices programme. thanks to your support, three young craftspeople will be working with our teams learning the craft skills essential to caring for Britain’s historic buildings. We are also delighted to be able to run our 50 For Free initiative for a second year, so giving 50 groups of people who most need it the special tonic which a Landmark stay brings.

Knowing that many of you both love Landmark’s mission and would like the opportunity to book our most popular buildings, we have re-designed our Friends Scheme. As well as a free Handbook, special news and events, it now gives members priority in booking buildings and dates when they are released.

With our new Handbook hot off the press and a programme of exciting initiatives lined up for our 50th anniversary there genuinely couldn’t be a better time to become a Landmark Friend.

Dr Anna Keay, Director

Call 01628 825925 Visit www.landmarktrust.org.uk Email bookings@landmarktrust.org.uk remains true to the form of the house.

We have been busy consulting local residents about new uses for the rest of the site too, resulting in plans to turn the large 18th-century threshing barn into a community space for courses and exhibitions, and the beast house into a walk-in interpretation room, open to all including the many walkers in the area. All these plans have fed into the preparation of the HLF application for a project enabling grant of £2.5 million against a project cost of £4.2 million.

Llwyn Celyn gets a royal visit and Heritage Lottery Fund support

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n a sunny day in July, we were thrilled to host a visit to Llwyn Celyn from our patron, HrH the prince of Wales. prince Charles met the Landmark project team, and chatted with members of the community and some of our local partners, as well as previous owners trefor and Lyndon powell and their sister rosemary. the visit coincided with the announcement that our round 1 application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the rescue of Llwyn Celyn had been successful, news that was toasted with a glass of Welsh sparkling wine.

Llwyn Celyn, in the Black Mountains near Abergavenny, is one of Landmark’s most challenging projects ever. the site holds not only a Grade i 15th-century hall house of exceptional importance, but also a large threshing barn, a pigsty, a beast house and various other ancient outbuildings. its joinery is full of intriguing and rich detail, suggesting that its builder was someone of standing. the hall, originally open to its fine and now smoke blackened

rafters, was ceiled over and a chimney and stairs inserted sometime in the 17th century. it has hardly changed since. the transition from medieval to modern building forms can be read here in its purest form.

However, the house and its outbuildings have been decaying for decades.

The fundraising appeal for Llwyn Celyn will launch soon

Emergency scaffolding has been in place since the early ‘90s, even though the previous owners only moved out a few months ago. Water has been running through part of the ground floor; ceiling and floors collapsing.

HRH The Prince of Wales meeting previous owners Trefor and Lyndon Powell and their sister Rosemary

Now at last Llwyn Celyn’s future is looking rosier. We have commissioned comprehensive building analysis from archaeologist Dr richard Morriss and documentary research from professor David Austin. John Goom, former SpAB Scholar and conservation architect who works, among many other projects, at beautiful Abbey

Dore not far from Llwyn Celyn, is retained as our architect. John has devised a sensitive conservation scheme for a Landmark for eight that

Community History Project underway As part of the HLF Development phase, we are working actively with the local community around Llwyn Celyn to research the history of the site and the Llanthony Valley. this offers locals the chance to learn more about how to research buildings and their landscape, and Landmark to learn from their local knowledge. Landmark’s Engagement team, Caroline, Kasia and Nina, are leading the process, with valuable input from professor David Austin.

Thank you

Five cosy winter Landmarks

Lynch Lodge Alwalton, nr Peterborough Sleeps 2

Pond Cottage Endsleigh, Devon Sleeps 5

Bush Cottage Nr Bridgnorth, Shropshire Sleeps 2+2

A round 1 pass means a green light to the nature of our plans from the HLF with a development phase grant of £31,500. We will spend the next six months refining our plans and costs and working with local stakeholders, before submitting a round 2 application in the spring. our fundraising appeal for Llwyn Celyn launches very soon.

to everyone who entered our 2014 raffle and congratulations to Mrs Shirley Lawton, who won £5,000 of Landmark vouchers

Brinkburn Mill Nr Rothbury, Northumberland Sleeps 4

Cul-na-Shee Saddell, Argyll & Bute Sleeps 4

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Landmark’s 50th Anniversary Plans We wanted to do something different for our 50th year, which would bring Landmark to the attention of everyone and celebrate the relationship between people, places and the past, which is what we’re about. We are hugely excited that Landmark enthusiast Antony Gormley is creating a special one-year exhibition for us: LAND. New works will be created for five Landmark sites, which will be accessible to everyone throughout the year of the exhibition.

Confirmation of the five sites will be announced on the website.

2015 is a very special year for the Landmark Trust, marking 50 years since we were founded by John and Christian Smith. Landmark has grown from a small charity to a leading national organisation.

Belmont and St Edward’s Presbytery will

both open in 2015 and we will be well underway with an ambitious appeal to save Llwyn Celyn. But we wanted to hold some special celebrations above and beyond our normal activities to mark this moment.

Here’s a taste of our plans.

New Landmarks opening 2015 will see the opening of both St Edward’s presbytery and Belmont, both of which are certain to be fabulous additions to Landmark. We’ll be keeping

you up to date with the restorations of both of these buildings online, so please keep checking our website to find out more.

‘Landmark: A History of Britain in 50 Buildings’

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in the month we were founded, we will open 25 Landmarks simultaneously for a special, celebratory open weekend right across England, Scotland and Wales. LAND will be officially launched at its five sites and a further 20 buildings have been carefully picked to ensure that the some 95% of the British population will be within 50 miles of an open Landmark. We hope this will unite Landmarkers and local communities alike in a wonderful celebration. Special activities are planned. if you would like to get more involved, do get in touch via the website.

A fanfare for Landmark 3pm 16th May 2015

August 2015 our Director Anna Keay and our Historian Caroline Stanford are co-writing a sumptuously illustrated book to mark the anniversary. As well as an essay documenting Landmark’s history and progress over the past 50 years, Anna and Caroline have chosen 50 Landmarks, dating from 1250 to the present, as prisms to illustrate and illuminate Britain’s past. the book will narrate the broad sweep of political events and people from all levels of society and all types of human activity, providing insights into British history while also tracing Landmark’s evolution through its buildings.

Landmark’s Golden Weekend 16-17 May 2015

St Edward’s Presbytery

Work continues at Belmont

The Golden Anthology gathering your responses

LAND in our 50th year. these can be in any form words, paint, photography, sound – and we will ask our Housekeepers to look out for and submit the best Logbook entries in all Landmarks for the year. in this way, we will create a collective record of the anniversary year, a wonderful souvenir of, and for, everyone.

May 2016 At the end of the anniversary year, we plan to publish, in print and online, an anthology of the best of Landmarkers’ responses to our buildings and to

© Richie Andrew

LAND: An installation

by Antony Gormley May 2015 – May 2016

We have commissioned a piece of music from acclaimed young composer Kerry Andrew, to be simultaneously performed by community groups in all 25 Landmarks open for the Golden Weekend. this ‘Landmark moment’ will unite everyone at Landmarks across the country, and be captured and shared via social media. We are recruiting local choirs and musical groups to be part of this Golden Moment: the list of 25 buildings is on our website so if you know of a group near one of them who would like to participate, please get in touch as soon as possible.

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Landmark News

You can donate online at www.landmarktrust.org.uk, or call us on 01628 825920.

Appeal for St Edward’s Presbytery nears its target in June, we launched our appeal to rescue St Edward’s presbytery in ramsgate. the presbytery, a handsome brick and flint house built for a Catholic priest, was part of pugin’s original, inspirational vision for the site.

Grade i listed, disfigured and decaying, the presbytery was put up for sale in 2010. We decided that we had to acquire it, both for its own importance and because of its relationship with the Grange. the appeal is over 90% funded, and our heartfelt thanks go to everyone who has contributed so far. Just £60,000 is still needed, so please help us start work in January by donating today via our website or by post.

The proposed layout for St Edward’s Presbytery

New discovery at Belmont Work has been steaming ahead at Belmont in Lyme regis. this important 18th-century seaside villa, formerly owned by Mrs Coade of artificial stone fame, and author John Fowles, has now been completely reroofed. its Coade stone embellishments have been carefully conserved offsite and new windows and partitions inserted to retrieve its 18th-century form. An exciting discovery was the ‘signature’ of Dr Bangay on the timbers of the observatory tower, and the date 1881. Look out on the website soon for news that the scaffolding is coming down.

50 for Free 2015 launched 50 for Free is our scheme to give the Landmark experience completely free to those who need it most. We are delighted to announce that thanks to the enormous generosity of a private donor we will be running it for the second year. Last year, we received almost 200 applications from charities for their nominees, and allocating the stays was a heart-rending process. Benificiaries ranged from young scouts with special needs, to bereaved parents and respite carers.

We’d be grateful if you could help spread the word about the scheme to any charities you know whose nominees might benefit, applications are via a simple form available online. the deadline for applications is 4 January 2015 and the stays will be in March 2015.

See www.landmarktrust.org.uk/50-for-free

Volunteers from the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation, staying at Sackville House

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“The volunteers all really appreciated the gesture and it helped us as an organisation to show our appreciation of their support in a way we could never have done without the Landmark Trust’s support.” - Gateshead Advice Centre, staying at Morpeth Castle, Northumberland

Landmark Craft Apprenticeships

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ur supporters are astounding! our appeal to create Landmark Craft Apprenticeships has been hugely successful, reaching the target of £60,000 in just four weeks. in partnership with the prince’s Foundation for Building Community, this means we can support one apprentice each year for the next three years. our first, Andy thompson, is enrolled on the prince’s Foundation Building Craft Apprenticeship scheme and is completing his Level 2 Diploma in Bench Joinery at the Building Crafts College. He is committed to a career in the restoration and production of joinery using traditional methods. Andy has just begun a long placement with our own craftsmen at Belmont, and then will continue at other Landmark locations, including St Edward’s presbytery in ramsgate. thanks to the additional generosity of a single donor, we will also establish a new post for a trainee Craftsperson to join us in full time employment for one year, actively learning at the feet of our own team of craftsmen. We are deeply grateful to all who supported our appeal.

2015 Calendar out now Landmark’s calendar for 2015 is now available through the website. printed in glorious colour, it features twelve beautiful and sometimes unexpected shots of some of our best loved buildings, to keep you company through the seasons and help you make it through to your next Landmark stay. it’s a perfect Christmas gift, and a great way to introduce friends to the delights of Landmark.

Calendar 2015

Available through our website and open days, the calendar costs from £8 including P&P, (Friends and Patrons receive a free copy)

Andy Thompson, the First Prince’s Foundation Landmark Craft Apprentice

New edition of the Landmark Trust Handbook For all the growing popularity of our website, nothing beats leafing through the Landmark trust Handbook, whether to plan your next holiday or just to dream. it has been three years since our last, and this special 25th edition has been gold-embossed to celebrate our 50th anniversary. it introduces some of the people who make Landmark special, and the buildings are ordered by region for the first time. The Handbook is available for £10 plus P&P and comes with a £10 voucher redeemable against a booking. To order, visit the website or contact Booking Enquiries.

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2015 DIAry

Cornishware on Lundy

Golden Weekend Open Days A Landmark open free within 50 miles of almost everyone in Britain (including many Landmarks not normally opened for open days).

We hope you’ll come and join our 50th anniversary celebrations!

A previous open day at Clavell Tower, Dorset

Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 May Alton Station, Staffordshire Astley Castle, Warwickshire Auchinleck House, Ayrshire Cavendish Hall, Suffolk Cawood Castle, North Yorkshire Clavell Tower, Dorset Clytha Castle, Monmouthshire Crownhill Fort, Devon Dolbelydr, Denbighshire Fort Clonque, Channel Islands The Grange, Kent House of Correction, Lincolnshire Lengthman’s Cottage, Warwickshire

The Captain’s House, Lower Porthmeor, Cornwall Millcombe House, Lundy Martello Tower, Suffolk Morpeth Castle, Northumberland The Music Room, Lancaster The Old Parsonage, Oxford Princelet Street, London Rosslyn Castle, near Edinburgh Saddell Castle, Argyll and Bute West Blockhouse, Pembrokeshire Wilmington Priory, East Sussex Woodspring Priory, Somerset

Heritage Open Day weekend Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 September, some for longer: Astley Castle, Warwickshire Freston Tower, Suffolk The Grange, Kent Queen Anne’s Summerhouse, Shuttleworth, Old Warden Clavell Tower, Dorset

The Ruin, North Yorkshire The White House, Shropshire Peake’s House, Essex Gothic Temple, Buckinghamshire Dolbelydr, Denbighshire

More open days at other times: Gothic Temple, Buckinghamshire Sunday 22 February Freston Tower, Suffolk Friday 6 to Monday 9 March Queen Anne’s Summerhouse, Shuttleworth, Old Warden Saturday 7 to Monday 9 March

Astley Castle, Warwickshire Saturday 6 to Sunday 7 June Auchinleck House, Ayrshire Saturday 6 to Sunday 7 September Wilmington Priory, East Sussex Friday 20 to Tuesday 24 November

Please always check our website for precise opening times.

Shottesbrooke Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 3SW www.landmarktrust.org.uk Charity registered in England & Wales 243312 and Scotland SC039205

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old Chelsea china has been a familiar sight in Landmarks since the 1960s.

However it has not been in commercial manufacture for some years and our stocks have run perilously low. Having tried without success to secure our own licence to reproduce it, we have decided to introduce a second classic blue and white pattern into a small number of our buildings. in the coming weeks our Lundy buildings, the Martello tower, the West Blockhouse, Fort Clonque and Crownhill Fort will all be receiving shipments of Blue Cornishware. Cornishware has its own proud British heritage, and was first designed and manufactured by t.G. Green in Derbyshire in 1926.

With its bold blue stripes, inspired by the sky and sea of Cornwall, we feel it will quickly look at home in the often simple but splendid interiors of our coastal buildings.

By making this change we can release enough old Chelsea to keep the rest of our buildings in good supply for many years to come. We hope you will feel this is a good solution to a problem that has been mounting for some time. We remain delighted to receive donations of the items of old Chelsea we use; should you come across it, please contact Simon Verdon at Landmark.

Landmark News Autumn 2014

The latest holiday and building restoration news from the Landmark Trust.

New Friends of Landmark scheme launches

Inside this issue

Benefits now include priority booking rights

L

andmark has a lot to be grateful for. the legacy of Sir John Smith’s genius both for business and buildings has led to our guardianship of some 200 beautiful Landmarks. the pleasure of experiencing life in these buildings has also gathered us a tribe of particularly loyal and enthusiastic supporters: the Friends of Landmark.

Founded over twenty years ago, the Friends do an enormous amount to

support the charity through their membership subscriptions, house parties and bookings, but also as volunteers and ambassadors. As we approach our 50th year, we felt it was time to improve the scheme. We’ve added some new benefits, including priority booking rights, while keeping old favourites, like a free copy of each new Handbook. there’s never been a better time to join - for details visit the ‘Support Us’ section of our website.

Llwyn Celyn gets a royal visit

Landmark’s 50th Anniversary Plans

Meet Ed Percival, Head of Communications Ed joined Landmark in April 2013 after 7 years with the Prince’s Trust. As an architecture graduate and son of an architect, Ed’s Landmark role allows him to combine marketing knowledge with his passion for buildings. ‘Landmarkers care deeply about what we do. My challenge is to encourage people to share the secret, so that we always have the money to keep our buildings fit for the future.’ Under Ed’s guidance, 70% of bookings are now made online. ‘We’re delicately evolving and adapting to a changing world. I tell everyone I meet about Landmark.’

Update on Belmont

Friends’ reception at The Georgian House, May 2014. Credit: Jeff Griffiths

Our first Landmark Craft Apprentice starts