Attingham Park conservation work wins award
A renovation project at the National Trust's Attingham Park, near Shrewsbury, has won a top conservation award.
Attingham Park scooped the Building Conservation title in the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Awards.
The awards celebrate inspirational initiatives in the region’s land, property and construction sectors.
Attingham Park recently underwent extensive conservation work in order to provide an enhanced visitor experience while safeguarding funding for conservation works.
The project consisted of building a new visitor reception, biomass boiler house to the west of the historic stable block and an extended production kitchen with café refurbishment in the southeast of the stable block.
Chair of the judging panel Gurdip Chamba said: “By restoring and opening the areas of the stables a seamless journey has been formed through the history of the buildings, whilst maintaining clear sightlines through and around the property.
"This project has carefully considered its past, present and future with the new boiler removing the reliance on fossil fuels to the site, keeping the new commercial kitchen from view and blending the new visitor centre so well into its surroundings that some visitors have failed to notice it.
"This is a testament to modern day conservation work by restoring those buildings we hold dearly whilst building for a sustainable future.”
