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Blackborough House mansion that became a hostel for the homeless on Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023

18/06/2023

Blackborough House in Kentisbeare in Devon is on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023. The house is one of Devon's finest architectural gems set in the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Soldier's Point in Anglesey features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023

18/06/2023

Soldier’s Point House in Holyhead is on the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023. The Grade II listed house needs urgent works and a long term plan if it is to survive.

North West’s only historic Turkish baths features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023

18/06/2023

Carlisle’s Grade II listed Edwardian Turkish Baths in Cumbria is on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023. It needs local ownership and support to bring it back into community use for another century

Liverpool Street Station on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023

18/06/2023

Liverpool Street Station and the former Great Eastern Hotel are on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023.

Two Norwich engineering marvels that saved lives feature on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023

18/06/2023

Trowse Sewage Pumping Stations in Bracondale in Norfolk is on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023. The pair of rare Grade II listed Victorian sewage pumping stations from 1869 and 1909, designed by Alfred Morant, need significant investment to restore and reuse them if they are to survive.

Former Office for the Board of Guardians of Walsall Poor Law Union features in Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023

18/06/2023

The former Office for the Board of Guardians of Walsall Poor Law Union is on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023. The building is now in urgent need of investment and restoration to survive.

St Andrew's Church in Temple Grafton trying to raise £250,000 features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023

18/06/2023

St Andrew’s Church in Temple Grafton in Warwickshire is on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023. The Grade II listed 1875 church needs expensive emergency work if it is to survive.

LISSCA sends letter to the Editor of The Times

10/05/2023

Victorian Society and LISSCA campaign President Griff Rhys Jones wrote a letter to the editor of The Times for publication on the newspaper's letter page. It appeared in print on 9th May 2023. Griff's letter was supported by 34 signatories from architecture, academia, heritage, culture, the arts and planning.

Victorian Society's amendments removing permitted development rights for demolition debated in the House of Lords

28/04/2023

Baroness Andrews, Lord Carrington of Fulham and Lord Shipley championed our amendments to the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill which would remove Permitted Development Rights for demolition. The amendments, detailed below, do not go to a vote at committee stage. We intend to bring the issue back at report stage following the Society’s useful meeting with the Heritage Minister, Lord Parkinson to discuss the issues.

Book tickets for our AGM weekend and discover Bath's Victorian heritage this October

27/04/2023

This October (6th to 8th) join us in Bath for our AGM weekend and the opportunity to discover the city's Victorian heritage.

10 difficult questions to ask about the Liverpool Street Station demolition plans!

19/04/2023

These questions on plans to partially demolish Liverpool Street Station and cantilever a tower over the grade II* hotel need answering.

​The Victorian Society encourages people to object to insensitive 10 storey tower at Gloucester's historic docks

29/03/2023

The Victorian Society has objected to plans to redevelop the Grade II listed former Downings Malthouse. The plans would heavily alter what survives of the listed buildings, with new residential development behind the retained facades, including a 10 storey tower. This would harm Gloucester’s historic docks, the wider city scape and set a worrying new precedent for allowing inappropriately tall buildings in the Cathedral city.

City of London’s protection of heritage and the environment questioned as tower overshadowing Leadenhall Market approved

15/03/2023

The Victorian Society objected to plans for a 32-storey tower in Leadenhall Market Conservation Area which will loom over one of the city’s architectural jewels - the 1881 Grade II* listed Leadenhall Market.

Rent office space at our Grade II listed headquarters in Chiswick, London

14/03/2023

Do you know a charity or small business that could rent an office space at our Grade II listed headquarters at 1 Priory Gardens, Chiswick, London?

The Victorian Society objects to insensitive redevelopment of historic brewery maltings in Dorchester

10/03/2023

The Victorian Society is urging the public to object to insensitive plans to re-develop the 1879 Grade II Maltings building in the Dorchester conservation area to create 46 flats.

The latest Victorian magazine is now available to our members

03/03/2023

The March edition of the Society’s magazine is published and is devoted to the charity’s newly established Young Victorians group with the main features written by authors aged under 30.

Victorian Society’s climate emergency push to require planning permission for demolition

Baroness Andrews has put forward the Victorian Society’s amendment to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill to require planning permission for demolishing buildings. Shockingly most buildings can currently be demolished without planning permission if they are not listed or in a conservation area.

The Victorian Society seeks listing for historic Somerset rectory designed by famous architects to prevent its demolition

17/02/2023

The Victorian Society is urging the public to object to plans to partially demolish a Victorian rectory in Shepton Mallet, Somerset designed by a famous architect F. C. Penrose who was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (1894-6) and Surveyor of the Fabric at St Paul’s Cathedral.

The Victorian Society seeks listing for historic West Sussex rectory designed by a famous architect to prevent demolition

16/02/2023

The Victorian Society is urging the public to object to plans to demolish an Edwardian rectory designed by a famous architect in the seaside village of Apuldram, West Sussex. The Society has asked that Chichester Council issue a building preservation notice, to protect it whilst it is being considered for listing.

Tettenhall Court one of the finest Arts and Crafts houses in Wolverhampton successfully listed

Tettenhall Court is one of the finest Arts and Crafts houses in Wolverhampton. The house was completed in 1914 to designs by local architect William Weller.