Historic Buildings
From stately homes to 20th century offcie blocks - explore Britain's built heritage with news, events, features and web resources collected from historic sites across the UK.
Sir Christopher Wren's St Bride's seeks £2.5 million survival funding
Sir Christopher Wren's "Cathedral of Fleet Street", the Grade I-listed St Bride's, could face closure if a campaign to raise £2.5 million for repairs by the end of 2012 fails.
Avoncroft Museum set for more restoration heroics after storms batter historic windmill
An 18th century windmill which was just days from being fully restored at the Museum of Historic Buildings in Bromsgrove needs a £5,000 repair job after "horrifying" storm damage.
Edinburgh's Central Library to be centrepiece of multi-million pound cultural redevelopment
The historic Central Library in Edinburgh is the be the focus of a new development to make a library and cultural centre fit for the UNESCO City of Literature.
Artist-in-residence Clare Burnett's Folded gives public a fresh look at Leighton House Museum
Folded, part of artist Clare Burnett's beautiful set of resident works, adorns pioneering painter Frederic Leighton's magnificent 19th century house in London's Holland Park.
Vaults beneath London's famous Mall Galleries to become part of new heritage centre
Ten vaults used by servants and workers beneath the site where George IV's London home once stood will be opened to the public as part of a major heritage project.
Britain's first Gaelic museum is to open in Stornoway thanks to lottery funding
The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced today that it is investing £4.6 million to restore Lews Castle in Stornoway as a museum, archive and hotel.
Plans to "re-energise" Northampton Museum and Art Gallery go on display to the public
Wide-ranging improvements designed to turn Northampton's museum into a "big city" venue have gone on show in a project which is expected to be completed in 2012.
William Hogarth's House reopens in Chiswick with a little help from Lottery and Dara O'Briain
The idyllic former home of the pioneering 18th century British artist reopens in West London following a three-year restoration costing more than £300,000.
Scottish Ten project team heads to India to digitally record historic site in 3D
The Scottish team digitally documenting Scotland’s five UNESCO World Heritage Sites has taken its 3D film expertise to Rani Ki Vav Stepwell in India.
English Heritage report highlights England's industrial heritage in danger
A new report from English Heritage shows that far more of England's listed industrial buildings are at risk than other protected buildings.
In her own Words: Project Manager Carrie Blogg on the new Museum of Somerset
In the aftermath of the opening of the Taunton Castle centre, we get the inside track on why Somerset's £6.9 million attraction is one of the best new museums in the UK.
"Towering" Enlightenment philosopher David Hume has historic grave restored in Edinburgh
A £5,000 project to conserve the resting place of a revered thinker on the 300th anniversary of his birth has been completed as part of historic graveyard repairs.
Epic fire survivor Warwick Court House to become heritage haven in Unlocking Warwick
A landmark Medieval building will become a heritage centre for Warwick after the Heritage Lottery Fund agreed to match a £370,000 council funding pledge.
Heritage Open Days 2011: Culture24 picks ten to try across the UK as the doors open
Heritage Open Days returns this weekend with thousands of buildings and landmarks allowing free entry to visitors. We take a look at ten of them.
From mills and missiles to sacred spaces and Shakespeare: Heritage Open Days is back for 2011
Having drawn more than a million visitors to almost 4,500 heritage sites last year, the annual weekend of free openings aims for a repeat success this September.
