The Conservation Advice Grant Scheme for Vacant Traditional Houses has opened again for 2024 but you don’t have long to get your ducks in a row!
We completed two last year and hopefully do a couple this year too. The rules have changed slightly and are summarised below:
Stream 1: For owners of vacant traditional houses in villages, towns and cities where the building is a Protected Structure and/or an historic structure within an Architectural Conservation Area
Stream 2: For owners of Vacant Traditional Farmhouses where the building is a Protected Structure and/or an historic farmhouse located within an Architectural Conservation Area and/or a vernacular farmhouse which has no statutory protection.
The guidelines qualify this further by defining that vernacular farmhouses comprise modest homes constructed by ‘ordinary’ people following long established folk traditions, using materials such as:
* thatch
* stone
* slate
* earth
* wattle
* unsawn timber.
You can get more details on the scheme HERE
And you can access all of the documents including the forms HERE
But you’re going to need to be quick! Deadline is 31st July at 5pm