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3. Conserving Liverpool Town Hall – Building Blocks
Liverpool Town Hall is one of several landmark buildings that Grosvenor is currently working on.
Take a walk up Castle Street and you will see the grand classical facade adorned with a portico and beautifully furnished with a wonderful dome. It looks complete in its scale and proportion.
Look closer and you might see several distinct periods [...]
Another Award!
Will Mellor receives the PORTICO project RTPI (Royal Town Planning Institute)- IHBC (Institute of Historic Building Conservation) Planning Achievement Award 2013
2. Conserving Liverpool Town Hall – Frieze unfrozen
High up on the principal facades of the Town Hall there is a frieze which depicts scenes and artefacts relating to Liverpool’s foreign trade.
Blackened and stained with decades of grime their beauty has receded into the stone walls of this magnificent edifice.
Now, Grosvenor is helping bring these wonderful carvings back to life by using a [...]
1: Conserving Liverpool Town Hall – Background
It has been said that Liverpool has the largest amount of Georgian buildings in the UK after London.
Out of such a rich Georgian heritage, one building shines – Liverpool Town Hall.
Built in 1754 to a design by John Wood Jr of Bath and then augmented by James Wyatt at the end of the C18th this [...]
Reaching for the sky at St Paul’s Seacombe (updated)
***For latest pics – see below***
Grade II listed St Paul’s was built in 1846 when Seacombe, Birkenhead was a hamlet, it served the local wealthy parishioners and residents of the area.
Built in an elevated position looking over the River Mersey in the Early Middle Pointed style of the 13th Century.
The area became impoverished during the 1920s [...]
Moel Famau – Layers of history (updated)
**see below for some of the latest pics**
Moel Famau is an ancient place – designated an area of outstanding natural beauty it takes it’s name from a common Welsh descriptive term ‘moel’ – which means bare hill.
No longer a bare hill – it is crossed by the northern section of the ancient Offa’s Dyke and [...]
All Wales Award for best small commercial development
We’re deeply honoured and proud to announce that our project: the Visitor Centre at Denbigh Castle has won the LABC All Wales Award for the best commercial development.
It has now been entered into the National Awards.
You can learn more about the multiple award winning Visitor Centre here
We’re celebrating by showing you some more exclusive pics [...]
Self healing at Halkyn Lime Kilns
You know how lovely it is when somebody devotes their lives to a cause and when in they are eventually in need themselves they get overwhelming help and support
Well, it’s the same for the lime kilns at Halkyn.
For decades these illustrious kilns – wedged onto the side of a hill have been firing lime which [...]
Winner! – Best Commercial Development 2013
We are proud to announce that Grosvenor were part of the team that won both LABC Regional and County Award for the Best Commercial Development for Denbigh Castle Visitor Reception.
The project was perfect for us because it involved the conservation of the historic fabric of the castle as well as the sensitive introduction of a [...]
Left High and Dry
Cut off as a spur from the north east corner of Chester Walls is a formidable tower which can only be accessed via the equally remarkable Bonewaldesthorne’s Tower.
It sits like a lost sailor looking out to the Sea – its purpose lost when the Dee Estuary dried up and left it land locked.
Built by John [...]
