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Local Listing Panel recommends seven new heritage assets

Submitted by s-broughton on 12 April 2025 - 2:33pm

Following a meeting of the Local Listing Panel on Monday 31st March, seven heritage assets have been recommended for Local Listing. They are:

Luker Court, Ireland Drive, Newbury - the former Girls Grammar School, later part of St Barts 

Wormestall Grange, Enborne Road, Newbury - the former Boys Grammar School, later part of St Barts

Jennetts Hill Pump, Stanford Dingley - a Joseph Evans water pump from 1902

The Parish Room, Stanford Dingley - formerly the Boys Clubroom

Greenham Common - Survey

Submitted by s-broughton on 26 January 2025 - 10:18pm
 
It’s 25 years since Greenham Common returned to public ownership and the Corn Exchange and 101 Outdoor Arts, which has one of its venues on Greenham Business Park, is working with other organisations, local and national, to reflect on the history of this unique site, creating a special programme to mark the anniversary and understand how we might ensure that the site is celebrated into the future.
 

Local Listing Recommendations approved by West Berkshire Council

Submitted by s-broughton on 4 August 2024 - 5:23pm

Following a Consultation, the recommendation to add eight new heritage assets to the Local List has been approved by West Berkshire Council. The new Locally Listed assets are:

A pump and well house at East Ilsley - a 1930's flywheel pump which is still in working order.

 

A pump and pump house at Burghfield - the pump in School Lane may have supplied the school with water in the early 1900's, while the pump house at Bunces Lane contains the remains of a pump base, and carries a dedication to Queen Victoria in the year of her son Edward VII's Coronation (1902).

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Hunt for 'Ghost Signs' on buildings

Submitted by s-broughton on 28 October 2023 - 9:06pm

Historic England is asking individuals and history and heritage groups to search for, photograph, and inform them of ghost signs on buildings. These are old signs which advertised businesses which have now gone. Such signs gradually fade, but form an important part of our heritage, and signpost old businesses and trades, as well as individuals who may have run them. More information is available on their website:

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