Plans to convert an empty listed building in the centre of Alnwick into a crêperie and apartments have been submitted to the county council. The proposals, by the Stablewood Group, are for Narrowgate House, otherwise referred to as General Lambert’s House, which is a grade II*-listed building.The main building would be converted into five flats with a further three residential units built in the grounds to the rear of the property, while the basement would host the crêperie. Vehicular Read more [...]

VIEW GALLERY This unique Grade II listed building in Ormskirk, is a former Pumphouse which was built in 1854. It is built in the style of a manor house, but has been converted by its current owners into a beautiful home with an incredible piece of history. Wrought iron gates lead the way to the property, opening up onto sweeping gardens to the front of the house. As well as seven bedrooms and six ensuites, the house also has its own detached coach house, which has two bedrooms inside, Read more [...]

Comments (1) Marks Spencer in Lister Gate has been named as one of the 10 best listed shop buildings in the country.Online architecture site The Spaces has named the Art Deco building as one of the top places to enjoy architecture as well as the clothes and food.Built in 1936, it was created by in-house archtiects for the Woolworth's company. It is one of the finest, and biggest, Art Deco building sin the city.Situated at 22, 24 and 26 Lister Gate, the building Read more [...]

Council bosses have turned their fire on the Government after new figures showed Hartlepool has one of the highest proportions of deprived areas in the country. The Department for Communities and Local Government English Indices of Deprivation 2015 report includes a table of the 20 local authority districts with the highest proportion of neighbourhoods in the most deprived 10 per cent nationally, which places Hartlepool at number 10. It would be much fairer for all local authorities to share Read more [...]

Among the cases dealt with at Teesside Magistrates' Court on September 21: Jonathan Calvert, 32, of Vulcan Way, Thornaby, fined £220 with £107 costs for driving while using a mobile phone. Jordan Dominic Fisher, 21, of Turner Street, Redcar, fined £120 with £255 costs for driving without an appropriate licence and using a vehicle without insurance. Fe Hei, 58, of Waterside Way, Hartlepool, fined £220 with £107 costs for speeding. Kevin Paul Kinnersley, 57, of Norton Avenue, Stockton, fined Read more [...]

Historic Environment Scotland (HES), the new non-departmental public body which combines the functions of Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), becomes fully operational on 1 October. At the same time changes to the processes for listed buildings, conservation areas and scheduled monuments set out in the Historic Environment Scotland Act will come into force, along with the introduction of new rights of appeal against certain HES Read more [...]

08:00 30 September 2015 Report by Sarah Robinson The hospital was in Axbridge. Archant A FORMER tuberculosis hospital Read more [...]

by Duncan Riley | Sep 30, 2015 | 0 comments The world’s first listed Bitcoin mining company DigitalBTC (Digital CC Ltd.) has announced that it’s getting out of the game and instead entering the fintech remittance space. DigitalBTC listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in March 2014 through a backdoor listing by taking over an existing small mining concern, and promised great things from its proposed mining operations but got one thing seriously wrong: it didn’t allow for the drop Read more [...]

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Six members of a drug gang - including four men from London and Banstead, Surrey - have been jailed after police uncovered a £5.2 million cannabis farm at a Grade II-listed stately home in a quiet Cumbrian village. At least 10 rooms in Flass House, on the outskirts of Maulds Meaburn, were being used to grow the drug in what was described as “a professional set-up”. The six men, including the owner of the mansion Paul Davies, were sentenced to a total of almost 40 years for their roles Read more [...]