The Landmark Trust is the UK’s second biggest historic buildings charity. It rescues extraordinary historic buildings from dereliction and gives them a vibrant new life as places everyone can enjoy for short breaks. Each year some 40,000 people stay in our buildings, and another 10,000 visit them on public open days or through our educational programmes. http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk

Calverley Old Hall’s exceptional potential has languished unfulfilled for decades. This outstanding medieval manor house, Grade I Listed, is now on the Buildings at Risk Register. In the 1980s, when the Landmark Trust acquired the property, one element, the 17th-century Lodging Block, was restored as a holiday let for 5 and the rest was made safe while life tenancies within the subdivided building concluded. These ended in 2001 and much of the building has remained unoccupied and deteriorating. The Lodging Block has been a popular place to stay, but other than this, and occasional public open days, there has been little engagement by people with the site.

In May 2022 the Landmark Trust was awarded a £1,600,000 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Our two-year project will bring the whole site into new use with spectacular self-catering holiday accommodation for 10 alongside dedicated space for local communities. The £1,600,000 Heritage Enterprise Grant from the Heritage Fund, taken together with the many other donations from generous supporters, means work has now begun to deliver the capital works, alongside an ambitious and wide-ranging Activity Plan, Crafting Cultures.

For more information see the project brief:

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