News | Mrs Smith’s Cottage

Mrs Smith’s Cottage is set to be brought back to life, giving people the chance to sample life in early 20^th century Lincolnshire, thanks to National Lottery Players.

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the largest heritage funder in the UK, has confirmed a second stage grant of £403,800 to enable the project to continue and the restoration to take place.

North Kesteven District Council, owners of the cottage in Navenby, had to close the site to visitors in 2012 with concerns over its structural safety.

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Rosie Butler-Hall who is studying an MA in Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the University of Lincoln has been carrying out some research into Mrs Smith’s Cottage and has been over to take some environmental readings at the cottage.

The readings will be monitoring the relative humidity and temperature in the cottage over a period over several weeks and will be included in Rosie’s building  survey report for her course.  She will be sharing her findings with us and it will be interesting to see how these results compare to ones we previously had taken at the cottage.

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On 4th August 2017 Peter Cox came and treated the roof beams at the cottage.  This is the start of the treatment works to help secure the cottage in the future. Further treatments will take place internally over the coming months.

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Tidying up the garden

Volunteers spent Friday morning clearing away the weeds from the pathway in the cottage’s garden.

Please see our volunteer page for opportunities to come and help out on the project.

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