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Student Research

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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Roof Beams Treated at Cottage

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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Drop-in event for cottage restoration

You can find out more and give your views on the restoration of Mrs Smith’s Cottage at a special drop-in session.

Last year North Kesteven District Council was successful in securing money from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the largest heritage funder in the UK, to help bring the Navenby tourist attraction, which has been closed to the public since 2013, back into use.

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