SHIRE Grants - Grant Aid for Historic Buildings

Financial assistance and specialist technical advice in relation to the repair of historic buildings is seen as one of the most important ways of meeting the County Council's objective of Protecting and Enhancing the Environment.

Financial help and advice is offered because the maintenance and repair of historic structures can be difficult and expensive, particularly if natural materials and traditional methods of repair have to be used in order to preserve the character of a building. Such materials and techniques may also be vital to maintain a building in a proper and sound state - modern components may actually damage older building fabric in the long term. Although the County Council aims to help as many property owners as possible, this support is discretionary and owners of historic buildings have no automatic entitlement to a grant

You can find out if your building falls into any of these categories by contacting the building conservation officers in the Heritage and Resources Team at County Hall. Please telephone 0116 305 7082.

Guidance Notes and the Application form are available below in Acrobat pdf format.

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