PLANS to restore historic buildings are being displayed on Friday and Saturday.
The Friends of Eastcote House Gardens will be presenting their vision in a bid to get a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to restore Tudor buildings on the site in High Road, Eastcote. Friends chairman Lesley Crowcroft said the group is in the second stage of submitting the bid for a £1million restoration of the dovecote and stables and to build a visitor centre.
“It’s all for people to give their opinion of what we have put together,” she said. “We are showing them ‘this is what we have prepared, have you any other ideas?’.”
In June, an archaeological dig found pottery shards dating from the 14th century, the first evidence the site is about 700 years old, some 200 years older than thought.
Photographs from the digs will be part of the exhibition. Representatives of Rees Bolter Architects will be giving talks on both days at 11am and 2pm.
Refreshments will be served by Vintage Tea 2 You, which works with Friends at fundraising events.
The display is at St Thomas Moore Church, Field End Road, Eastcote, on Friday and Saturday, from 10am to 4pm.
