UPDATED: A rare chance to see inside the Grade II Listed historic Lymm Hall as part of this year’s Heritage Open Days Festival event is now fully booked!.
Within a matter of hours of being promoted via Warrington Worldwide the event was fully booked before 10 am this morning.
The new owners Lymm Hall have teamed up with Lymm Heritage centre offering free tours of the ancestral home of Lymm’s founding family on September 17.
Every September thousands of volunteers across England organise events to celebrate a festival of this country’s history and culture. It’s a rare opportunity to see hidden places and try out new experiences – all of which are FREE to explore. It’s called Heritage Open Days and this year Lymm Heritage Centre have partnered with the new owners of Lymm Hall to bring the festival to the village.
Lymm Hall, once the home of the village’s founding family, is now the offices of Ecospheric – one of the UK’s leading sustainability consultancies.
This Grade II* listed building, which houses a number of ancient scheduled monuments, is being carefully retrofitted with the aim of achieving a zero energy renovation. Research shows listed buildings and those in conservation areas have a significantly lower uptake of energy efficiency measures.
This project will bring together experts in heritage and the built environment to ensure this Elizabethan-era manor house, and other historic buildings, will play an important role in meeting the UK’s targets for a sustainable and zero-carbon future.
On September 17th the Heritage Centre and Lymm Hall team will be conducting three tours of the building, which are now fully booked.
Visitors will meet at the Heritage Centre where there will be a short presentation on the history of Lymm’s most important surviving building. The group will then be led through the village with the chance to learn a little more about Lymm‘s fascinating history before being handed over at the hall to Ecospheric’s director and principal sustainability consultant for a tour of the building and an explanation of the low-carbon transformation project that is underway there.
The event is free as are all activities nationally for Heritage Open Days but pre-booking is essential.
Visit www.lymmhic.co.uk for more details on Lymm Heritage Centre.
