The Yorkshire Post reports on a local Grade I (GI) country house – Ledston Hall – has become the first GI building ‘to be granted permission to replace historic windows with double glazing’.
image: for illustration- Ledstone Hall – HE Archive DP033502
… metal-framed, leaded windows…. replaced with energy-efficient alternatives…
The Yorkshire Post writes:
The metal-framed, leaded windows at the 700-year-old stately home near Castleford will be replaced with energy-efficient alternatives as part of the building’s conversion into housing after a 65-year period in which it was unoccupied and deteriorating.
The hall is owned by the Wheler Foundation, a charitable trust set up by the last of the Wheler family before his death without heirs around 20 years ago….
The Trust and their partners in the project described the installation of the double-glazed windows as a ‘turning point’ and a ‘breakthrough moment’ for the upgrading of listed building nationally to improve their carbon footprint without damaging their heritage fabric…
….the overall renovations….led to the hall’s removal from Historic England’s Heritage at Risk register…
In the original plans, replacing the windows was ruled out, before a review of the proposal in 2020 allowed alternatives to be explored. The work has involved some repair to the original windows…
