{"id":12226,"date":"2016-03-09T17:40:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=12226"},"modified":"2016-03-09T17:40:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:40:23","slug":"gii-listed-birmingham-grand-hotel-restoration-wins-vic-soc-group-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=12226","title":{"rendered":"GII* listed Birmingham Grand Hotel restoration wins Vic Soc Group award"},"content":{"rendered":"

The facade restoration of the Grade II* listed Grand Hotel in Birmingham, originally designed by Thomas Plevins<\/em> in 1875<\/u>, has won the first Victorian Society\u2019s (Vic Soc) Birmingham and the West Midlands Group\u2019s conservation award.<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Victorian Society writes:
\n<\/u>The restoration of facade of The Grand Hotel in Birmingham has won the Victorian Society\u2019s Birmingham and the West Midlands Group\u2019s first conservation award for work on Victorian and Edwardian buildings in the region. Hotel owners, Hortons\u2019 Estate Limited, will receive a certificate and a bronze disc to display. The Society commended the huge amount of high quality conservation work done by nominees across the region.<\/p>\n

The Grand Hotel in Birmingham was designed by Thomas Plevins<\/em> in 1875 and is Grade II* listed. The announcement that the Hotel had won the Victorian Society\u2019s Birmingham and West Midlands group\u2019s first conservation award for work on buildings built, or substantially altered, between 1837 and 1914 was made at the Group\u2019s AGM last night.\u00a0Entries were judged on the care taken to retain the building\u2019s original fabric, conservation of fragile aspects and careful adaption to meet current needs for re-use of the building.\u00a0The high quality of the excellent conservation and restoration projects nominated from across Birmingham and the West Midlands was noted. Many have been individually commended and requested to submit entries for the Group\u2019s 2016 award.<\/p>\n

The winner, Hortons\u2019 Estate Limited, receives an 18\u2019 bronze disc recording the name of the winner and the year, for display on or in the building, and a framed illuminated scroll, signed by the Chairman of the Group, The Secretary of the Group and the Chairman of the Casework Committee. Formal presentation of the scroll and disc will take place at an official ceremony in May.\u00a0 The work on the fa\u00e7ade of The Grand Hotel required expert re-carving of lost stonework detail and exposed vivid marble columns which had been obscured under white paint for decades. Together the project will make a great improvement to Birmingham\u2019s streetscape \u2013 seen by thousands of people every year.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen Hartland, Chairman of the Victorian Society\u2019s Birmingham & West Midlands Group, said: \u2018This process has illustrated the huge amount of high quality conservation work that goes on in Birmingham and the West Midlands. We would like to thank all those that submitted their work for consideration. The nominees were of a consistently high quality and many have been individually commended \u2013 we urge them to submit entries for this year’s award. Ultimately the work undertaken by Horton\u2019s Estate on the facade of The Grand Hotel has been truly exceptional and has brought one of the city\u2019s most important buildings back to life\u2019.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tony Green, Chief Executive of Hortons’ Estate Limited, said: \u2018<\/strong>We are honoured to won the Victorian Society Birmingham and West Midlands Group\u2019s 2015 Conservation Award for the restoration of the Colmore Row and Church Street facades of the Grand Hotel. In 2009 some experts advised that the fa\u00e7ades could not be saved and the outcome achieved is a tribute to all those, Hortons\u2019 and the Victorian Society included, that did not accept their advice and worked together to find a way of proving them wrong.\u00a0 Particular thanks must go to the team of talented and committed stonemasons that undertook the work with such care and dedication producing an outcome that we are very proud of.\u2019 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

View more information<\/a> and pictures of the work<\/p>\n

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The facade restoration of the Grade II* listed Grand Hotel in Birmingham, originally designed by Thomas Plevins in 1875, has won the first Victorian Society\u2019s (Vic Soc) Birmingham and the West Midlands Group\u2019s conservation award.\u00a0 The Victorian Society writes: The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12227,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions\/12227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}