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East Staffs Heritage Trust is a building heritage trust (bpt) and corporate Charitable Trustee body, which aims to preserve the built heritage of east Staffordshire. We work in the Trent Valley and Needwood forest areas, extending west from here further into East Staffordshire.
We are concerned with fostering & promoting the preservation of English architectural heritage that exists in East Staffordshire in the form of buildings and other features of particular beauty, architectural or constructional interest.
A sister organisation is Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust who work in the South Derbyshire coalfields area. They are currently developing a project in the Woodville area.
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East Staffs Heritage Trust Co.
Gretton House,
Waterside Court
Third Avenue
Centrum 100
Burton on Trent DE14 2WQ
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Main Contact: Company secretary
Brian E. Keates, FCA
Phone: 01283 740600
Email: Brian@financialplanners.co.uk
Website: E. Staffs. Heritage Trust
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The Trust's ongoing restoration and conversion into 6, 2 bed apartments of Friars WalkSchoolrooms, a Grade II listed building off the Market Place Burton-upon-Trent was completed on the 19th January, 2006 and is now occupied by short-term tenants.
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Rear view - before restoration |
The building was Burton's first grammar school and the project, grant aided by National Lottery Young Roots, has worked with people aged 11-19 who researched the past history of the building to Cromwellian and Tudor times, and its connections with Burton's Abbey.
The apartments are in the process of disposal at prices between £130,000 and £160,000, each individually designed, with convenient town centre location and a car parking space.
The project has been chosen by the Architectural Heritage Fund to be featured in their forthcoming Annual Review for 2006. |
