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This award will help the museum meet the demands of visitors and inspire new generations with glimpses into her life and times. Michelle Davies, Head of the Heritage Lottery Fund South-East Location: Chawton, Hampshire Client: Jane Austen Memorial Trust Value: £750k Completed: 2009 Specialist teams: Building Conservation: HCC Property Services Historic Buildings Group; Quantity Surveyor: HCC Property Services; Services Engineers: HCC Property Services Engineering Services; Structural Engineers: Price & Myers Jane Austen is one of the most popular and important novelists that England has ever produced. The Grade I listed house at Chawton is where she spent the last eight years of her life and is of international importance as the place where she produced the majority of her mature writing. Following a successful grant award from the Heritage Lottery Fund, HCC Property Services were appointed to provide professional design services for the Trustees of Jane Austens’ House. A principle aim of the project was to return the rooms in the house back to their earlier period feel by removing the ancillary accommodation required to run the museum. The ticket desk has been re-located in the original stable outbuildings which were repaired and adapted to provide the visitor reception, an audio visual site introduction area and shop. The main house has been upgraded and refurbished. Work included the sympathetic replacement of mechanical and electrical services. On the ground floor, the room believed to have been Jane Austen’s kitchen has been restored with a contemporary range, furniture and utensils. The original stone paved floor, removed decades ago but later discovered in the grounds nearby, has been carefully relaid. The removal of ancillary accommodation from within the main house and re- organisation of other parts of the site meant that new educational facilities had to be provided. Located in the historic garden, the new building has been carefully designed and orientated to fit neatly within the site, with external finishes that blend with the surrounding buildings. Key Benefits • Removing administrative facilities, ticket desk and shop, from the main house to return these back into period rooms • Restoring the original kitchen and providing public access • Providing a small research facility and archive store • Constructing a new education building to increase learning and participation to a wider audience • Improving visitor flow around the site Jane Austen’s House Museum “ “ Contact: Giles Pritchard | 01962 847801 | [email protected] | www.hants.gov.uk/propertyservices Property Services
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This award will help the museum meet the demands of visitors and inspire new generations with glimpses into her life and times.
Michelle Davies, Head of the Heritage Lottery Fund South-East
Location: Chawton, Hampshire
Client: Jane Austen Memorial Trust
Value: £750k
Completed: 2009
Specialist teams:
Building Conservation: HCC Property Services Historic Buildings Group; Quantity Surveyor: HCC Property Services; Services Engineers: HCC Property Services Engineering Services;Structural Engineers: Price & Myers
Jane Austen is one of the most popular and important novelists that England has ever produced. The Grade I listed house at Chawton is where she spent the last eight years of her life and is of international importance as the place where she produced the majority of her mature writing. Following a successful grant award from the Heritage Lottery Fund, HCC Property Services were appointed to provide professional design services for the Trustees of Jane Austens’ House.
A principle aim of the project was to return the rooms in the house back to their earlier period feel by removing the ancillary accommodation required to run the museum. The ticket desk has been re-located in the original stable outbuildings which were repaired and adapted to provide the visitor reception, an audio visual site introduction area and shop.
The main house has been upgraded and refurbished. Work included the sympathetic replacement of mechanical and electrical services. On the ground floor, the room believed to have been Jane Austen’s kitchen has been restored with a contemporary range, furniture and utensils. The original stone paved floor, removed decades ago but later discovered in the grounds nearby, has been carefully relaid.
The removal of ancillary accommodation from within the main house and re-organisation of other parts of the site meant that new educational facilities had to be provided. Located in the historic garden, the new building has been carefully designed and orientated to fit neatly within the site, with external finishes that blend with the surrounding buildings.
Key Benefits
• Removing administrative facilities, ticket desk and shop, from the main house to return these back into period rooms
• Restoring the original kitchen and providing public access
• Providing a small research facility and archive store
• Constructing a new education building to increase learning and participation to a wider audience
• Improving visitor flow around the site
Jane Austen’s House Museum
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Contact: Giles Pritchard | 01962 847801 | [email protected] | www.hants.gov.uk/propertyservices
Property Services
Jane Austen’s House Museum
