Sometimes there is a call for funds from a brave heritage charity which the Historic Houses Foundation can support in partnership with other funding bodies.  When The Spitalfields Trust decided to risk taking on the surviving medieval buildings at Charing Palace in Kent, their ambition demanded attention.

The Historic Houses Foundation is pleased to welcome Dr Amy Boyington as a new trustee.  She has impressive heritage credentials but the HHF particularly values her skills as an expert commentator on radio and TV, and her original content on social media on historical subjects.

The Historic Houses Foundation are offering a grant to the current owners of the castle, United World Colleges, an international educational charity founded at Atlantic College at St Donat’s in 1962.  The school was founded by the educationalist Kurt Huhn, the first of a series of international schools, which aim to foster individual resilience and co-operation between nations.

Norman Hudson, a founding trustee of the HHF in 2005, and its Chair since 2010, retired as Chair in February 2025. His successor, architectural historian and author, Jeremy Musson, brings new energy and a new focus to the organisation.

The dangerous state of a ruined Palladian mansion was a barrier to the restoration of a house and garden once at the centre of the world beating Cornish mining industry. An HHF grant got the project underway. 

Tudor buildings are famous for the height and intricacy of their chimneys. West Horsley Place is a house that combines Tudor sections with a medieval hall at its core, dating to around 1425, and additions through to the mid-nineteenth century.

Stand alone monuments are often in poor state of repair.  Often, the Historic Houses Foundation is one of the only sources of funds.

The Historic Houses Foundation is not afraid to get involved in some of the most significant restoration projects of the era, as its grant aid to the Stowe House Preservation Trust demonstrates.

A recent triumph for the Historic Houses Foundation is the unveiling of the restored Brightling Mausoleum, a familiar village landmark for Sussex residents.

The rescue of the great house at Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire is perhaps the most ambitious restoration project undertaken this century.

When the cellars and surrounding gardens of Gwydir Castle in North Wales were inundated by floods, the Historic Houses Foundation’s speedy intervention showed how important emergency funding can be.

Sometimes it takes years for the intervention of the Historic Houses Foundation to bear fruit. A major restoration project underway at Gwrych Castle in Wales traces its inception to a small HHF grant.

His Majesty King Charles, as Prince of Wales, was an active proponent for the retention of traditional building and craft skills. The Historic Houses Foundation has been proud to join in his drive to improve opportunities for young people to develop traditional skills and maintain heritage attractions through The Prince’s Foundation.

The Music Room, Billiard Room and Conservatory added to 17th century Hasfield Court in Gloucestershire in 1885 provided the Victorian Baker family with all the fashionable rooms required for cultured living. Repairs to the lantern roof of the conservatory, with a grant from the Historic Houses Foundation, will stop water ingress damaging the interior.

The Prince of Wales has agreed to become the Patron of the Historic Houses Foundation. His Royal Highness has long been a champion of historic buildings and heritage-led regeneration, together with the retention of essential Building Craft skills.

The Historic Houses Foundation works regularly with many heritage partners. We have one recurring and notably successful partnership with the Landmark Trust with whom we have been working since 2006.

The Historic Houses Foundation is proud to once again be a delivery partner for the second round of the Heritage Stimulus Fund. Part of the Government’s £2 billion Cultural Recovery Fund, the Heritage Stimulus Fund is helping heritage places recover from the impact of the pandemic, by funding vital restoration projects.

Five years after buying back their Tudor family seat of Pitchford Hall in Shropshire, Rowena and James Nason are starting to see it emerge from ruinous dereliction.

The Historic Houses Foundation gave 18 grants to historic buildings in the Autumn under Historic England’s Heritage Stimulus Fund. What was it like to receive one? Jason and Demetra Lindsay let us know.

The Historic Houses Foundation’s grant to Cragend Farm in Northumberland has enriched the local history of the area and revealed new details of the entrepreneurial spirit of one of the great industrialists of the North, William Lord Armstrong.