Built in 1333 using stone from a nearby Roman site, it is the earliest purpose built prison in England. It is an example of Historic Value - Illustrative.

Built by the Corn Exchange Company it opened in 1866 as a place to hold weekly agricultural markets and fairs. The building has been host to balls and concerts, a music hall, and cinema. It is currently a theatre, library, cafe and exhibition space. It is an example of Communal Value - Social.

Presented to the town to commemorate the services of the 4th Northumberland Fusiliers in France and Belgium during the First World War. It is an example of Communal Value - Commemorative.

At the heart of the park is an award-winning Old English ‘Flower Garden’, recently restored. The park also contains the ‘Prince Consort Lodge’, originally designed by HRH Prince Albert as ‘model dwellings for poor workers’.

As well as retaining many of these original features, the park also contains a children’s playground, café, toilets, and various sporting facilities, including Astroturf sports pitches for football and netball, and tennis courts.

Its ssociational value and live heritage sites ... buyilt in Indo Sarsanic style

This has communal - social value as well as Aesthetic-designed, Historical - Illustrative

The Midland Railway was one of the great railway companies of Great Britain, becoming one of the largest private employers and part of the fabric of Victorian and Edwardian life.

As part of their growth and ambitions and response to rivals, the station was rebuilt in 1904 with a grand new terracotta brick frontage and porte-cochere.

In 2010 the station was sympathetically modernised including by the enclosure of the porte-cochere with glazing to create an enlarged passenger concourse area.

Mounted on the north east inside wall of the porte-cochere is a typical railway company memorial to 45 station employees who never returned to work after the first World War- “The Great War”.   

There are multiple heritage values to this memorial – but it’s endearing communal-commemorate value is most evident, including by the ever-present poppy wreaths.

The Nottingham and Beeston canal was a local canal principally to move freight, notably coal into the city. The surviving sections in the city centre feature several former warehouse buildings. This view shows the Fellows, Morton and Clayton warehouse which is Grade II listed. The company was a major player in the freight industry and their former head office is just to the other side. Both are now excellent public houses creating a revived waterside environment.

The building is functional in its appearance and it demonstrates historic -illustrative value as a canal-served warehouse.   A part of the canal enters into the building to allow direct loading and unloading- a standout feature which has been preserved within the present pub. 

Newark on Trent was a key Royalist centre during the English Civil War in the 1640s, controlling a key crossing of the River. Multiple lines of defence were constructed around the town including two ‘Sconces’- earthwork fortifications- one of which has remarkably survived today despite the subsequent growth of the town. A Scheduled Ancient Monument, it sits within a hugely popular park which in recent years has seen significant investment including an access bridge across the ditch onto the top of the sconce.

Its heritage value is cross-cutting, but its evidential value is probably most obvious.  

Historic - illustrative

Aesthetic - Designed and fortuitous

Communal - Commemorative and social

James Franklin Fuller, a renowned Architect favoured by the elite, including the Guinness family, designed the Belleek gate in the early 1870s. This design preceded and influenced the main gate at Ashford Castle, built around 1880. Fuller was notably active in Mayo during the 1870s, undertaking projects for the Knox and Knox-Gore families, including Belleek Manor’s new gateway and a monument for Arthur Knox-Gore. His preferred contractor, Henry Sharpe, likely built the Belleek Gate, given his involvement in similar projects. Sharpe, who lived a prosperous life until his death in 1905, was a key figure in Fuller's network, contributing to the architectural heritage that enriches County Mayo to this day.

Over the past 04 years, Belleek Gate Lodge has undergone 4 stages of careful conservation work overseen by Conservation Engineer and Heritage Consultant, David Keane. The final stage will see the reinsertion of the restored original wooden gates that were recovered from the riverbed of the local river Moy in the town.

The Imperial Hotel recently unveiled a new bronze statue of Michael Collins, famously known as "The Big Fella", positioned on a bench outside the hotel to commemorate the 101st anniversary of his assassination. This life-size statue celebrates the Irish revolutionary leader's last night spent at the hotel in 1921, before his tragic death in 1922. Collins, a key figure in negotiating the Irish Free State Treaty, was ambushed, and killed in West Cork at the age of 31. In 2022, to honour the centenary of Collins' death, the hotel renovated its Michael Collins Suite to reflect the 1920s era, complete with period furnishings, a four-poster bed, and a commemorative bust and plaque, aiming to recreate the ambiance of Collins' final stay.

The Church was designed in 1914 and built in the years 1914 – to 1918. It was erected to designs signed by Rudolph Maximilian Butler (1872-1943) of Kildare Street, Dublin, and represents “an important component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition”.

The church was erected at the request of the then Parish Priest, Very Rev. Canon Michael McDonald - who was responsible for the building of the oratory on the summit of the holy mountain Croagh Patrick in Westport, Co. Mayo.

St. Patricks Church located high on Barrack Hill dominates the town. Many tourists come to admire some of its unique features such as the renowned ‘Last Judgement’ east window by Harry Clarke, as well as the superb western doorway and the beautifully restored altar.

The stained glass window over the High Altar, in the east wall of the Church, is one of the outstanding features of this building. The window, which is really made up of three windows of equal size is often called 'The Three Sisters', but is more commonly known as 'The Last Judgement Window', It was the very last work executed by the late world famous Stained Glass designer, Harry Clarke of Clarke Studios and was commissioned by the late Canon McDonald P.P. and purchased with his life insurance gratuity. This year in 2024 it won a prestigious world wide award for Best Exterior Lighting Scheme in a Heritage and Conservation project, in a shortlist of 12 iconic buildings from around the world, as far away as Mexico to Spain, Canada and Iran. St. Patricks Church was selected as the overall winner. David Keane, Claremorris, was the Conservation Engineer for the project.

The Blast Furnace at Talach is one of the best surviving example of a 17th – 18th century charcoal-burning blast furnace in Ireland. This site and structure are of national Irish significance. Accordingly, it is necessary to consider this national monument in context and carry out urgent conservation work to prevent further deterioration to this very significant national recorded monument. develop a plan for its conservation, interpretation, and improved accessibility.

An Archaeological Report commissioned by the Local Authority recommended that a Conservation Engineer be commissioned to carry out a Condition Report on the physical condition of the Furnace Building and outline any proposed remedial works that would be required to consolidate and conserve this important structure. A detailed Pre-works Condition Report was prepared in 2023 by David Keane Conservation Engineer, to provide guidance and inform on urgent and necessary conservation works that are required to be carried out to the Furnace House. This grant will enable the implementation of the recommendations set out in that report. These works will safeguard the future of the monument, enable it to withstand the impacts of climate change, and improve the presentation of the site.

The proposed works follow the recommendations and the methodology outlined in the Pre-Works Condition Report. The works will be carried out by experienced contractors, and overseen by professional Conservation Engineers, and Archaeologists, using best practice methodology.

It has been established that one of the main elements of this metal-working site, the Furnace House boasts unique and unparalleled features that have not been found in any other similar type of structure in Ireland. Accordingly, there is a huge broader public benefit as well as local benefit to the community in this project. The metal-working site is rich in archaeological heritage and conservation and preservation of the structures are of paramount importance.

The building represents designed aesthetic value.

I believe the Grotto at Marble Hill House holds significant evidential value because it provides physical proof of how 18th-century women, specifically Henrietta Howard, engaged with landscape design and intellectual life. While many grottos were purely decorative, the specific survival of its structure and shell-work offers evidence of the personal tastes and social agency of a female estate owner in a male-dominated era. It also possesses aesthetic – designed value, as it was a carefully constructed sensory environment intended to evoke a romanticized, subterranean atmosphere.

I believe Eel Pie Island’s primary significance lies in its associative historic value, originating from its legendary role in the 1960s music scene with icons like the Rolling Stones and David Bowie. While the public celebrates this cultural link, the island also possesses evidential value through its rare working boatyards, which provide physical proof of the Thames' industrial past. Furthermore, its architecture and narrow lanes offer a fortuitous aesthetic value, creating an organic, charming character that evolved over decades of bohemian residency.