Completed Projects

St Austell Market House

A grant offer of £114,145 was made in August 2019. First phase works included refurbished first floor windows, new clear glazed ground floor openings and removal of a suspended ceiling to reveal an original granite arched ceiling. A new artist designed ceramic hanging sign was made with input from local college students. Bespoke ceramic planters were installed in front of the clear ground floor glazing.

An additional grant of £16,355.93 was made on 5th August 2021 for multi coloured architectural lighting to highlight the exposed internal granite arches. A new better quality handrail was installed to the front steps as was a new level granite threshold to the Town Museum. The first phase of work was successfully launched with assistance from Cultural Recovery Fund on August 21st 2021. These works won a commendation in the 2022 Cornish Buildings Group Awards.

1-3 Victoria Place (Day Lewis Pharmacy)

A grant offer of £54,228 was made on 16th September 2020 for a new shopfront, new ground floor flat window and cast rainwater goods. Additional works of £7,130.52 were agreed through a variation on 14th January 2021. These included repair and overhaul of all 10 front elevation sash windows, new sash window to the side elevation and new cast rainwater goods.

32/32a Fore Street (Hays Travel)

A grant offer of 13,808 was made on 27th October 2020 for leadwork repairs to the barrel roofed dormer window and parapet, window repairs and external painting, picking out detailing in contrasting colours. An additional grant of £11,864.93 was made on 17th March 2021 for replacement windows, parapet leadwork and structural repairs. The building is now structurally sound, weatherproof and occupied.

The Trinity Centre, 3 Market Street (former Hop and Vine)

A grant of £91,502 was made on 17th December 2020 for a new shopfront and signage, window refurbishment, reroofing and structural repairs. An additional grant of £7,294 was made on 31st August 2022 for secondary glazing to repaired windows. The building is now fully occupied. A ceramic tiled mural was installed to the shopfront.

2-6 Bodmin Road

A grant offer of £53,535 was made on 3rd June 2020 for a new shopfront with bespoke artist designed stallriser tiling, traditional sash windows to the front elevation and painted external walls. Breathable natural internal insulation was installed to upper storey flats. An additional grant of £13,655.89 was made on 10th August 2021 for unforeseen structural repairs on rusted column bases and mosaic tiling to them. The works received a commendation in the 2023 Cornish Building Group Awards.

Drinking Fountain

A £50,000 funding contribution was made for repairs to the Drinking Fountain on Holy Trinity churchyard wall. This included new cast finials, realigning the backing pieces and installing a new lantern and base. With the help of an additional £36,929 Cornwall Council contribution rusted churchyard railings around the Drinking Fountain were removed, repaired and reinstated.

Café Tengo

A grant of £1,636.90 was made on 5th June 2019 for two bespoke ceramic tiled hanging signs. These were intended as a prototype for future ceramic signs in the town. A manual showing how they were produced is available on Cornwall council’s webpages.

A grant of £38,730 was made on 28th May 2021 to reclad the poor quality modern shopfront in bespoke ceramic tiling with edible planting, repaint the external walls, repair and paint upper storey windows and install new bespoke tiled folding doors to the café. White Gold contributed £5,000 towards the costs in addition to the TH grant. The works received a commendation in the 2023 Cornish Building Group Awards.

Former Tregarne Sunday School

The former Tregarne chapel and Sunday school had remained vacant for twenty five years before both buildings were bought at Auction in 2021. A grant of £93,500 was made on 18th November 2021 to convert the former Sunday school to three flats and with five internal parking spaces with electric charging points and cycle and surfboard storage. The funded works included repair of all original arched windows and doors, structural repairs, re-roofing and render repair and painting to external walls. The adjoining chapel is being converted at the same time as the former Sunday School but without grant aid.

Energy performance monitoring of three types of breathable internal insulation has also been progressing. Baseline monitoring is complete and monitoring after installation of breathable insulation has commenced. Results of the monitoring will be published on the Council’s web pages.

3 Fore Street

A grant offer of £20,256.33 was made on 3rd January 2022 for traditional embellishments as part of a new shopfront installation. The building, previously vacant, is now fully occupied on three floors.

1 Vicarage Hill

A grant offer of £32,333.25 was made on 11th April 2022 for upper storey window repairs, new doors with cast balustrade’s and a bespoke artist designed ceramic tiled reclad of the existing shopfront. The works received a commendation in the 2023 Cornish Building Group Awards.

Tregonissey House

A grant offer of £110,208.50 was made on 6th July 2022 for renovations on the former Walter Hicks brewery building. The funded work included reroofing and vegetation clearance, cupola vent structure repairs, leadwork and parapet repairs, original window repairs, new replacement traditional windows and doors, cast rainwater goods and external surfacing improvements.

9 Church Street

A grant offer of £18,834.69 was made on 7th September 2022 for a new shopfront based on original detailing, a new first floor bowed timber sash window and external wall repair and painting.

Moustache Jacks, 2 Biddicks Court

A grant offer of £27,154.77 was made on 17th October 2022 for new traditional timber sash windows to the front elevation, structural repairs, a new traditional shopfront, and external wall rendering and painting.

Level access scheme for Trinity Centre and Market House

A grant of £13,763.20 was made on 31st August 2022 to raise the external surfacing to create level access to the Trinity Centre and also to the Town Museum.

End of scheme plaque/water bottle unit

A recessed water bottle unit has been installed next to the Drinking Fountain on Holy Trinity churchyard wall. A ceramic tiled artist designed end of scheme plaque has been installed around it.