Conservation Management Plan - Tamworth Borough Council

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The Policies A principles and approaches Policy A1 To place the conservation of Tamworth Castle at the heart of planning for future uses and the day to day management of the site. Policy A2 To secure the repair of the historic asset and provide for its future maintenance to high standards of conservation care. Policy A3 To promote public access to, enjoyment and understanding of Tamworth Castle. Policy A4 In securing the policies, to manage the site so as to make best use of financial and other resources. B Policies for conservation, repair and maintenance Policy B1 To develop a conservation philosophy for the Castle which protects its historic integrity and areas of significance, and makes them accessible to public understanding. Much of the evidence for the architectural and social history of Tamworth Castle lies in the surviving fabric, and it is important to ensure that conservation of the building protects this historic character and significance. An approach is required which avoids unnecessary losses through over-restoration, adopting instead a minimal intervention approach that allows full historic significance to survive. In places it may be possible to enhance important aspects of the building by removal of modern intrusions (especially on the ground floor). It is essential however, that one aspect of significance is not sacrificed unnecessarily in enhancing the significance of another. This is especially desirable as the development of the castle is, at present, incompletely understood. Two primary elements of significance surviving in the fabric of the castle are the late 15 th century great hall and the important episodes or repair and refurbishment and remodelling carried out in a consciously medieval and Jacobean revival style in the 18 th and 19 th century. It is essential that these phases are carefully identified and protected. This means that the fabric of the castle should be conserved as it stands and that work of 18 th and 19 th century should not be sacrificed to reconstruct lost medieval elements. In line with this approach, the late medieval Great Hall would not be reconstructed with its screen and screens passage, nor its doorways returned to historically accurate medieval forms, since this will destroy its significance as an example of 19 th century medieval domestic revivalism. Careful protection and enhancement of existing character is to be preferred to conjectural recreation of what has gone. What survives of the work of the later 20th century to adapt the rooms within the castle for museum uses is mostly of a superficial nature and there is no requirement to protect or retain it, especially where it intrusively detracts from or confuses understanding of significant aspects of the castle (especially the medieval ranges on the ground floor). These intrusions are identified and recommendations made about them in other policies or in Gazetteer entries. Where such works are of a more extensive nature, such as the staff room and kitchen, or staff offices, the proposal to provide public access to former ground floor historic interiors would be subject to the ability to accommodate the present functions elsewhere, without further impact on the historic fabric. 98 Part 2 www.marionblockley.co.uk Tamworth Castle Conservation Management Plan
Policy B2 To establish regular, effective and funded programmes for building maintenance and repair, where necessary revising existing arrangements. The key to successful building conservation is the regular cycle of maintenance and inspection which prevents the development of crises from quite minor problems. Present maintenance arrangements for Tamworth Castle are ad hoc, reactive and not well funded. Maintenance or repairs tend to be done in response to problems occurring, rather than in trying to avoid the problem in the first place. It is essential that the status and significance of the historic building are recognised in the regularity and standard of specified regimes of maintenance and inspection. Policy B2.1 The 2005 Condition Survey should be updated in 2010 Policy B2.2 On the basis of the survey, a schedule of maintenance tasks should be drawn up, specifying a timetable for performance and an agreed set of standards and techniques. A contract for the specified work should be let for a defined period to a contractor with experience of work on historic buildings. Policy B2.3 The schedule should set out arrangements for regular monitoring, with a full quinquennial inspection to review effectiveness and make adjustments Policy B2.4 Separate from regular maintenance, responsibility for identifying the need for and commissioning works of repair to the Castle need to be allocated, in order to ensure adequate specifying and timely performance. The Castle Manager is a Museums Professional and does not have building conservation back up within Tamworth Borough Council. It would be worth exploring the economics of a service level agreement with the conservation team at Lichfield Borough Council and/or retaining a consultant conservation architect. Policy B2.5 As major repairs to areas of the castle are carried out, their monitoring and maintenance should be included in the regular schedules. Policy B3 To ensure that all works to Tamworth Castle, whether new work or repair, are informed by a clear understanding of the site, are preceded by appropriate investigation of the historic fabric and are fully recorded. Although Tamworth Castle has been subject to major programmes of repair for more than 200 years, there is a shortage of detailed records for large parts of the castle, and a consequent lack of understanding of its development. Planned research and survey (as proposed in Policy D1) will help redress the situation. It is also vital that an appropriate level of investigation and recording precedes future works of repair so that affected fabric is fully understood and that works can be designed to minimise or eliminate impact. Policy B3.1 Scheduled Monument Consent will be obtained before any works, not covered by a class consent, are undertaken within the scheduled area of the Castle. English Heritage will be consulted as part of the planning of any such works. Where such works will take place on a regular basis, they will be permitted in the context of a management agreement. Policy B3.2 All works of maintenance, repair or alteration affecting the historic fabric or below ground archaeology should be preceded and accompanied by appropriate analysis and recording in accordance with good archaeological practice meeting IfA standards and guidance and statutory legislation. Analysis should aim to answer specific questions and be tailored to the significance of the fabric likely to be affected. Information gained should be used to inform the detail of the proposed works. Policy B3.3 Where significant fabric has unavoidably to be removed from an original location, it should be carefully recorded in situ and if practicable retained within the collections are part of the site archive (Policy D2). No element of the castle should be destroyed unrecorded. PolicyB3.4 Explicit records should be made of any intervention in the historic fabric of the site (above and below ground) by written, drawn and photographic means , with summaries and conclusions incorporated in the site archive. Policy B3.5 The interpretation strategy for Tamworth Castle (proposed in policy G1) should include provision for explaining building and conservation works in progress, to encourage wider public understanding, interest and support for expenditure. Tamworth Castle Conservation Management Plan www.marionblockley.co.uk Part 2 99
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