Quarry building rediscovered – with hopes to rehome it
WHEN Rocks by Rail: The Living Ironstone Museum in Rutland received an email from a local resident offering the Cottesmore venue a garden shed, it was subsequently revealed that this was no normal domestic outbuilding. It was found that a structure was formerly sited at the Colsterworth Ironstone Quarry, near Grantham.
Believed to date from the 1950s, it would have been used for administrative purposes for the quarry until closure in 1973. The building was subsequently dismantled and acquired by the previous resident of the property in the village near to the museum, with the current owner looking to remove it to allow landscaping of the garden.
The building was inspected by three museum trustees, who found it to be “fair in condition for its age, but will require of bit of TLC and a repaint.”
Plans for the dismantling and transfer of the building were being prepared, but re-erection on the museum site will require planning permission from the local council. It is proposed to rehome the structure at the start of the site’s Quarry Trail.
Volunteers and donations for the project are sought. For further information, email curator@rocks-byrail.org or call 01572 868415.