The Victorian Society has issued its top 10 most endangered sites, describing them as being 'desperately in need of help'.
London's Liverpool Street station and the former Great Eastern Hotel have been named as being among the most at-risk Victorian buildings in England and Wales.
The charity and eight other heritage organisations believe that if plans are approved "no listed building is safe from harm". It is perhaps architect Frederick Preedy's finest in the West Midlands and includes "glorious" stained glass also designed by him, it said. Work has started to restore the building into two grand homes and is on the market, but "now needs someone who has the tenacity to see the restoration through to its completion," the charity said.The distinctive tower in the Somerset village of Rockwell Green was commissioned in1885 following an epidemic of typhoid fever, replacing 286 local wells which had become polluted. A second tower was later added.
Last used as a furniture workshop in 2012, the site was purchased by a developer and is now totally derelict, said the society.The 1907 hotel was built for brewers WB. Reed and Co, and was designed by their company architect."It is a huge civic building left it in a state of decay on an extremely prominent high street site," said the society.
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