The Heritage at Risk exercise has been a useful one, believes Dr Godfrey, because the data allows the various groups concerned with heritage to form a strategy and target specific buildings.
He says: “Each building is a different challenge really because they all have different reasons they are at risk. There is still a lot of work to be done to get the list down, but we now have a hit list of things we can be looking at funding for and start to work on.”
When requesting funding, the first thing that agencies require is evidence: Lincolnshire is now in the unique position of having that in plentiful supply thanks to the team of volunteers who captured that information.
One of the volunteer surveyors was Joyce Stevenson, of Thurlby, which is in the South Kesteven district of the county.
South Kesteven has many more Grade II listed buildings – 1,795 – but Stamford, with 671 sites and Grantham’s 158 inflate that figure.
In fact, there are 114 Grade II listed buildings in the Deepings and 72 in Bourne, and the district as a whole has the lowest incidence of heritage at risk in the county, at one per cent.