This blog will be updated each month with project updates from Graham Abrey, Lead Consultant. You can find more detailed reports on the museum’s project progress board located on the ground floor of the museum. There will also be opportunities to get involved at Conservation Open Days later in 2025.

Willmer House, the home of the Museum of Farnham, is a Grade I listed Georgian town house. Built in 1718, it is considered to have exceptional heritage and architectural merit. After 300 years, the front of building is starting to show its age. The front façade is in poor condition, with brickwork and timber decay right across the façade.

In the spring of 2023, we were delighted to be granted just under £735,000 of MEND project funding from Arts Council England to assist in the delivery of the £1.2 million programme of essential conservation and repair works to the principal façade of the historic building. This was followed in July 2024 with a grant of £230,310 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with further funding received from Waverley Borough Council, Farnham Town Council, and Farnham & District Museum Society.

News from the Parapet will take you up on the scaffolding as a team of highly skilled specialists, including brickwork, joinery and leadwork conservators, begin the painstaking work of conserving and repairing this beautiful building.