Grants

Building Repair Grants

The purpose of Glasgow City Heritage Trust’s Building Repair Grant programme is to help preserve and enhance the unique character of the built environment within Glasgow’s twenty-one conservation areas.

Eligible works

Listed and unlisted buildings within the city’s conservation areas are, in principle, eligible for grant assistance from Glasgow City Heritage Trust for a variety of repair, restoration and reinstatement works. Works of a maintenance nature are not eligible.

Grants are limited to the external envelope of the building, though may include a building’s setting (for example, boundary walls) or communally-owned spaces such as back lanes or gardens.

Structural repairs - Minor structural repairs are eligible as part of a wider stone repair scheme.
Stone Repairs - the replacement of decayed or damaged stone to buildings and boundary walls, undertaken with indents of new natural sandstone to match existing.
Repointing - raking out defective mortar and repointing with appropriate lime mortar mix to match.
Paving - The repair or reinstatement of traditional sandstone slabs and granite or whin setts.
Harling - renewal of traditional lime harling to match existing.
Roof coverings - Repair and replacement of traditional slate, lead and pantile roofs, including repairs to timber sarking.
Flashings - Repair and renewal of lead flashings to chimneys, ridges and gutters.
Rainwater goods - The repair or reinstatement of lead hoppers, cast iron gutters and downpipes.
Windows - The repair, overhauling and reinstatement of traditional timber sliding sash-and-case windows, including stained and etched glass (double glazing is not grant-eligible).
Doors - The repair, refurbishment or reinstatement of solid timber or part-glazed external doors, including storm doors, fanlights and sidelights.
Ironwork - Repair, refurbishment or reinstatement of structural or decorative cast or wrought iron including railings, balconies, lamp standards, lanterns, finials and crestings.

We offer grants to fund up to 50% of the cost of external building repairs to historic properties, to a maximum of £200,000.

The individual funding limits for our different categories are as follows:

Windows and doors: up to £5000 per applicant
Railings: up to £10,000 per property
Roof repairs: up to £20,000 per property
Stonework: up to £200,000.

We are in the process of making available a range of documents for download which will offer additional information and guidance. In the meantime, please get in touch with us if you require any further assistance.

If you think you may be eligible for a grant, please download the following form:

Download pre-application enquiry form.

Once completed, please return to the address given on our Contact Us page.

Heritage Grants

The Trust’s board of directors are currently exploring opportunities to contribute funding towards wider education, interpretation and outreach projects relating to Glasgow’s architecture and built heritage. Further details will be announced in the near future. Please get in touch with us in the meantime if you would like further information.

Please note that the information given in this website is by way of general guidance only. It does not constitute an offer of grant nor does it bind Glasgow City Heritage Trust in any way to awarding a grant in the future. Any decisions made by a visitor to this website based on the information within the site are the sole responsibility of the visitor. Whilst efforts have been made to ensure that the information given is accurate, the Publishers, Funders and Contributers shall have no liability for any errors, omissions or misleading statements, however caused. We reserve the right to make changes to this Website at any time without notice.

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