Revamp work to start on landmark
Monday 3rd August 2009, 1:15PM BST.
A £70,000 project to restore a Ludlow landmark starts this week.
Contractors are to begin work on the Buttercross, which dates from 1743 and has been shrouded in scaffolding for months.
Mayor Martin Taylor-Smith said the work was a “major overhaul”.
“We are going to repair the doors and repaint them,” he said. “We are also going to repaint the inside of the Buttercross itself.
“It will look much better and in the summer we will be able to have the doors open.”
He hopes the work will be completed in the next few months. “The trouble is they work along and then they find other things that need doing,” he said. “The tower is in a lot worse condition than we first thought.”
In December, the clock in the building’s front clock tower stopped working and needs to be fixed.
Work to fix the cupola – the top of the building with the dome and weather vane – is also set to take place.
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