Church Farm House vulnerable according to English Heritage

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Andrew Dismore, Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden and Chair of the Council for British  Archaeology in London (CBA(L)) has learnt that English Heritage have now classified the long empty former Hendon museum building ,  the grade II* listed  Church Farm House, as “vulnerable”.

Mr Dismore said:

“It was bad enough of Barnet Council to close the museum and flog off its collection to the highest bidder at auction, realising very little money but dispersing our local heritage forever. Now they are adding insult to injury in the way the building has been left to go to wrack and ruin in this way, to the extent that English Heritage, the statutory body charged with protecting our national historic buildings, has now stated that it is “vulnerable” on their  Heritage at Risk database.

Church Farm House has been empty for almost 3 years now and the negotiations for its disposal to the university seem to be going very slowly to nowhere.

The Council must ensure the remedial works recommended by English Heritage are carried out without delay.”

Don Cooper, Chair of Hendon and District Archaeological Society (HADAS) who reported the building’s condition to English Heritage said:

“The Council, after closing the museum, disgracefully selling off most of its contents and clearly without a workable forward strategy for the house, have left it empty.”

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