The 4 year conservation project was led by the council and PMGT

Pitzhanger Manor has been named as this years Ealing Civic Society award winner.

Since 1989 the Society has given awards to recognise and encourage building and environmental projects that make a noteworthy contribution to the community in the Borough of Ealing. Winners receive a certificate and an award winner may display a specially designed Society plaque.

2019 is the 30th anniversary of the award.

Winners were announced by the Society’s president Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles at a ceremony at the University of West London on the evening of Wednesday 23 October.

Pitzhanger Manor, a major 4 year conservation project in the heart of Ealing won top prize. The project, led by Ealing Council in collaboration with Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery Trust (PMGT), has peeled back layers of history, extensions and overpainting, returning Pitzhanger to John Soane’s original design, now visible for the first time in over 175 years. Important structural elements of Soane’s design were reinstated, such as the conservatory demolished in 1901 and the dramatic central roof light. The architects were Jestico + Whiles.

The International Presbyterian Church, Drayton Green, a redevelopment of an existing church site was highly commended. The refurb involved the demolition of the existing annex buildings and construction of a new meeting hall and linked ancillary buildings around the retained Grade II listed chapel. The architects were Piercy and Co.

Commended projects were: Lammas Park Swale, a water management project and wildflower meadow and Ealing Orchards and Meadows project covering several green spaces and Acton Skatepark a new skatepark for the Borough, funded by Ealing Council working in conjunction with Ealing Skatepark Association. Designed by Canvas.

Other shortlisted entries this year: the Ark Byron Primary Academy, residential conversion at the Hoover Building, and 60 Eaton Rise.

Ealing Civic Society Acting Chairman, Ann Chapman, explained that the aim of the award was to embrace all kinds of building and landscape design. She was impressed by the quality of the entries and said: “We had a wide variety of entries, all to a very high standard - ranging from a number of interesting landscaping schemes through school, residential and church buildings to the full restoration of a historic central Ealing landmark building.”

Full details may be seen at Ealing Civic Society's website ealingcivicsociety.org.

22nd October 2019