HARTPURY INVESTMENT PROSPECTUS 2023

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INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

‘Hartpury’ is derived from the Saxon word for pear: Hardepirige – an apple-like, hard pear similar to the perry pear. There is a perry pear known as the ‘Hartpury Green’ recorded as early as 1662.

HERITAGE

Conserving and promoting our rural heritage asset for the future.

Ambition Hartpury House and Parish are hidden jewels of rural history that should be protected, celebrated, and promoted as a community asset – Hartpury University and Hartpury College will play a key role to realising this ambition. Rationale Built in the early nineteenth century, grade II* listed in 1985, Hartpury House and its gardens and grounds are a protected historic asset. The building requires ongoing, specialist maintenance and repairs to maintain its heritage value, address the natural degeneration of the building, and to sympathetically refurbish it as a visitor attraction, protectingt it for future generations.

Scope and objectives Hartpury House and gardens require significant restoration to: › Create a Community Visitor Information Centre for Hartpury Parish and for the university and college. › Exploit the building and garden features alongside the Parish heritage assets and create public-facing access to them all. › Create a Three Counties Farming and Rural Heritage Centre utilising interactive technology to create an immersive visitor experience. › Invest in Hartpury’s animal collections facilities to create a modern visitor experience. › Expand Hartpury’s widening participation and outreach work.

Deliverables: › T he restoration project will reinstate and re-imagine Hartpury House, gardens and grounds. It will deliver a heritage project that is outward facing, inclusive and an attractive community asset. The heritage destination will enhance Parish assets and provide facilities for health, entertainment, tourism, youth organisations, Hartpury staff and students, and the local community. Phase 1 (2024 – 2025) Repairs to roof and external building structure, internal redecoration, restoration and preservation of heritage features and accessibility features - £0.75M. Phase 2 (2024 – 2026) Restoration of grounds, formal gardens with the creation of Hartpury Community Visitor Information Centre, Gloucestershire agricultural archive and digital interactive historic exhibition and tearoom - £1.9M. Proposed timescale:

Funding including match

£2.65M

Delivery Date

2026

HARTPURY INVESTMENT PROSPECTUS

HARTPURY INVESTMENT PROSPECTUS