A project to restore the historic Grade II listed walls at the Harlow Museum and Walled Gardens is underway.
Harlow Council are working with Messenger, a company that specialises in the conservation and repair of historic buildings and monumental sculpture, to undertake the works.
The project began with the wall facing First Avenue, removing the old mortar and damaged bricks before replacements are inserted and the mortar made good. This section has now been completed and works are now underway in the 17th Century Garden and the Unusual Fruit Garden.
The works will be an ‘honest repair’, meaning that the areas where repairs have been made stand out bright and clean from the older brick work to give an idea of how the lime mortar would have looked hundreds of years ago when the walls were first built.
The project is due to be completed in November 2024.
