community pub which is listed
The local community pub is getting a facelift, It has been a community pub for 11 years but its always been a pub hotel. The work for the facelift is going very slowly it will be good when finished though. The building is listed so you can't just do anything to it, it has to keep its original look. To do the facelift a grant was obtained from CADW which is the body that looks after old buildings in Wales. The work involved repointing the front and rendering it, but keeping it looking near to how it always was. The pub is 300 years old in 4 years time and obviously did not have any double glazing which is important to have in this day and age but this CADW set up won't allow it to be put in, which is a bit mad as this is a business and with the price of utilities going up its important to have things in place to reduce the cost, its a bit silly for CADW to try to maintain the building as it was originally in a modern world its going against the gr...