Heysham Heritage Centre
Heysham Heritage Centre, a converted long-house (details below).
In 1998 the Heritage Trust for the North West purchased part of the barn of a 17th century 'long-house', a listed building in the Village, for conversion to a Heritage Centre (shown on the right of the picture). In 2000 the Centre opened, staffed locally by volunteers coordinated by this Association. In the first nine seasons, over 106,000 visitors have been recorded, far in excess of our initial expectations.
In 2005, the same Trust purchased 22 Main Street adjacent to the Heritage Centre, the other part of the long-house, the cottage and the remainder of the barn (on the left of the picture). The cottage retains some original features, mullion windows (including the small 'fire window' seen in the image above), exposed beams and an old fireplace.
Exposed beams in the cottage.
This illustrates how the fireplace might have appeared in the 19th century.
A 3-fold leaflet describing the cottage in detail is available as a download from here
In 2006 an Appeal was launched in partnership with St Peter's Church, to raise funds for the capital/refurbishment cost of this purchase and for sea defences for the Church.
