Cranleigh Heritage Trust
A community led project to repurpose the Old Cranleigh Hospital Cottage
Cranleigh Heritage Trust
A community led project to repurpose the Old Cranleigh Hospital Cottage
WE DID IT!
Our application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund was successful
We have been awarded over £780,000 to save Cranleigh Cottage Hospital and bring it back to use for all the community as a wellbeing, education, and heritage hub. This is what the National Lottery Heritage Fund said about the project.
THANK YOU for your considerable support in getting us here.
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Our press release on this amazing news is available here and you can see Trevor Dale’s interview with That’s TV South East
Cranleigh 1000 Club
Alongside the charities supporting the St. Nicolas Church building and the Cranleigh Arts Centre, we are excited to bring you the Cranleigh 1000 Club.
Join us for just £5 a month to be in with a chance of winning a lottery-style draw.
Every month a lucky winner will walk away with half the total cash pot.
The remaining half will be equally split between Cranleigh Heritage Trust, the 1170 Charity, and Cranleigh Arts Centre.
Win or not, you’ll be supporting three of Cranleigh’s oldest buildings and their rich heritage.
Our Vision
We plan to bring this beautiful building in the heart of Cranleigh back into use for the community.
Find out how we plan to do this.
About Us
We are a charity that has been set up to preserve historical buildings within the village of Cranleigh, as well as other heritage projects in the community. Our first project is Old Cranleigh Hospital Cottage, who some might know as Napper Cottage.
History
The cottage, which constitutes the small tile hung building between the current hospital car park and the Three Horseshoes pub, has been dendrochronologically dated to 1446 and thus qualifies as one of the oldest buildings in the area.
This was the original village hospital in Cranleigh, it was the first of its kind in England and is cited as the origin of the funding model, free at the point of care, that resulted in today’s NHS.
