Save Ashdown
We have launched a campaign to save Ashdown House, built by Latrobe in 1793, from a proposal to carve it into 47 luxury apartments and suburban houses.
We need your help to save the best-preserved Latrobe building in the world, and a prototype for the US Capitol and White House.
The deadline for public comment to Wealden District Council was 23.59, Friday 16 August 2024. Our Save Ashdown page sets out what happens next.
Keep checking this website, our social media and and sign up for our newsletter; we’ll let you know how you can help.
We’ll keep you updated. The campaign now moves to a new stage as we engage with local councillors, MPs and ministers, and other heritage organisations. It will be some time before the decision is made, and your support will be valuable.
No one person or organisation alone will be enough to sway this decision; we’re most powerful when we work together. Your voice will continue to be needed to secure a viable future for Ashdown.
Thank you for all your support so far. Ashdown might be owned by a property developer, but it’s ours to save.
upholding the legacy of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1804), shortly after his appointment by Thomas Jefferson as Surveyor of the Public Buildings, painted by Charles Willson Peale
Latrobe gave America some of its finest and most prominent buildings, including the US Capitol and the White House.Yet his British and European heritage and legacy has been forgotten and neglected for too long, and much of it remains in danger.The Latrobe Heritage Trust was established in 1987 to:
improve public appreciation of Britain’s architectural heritage;
to support the restoration of the buildings and landscapes of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764–1820), and to make them available to the public where possible;
encourage academic research into his work;
promote high standards of building and landscape conservation, and to save them from destruction or disfigurement.
We hold substantial resources on the architectural significance and historic context of Latrobe’s buildings in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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