West Bromwich museum to get new look with £38k work
Renovation work costing almost £40,000 will be carried out at an historic museum in West Bromwich under plans submitted to Sandwell Council.
Bosses at the Manor House Museum are planning the improvements.
The plans include improved access, new disabled toilets and landscaping to open up the view of the south elevation at the Hall Green Road site. A planning application for listed building consent for the works has been submitted to the council, and a decision will be made at a later date.
Under the improvements it is proposed to remove a 1960s single-storey link corridor which connects the south wing to the former detached kitchen block.
Bosses also want to remove and fill in the 20th Century beer cellar and level out and landscape the courtyard on the south side of the Manor House. New toilets will also be created.
Sandwell's museum service manager Frank Caldwell said: "This is only a limited project of works, but it is quite exciting."
He said that between the building and the moat will be a courtyard that will be paved and cobbled, and benches will be installed.
It is hoped the work will be complete by the time of the museum's St George's Day celebrations this spring.
The work is estimated to cost around £38,000.
Meanwhile, the Great Hall at the attraction is also being transformed to take visitors back 600 years to when it was first built.
