RESTORATION works on several historic features at Basing House have been completed. 

Hampshire County Council's property services team have carried out work on Lord Bolton's Field Wall and the Citadel Tunnel. 

In a field named after the former owner of Basing House, Lord Bolton, are the remains of a hunting lodge that he built, consisting of gate piers in a Grade II listed wall.

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A council spokesperson said: "The team undertook repair work to Lord Bolton’s Field Wall and gate piers to help protect the original brickwork, whilst taking care to avoid rare species of wall flower such as fine-leaved sandwort, wall bedstraw, and rue-leaved saxifrage – the presence of which makes the wall a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC)."

Repairs were also carried out on the brickwork of the Citadel Tunnel, which is a large drain connecting Basing House to a nearby river.

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"Works were carefully timed so the resident hibernating bats were undisturbed, and open joints were left between the bricks to provide the bats with suitable crevices to crawl into," the spokesperson added. 

A second phase of conservation repairs is underway, dismantling and rebuilding the top of the wall that forms the boundary with residential properties to remove damaging plant roots, helping to ensure the future of this historically significant structure for generations to come.

Basing House is owned by the county council and run by the Hampshire Cultural Trust.