Hunstanton Heritage Gardens
Client: Borough Council Kings Lynn West Norfolk
Landscape Architect: Wynne-Williams Associates
Cost: £1.04m
Duration: 36 months
Location: Hunstanton
This Heritage Lottery funded project involved extensive upgrading to a range of landscape features and building elements along the sea front gardens and cliffs in this busy seaside resort. Gardens remained open throughout the project.
Landscape elements:
Creation of a new playground with play equipment to suit a variety of ages along with rubber and grass carpet safety surfaces and a 9-hole crazy golf course.
Creation of the new Rose Garden with paving and planting.
Complete reconstruction of the Time & Tide Garden featuring Carrstone ashlar and brick retaining walls to the new concrete entrance ramp/steps and a radial crazy paved seating area along with a reinforced concrete feature wall.
Reconfiguration of the hard landscaping around the Butterfly shelters including reinforced concrete steps with Carrstone/brick walling and paving to the seating areas.
Installation of the new coastal view ‘Lookout’ including retaining walls, decking, telescope and railings.
Renewal of extensive macadam footpaths throughout the park with a red surface course.
Replacement of timber cliff fencing with vertical bar steel railings to open the view across the coast.
Installation of new lighting and refurbishment of existing, along with extensive new street furniture and interpretation signage.
Sympathetic soft landscaping installed to various elements throughout the gardens.
Building Elements:
Extensive sympathetic lime repointing to the Grade II Listed St Edmunds Chapel ruins.
The largest element of the building works was the complete restoration of the existing Butterfly Shelters. This comprised complete dismantling of the existing decrepit timber structure to fully expose the concrete supports. Extensive concrete repairs were made to these supports including specialist steam cleaning, removal of damaged concrete, repairs to exposed concrete - reinforcing with the addition of MCI anti-corrosion system and application of colour toned repair mortars. These shelters were subsequently re-constructed to match the original design intent, featuring a timber penny-boarded roof, timber seat supports and slats along with Iroko seat back and glazed panels. The structure was completed with a zinc seamed roof and fascia detailing.
Extensive repairs to three existing Victorian timber cliff top shelters including removal of failed timber elements and replacement with new to match, new glazing panels, new tiled roofs and decoration in colours to match the original Victorian detailing.
Repairs to the Southern shelter including repairs to existing masonry, replacement joinery elements to remove rotten sections, addition of new steel purlins, a zinc lined box gutter and a polycarbonate sheet roof.
Various localised repairs to the existing toilet buildings including re-pointing, replacement windows, roof repairs, replacement rain water goods and decoration.
Repairs and detailed re-decoration to the Town Sign.
