Bradgate House Ruins

A large-scale conservation project is under way to protect the ruins of the birthplace of England’s Nine Days’ Queen Lady Jane Grey.

The work at Bradgate House Ruins and Chapel near Newtown Linford in Leicestershire will cost almost £200,000.

James Dymond, director of the Bradgate Park Trust, said light touch repairs had been made to the site over the years but this was the first large-scale conservation project since the building was opened to the public in the 1930s.

The first phase of work includes repairs to the windows, stone and mortar of the building, which Mr Dymond expects to be completed by June.