The Cambrian Railway building in Oswestry is currently clad in scaffolding as restoration work takes place to bring the Grade II listed property back to its heyday.
The ground floor is currently let to Cambrian Heritage Railways, a local railway charity, which runs a railway out of the site, while the first floor is vacant and unlet.January this year saw the council approve £270,000 towards its restoration – which makes a total of £900,000 when matched with money from the government.
"We have had these various structural reports that have come back that said these corbels, they were actually stuck onto the building when it was being built just at the very end. "So unfortunately for the time-being the scaffolding has to stay as a safety measure but what we are looking to do this winter, this autumn and through into the spring is reattach those corbels underneath the roof eave, replace that string of course they are sitting on, reattach them with a permanent bond – where necessary we might have to re-mould some of those corbels because some of them have been lost or shattered over the time and then also we are going to re-roof the building with...