Job Description
Reference: REQ0145Description: We have a genuinely exceptional collection of assets and environments. Our heritage makes a dynamic contribution to modern life. Our heritage contributes to our local identity, local distinctiveness, and sense of community.Can you help us protect, conserve, enhance and enjoy our historic environment?About UsOur area’s long history of wool trade and cloth manufacture is reflected in the kinds of buildings and structures that are listed – as is the area’s later industrial diversification.
With 3301 listed building entries within the district, that’s 4,500 individual properties and structures, we have 6.99 listed buildings per square kilometre. Combined with 41 conservation areas (including the 15 mile long Industrial Heritage Conservation Area), 68 scheduled ancient monuments, and 14 registered parks and gardens, our heritage team is kept busy. With over half the district within the Cotswold National Landscape, our topography adds to our heritage.
The area’s industrial wealth (as well as periods of hardship and stagnation) gave us some of our most outstanding heritage assets. Ingenuity, nonconformity and philanthropy are distinctive characteristics of our heritage – and arguably these are still prominent in the district’s cultural heritage today.Heritage is embedded in the council’s daily activities. Based in the Grade II* l...