The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has allocated £1.5 million for Dean Castle in East Ayrshire to be restored.

The total project cost will be £5m with funding also secured from Historic Scotland (£500k) and the remainder from the East Ayrshire Council.

Development funding of £43,500 has also been awarded to help the Council, supported by East Ayrshire Leisure, to progress their plans to apply for a full grant at a later date.

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The project aims to carry out essential stonework restoration to the external fabric of the castle buildings, carry out new internal modernisation and redisplay of the world class collections and exhibition areas, and support a range of apprenticeship and learning programmes around the stonework restoration and collection conservation aspects of the project.

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