Overview
- Carpenters have lifted the wooden house on jacks to replace crumbled brick foundations and are removing decayed timber to stabilise it.
- A four-strong Norwegian carpentry crew with British specialists, led by Richard Hall, arrived by boat in November and work up to 12-hour days when weather allows.
- Reported funding totals more than £2–3 million to safeguard one of the few surviving buildings linked to Shackleton’s 1916 rescue planning.
- The trust plans a digital twin so people can explore the villa remotely, reflecting a strategy to protect the fragile site rather than promote visitation.
- The campaign is slated to wrap in February before the team transits to the Falkland Islands and returns to the UK.