THE HOME of the island’s first black Chief Justice, Sir Conrad Reeves, is falling to pieces.
And its state has raised the ire of two vocal advocates for the care, conservation and preservation of Barbados’ built heritage.
Professor Henry Fraser, a past president of the Barbados National Trust, and Dr Karl Watson, the trust’s current president, have both decried the condition of The Eyrie at the Barbados Community College (BCC).
Fraser said he had been campaigning for years for the restoration of the building which recently housed the Fine Arts Department of the BCC.
The area around the building is now chained off; its lower level has been boarded up, while the shutters to its historic facade are now broken, rotting and falling apart.
“Every three or four years I go to the principal of the Community College and quite recently I have spoken to [principal] Dr [Gladstone] Best,” he noted, adding that nothing was being done to save the building that was quickly deteriorating.
He said the building was last refurbished in the 1980s.
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