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The charity's website said the horseshoe-shaped Grade II* listed building, on Sheepcote Street, is closed with only the restaurant open as per its usual hours.

Scaffolding has been put up to secure the building with an application in place for listed building consent to carry out the demolition work.

Built in 1905, it is the oldest stand in English football and a Grade II listed building, offering real heritage - but limiting opportunities to modernise that part of the ground.

The Mourne Wall is synonymous with the Mourne Mountains and is Northern Ireland's longest listed building.

The £10m for the British Library North will be spent revamping a new site called Temple Works, a derelict Grade I building and the £5m for the National Poetry Centre will renovate a redundant Grade II listed building to create a national headquarters for poetry.