Restoration is a set of BBC television series where viewers decide on which listed building that was in immediate need of remedial works was to win a grant from Heritage Lottery Fund.
The host of all three series is Griff Rhys Jones, whilst investigating each building in the heats are the show's resident "ruin detectives", Marianne Suhr and Ptolemy Dean.
Thirty buildings featured in ten regional heats in 2003, with money raised from the telephone vote being added to the prize fund.
[1] The winning building was the Victoria Baths in Manchester;[2] however, bureaucratic and technical hurdles meant that the money raised could not be spent immediately, and final planning-approval to begin a restoration process did not go through until September 2005.
On 22 April 2009, Rhys Jones presented "Restoration Revisited", a 60-minute programme updating viewers as to the progress made by some of the 72 featured buildings throughout the three TV series.