Since starting the scheme in May last year, works including a new estate office, orientation room, classrooms and toilet facilities in the old stable and laundry block have now been completed.
The council has also introduced a new retail facility for the public, ‘The Stables Shop’, supplying sandwiches, snacks and gifts.
Nial Adams, museums manager, is looking forward to the completion of the scheme.
He said: “The second phase of works, which will see the interior restored, will include furniture loaned from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and is anticipated to be finished by the summer.
“With the venue celebrating its 300th anniversary next year, the restoration will really add to the tourism offer of Sewerby and ensure it can be enjoyed by generations to come.”
Fiona Spiers, head of the Heritage Lottery Fund Yorkshire and the Humber, said: “With the first phase now finished, this project is well underway and we can look forward to the time when visitors and locals of all ages will be able to experience what life at an English county house was like at the turn of the last century.”
Paul Goyea, managing director of William Birch & Sons, said: “We are delighted to have played our part in completing phase one of such an important project to the community of Bridlington and we hope that visitors to the estate enjoy the new facilities.”
Sewerby’s gardens, zoo and tea rooms are open as usual but the hall is now closed to visitors until completion of the project, which is anticipated to be in summer 2014.
