A MEDIEVAL style timber extension to Wallingford Museum has been granted planning permission.

The boost means the £350,000 project remains on course to be completed this summer.

Dozens of visiting craftsmen are expected to camp on the town’s Hithercroft to construct the building’s traditional timber frame.

Museum chairman Steve Capel-Davies said: “It is fantastic news. This means the project will happen.”

He said £16,000 had already been donated, alongside £24,000 worth of volunteer labour.

Meanwhile, museum bosses have announced that 74 local oak trees had been donated to the museum, to provide all the wood the carpenters need.

Felling is expected to start later this week.

The museum is continuing its fundraising drive to help raise the funds needed to pay for the extension, which will house new exhibitions, a teaching space and disabled facilities.

Among the fundraising events is an auction, which takes place at the Regal Centre on Saturday, April 10, from 3pm.

Items under the hammer will include a limited edition Magna Carta stool, an antique banjo, tours of the House Commons and House of Lords, a week’s holiday and a brewing course.

The museum is also expected to make a series of major grant applications, in an attempt to raise the money it requires for the project, before the summer.