Forty Hall in Enfield, London, is to be given a multi-million pound revamp.

The Grade I-listed house – which is currently being used as a local museum, arts and community venue – is to receive £1.8m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), which will also donate £167,000 to help create a development plan for the project, and £2.8m from its owners, Enfield Council.

Wesley Kerr, chair of the London Committee for the HLF, said: “It is a delight to allocate funding to this project to restore this remarkable Jacobean mansion.

“Forty Hall has many outstanding features, with archaeology going back to Tudor times. It is a building of importance not only to Enfield but to the whole of London.”

The house was built in 1629 by the Lord Mayor of London Sir Nicholas Rainton and the grounds include the site of a former Tudor hunting lodge, Elsying Palace, which has a restoration application currently being considered by the HLF under the Parks for People scheme.

Michael Lavender of Enfield Council said: “This grant allows us to undertake coordinated work such as planned maintenance and improvements such as the insertion of a lift, plus changing the stairway and layout of the hall. It also allows us to invest in making the house and exciting place of learning, the arts and culture, with a thriving programme of activity and events.”