Community groups are now discussing the future of the Grade II-listed building with the Crown, which owns it.

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The Saeynaetsalo Town Hall of 1948-52 is cut into a hillside where irregularly ascending steps of masonry and earth and grass lead to an enclosed courtyard and the building's "crown, " the council chamber.

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Ms. Banke has already met with an architect about building a winery at Zena Crown, where she hopes to produce an estate Pinot Noir in 2013 or 2014.

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The team set sail from London in December and were building a base camp and supply depot inland from Crown Bay when Fiennes developed the case of frostbite.

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