The Clever Heritage Home
Heritage homes are being silently upgraded using wireless smart technology. Houses are beginning to learn what heating and lighting you need, includinig garden mood lighting changable to suit your mood,…
Beware EPC experts
Firstly, EPC certificates are not supposed to be sought in relation to listed buildings as they are exempt. There is a good rreason for this. Most listed buildinds have solid…
What does it mean for a building to be listed?
When a building is a Listed Building, this means that the building is on a national register as a property of architectural or historic importance or interest, usually having exceptional…
Lime Plaster
Historc plaster ceilings are particularly liable to damage and deterioration, so it is important you can rely on a complete service to survey and restore your plasterwork from any professionial.…
PARGETTING
.Parget (pronounced ParJet), pargetting, parging, pargework. Pargetting is the art, brought in from Italy, of highly decorative plasterwork, mostly seen on ceilings and sometimes on the outside of buildings as…
Listed Building Consent Indemnity Insurance
Listed Building Consent Indemnity Insurance is only available for listed building of special architectural and historic interest. In order to make changes to a listed building, which include altering or…
An outline to Listed Building Consent
Listed building consent is a type of planning control, which protects buildings of special architectural or historical interest. These controls are in addition to any planning regulations which would normally…
Historic Tudor Windows
Throughout the early medieval period, the great majority of windows were unglazed. In timber-framed buildings they were simple openings in the structural frame (and for wider openings were often sub-divided…
Criminal Offences and Listed Building Consent
The law contains a number of criminal offences aimed at protecting historic buildings and sites and at ensuring the appropriate consents are sought when necessary. Without their existence and enforcement,…
Conservation Areas
Conservation areas, introduced by the Civic Amenities Act 1967, are areas of ‘special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance.…