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The range of buildings in our portfolio has allowed us to develop significant expertise in historic building conservation design and techniques over many years.
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Cleaning, lime mortar repair and new stone matched to the original, from Buckingham Palace to St George's Chapel.
Re-roofing and leadwork, from Horsham stone slates at Wakehurst to the lead roofs of the Old Royal Naval College.
Minimum intervention repairs to Grade I and Scheduled Ancient Monuments under the English Heritage Framework.
Stone cleaning, limewash and careful repair of historic interiors, revealing what centuries of grime concealed.
Ramps, gates, lifts, viewing decks and new uses designed to sit quietly within historic fabric.
Quinquennial and condition surveys, conservation plans, maintenance programmes and Surveyor of the Fabric roles.
Our approach
The Canons' Cloister shows how a forensic approach to building conservation restored important medieval buildings and reversed a series of damaging interventions.
Archives, historic drawings and earlier repairs, so decisions rest on robust historical evidence.
Measured, condition and fingertip surveys, from scaffold or cherry-picker, to find what is failing and why.
Minimum intervention with traditional materials, carried out with skilled conservators and craftspeople.
Discoveries recorded and shared through articles, lectures and study visits.
We are anxious to do what we can to ensure that historic building conservation skills and knowledge are passed down.
Our team attends the SPAB Repair of Old Buildings Course and SPAB Working Parties, West Dean's Conservation of Tile Roofing course and specialist workshops at The National Archives, and visits makers such as H.G. Matthews brickworks to specify materials with greater accuracy.
Tell us about the building and what it needs. Yvonne Loftus is the first point of contact for every enquiry.