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Understanding the various types of flooding is critical in establishing the implications for your building.
Maintenance Week (11 - 17 November, 2024) is our annual reminder to get your building ready for winter with simple maintenance checks and repairs.
2024 SPAB Scholar, Jen Langfield describes her Ornkey explorations and considers her experince and possible future direction.
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Join today to support our positive, practical approach to building conservation. As a member you become part of a network of like-minded people who care for historic buildings. Other benefits include The SPAB Magazine, access to the Property List and the opportunity to join your local Regional Group.
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Upcoming Events
Course
25/11/2024
Join us for the online version of our popular Repair of Old Buildings Course. Through a series of recorded lectures, virtual site visits and online Q&A sessions you’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the repair, maintenance and conservation of old buildings.
Talk
30/11/2024
Join us for a day of online talks about windmills and watermills that are currently or have been in the past listed on the Heritage at Risk Register and find out more about specific case studies.
Talk
20/11/2024
Join the Dorset Group for a webinar tracing the history and development of the parks, gardens and formal landscapes which give our historic buildings their context.
Your campaign
If you’re worried about a deteriorating building in your local area, want to contest a planning application, build your own local campaign or set up a building preservation trust then the The SPAB Campaign Toolkit can offer guidance.
Mills
Become a Mills Section member
The SPAB’s Mills Section is the only Society concerned solely with protecting and promoting traditional windmills and watermills in the UK. The Section provides advice and training to mill owners and heritage professionals, and campaigns for the protection of milling heritage. Join the Section now to support its work and receive a range of membership benefits.