conservation

We’re pleased to support a statement from the RICS, Historic England and the Property Care Association.

Eugenia Fiocco is one of the SPAB’s most dedicated online learners. Based in Italy, throughout 2020-21 she has attended over 66 of our events. We asked her what buildings inspire her and how she came to hear about the SPAB.

This 1920s postcard shows our home, Hunter’s Moon, a 16th-century timber-framed house built on the Adur estuary but now a mile from the sea. The road in the foreground (naturally, it’s called The Street) has pre-Roman origins. You can still easily recognise this view today, even the worker’s rough perch. But the surrounding fields, recorded in the Domesday Book, are now buried under suburban developments.

A former chapel, a 20th century post office, a Victorian home, the site of a ginger-beer making business and the home of a relic.

2020-21 SPAB Scholar Libby Watts takes us on a sketching tour of her historic village.

I grew up in the village of Radnage, in the Chiltern Hills and whilst in lockdown, I have returned to this village. I am going on daily walks, and this is opening my eyes to the treasures which lie in this small village, which as a child I took for granted. I am enjoying re-seeing Radnage from the eyes of an architect with a keen interest in historic buildings, and below I share with you some of the treasures I see on my walks.

A church with a view is a local treasure to SPAB volunteer Hazel Morris

SPAB volunteer Keri Dearmer explores the wealth of history in her district in East London

SPAB Scholar Amy Redman explores the industrial heritage of 'Porty'.

Street and place names prompt SPAB Scholar Bethan Watson to consider the lost country houses in her neighbourhood.