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- This guidance note explores the challenges that arise from timber-framed construction, how to analyse and repair timber frames and more.
- This article reveals the hidden truths behind wattle and daub, brick ‘nogging’, and other materials used in walling.
- High up, largely out of site, is some of our oldest wood craftsmanship. This article explores why timber roofs are worth conserving.
- Advice on considering heritage when installing electricity into old buildings and why this work requires extra skill.
- Sometimes strengthened without good reason, or destructively levelled out, old floors are an oft-abused treasure. This article explains how best to treat them.
- Guidance on the causes of, and remedies for, the emission of smoke and fumes from fireplaces into rooms.
- This advice note sets out the key themes that emerge when caring for one of a historic building’s finest – yet very often overlooked – architectural assets.
- This advice note explores the do’s and don’t’s of caring for an often overlooked architectural asset.
- It is, perhaps, Britain’s most underrated building material – a simple solution worthy of better understanding. Find out what weatherboarding is and how to maintain it.
- This is the installation of thermal insulation at the level of rafters – the inclined timber members that form the top of the frame supporting a pitched roof.
- It’s often possible to take measures to protect old buildings against frost and snow damage – and the cost of doing so can be small compared to the expense of repairs.
- Solid, secure, unchanging? The permanence of old stone can be deceptive. Even one of the toughest of traditional building materials needs monitoring, maintenance and, at times, sensitive repairs.
- This article explores the options for suspended timber floor insulation in historic buildings.
- Old gypsum plaster floors are often unrecognized and frequently mistaken for later concrete. This places them under the constant threat of damage or destruction despite their historic importance and general serviceability.
- This article explores the basic maintenance steps you can take to keep sash windows both functioning and looking elegant.
- This article outlines how to repair this long-used protective wall covering, which is not to be confused with pebbledash.
- Vertically hung tiling is a traditional fronting. Its mellow colours and gentle unevenness provide a pleasing appearance to many old walls.
- This article explains how to deal with timber panelling: from fungal decay to warping, and more.
- Who to talk to, when and why. This article explains the role of the conservation officer, architect, building surveyor, engineer, contractor and National Amenity Societies.
- The SPAB is aware of the increased number of proposals to utilise church towers and spires for the accommodation of mobile telephone aerials.
- A listed building is a building, object or structure that has been judged to be of national importance by virtue of its special architectural or historic interest.
- This page describes the current legislative and policy framework which protects the historic environment.
- When the SPAB was established in 1877 there was no conservation legislation to speak of which led to some truly sad losses of buildings and monuments.
- Achieving the correct balance between protecting the special interest of a listed building and proposals for alterations and extensions is a tricky task. Some buildings are more likely to be able to accommodate change than others.