Heritage Now Issue 2 2023
The summer issue of Heritage Now (02/2023) provides some well-illustrated lessons regarding sensitively improving accessibility, functionality and energy efficiency in the Grade I listed Porter’s Lodge at Exeter College, Oxford (built between 1671 and 1710). Elsewhere, Alan Calder, the biographer of Edward Guy Dawber (1861–1938), draws attention to three of his finest buildings away from the Cotswolds (with which he has generally most been associated) near Salisbury and Matlock, and in Dorset.
The issue also looks back at the 70-year publishing history of the Ancient Monuments Society Transactions (now continuing as the Journal of Historic Buildings and Places); and Paul Holden is in conversation with Frank Kelsall and Timothy Walker about their new book Nicholas Barbon: developing London, 1667-1698.
This article originally appeared in the Institute of Historic Building Conservation’s (IHBC’s) Context 177, published in September 2023.
--Institute of Historic Building Conservation
Related articles on Designing Buildings
IHBC NewsBlog
Three reasons not to demolish Edinburgh’s Argyle House
Should 'Edinburgh's ugliest building' be saved?
IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing...from Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish Retrofit
IHBC launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’
How RDSAP 10.2 impacts EPC assessments in traditional buildings
Energy performance certificates (EPCs) tell us how energy efficient our buildings are, but the way these certificates are generated has changed.
700-year-old church tower suspended 45ft
The London church is part of a 'never seen before feat of engineering'.
The historic Old War Office (OWO) has undergone a remarkable transformation
The Grade II* listed neo-Baroque landmark in central London is an example of adaptive reuse in architecture, where heritage meets modern sophistication.
West Midlands Heritage Careers Fair 2025
Join the West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust on 13 October 2025, from 10.00am.
Former carpark and shopping centre to be transformed into new homes
Transformation to be a UK first.
Canada is losing its churches…
Can communities afford to let that happen?
131 derelict buildings recorded in Dublin city
It has increased 80% in the past four years.
Fate of historic Glasgow Vogue cinema decided after appeal
A decision has been made on whether or not it will be demolished.