IHBC articles
This is a list of articles on Conservation Wiki (part of Designing Buildings Wiki) that were created by The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC).
- 6 Burlington Gardens.
- 100 Sustainable Scottish Buildings.
- 10,000 years of settlement on the Isle of Man.
- 2019 Gus Astley Student Awards.
- After the Fire: London churches in the age of Wren, Hooke, Hawksmoor and Gibbs.
- Alternative futures for heritage.
- An ethnographic approach to conservation.
- Appeals against urgent works notices.
- Are works to listed buildings demolition or alteration?
- Armitage Rigby.
- Brexit and UK research into cultural heritage.
- Britain's Lost Churches.
- Britain's historic paving.
- Bromley Hall evolution
- BS 7913: Guide to the Conservation of Historic Buildings.
- Building a Crossing Tower: a design for Rouen Cathedral of 1516.
- Building archaeology and conservation.
- Caithness Broch Project.
- Capacity-building grants support management of the historic environment.
- Car parking in conservation areas.
- Caring for war memorials.
- Castle Rushen Quarterdeck.
- Cautions or formal warnings in relation to potential listed building offences in England and Wales
- Chapels of England: buildings of protestant nonconformity.
- Characterising Neighbourhoods: exploring local assets of community significance.
- Charging for Listed Building Consent pre-application advice
- Charging for Listed Building Consent pre-application advice part 2
- Chester, conservation as positive action.
- Chinese renaissance architecture in China and Hong Kong.
- Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland.
- Civic Amenities Act.
- Coal holes, pavement lights, kerbs and utilities and wood-block paving.
- Community engagement in conservation.
- Compulsory purchase orders for listed buildings.
- Congestion in historic cities.
- Conservation areas and protecting open space.
- Conservation as action and reaction.
- Conservation, climbing and graffiti.
- Conservation in action at the Engine Shed.
- Conservation in Chester.
- Conservation in the heritage cities of Venice and Liverpool.
- Conservation in the Highlands and Islands.
- Conservation of Architectural Ironwork.
- Conservation of the historic environment
- Conservation officers in historic towns.
- Conservation practice survey 2016
- Conservative surgery in Edinburgh.
- Conserving Cornish harbours.
- Conserving Europeanness.
- Conserving Ruchill Hospital water tower.
- Crittall metal windows.
- Culture: Urban Future.
- Decision support for energy improvements.
- Douglas Sea Terminal Building.
- Dudley townscape heritage initiative.
- Education, training and standards for 21st century conservation professionals.
- Energy Efficiency and Comfort of Historic Buildings.
- Energy efficiency for the National Trust.
- Energy efficiency of traditional buildings.
- Energy-related retrofits of buildings and urban areas, a comparison between Germany and the UK.
- Finding stone to conserve historic buildings.
- Fitness for purpose in listing considerations.
- Fountaine Hospital Almshouse.
- Floors of the great medieval churches.
- Floorscape in art and design.
- Forced entry to listed buildings
- French drain.
- Future of seaside towns.
- Gardens Trust.
- Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust.
- Gustavo Giovannoni on planning in historic towns.
- Glossary of paving terms.
- Hardy Plants and Plantings for Repton and Late Georgian Gardens (1780-1820).
- Harmonising heritage in the Nordic countries.
- Harrogate in 1988.
- Heritage and Brexit.
- Heritage case studies from Scotland.
- Heritage, Conservation and Communities.
- Heritage perspectives on infrastructure.
- Heritage protection in Ireland.
- Historic England's charged-for services for listing certainty and pre-application planning conversations.
- Historic Environment Service Provider Recognition
- Historic high streets to receive £95m boost. 25.09.2019
- How to make conservation areas work.
- How to deal with retrofit risks.
- Howell Killick Partridge and Amis.
- Hot-mixed mortars: the new lime revival.
- IHBC articles
- IHBContext144
- IHBC Gus Astley Student Award 2016.
- IHBC Listed Buildings Prosecutions Database
- IHBC responds to conservation critique.
- IHBC response to revised NPPF.
- IHBC warn government on retrofitting older homes.
- Impact of heritage sector local authority funding cuts in south west England.
- Implementing the Heritage Protection Reforms.
- Inspecting historic fibrous plaster ceilings.
- Integrating conservation in multi-disciplinary consultancies.
- International heritage policy.
- Is conservation area policy fit for purpose 50 years on.
- Landscapes of human exploitation.
- Large-scale murals.
- Liveable Yangon: for whom?
- Local authority conservation specialists jobs market 2014
- Lord Leverhulme on Lewis and Harris.
- Loss of senior conservation staff and posts in England March 2010 to April 2011
- Making Magnificence: architects, stuccatori and the eighteenth-century interior.
- Malvern station, priory and other buildings.
- Manor Farmhouse listed building prosecution.
- Mortar analysis for specifiers.
- Municipal Dreams: the rise and fall of council housing.
- Mr Barry's War.
- Negotiating skills for conservation professionals
- New Design for Old Buildings.
- Notre Dame, a conservation perspective
- Nudge theory in relation to historic environment conservation
- Opening up at Covent Garden
- Penarth Alabaster
- Photographing Historic Buildings.
- Planning authority duty to provide specialist conservation advice
- Planning for sustainable historic places.
- Planning related applications for judicial review.
- Practical Building Conservation: Earth, Brick and Terracotta.
- Private rented sector regulations and traditional buildings.
- Prefab bungalows.
- Presenting to design review panels.
- Rebuilding and reconciliation in Homs.
- Reconciling conservation and sustainable development.
- Recording old industrial sites.
- Researching the history of Fountaine Hospital Almshouse.
- Restoring Charles Drake's concrete house.
- Restoring Clitheroe Pinnacle.
- Restoring Kew’s Temperate House
- Restoring Singapore shophouses
- Restoring the Palace of Westminster's ventilation system.
- Re-thatching a Hebridean blackhouse.
- Retrofit measures for historic buildings and cities.
- Richard Norman Shaw and the construction of Albert Hall Mansions.
- Saltaire.
- Scotland's Homes Fit for Heroes.
- Shared heritage from a social perspective.
- Shared space: people, traffic and historic townscape.
- Sharing local authority conservation services.
- Small vernacular agricultural buildings in Wales.
- Sourcing stone to repair Exeter Cathedral.
- Space, Hope and Brutalism.
- St James's Priory, Bristol.
- Southwark Council's programme of rooftop housing development. 9.10. 2019
- Stone consolidants.
- Summary of appeals at October 2014 under S.55 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.
- Tax Relief for Heritage: Lessons from abroad.
- Tecton structures at Dudley Zoo.
- The 18th century schooner Peggy.
- The architecture of the Isle of Man.
- The benefits of investing in heritage at risk.
- The British Mosque: an architectural and social history.
- The challenges and opportunities of conservation in the Highlands and Islands.
- The conservation challenge facing Ireland’s industrial heritage.
- The conservation of historic transport infrastructure.
- The Country House: material culture and consumption.
- The creative re-use of historic prisons.
- The Devetaki Project.
- The Each Home Counts report and traditional buildings.
- The Great Barn of 1425-27 at Harmondsworth, Middlesex.
- The green belt and historic buildings.
- The history of conservation areas.
- The history of listed buildings.
- The Hong Kong shophouse
- The Institute of Historic Building Conservation
- The King’s School, Worcester.
- The landscapes of Cambridge.
- The Livery Halls of the City of London.
- The lost house revisited.
- The Past and Future City.
- The TT races and the landscape.
- The Victorian Society's Top 10 Endangered buildings 2019. 30.9.2019
- The work of Delyn Borough Council in rehabilitating Greenfield Valley Heritage Park.
- Thermography for traditional buildings.
- Titanic Quarter.
- Towns and cities in history.
- Town and Country Planning Act 1968.
- Traditional construction materials on the Isle of Man.
- Traditional Homes of the South Downs National Park: an introduction.
- Understanding dampness.
- Understanding the performance of solid walls.
- Unlocking the Church: the lost secrets of Victorian sacred space.
- Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability.
- Urgent works in advance of a listed building consent
- Use of direct action in heritage enforcement cases in England
- Use of injunctions in heritage cases in England and Wales
- Use of railway carriages as holiday homes and permanent housing
- Valuing historic places
- VAT Policy for historic buildings.
- Violet Pinwill, woodcarver.
- Visby as a historic urban landscape.
- Walking interviews.
- Wall insulation and moisture risk.
- What data should be incorporated into Historic Environment Records.
- What makes a heritage-at-risk officer.
- Wimpole Gothic Tower conservation.
- Worcester timber buildings and the Commandery.
- Worcester’s Georgian churches.
- Worcester sculptor William Forsyth.
- Working with volunteers to care for heritage.
IHBC NewsBlog
Find an IHBC HESPR accredited professional using our map-based search
Find the office locations of HESPR members – IHBC’s Historic Environment Service Provider Recognition (HESPR) scheme – using our map-based facility.
The Liverpool Grade II ‘jewel’ that lies empty, derelict and vandalised
Liverpool landmark the Everton Library, a Grade II (GII) listed building that has been the focus of calls to restore it to its former glory continues to lie leaking, vandalised and derelict, when £5m could renovate the building, reports The Liverpool Echo.
Flintshire: Shotton steelworks’ John Summers building to be restored
A landmark on a list of the UK’s most endangered buildings, Shotton steelworks’ Grade II-listed general office and clock tower, is to be brought back to life in Flintshire.
Rochdale Market, Manchester, to close as trader numbers and revenue continue to fall
Rochdale Borough Council writes: Over the past year the number of traders regularly attending the market has halved and it is not financially viable.
IHBC supports Climate Heritage Network Global Launch: Edinburgh 24-25 Oct
The Climate Heritage Network (CHN) Global Launch is a two-day program devoted to urgently mobilizing the cultural heritage sector for climate action across the globe.
Brunel’s ‘other bridge’ in Bristol to be ‘saved with £62k grant
A swing bridge that was designed by Brunel is to be ‘saved’ with a £62,000 grant from Historic England.
Victorian Society announce Top 10 Most Endangered Buildings 2019
On September 13th the Victorian Society announced its Top 10 Endangered buildings list.
American Cities Then & Now: See How New York, Los Angeles & Detroit Look
An Open Culture article takes a look at the American Cities of New York, Los Angeles and Detroit comparing how they look now compared to the 1930s and 1940s.
Great Yarmouth’s Venetian Waterways to recapture former glories
Great Yarmouth’s 91 year old Venetian Waterways has been re-opened to the public following a £2.7 million regeneration project.
Fire engulfs Grade II-listed Horncliffe Mansion
BBC news has reported on how the Grade II-listed mansion, Horncliffe Mansion in Rawtenstall has been ‘completely gutted’ after a fire tore through the derelict building.