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).
- Alterations to listed buildings guidance note. January 2021.
- Conservation Engineering: a collection of casework, Volume 1. January 2021.
- The Co-op: horse and cart to hypermarket. January 2021.
- CPP APPG holds first public inquiry. January 2021.
- The changing face of the English pub. January 2021.
- Industrial Heritage Protection and Redevelopment. December 2020
- Incredible Edible Todmorden. December 2020
- Significance and heritage protection at Cambridge Market. December 2020
- Cambridge market. December 2020
- The Pattern of Traditional Roofing. November 2020
- Hull. November 2020
- The decline and revival of food markets. November 2020
- Traditional buildings health check - pilot project review. November 2020
- CIAT shares IHBC research into LA conservation service capacity. November 2020.
- Negotiating listed building consent. November 2020
- Technical Paper 32 – A Data Driven Approach to Understanding Historic Mortars in Scotland. November 2020
- The Walled City Lighting Project. November 2020
- Repairing historic buildings. November 2020
- Productive placemaking. November 2020
- Local Authority Conservation Staffing Resources in England 2020. October 2020
- 2020 Vision: Planning in a post-COVID world. October 2020
- Astley Castle. October 2020
- Heritage at risk register 2020. October 2020
- Characterising and capturing the diversity of place. October 2020
- Digital techniques for heritage restoration. October 2020
- DCMS Culture Secretary comments on HM Government position on contested heritage. October 2020.
- Protecting cultural heritage during armed conflict. October 2020
- Earthquakes and the seismic strengthening of churches. September 2020
- Preparing traditional buildings for climate change. September 2020.
- Skara Brae and Scotland's dynamic coast. September 2020.
- Heritage risk management strategies in the EU. September 2020.
- New UK Conservation, People and Places APPG launches. September 2020.
- IHBC CREATIVE Conservation Fund. September 2020.
- The Manor House, Bracondale. August 2020
- The Scots reed thatching tradition. August 2020
- Herbert Rowse. August 2020
- The repair and restoration of Manchester Town Hall. August 2020
- Building Construction in Britain from 600AD to 1890. August 2020
- Repairing the Hamilton Monument. August 2020
- Kempe: the life, art and legacy of Charles Eamer Kempe. August 2020
- Birkenhead. August 2020
- Modernist Architecture: international concepts come to Britain. August 2020
- Conserving Burns Monument. August 2020
- Living Buildings. Architectural Conservation: philosophy, principles and practice. July 2020
- Curated decay. July 2020
- Assessing moisture in porous building materials. July 2020
- Restoration Stories: patina and paint in old London houses. July 2020
- London Borough of Enfield's heritage strategy. July 2020
- Walled kitchen gardens of the Isle of Wight. July 2020
- A heritage partnership agreement for King's Cross Station. July 2020
- IHBC and ALGAO sign Memorandum of Understanding. June 2020.
- Art Deco Britain: buildings of the interwar years. June 2020
- Ireland's climate change sectoral adaptation plan. June 2020
- Securing Urban Heritage: agents, access, and securitization. June 2020
- The role of architectural conservation officers in the Republic of Ireland, 2000-2020. June 2020
- No Little Plans: How government built America's wealth and infrastructure. June 2020
- Conservation and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. June 2020
- Modernist Estates - Europe: the buildings and the people who live in them today. June 2020
- Restoration v repair. June 2020
- British Embassies: Their diplomatic and architectural history. May 2020
- The Buildings of Ireland. May 2020
- Bandstands: pavilions for music, entertainment, and leisure. May 2020
- 14 Henrietta Street Museum. May 2020
- Retrofit and traditional approaches to comfort. May 2020
- Making Dystopia. May 2020
- The development of Irish building conservation. May 2020
- Lewes Neighbourhood Plan. May 2020
- Historic steel-framed windows. May 2020
- 100 years of the Bauhaus. May 2020
- FWB and Mary Charles Chartered Architects. May 2020
- The Stone Restoration Handbook. Apr 2020
- Milton Keynes. Apr 2020
- Harlow new town. Apr 2020
- Garden communities and the historic environment. Apr 2020
- Cities of the North. Apr 2020
- New towns heritage. Apr 2020
- French new towns. Mar 2020
- Listing of Sainsbury's supermarket in Camden Town. Mar 2020
- Post-war new towns in Germany. Mar 2020
- Cynical vandalism of a deserted medieval village in Withybrook. Feb 2020
- Bletchley Park restoration. Jan 2020
- Historical versus Modern: Identity through imitation. Jan 2020
- Sweeping building safety measures announced. Jan 2020
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Jan 2020
- Can the heritage of Europe help to integrate the UK. Dec 2019
- Heritage value. Dec 2019
- Local Plan Route Mapper and toolkit. Dec 2019
- Marketing heritage assets. Dec 2019
- Methodology for moisture investigations in traditional buildings. Dec 2019
- Towards a radical eclecticism. Dec 2019
- A review of Scotland's historic lighthouses. Nov 2019
- Britain's Best Real Heritage Pubs. Nov 2019
- French new towns. Nov 2019
- Historic Cities: issues in urban conservation. Nov 2019
- Impact of independent museums locally and nationally. Nov 2019
- JW Evans silverware factory. Nov 2019
- New architecture of Scotland’s west coast. Nov 2019
- Replacing lanterns and overthrows in Great Pulteney Street. Nov 2019
- Scotland’s new guide on managing climate-change risk to historic sites. Nov 2019
- Scottish government intervention in market-led regeneration. Nov 2019
- Socialist realism in a post-war Czechoslovak new town. Nov 2019
- Strategic urban design and the conservation team. Nov 2019
- The redevelopment of Leicester's sewerage system by Joseph Gordon. Nov 2019
- United Free Church of Scotland: Design for Manses in the Highland Districts. Nov 2019
- Engaging communities in our Highlands and Islands. Oct 2019
- Inspiring creativity in heritage and the creative industries. Oct 2019
- Lord Leverhulme on Lewis and Harris. Oct 2019
- Orkney gables. Oct 2019
- Researching the history of Fountaine Hospital Almshouse. Oct 2019
- Re-thatching a Hebridean blackhouse. Oct 2019
- Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings. Oct 2019
- Southwark Council's programme of rooftop housing development. Oct 2019
- Unlocking the Church: the lost secrets of Victorian sacred space. Oct 2019
- 6 Burlington Gardens. Sep 2019
- Boom Cities: architect-planners and the politics of urban renewal in 1960s Britain. Sep 2019
- Caithness Broch Project. Sep 2019
- Conservation in the Highlands and Islands. Sep 2019
- Heritage case studies from Scotland. Sep 2019
- Historic high streets to receive £95m boost. Sep 2019
- Old Buildings, New Architecture. Sep 2019
- PAS 2035. Sep 2019
- Prefab bungalows. Sep 2019
- The challenges and opportunities of conservation in the Highlands and Islands. Sep 2019
- The iron roof at the Albert Dock. Sep 2019
- The Livery Halls of the City of London. Sep 2019
- The Victorian Society's Top 10 Endangered buildings 2019. Sep 2019
- The World Recast: 70 buildings from 70 years of Concrete Quarterly. Sep 2019
- War memorials. Sep 2019
- Caring for war memorials. Aug 2019
- Characterising Neighbourhoods: exploring local assets of community significance. Aug 2019
- Conservation of Architectural Ironwork. Aug 2019
- Conserving Europeanness. Aug 2019
- Fountaine Hospital Almshouse. Aug 2019
- Opening up at Covent Garden. Aug 2019
- The British Mosque: an architectural and social history. Aug 2019
- Visby as a historic urban landscape. Aug 2019
- A Steeplejack's View of Life. Jul 2019
- An art deco cinema on wartime Orkney. Jul 2019
- Brexit and UK research into cultural heritage. Jul 2019
- Conserving structures in historic designed landscapes. Jul 2019
- Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust. Jul 2019
- Harmonising heritage in the Nordic countries. Jul 2019
- Municipal Dreams: the rise and fall of council housing. Jul 2019
- Post-war rebuilding. Jul 2019
- Royal Ordnance Factories. Jul 2019
- Seashaken Houses: A lighthouse history from Eddystone to Fastnet. Jul 2019
- Second world war heritage at sea. Jul 2019
- The Dukes of Normandy and the second world war. Jul 2019
- The New Tenement: residences in the inner city since 1970. Jul 2019
- Waterfronts Revisited: European ports in a historic and global perspective. Jul 2019
- 2019 Gus Astley Student Awards. Jun 2019
- Hardy Plants and Plantings for Repton and Late Georgian Gardens (1780-1820). Jun 2019
- Heritage and Brexit. Jun 2019
- Heritage protection in Ireland. Jun 2019
- International heritage policy. Jun 2019
- New Design for Old Buildings. Jun 2019
- Conservation in action at the Engine Shed. May 2019
- Conserving and managing historic designed landscapes. May 2019
- Dorchester on Thames neighbourhood development plan. May 2019
- Durham Cathedral's Open Treasure project. May 2019
- England's Railway Heritage from the Air. May 2019
- Our Town Hall, Manchester. May 2019
- Shared heritage from a social perspective. May 2019
- Shared space: people, traffic and historic townscape. May 2019
- Sharing local authority conservation services. May 2019
- Technology in the Country House. May 2019
- The Story of Kensington Palace. May 2019
- Titanic Quarter. May 2019
- Value in the view: conserving historic urban views. May 2019
- Future of seaside towns. Apr 2019
- Notre Dame, a conservation perspective. Apr 2019
- Chapels of England: buildings of protestant nonconformity. Mar 2019
- Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland. Mar 2019
- Crittall metal windows. Mar 2019
- Culture: Urban Future. Mar 2019
- Port Sunlight's local listed building order. Mar 2019
- The benefits of investing in heritage at risk. Mar 2019
- The Devetaki Project. Mar 2019
- Conservation, climbing and graffiti. Feb 2019
- Walking interviews. Feb 2019
- Working with volunteers to care for heritage. Feb 2019
- Alternative futures for heritage. Jan 2019
- Building a Crossing Tower: a design for Rouen Cathedral of 1516. Jan 2019
- The Past and Future City. Jan 2019
- Sourcing stone to repair Exeter Cathedral. Sept 2018
- An ethnographic approach to conservation. Dec 2018
- Douglas Sea Terminal Building. Dec 2018
- Impact of heritage sector local authority funding cuts in south west England. Dec 2018
- Restoring the Palace of Westminster's ventilation system. Dec 2018
- The 18th century schooner Peggy. Dec 2018
- The Great Barn of 1425-27 at Harmondsworth, Middlesex. Dec 2018
- Hot-mixed mortars: the new lime revival. Nov 2018
- Inspecting historic fibrous plaster ceilings. Nov 2018
- The lost house revisited. Nov 2018
- Town and Country Planning Act 1968. Nov 2018
- Making Magnificence: architects, stuccatori and the eighteenth-century interior. Oct 2018
- Mortar analysis for specifiers. Oct 2018
- Stone consolidants. Oct 2018
- 100 Sustainable Scottish Buildings. Sep 2018
- Are works to listed buildings demolition or alteration?. Sep 2018
- Finding stone to conserve historic buildings. Sep 2018
- Armitage Rigby. Aug 2018
- Building archaeology and conservation. Aug 2018
- Castle Rushen Quarterdeck. Aug 2018
- Conservation in the heritage cities of Venice and Liverpool. Aug 2018
- IHBC response to revised NPPF. Jul 2018
- St James's Priory, Bristol. Jul 2018
- The architecture of the Isle of Man. Jul 2018
- The TT races and the landscape. Jul 2018
- Traditional construction materials on the Isle of Man. Jul 2018
- 10,000 years of settlement on the Isle of Man. Jun 2018
- Floorscape in art and design. Jun 2018
- Practical Building Conservation: Earth, Brick and Terracotta. Jun 2018
- Private rented sector regulations and traditional buildings. Jun 2018
- Violet Pinwill, woodcarver. Jun 2018
- Glossary of paving terms. May 2018
- Gustavo Giovannoni on planning in historic towns. May 2018
- Howell Killick Partridge and Amis. May 2018
- Penarth Alabaster. May 2018
- Coal holes, pavement lights, kerbs and utilities and wood-block paving. Apr 2018
- Floors of the great medieval churches. Apr 2018
- IHBC responds to conservation critique. Apr 2018
- Photographing Historic Buildings. Apr 2018
- Britain's historic paving. Mar 2018
- Britain's Lost Churches. Mar 2018
- Heritage, Conservation and Communities. Mar 2018
- The history of listed buildings. Mar 2018
- Congestion in historic cities. Feb 2018
- The conservation of historic transport infrastructure. Feb 2018
- The landscapes of Cambridge. Feb 2018
- Traditional Homes of the South Downs National Park: an introduction. Feb 2018
- Energy Efficiency and Comfort of Historic Buildings. Jan 2018
- The Country House: material culture and consumption. Jan 2018
- Towns and cities in history. Jan 2018
- Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability. Jan 2018
- What makes a heritage-at-risk officer. Jan 2018
- Conservative surgery in Edinburgh. Dec 2017
- Rebuilding and reconciliation in Homs. Dec 2017
- The creative re-use of historic prisons. Dec 2017
- Conserving Ruchill Hospital water tower. Nov 2017
- IHBC warn government on retrofitting older homes. Nov 2017
- Liveable Yangon: for whom?. Nov 2017
- Reconciling conservation and sustainable development. Nov 2017
- The green belt and historic buildings. Nov 2017
- Car parking in conservation areas. Oct 2017
- Conservation as action and reaction. Oct 2017
- Planning for sustainable historic places. Oct 2017
- Small vernacular agricultural buildings in Wales. Oct 2017
- Space, Hope and Brutalism. Oct 2017
- Wimpole Gothic Tower conservation. Oct 2017
- Gardens Trust. Sep 2017
- Thermography for traditional buildings. Sep 2017
- Understanding the performance of solid walls. Sep 2017
- Energy efficiency for the National Trust. Aug 2017
- Energy-related retrofits of buildings and urban areas, a comparison between Germany and the UK. Aug 2017
- How to deal with retrofit risks. Aug 2017
- Understanding dampness. Aug 2017
- Fitness for purpose in listing considerations. Jul 2017
- Harrogate in 1988. Jul 2017
- Mr Barry's War. Jul 2017
- Scotland's Homes Fit for Heroes. Jul 2017
- The Each Home Counts report and traditional buildings. Jul 2017
- Capacity-building grants support management of the historic environment. Jun 2017
- Community engagement in conservation. Jun 2017
- Conservation areas and protecting open space. Jun 2017
- How to make conservation areas work. Jun 2017
- Is conservation area policy fit for purpose 50 years on. Jun 2017
- Restoring Clitheroe Pinnacle. Jun 2017
- After the Fire: London churches in the age of Wren, Hooke, Hawksmoor and Gibbs. May 2017
- Chester, conservation as positive action. May 2017
- Civic Amenities Act. May 2017
- Compulsory purchase orders for listed buildings. May 2017
- Conservation in Chester. May 2017
- Conserving Cornish harbours. May 2017
- Education, training and standards for 21st century conservation professionals. May 2017
- Heritage perspectives on infrastructure. May 2017
- Integrating conservation in multi-disciplinary consultancies. May 2017
- Manor Farmhouse listed building prosecution. May 2017
- Recording old industrial sites. May 2017
- The history of conservation areas. May 2017
- The work of Delyn Borough Council in rehabilitating Greenfield Valley Heritage Park. May 2017
- Wall insulation and moisture risk. May 2017
- The conservation challenge facing Ireland’s industrial heritage. Mar 2017
- Energy efficiency of traditional buildings. Feb 2017
- IHBC Gus Astley Student Award 2016. Dec 2016
- Large-scale murals. Dec 2016
- Dudley townscape heritage initiative. Oct 2016
- Historic England's charged-for services for listing certainty and pre-application planning conversations. Oct 2016
- Malvern station, priory and other buildings. Oct 2016
- Nudge theory in relation to historic environment conservation. Oct 2016
- Saltaire. Oct 2016
- Tecton structures at Dudley Zoo. Oct 2016
- The King’s School, Worcester. Oct 2016
- Worcester sculptor William Forsyth. Oct 2016
- Worcester timber buildings and the Commandery. Oct 2016
- Worcester’s Georgian churches. Oct 2016
- Bromley Hall evolution. Sep 2016
- BS 7913: Guide to the Conservation of Historic Buildings. Sep 2016
- Conservation officers in historic towns. Sep 2016
- Landscapes of human exploitation. Sep 2016
- Restoring Charles Drake's concrete house. Sep 2016
- Restoring Singapore shophouses. Sep 2016
- Richard Norman Shaw and the construction of Albert Hall Mansions. Sep 2016
- Use of railway carriages as holiday homes and permanent housing. Sep 2016
- Chinese renaissance architecture in China and Hong Kong. Aug 2016
- Decision support for energy improvements. Aug 2016
- Implementing the Heritage Protection Reforms. Aug 2016
- Retrofit measures for historic buildings and cities. Aug 2016
- The Hong Kong shophouse. Aug 2016
- Milton Keynes 2050 vision. Jul 2016
- Appeals against urgent works notices. Jun 2016
- Cautions or formal warnings in relation to potential listed building offences in England and Wales. Jun 2016
- Charging for Listed Building Consent pre-application advice part 2. Jun 2016
- Charging for Listed Building Consent pre-application advice. Jun 2016
- Conservation practice survey 2016. Jun 2016
- Forced entry to listed buildings. Jun 2016
- French drain. Jun 2016
- Historic Environment Service Provider Recognition. Jun 2016
- IHBC Context 144. Jun 2016
- IHBC Listed Buildings Prosecutions Database. Jun 2016
- Local authority conservation specialists jobs market 2014. Jun 2016
- Loss of senior conservation staff and posts in England March 2010 to April 2011. Jun 2016
- Negotiating skills for conservation professionals. Jun 2016
- Planning authority duty to provide specialist conservation advice. Jun 2016
- Planning related applications for judicial review. Jun 2016
- Presenting to design review panels. Jun 2016
- Restoring Kew's Temperate House. Jun 2016
- Summary of appeals at October 2014 under S.55 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. Jun 2016
- Tax Relief for Heritage: Lessons from abroad. Jun 2016
- Urgent works in advance of a listed building consent. Jun 2016
- Use of direct action in heritage enforcement cases in England. Jun 2016
- Use of injunctions in heritage cases in England and Wales. Jun 2016
- Valuing historic places. Jun 2016
- VAT Policy for historic buildings. Jun 2016
- What data should be incorporated into Historic Environment Records. Jun 2016
- Conservation of the historic environment. Dec 2015
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IHBC NewsBlog
Historic Photographer of the Year 2020 Winners Announced
The awards showcase the very best historic places and cultural sites from across the globe.
IHBC Launches new ‘Guidance Note’ on Alterations to Listed Buildings
The IHBC’s latest Toolbox Guidance Note, on ‘Alterations to Listed Buildings’ has been issued following UK-wide consultation.
Caithness Iron Age Stone Tower Conserved
The ruins of Ousdale Burn Broch, north of Helmsdale in Caithness, had fallen into further disrepair over the past 130 years.
The American Air Museum at Duxford has been listed Grade II*
Europe’s largest air museum and Britain’s best-preserved Second World War airfield – has been included in Grade II* listing, even though technically too recent.
West Dean College wins Sussex Heritage Trust Award 2020 for Roof Restoration
The College of Arts and Conservation has won the award for a for a project which provides or improves facilities for the community, including a £5.8M restoration of the College’s 126-year-old roof.
Stowe North Hall & WMF: A Step Closer to Completion
Completion of the restoration of Stowe House’s North Hall, largely funded by World Monuments Fund (WMF), came a step closer this summer with the installation of a statue of Mercury opposite the imposing Laocoön group installed last year.
IHBC CREATIVE Conservation Fund launched
The CREATIVE Conservation Fund helps the IHBC generate and distribute funds exclusively to deserving causes in built and historic environment conservation.
The tunnel near Plymouth with a nuclear secret
For years, there have been rumours whispered around Plymouth and Cornwall about so-called ‘nuclear tunnels’ that exist beneath the Tamar Valley.
141 bridges with ‘very poor’ rating remain open to avoid disruption
Just under half of England’s busiest bridges are severely defected or damaged, but have remained open due to concerns about an influx of traffic should repairs be ordered, it has been revealed.
IHBC’s new issue of 'Context' released, Oxford themed
The issue focusses on the future of an historic city – Oxford – and includes an introduction by Layla Moran MP, Chair of the new APPG on Conservation, People and Places which has the IHBC as its Secretariat.