Recent Projects
Historic Building Appraisals
Historic building appraisals provide a useful understanding of the history and significance of a building or site. Appraisals are often required as part of a planning or listed building application; PPS5 requires a suitable evidence base to be provided so that the significance of the asset and the impact of alterations can be assessed. Archive research, historic maps and information gathered from a site visit are all used to produce a comprehensive appraisal.
Examples include:
Shires House, Bedford, Bedfordshire
On behalf of Bedfordshire Primary Care Trust
Shires House is a grade II listed building forming part of the Bedford Hospital site. An appraisal was requested to assess the historic and architectural significance of the building. It’s grade II listed status was reviewed but de-listing the building was not considered to be appropriate in this instance
Wilshere Dacre and Westbury Schools, Hertfordshire.
Commissioned by Herts County Council
The reports were carried out to assess the architectural and historic interest of these schools and the alterations that had occurred since their construction.
The Wyck, Little Almshoe, Hertfordshire
Commissioned by AG Mitchell Architects on behalf of the owners
Historic building appraisal of a medieval hall house, requested as part of a planning and listed building consent application
The Old Vicarage, Flitton, Bedfordshire
Commissioned by Nicholas Tye Architects on behalf of the owners.
Historic building appraisal of a medieval hall house, requested as part of a planning and listed building consent application.
22 – 24 St Andrew Street, Hertford, Hertfordshire
Commissioned by the owners, Area Estates Ltd.
Historic building appraisal of a 15th / 16th century shop in the centre of Hertford with an open hall to the rear, requested as part of a planning and listed building consent application to convert the rear and upper floors into residential use.
John Faulkner School, Sawston, Cambridgeshire
Commissioned by the owners, South Cambridgeshire District Council.
Historic building appraisal was conducted on buildings at the John Falkner Infant School as part of proposals for development of the site. It comprised three Victorian red and yellow brick school buildings dating from 1866, 1876 and 1882, and a 17th century dovecote and mid 19th century cob / clay lump barn.
Nags Head Public House, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire
Commissioned by Andrew Newbury of McMullen & Sons on behalf of McMullen & Sons, the owners.
Historic building appraisal of a purpose-built public house designed by E B Musman in 1936 with surviving Art Deco features, requested as part of a planning and listed building consent application for the significant structural re-modelling of the interior space.
The Bell Hotel, St Albans, Hertfordshire
Commissioned by Albion Archaeology on behalf of the owners as part of a wider archaeological impact assessment.
Historic building appraisal of a late 18th – early 19th century public house with 14th - 16th century origins and later additions including a mid-late 19th century rear wing, requested in advance of a planning application to demolish and re-developed the buildings at rear of the site.