Listed buildings come under 3 classifications Grade 1,
(being the highest), Grade 2* and Grade 2, these are seen as our most important
traditional properties.
From a country cottage to a Georgian town house, a Victorian vicarage to
a Tudor manor, the Building the Past directory has an extensive range of
manufacturers and suppliers of products suitable for the conservation, repair
and restoration of period houses and listed buildings. Also
included on the database is an extensive range of contractors and specialists
within the building conservation field, from architects and surveyors
to archaeoligists and insurance companies.
Listings are complete throughout England, Ireland, Scotland
and Wales, in fact you can find everything concerning building conservation
an period house restoration for the whole of the UK.Old buildings are
our past and need to be part of our future.
Protecting our built heritage by conserving our period
properties is our only way forward.
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Organisations such as English Heritage, The SPAB, the
Victorian and Georgian Society, all play their part in protecting our
Period Homes.
However in the most part, the protection of period and
listed buildings falls to the owners of the listed building, who along
with building conservation specialists and period house restorers all
play their part in protecting our old buildings.
Medieval, Tudor, Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian buildings
all form their part in our building heritage. Careful repair and maintenance
of these traditional buildings is the key to their survival,
The listed buildings gradings applied by English Heritage
can be applied to buildings including churches, schools, chapels, railway
stations, barn conversions, cottages, town houses, manor houses and castles
and even buildings such as phone boxes.
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