Lots of Links

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Organizations

Ancient Monuments Society

The Association for Environment Conscious Building

Dorset Centre for Rural Skills Blandford, Dorset.  Lots of interesting courses and consultancy in traditional and sustainable construction.

GreenSpec has loads of useful information if you want to build something greenish.

The Institute of Historic Building Conservation

The Last Straw

The Listed Property Owners Club could be very useful if you own a listed property.

SAVE Britains Heritage a charity that campaigns for threatened historic buildings.

South Yorkshire Energy Centre demonstrations and training in sustainable building materials and techniques.

Vernacular Architecture Group

The Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group

Wood

Carpenters' Fellowship aims to increase communication, training and sharing of knowledge amongst those interested in historic and new timber framed structures.

Carpenter Oak & Woodland Co. Ltd at Chippenham, Wiltshire and...

Radnor Timber Company Presteigne, Powys

Timber Routes in Bristol

Green Oak Structures Glastonbury, Somerset

The Green Oak Carpentry Company Petersfield, Hampshire, are some oak framing firms.

The Bespoke Woodworkers Group is a group of craftspeople based around the Tamar Valley.

The History and Construction of Medieval Timber-Framed Houses in England and Wales, a personal view.

Lime

Bleaklow  Makers of all sorts of lime products with an informative website. Derbyshire.

Hirst Conservation Suppliers of lime putty and such like and historic building consultants. Lincolnshire.

Lime Green Lots of useful information about lime products. Shropshire.

Mike Wye Associates The font of (almost) all knowledge about lime matters. Devon.

Railton Price Lime supplies and work in North Lincolnshire

The Traditional Lime Company Various lime products. Cheltenham

Philip Gaches Plasterer.  His website has some good articles.  Lincolnshire.

Mud

Back to Earth Cob Builders in Devon

Cob in Cornwall have some sound words about ecological building on their website.

Earth and Reed sell reed (and much more) but you can dig up your own earth.

Kevin McCabe Cob Building Specialists specialise in buildings made of, well, cob.

Wattle and Daub, Tony Graham's MSc dissertation on muddy buildings.  Excellent bedtime reading.

Straw

Amazon Nails first stop for straw bale building.

Straw Bale Building Association the main portal for information.

Strawbale a European dimension.

The Last Straw from across t'pond.

Sustainable Living-Quiet Earth Association West Wales straw bale house and more.

Bricks and Stone

Aberley and Delaney a company specialising in repointing.

Stone Roofing Association Does what it says.

Nimbus Conservation They conserve stone, not clouds.

Glass

Brilliant Glass An article about Brilliant Cut and Acid Etched Glass Decoration by Rodney Bender

English Antique Glass Nice colours. Redditch

Nicola Erdpresser and the Stained Glass Art Shop

Robin Kent an architectural practice, has some interesting articles such as this introduction to windows.

Metal

Architectural Ironmongery of Ross-on-Wye provide a good range of decent metal stuff

Britannia Architectural Metalwork Railings, stairs and fancy metal stuff. Conservation, restoration and fabrication.

Dorothea Restorations Conservation of architectural metalwork.  Derbyshire and Bristol.

Longbottom for all those iron rainwater goods whose size you can't match anywhere else.

Tuscanor Devon based supplier of Kirkpatrick's malleable whiteheart black iron.

Paint

L.V.Stevens Painters and decorators, because your house is worth it.  Gloucestershire.

Huning Decorations A couple of stunning painters and decorators.  Bath

Buying stuff

Earth and Reed A lovely shop selling natural materials for building and decorating.

Wares of Knutsford On line emporium of household and kitchen stuff.

Jon Snow Tools, A real tool maker

Home Interiors Directory Somewhere to do your e-shopping

Sustainable Building Supplies sells much of what you need to build a house. Sheffield.

Informative Websites

Altbau und Denkmalpflege Informationen or, putting that into English, The Conservation and Restoration Page, Konrad Fisher's extensive website from a German perspective.

Clandon Park an account of the restoration of some unique oak windows.

Jacob Butler, a joiner from Middleton Derbyshire, has some useful things to say about windows.

Looking at Buildings a Pevsner guide to the study of old buildings.

Low Impact Woodland Home  Wouldn't it be nice if we all lived like this.

Sadler Traditional Building has a website with a good introduction to looking after houses of a certain age.

Andy Marshall has a great collection of architectural photographs with perceptive comments.  A gallery that is an education to wander through.

Useful firms

Cliveden Conservation Biggish firm specialising in conservation of stone a plaster things.  Bath.

Construction Resources A shop in central London, round the back of Tate Modern, selling a great range of eco-building materials.  Very informative website.

Eco Arc is a chartered architects practice and environmental design consultancy committed to sustainable design.

Horgan and Webb  Repair, restoration and conservation of traditional buildings, particularly in west Wales.

Hutton+Rostron Environmental Investigations is a specialist scientific consultancy providing independent advice and investigation on building failures and building-related problems of all types, especially related to damp.

J.G.Matthews Conservation builders. Herfordshire.

Julian Brooks Bridport, Dorset

Prometheus Might be able to tell you what to do with a building.

Schärer Conservation  Conservators of buildings and architectural artefacts. North Wales.

Wheathills Conservation, wooden stuff, conservation, courses and events.

Whitworth Co-Partnership Architects and surveyors who know a bit about old buildings.

And also

Tree House, Clapham An example of a house.

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