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 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.
The Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group
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.
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.
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.
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.
Aberley and Delaney a company specialising in repointing.
Stone Roofing Association Does what it says.
Nimbus Conservation They conserve stone, not clouds.
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.
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.
L.V.Stevens Painters and decorators, because your house is worth it. Gloucestershire.
Huning Decorations A couple of stunning painters and decorators. Bath
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.
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.
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.
Tree House, Clapham An example of a house.
Lincolnshire
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