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  • Historic Environment

    Repair and Maintenance Guidance

    Topics:
    • Historic environment, 
    • Listed buildings

    Guidance material to support those responsible for the maintenance of Listed Buildings.

    General Guidance

    • Historic Environment Fund guidance and application forms

    Technical Notes

    • Technical note: Chimneys, flues and hearths
    • Technical note: Doors
    • Technical note: Ferrous metals
    • Technical note: Fire protection
    • Technical note: Floodlighting of buildings
    • Technical note: Historic external wall finishes
    • Technical note: Historic internal wall finishes
    • Technical note: Installing burglar and security alarms or cameras on historic buildings
    • Technical note: Masonry walls
    • Technical note: Paint and historic buildings
    • Technical note: Repointing stone and brick
    • Technical note: Roof drainage
    • Technical note: Roofs
    • Technical note: Securing windows and doors
    • Technical note: Signs and signwriting
    • Technical note: Stonework repairs
    • Technical note: Ventilation

    Climate change

    Climate change affects us all. As custodians of the built environment for future generations, we must all consider the impacts of climate change on built heritage and the historic environment. HED has a short guide on Climate Change which includes resources and advice on dealing with the effects of climate change on the historic environment.

    • Heritage and climate change

    Useful guidance from partner organisations

    • Historic England: Fire Advice
    • Historic Telephone kiosks

    Related content

    • Buildings Database
    • Climate change risk assessment for historic building owners
    • Domestic chimneys and flues
    • Glossary of conservation terms
    • Heritage and Climate Change
    • Heritage at Risk
    • Historic Buildings Council
    • Historic Buildings Council (HBC) Publication Scheme and FOI
    • Historic Buildings of Local Importance
    • Historic Buildings Surveys
    • Historic Environment Division - Who we are and the difference we make
    • Historic Telephone Kiosks
    • Listed buildings
    • Listed Buildings - Repair and Maintenance
    • Listed buildings and fire
    • Maintenance Checklist: Bituminous Sheet Flat Roofs
    • Nominating a building for listing in Northern Ireland
    • Photographing historic buildings - notes for surveyors
    • The Curtilage of Listed Buildings in Northern Ireland
    • The Listing Process for historic buildings
    • Traditional or vernacular buildings
    • Work to Churches
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