Alexander Ashworth Historic Buildings Consultants work with private owners, architects and public bodies to help create sustainable futures for historic and listed buildings and their collections. Often working as part of a multidisciplinary team, our advice increases the understanding, conservation and enjoyment of historic buildings and heritage assets.

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We provide planning and heritage advice to private, professional and public clients, including a range of historic building reports, such as Heritage Impact Statements, to support applications for planning and listed building consent. We design sensitive extensions, conversions and alterations to listed and historic structures using low carbon materials, like-for-like repairs, and traditional materials. Through archival research we help clients to increase their understanding of art as well as structures, helping to inform their conservation, appreciation and enjoyment.

  • To understand and articulate the significance of a heritage asset and the impact of any proposed changes, we carefully record its present structure and setting, and diligently research its past to reveal historical cause behind material effect.

    Our approach to historic building recording and reporting and heritage assessments is practical as well as academic, creating a foundation to guide conservation interventions and identify future potential.

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  • We design sensitive extensions, conversions and alterations to historic buildings using low carbon materials, like-for-like repairs, and traditional materials. Where period architectural details are required or missing, we draw on our extensive knowledge and large visual reference library to design historically accurate replacements, and oversee their crafting and installation.

  • From researching the history of houses and their occupants, to art provenance, our research grows understanding, informs conservation and enhances the appreciation and enjoyment of historic buildings and their collections.

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If you require a heritage impact assessment or advice on which historic building report is appropriate to your proposed scheme, please contact us for a free initial consultation.

  • "A very big thank you for what you have done – some extraordinary discoveries in your report. The house is now fully alive with an understanding of its past, and I love the evidence that the name see-sawed between Court and House which has clearly caused so much confusion with the neighbouring historic house until now. Again, thank you for the outstanding archival research and house history."

    John Dorrington Ward / Ward & Co (Building Conservation) Ltd

  • "The information you have unearthed on the picture is frankly marvellous. I am impressed you have discovered so much, especially when other researchers had found next to nothing. The owners of the picture will be thrilled!"

    Sam Parker Bowles / Art Consultant

  • "Your historic building report and heritage statement provided all of the information required by the planners and went much further by significantly expanding our knowledge and understanding of the house and its historic phases of development."

    William Wyndham / Grade I Listed Historic House Owner