Historic Buildings & Areas Department
Buildings Archaeology
Pre-Construct Archaeology’s Historic Buildings and Areas Department offers a full range of services to enable clients to record and analyse the historic environment efficiently and economically.
We offer a fully integrated historic building recording service that covers all aspects of buildings archaeology.
Assessments
At the initial planning and design stage an assessment is often necessary. This will help to eliminate risk, target works more effectively and justify proposals to the planning authorities. We offer various types of assessment:
Area Assessment: A rapid, mostly desk based assessment, looking at the historic development of an area, with a brief examination of the buildings, features and their setting. This may include some photography and defines the character and surviving features of interest:
Building Assessment: This is similar to an Area Assessment, but focuses on a specific building, defining its architectural or historic interest, and thereby indicating which elements of a building are more and less sensitive to alteration.
Environmental Impact Assessment: This is similar to an area or building assessment, but includes the assessment of impacts of a proposed scheme on the historic environment.
Building Recording
A detailed archaeological record of a building (or group of buildings, or landscape, or part of a building) is often specified as a condition of the granting of Listed Building Consent, Conservation Area Consent or Planning Permission. It is also necessary when designing for conservation works. If required we also publish the results of our surveys.
We offer recording using the following methods:
Archival research.
Measured, electronic and photographic survey (large, medium and 35mm photography).
Historic building fabric and materials analysis and dating.
Watching brief on works.
Archaeological evaluation and excavation, where works affect below ground archaeology.
Graphics (using CAD and hand illustration).
An in depth knowledge of architectural history.
Other services
Architectural/buildings history.
Architectural/historical recording and analysis of building remains below ground, archaeologically and as ruins.
Historic buildings and building materials analysis for conservation plans.
Landscape Surveys, including urban townscapes, parkland, gardens and rural landscapes.
See also Survey Department
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