I am a Masters qualified archaeologist with a specialism in recording timber-framed and other historic buildings. I recorded my first timber-frame in 1986 taught by John McCann. I also took the Analysing and Recording Historic Buildings Course at Oxford University as part of my Diploma in Field Archaeology.
From 1991 to 2007 I worked for the Historic Environment Branch of Essex County Council in the Historic Buildings and Archaeology Sections. I have a large portfolio of published work in academic journals, popular books, exhibitions and websites as well as grey literature held in the SMR. My Masters thesis was on 'Historic Ironwork Repairs to Timber-framed Buildings'.
Since May 2007 I have offered my services as a freelance investigator of historic buildings in the Eastern Region including Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. I am based in Gosfield, North-west Essex and work for planners, developers, private individuals, archaeologists and anyone who can benefit from my services.
I can offer a complete service from a walk-round survey, drawn site survey, condition survey, fabric analysis to photography, report writing, social and documented history as well as producing a frame drawing and using the latest technology, a 3D computer generated fly-through model.
Contact
me by e-mail to discuss your project. Whether it is for planning purposes
or for your own interest I will be pleased to record your property.
I am listed on Essex County Council's list
of investigators. Based in Gosfield, NW Essex.
Telephone 0794 2010703. Projects are charged at £30/hour.
Recent
Historic Buildings Projects (May 2007- present) Latest ones first.
Click here for barn conversion
projects.
Interesting pub with inserted
sub-basement and raised floors. Not as old as it looks. C18th. Great Saling.
Mediaeval Hall house with
inserted floors and attics, Georgian staircases. Stansfield, Suffolk.
C17th farmhouse with raking
queen strut roof. Hook End.
Stables block erected
in c.1923 using concrete technology and local bricks. Sible Hedingham.
C19th
timber-framed house originally presumed earlier. Bell Common, Epping.
C19th Stables with high
quality second fit of horse stalls and mangers. Description and analysis report.
Design of my own timber-framed
house pictured at Xmas 2010 on its first birthday.
c. 1540. Magnificent Anne
of Cleves Barn. Description and Analysis Report. Great Bardfield.
C15th house described
as a granary. Description and Analysis Report. Ovington.
1806 Summerhouse portico
possibly by Joseph Bonomi the Elder. Description and Analysis Report. Stapleford
Tawney.
St Mary's Church. Timber decay testing of the C14th spire and analysis of
the carpentry marks.Gt Baddow.
Entire livery including
1799 brick barn built by the DuCane family. Description and Analysis Report.
Great Braxted.
House
and shops. Originally long walled jetty house of early 1500's converted to
Georgian style town house in mid C19th. Extensive C20th alterations. Survey,
analysis and impact justification statement to create
four apartments from two existing. Gt Clacton.
Range of C18th barns with mediaeval origins and C19th remodelling. Much repaired
after damage from explosion! Drawn and photographic survey to RCHME Level
3 for planning consent. Waltham Abbey.
Spains Hall, Finchingfield. Recording, analysis and interpretation of entire
house. Over 50 rooms of an extensive C17th Great House with C15th origins,
Georgian and Victorian additions and C20th refinements. Project ongoing. 33,000
word thesis and 85 record cards.
C17th Maltings / Coach House. Survey,
analysis and impact justification statement for new extension and rooms in
the roof. Little
Baddow.
C15th/C16th
hall house with two cross-wings and original crown posts. C18th/C19th additions
then connected to another cross-wing. Castle Hedingham.
C15th in-line hall house remodelled into a barn in C19th. Gt Burstead. Survey,
analysis and impact justification statement for
successful appeal.
C16th house with C19th cottage extensions in Great Yeldham.
Public House listed as C16th but actually C15th with massive C18th/C19th additions.Castle
Hedingham.
Two houses originally a C16th open hall house with C16th and C18th insertions
and new floors. Castle Hedingham.
House and cottage, originally long wall jettied
town house early C16th. Coggeshall.
Seven farm buildings including
a MC18th former stables with mansard roof, a Boulton and Paul prefabricated
steel barn, C19th stables and cattle sheds. Description and Analysis Report
to discharge a planning condition for conversion into a commercial use including
an essay on Victorian High Farming. Bardfield, Essex.
Napoleonic War Era grain
barn with C19th outshot recorded for conversion to holiday lets. Creeksea.
Small cottage in Mid-Suffolk
which is a most likely a mediaeval small aisled hall with the aisles removed
in the C17th. Bedingfield.
Lobby entry house converted to a Georgian house and then tenanted accommodation.
Later used by RAF as dormitory. High Beech.
Multi-phase stone building. Description and Analysis Report. Cross Hands Hotel,
Old Sodbury.
C19th Granary and implement shed. Description and Analysis Report. Bentfield
Bury.
c.1800 Barn and five other
farm buildings. Description and Analysis Report.
Edney Common.
C19th house built as a
wing to main mansion. Gutted in the 1950's and a garage and stairtower added.
Description and Analysis Report. Braintree.
Outbuildings for a cottage
conversion. All C20th, most post 1950. Description and Analysis Report. Waltham
Abbey.
Fireplace in a c1830 pub.
It is in fact entirely fake except for the brickwork. Surrounds are painted
plywood. Description and Analysis Report. Bury St Edmunds.
Magnificent Georgian house
with C16th timber-frame core and Victorian extensions. Description and Analysis
Report. Sawbridgeworth.
C16th house extended in
the C17th. Fascinating original carpenters marks. Private commission. Brundish.
c.1750 Mansard hipped
stable block later converted to a piggery. Description and Analysis Report.
Debden.
c.1800 Barn and Cart Lodge
converted to an aisled barn. Description and Analysis Report. Nr Writtle.
C15th Hall House with
added C16th cross-wing and inserted first floor. Considerable Georgian rebuild.
Description and Analysis Report. Shalford.
Grade I Listed London
Pub. Photographic repairs schedule for historic fabric.
Timber-framed forge or
wheelwrights shop attached to rear of C17th Coaching Inn. Ongar. Description
and Analysis Report.
C15th Hall House with
intact crown post roof in original cross-wing. Ramsden Heath. Description
and Analysis Report
Description and Analysis
Report and Impact Justification Report for renovation of a C15th timber-framed
house later split into cottages. Nine
Ashes.
Survey drawings of part
of a range of C16th shops as part of a renovation scheme. Witham.
1930's Garage and Toilet
Block built by the local brickworks. Recorded for demolition to improve Pub
facilities.
Description and Analysis
Report and Impact Justification Report for internal and external changes to
a 1830's Pub in Colchester.
Victorian designer gatehouse
recorded for a Description and Analysis Report to discharge a planning condition
for conversion into a luxury house. Hertfordshire.
1902 stable block recorded
for a Description and Analysis Report to discharge a planning condition for
conversion into luxury apartments. Hertfordshire.
Scaled photomontage for a new house in the garden of a listed building (house not visible). Brentwood, Essex.
Burnt out public house
built in the early C19th using the offset butt purlin roof of a C17th barn
or house. Recorded for English Heritage consent. Margaretting.
