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Historic and Significant Property

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It is our privilege at JHWalter from time to time to work with property which has some historic significance. We see this both as an exciting opportunity to be savoured and as a serious responsibility. It is our aim is to ensure that our advice and actions are but a light touch accepting that against the buildings life our passing is brief moment. Sadly when we are instructed some have fallen out of use and into serious disrepair and we must assist to find a new beneficial use by working closely with planners conservationists and the heritage industry. However it is a true delight to return a few years later and find the building with a new lease of life. The style of our buildings have been influenced by the development of the professions in the construction industry as first there were builders, then craftsmen followed by surveyors and finally architects.

• From Medieval times buildings were of the locally available materials and style and quality reflected the occupiers wealth and power - vernacular construction.
• From 1700 master craftsmen worked on larger buildings and applied some aesthetic design – polite vernacular construction.
• From 1800 architects emerged and developed architectural styles.

• 1400 to 1500 Vernacular and Polite Vernacular local builders use local materials and techniques.
• 1500 to 1600 Tudor. in 1574 bricks standardised. Glass is very expensive.
• 1600 to 1700 Jacobean. Fire of London leads to new national standards.French and Dutch influence.
• 1700 to 1800 Georgian. Classic influence from Rome and Greece. UK produces own pantiles and Welsh slate popular. Industrial revolution provides uniform materials. Cylinder glass cheaper.
• 1800 to 1900 Victorian and Edwardian. Massed produced materials. Emergence of the middle class. Cavity walls and damp proof courses introduced. Terrace housing around industrial areas. Cement mortar starts to replace lime.
• 1900 to date. Development of the architectural profession Introduction of a national system of Town and Country Planning. Concrete construction . Flat roofs. Rebuilding after world war 2. The National Grid makes electricity widely available from 1926.

Listing System

English Heritage (www.english-heritage.org.uk) are responsible for the listing of the nations buildings. Criteria are set out in Circular 01/07: Revisions to Principles of Selection for Listed Buildings

• Grade I - Buildings are of Exceptional Interest
• Grade II* - Buildings are Particularly Important Buildings of more than Special Interest
• Grade II - Buildings are of Special Interest, warranting every effort to preserve them.

Architectural Interest

To be of special architectural interest a building must be of importance in its architectural design, decoration or craftsmanship; special interest may also apply to nationally important examples of particular building types and techniques (e.g. buildings displaying technological innovation or virtuosity) and significant plan forms.

Historic Interest

To be of special historic interest a building must illustrate important aspects of the nation’s social, economic, cultural, or military history and/or have close historical associations with nationally important people. There should normally be some quality of interest in the physical fabric of the building itself to justify the statutory protection afforded by listing.

• Before 1700, all buildings that contain a significant proportion of their original fabric are listed;
• From 1700 to 1840, most buildings are listed;
• After 1840, because of the greatly increased number of buildings erected and the much larger numbers that have survived, progressively greater selection is necessary;
• Buildings less than 30 years old are normally listed only if they are of outstanding quality and under threat.

Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (www.spab.org.uk) was founded by William Morris in 1877 to counter act the highly destructive ‘restoration’ of medieval buildings being practised by many Victorian architects. Today it is the largest, oldest and most technically expert national pressure group fighting to save old buildings from decay, demolition and damage. The SPAB advises, educates and campaigns. Members include many of the leading conservation practitioners as well as homeowners, living in houses spanning all historical periods, and those who simply care about old buildings. As a result of the society’s work, thousands of historic buildings – from castles to cottages, churches to mills – survive which otherwise would have been lost, mutilated or badly repaired.

Images of England

Images of England (www.imagesofengland.org.uk) is a snapshot of the buildings listed at the turn of the millennium. It is a groundbreaking heritage initiative run by the National Monuments Record (NMR), the public archive of English Heritage. The project aims to create a 'point in time' photographic record of every listed building in England. Each of the images are being posted alongside existing list descriptions for each building to create one of the largest free digital image libraries in the world with over 300,000 images when complete.

Below is an example of Historic and Significant Property that JHWalter has dealt with in the past.

  • West Lindsey, Lincolnshire Grade II

    Red brick in English bond, pantile roof with one raised brick coped gable, and 2 raised brick coped shaped gables with deep kneelers to the principal range, 2 gable and 1 axial ridge stacks. L-plan, lobby entry. 2 storey plus garrets 8 bay front, with plinth, dentillated first floor band and corbelled out eaves course. Off-centre half glazed C20 door with overlight having moulded brick surround with collared pilasters and pediment, in which is set a rectangular brick datestone "1695". The first floor band rises over the doorcase. To either side of the door are pairs of glazing bar sashes. Beyond to the right is a second door, C20 glazed, with a flat arched head, contained in a moulded brick surround, pilasters and entablature. Beyond again is a further pair of sashes. All ground floor windows have flat brick arched heads. To first floor are 6 sashes arranged in pairs, with over the principal door 2 smaller sashes. To left of front is a 2 bay advanced and gabled block with plinth and band. To first floor only are 2 sashes. The first floor band and decorative eaves course continue across the road elevation which has 3 sashes to ground floor, 2 to first floor and one small surviving garret window of the original pair. The rear elevation has a plain first floor band, and a double dentillated eaves course and 6 sashes to first floor. Interior. The original plan probably consisted of a parlour to the road with added stair bay to the garden front: beyond were a hall, kitchen and sunken floored dairy in echelon. In the parlour may be seen chamfered girders and floor joists. Between the hall and kitchen is a massive H-plan stack: the kitchen joists are not moulded, otherwise all girders have delicate shield shaped stops. To first floor are moulded girders and joists to the parlour and hall chambers only. The roof is a clasped purlin with collars, pegged at the ridge with wattle and daub partitions in the roof space. Graffito: on the first floor, above the main doorway, the wall plaster is inscribed 'Joseph Hooton 1695': he was a builder from Marton.

  • North Kesteven, Lincolnshire Grade II

    Early C18 with minor C19 alterations. Coursed rubble and brick with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof with 2 brick gable stacks, ashlar coped gables with kneelers. Ashlar first floor band and quoins. 2 storey, 3 bay. Brick front wall has central doorway with C19 half glazed door with tall overlight flanked by single C19 wooden cross casements with ashlar lintels, above 3 similar windows with segment heads. Deep cat-slide roof to rear.

  • Lincolnshire Grade II

    C17 - early C18 with later alterations. Brick with pantile roof. Plan: 2 rooms with lobby entry to left and stairs behind stack; addition to rear right. Single storey with attic, 2 windows. Steps to C20 board door in wooden architrave beneath timber lintel with C19 4-pane sashes to right in flush wooden architraves beneath timber lintels. Stepped eaves. Pair of raking dormers with 4-pane sashes and plastered cheeks. Brick-coped gable and end stack to right; axial stack to left. Right return, facing Fairway: C19 - early C20 former 3-light shop window with frieze, bracketed cornice and hood, board door to right in architrave beneath timber lintel, 4-pane attic sash in flush wooden architrave. Later extension adjoining to rear has C20 recessed board door and 6-pane casement.

  • Lincolnshire Grade II

    1861 by J M Hooker and Wheeler of Tunbridge Wells, for M D Dalison. Squared limestone with limestone ashlar dressings, slate roof. Gothic Revival style. 3-bay nave with south-west tower containing porch, 2 bay chancel with vestry adjoining north side. Chamfered plinth, quoins, buttresses, string-course. 3-stage tower, with clasping buttresses, pointed moulded outer and inner doorways. Narrow shouldered lights to second stage. Splay-footed belfry with clasping buttresses and pointed 2-light traceried openings. Splay-footed spire with shafted lucarnes. Iron cross finial. Nave: 2-light windows and 4-light west window with Geometrical tracery. Chancel: paired lancets under dripmould and a 3-light east window with Geomentrical tracery. Coped gables with finials. Interior: south chancel windows divided by polished marble shafts. 2 earlier C19 marble wall plaques in vestry, one with draped urn. Elaborately-carved octagonal font with marble shafts; other original C19 fittings and stained glass intact. The church, sited on the side of the Lincoln Cliff, forms an imposing feature in the landscape. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, p311.

  • North Kesteven, Lincolnshire Grade II

    c1700. Brick with high hipped pantile roof. 2 ridge stacks. Brick plinth and first floor band with moulded wooden eaves. Square plan. 2 storey. 5 bay. Central doorway with C19 half-glazed door, flanked by large flush glazing bar sashes, all under segment heads. Above a central small oval fixed light flanked by 2 glazing bar sashes to the left and a blocked and rendered opening to the right with a glazing bar sash beyond.

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