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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.

  • Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire Grade II

    House, formerly railway station; c.1875. Gault brick with red brick, blue brick and stone dressings, slate roof. 1 sidewall, 1 ridge and 1 gable stack. Blue brick plinth, 4 red brick bands 2 storeys 4 bays, T plan. Gabled wing to left has one paired glazing bar sash on each floor, with red brick segmental heads. Lean-to to left 1 storey, 1 bay has single glazing bar sash with segmental head; flat roofed extension to left again has single glazing bar sash with square head. Main range, to right, has central blocked doorway, flanked by single sashes, above, glazed timber canopy with decorative valance; above again, 2 more sashes and central C20 casement. All sashes have segmental heads and glazing bars. Ticket office, to right, one storey, one bay, has slate roof and single gable stack; single paired glazing bar sash with segmental head and close-boarded door in return wall. Toilet block to right again, flat roofed with stepped stone coped parapet and dentillated eaves, one storey, one bay, has 2 segmental headed doors. Rear elevation has mainly original C19 fenestration similar to front.

  • South Kesteven, Lincolnshire Grade II

    Small country house. 1624, C18, C19, C20. Limestone ashlar, coursed ironstone rubble with limestone dressings, pantile roofs with central ridge stack on west range and 2 ridge stacks on south range. L-plan. 2 storey and garret. Late C17 ashlar south front of west range of 3 bays with plinth and central doorway with lugged moulded architrave scrolled and beaded raised keystone, 8 panelled door and small decorated plaque, and small blocked window above. Doorway flanked by single 3 light mullion windows with moulded cornices. 2, three light mullion windows above with moulded cornices. North side of west range rebuilt in C19 but early C17 2 light mullion window to cellar intact. Early C18 rubble south range with C19 south front with plinth and first and second floor stringcourses. Ground floor 4 light mullion window with transom. First floor 4 light mullion window with 3 light mullion window in gable. North-east wall of 1624 with contemporary blocked fireplace with shallow moulded head. Over west range, a late C17 butt purlin roof intact, with C19 clasped purlin roof over south range. North gable collapsed and rebuilt in C20, datestone inscribed 1624 discovered inside but now lost. Source: D. L. Roberts, Vernacular Building in Kesteven.

  • South Kesteven, Lincolnshire Grade II

    C17, c.1860. Coursed ironstone and limestone rubble, ironstone and limestone dressings, plaintile roofs with lead fleshings, 3 stone coped gables with finials and single C19 stone coped gable stack to east, 2 large C17 projecting wall stacks on west wall with quoins and stepped ashlar coping towards top. T-plan with C19 north projecting wing, and east projecting wing with C17 west side and south projecting wing. North front of 2 storeys and 2 bays with 3 storey projecting wing to west. West wing with first floor and second floor moulded cornices and quoins. Ground floor margin light plain sash window with similar windows above, side by side. Single margin light plain sash in gable with small slit opening above. Doorway in west corner of east wing with a plain stone surround and 6 panel door. Single window to the east with 2 above, all with margin light plain sashes. Above, a central dormer with 2 light casement and steep gable with bargeboards. Similar dormer set between the 2 large C12 stacks on west return with a cross mullion window and a lower 4 light stone mullion window with moulded cornice, beneath. C17 south gable with 4 light mullion window with moulded cornice and a small slit opening above. Late C19 extension below.

  • South Kesteven, Lincolnshire Grade II

    Early C19. Red brick, coursed ironstone rubble, concrete tiled roof with gable stacks. 3 storey, 3 bay front with 2 brick bands and decorated eaves. Central doorway with plain round-headed doorcase, ornate traceried fanlight and 4 panelled door. Flanked by single windows with 3 smaller ones above, that over the door narrower, and 3 smaller windows above. All windows have glazing bar sashes.

  • Lincolnshire Grade II*

    Former house, now store. c.1700 with later C18 addition and alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond, flat roof hidden behind parapet and pantile roof. 3 storey, 5 by 5 bay box, having plinth with ashlar coping, first and second floor and parapet bands, ashlar coping to parapet. Central 6 panel door with Gothick fanlight in rectangular surround. A later pedimented doorcase is on site but removed from the building. Pairs of flush cross mullioned oak casements flank the door. To first floor are 5 similar windows. To second floor 5 smaller 2 light openings, some blocked. All openings have splayed flat rubbed brick arches. The right hand 5 bay side has 2 fenestrated bays with an additional one on the ground floor, the remaining bays are blank. The left hand side is of 3 bays. The rear is of 3 bays with a single stone mullioned 2 light basement light with above a tall dropped cross mullioned stair light flanked by single cross mullioned windows. To second floor are 3 two light windows, partly blocked. To the left of the main front is a lower 2 bay 2 storey late C18 service range with pantile roof having stone coped gable, having a half glazed door with overlight, to left a C20 casement. To first floor is a plain sash and a 2 light C20 casement. All openings have segmental brick heads. Interior. Dogleg staircase with turned balusters, dado panelling, set under late C18 stair arches. Deep moulded cornices to principal rooms. Some dado panelling, shutters, contemporary doors, cupboards, and eared fireplace surrounds. A town house form, set down in open countryside.

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