Historical Building Surveys

LISTED BUILDING Restoration

Our trusted surveyors played an important part in the restoration of listed building St Leonard’s place in York. As members of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE), our team of historic building surveyors can provide restoration advice on major developments.

Whether you’re a property developer or the owner of a grade two listed building, we are happy to provide advice. Historic buildings like period properties, thatched cottages, barn conversions, churches and windmills are a few property types that fall within our expertise.

Jon Charters-Reid BSC MRICS MCIOB MCABE began his career as a joiner at York Minster. As such, his knowledge is second to none when it comes to specialist restoration projects, particularly those requiring timber and joinery repairs. Our historic building surveys extend beyond restoration to include advice on defects, their probable costs, and advice on repairs.

Listed building surveys

Company director, Jon Charters-Reid, has a lifelong commitment to working on historic and listed buildings. Not only qualified as a Chartered Building Surveyor and a Chartered Builder, but he is also a classically trained ecclesiastical joiner and carpenter. He was lucky enough to be trained at York Minster on the Fire Damage repair team in 1984.

Being of special historical significance, all listed buildings require professional advice to maintain the property’s character features. We can provide detailed repair and diagnosis reports, identifying problems and specifying their remedies. Only a trained, knowledgeable surveyor is capable of providing the detailed examinations that listed building compliance organisations require.

The city of York, where we are lucky to call home, has over 200 listed buildings. Considering the small footprint of the original city boundaries, that’s an impressive number! As visitors and locals will immediately notice, many of these buildings are of an unusual construction. Receiving his training in York, Jon Charters-Reid is equipped with experience in these unique and historically significant listed buildings. When you trust Yorkshire Surveyor Ltd, you are receiving the highest level of care and knowledge that a surveyor can provide.

Specialist advice suitable for

• Period properties
• Buildings of special historic interest
• Properties to be renovated
• Barn conversions
• Churches
• Windmills
• Thatched cottages

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