Advice

We offer free and independent advice to professionals and homeowners about caring for historic and traditionally constructed buildings. Our technical and research team leads and disseminates research on current conservation issues such as energy efficiency in historic building.

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If you need advice about your old building from a conservation professional call our Technical Advice Line

NOTE: Christmas closure. The advice line reopens on Thursday 2 January 2025.

Opening hours: Monday - Friday, 9.30am - 12.30pm

Phone number: 020 7456 0916

Please note that we have one advisor available at a time. You may need to wait on hold while our advisors provide the best advice possible to each individual caller.

Learn More

Explore our growing resource on conserving, caring and campaigning for old buildings.

We conduct ground-breaking research in new areas, such as the energy efficiency performance of old buildings constructed from a range of traditiona

A glossary covering technical, building and conservation terms.

The SPAB Briefings offer a summary of recent work by the Society.

See our series of technical, practical advisory publications on the care and repair of old buildings