Publications

To search the database of Buildings at Risk click on Search the BAR Register; alternatively, the Register can be viewed in pdf format:

1. Buildings at Risk – The national (summary) Register (2.56 MB)
   
2. Detailed, illustrated Buildings at Risk Register by Region:

• East Midlands (7.30 MB)
• East of England (5.96 MB)
• North East (6.23 MB)
• North West (7.30 MB)
• South East (8.70 MB)
• South West (7.96 MB)
• West Midlands (9.27 MB)
• Yorkshire and the Humber (6.33 MB)

London - in addition to Grade I and II* listed buildings, and structural Scheduled Ancient Monuments at risk, the detailed London Register includes Grade II listed buildings at risk and is divided into 4 parts:

• London - part 1 (Introduction, Barking and Dagenham to Enfield) (7.34 MB)
• London - part 2 (Greenwich to Hillingdon) (6.42 MB)
• London - part 3 (Hounslow to Richmond upon Thames) (6.61 MB)
• London - part 4 (Southwark to Westminster) (6.94 MB)

Printed copies of the national summary volume of the Register of Buildings at Risk and the illustrated Register of Buildings at Risk in London are available free of charge from English Heritage Customer Services (- contact details below).

 

The role of English Heritage is primarily to provide practical advice and resources to help owners and local authorities to secure the future of important buildings at risk. We have published:

Buildings at Risk: A New Strategy which considers the issues in detail.

Stopping the Rot: a step-by-step guide to serving Urgent Works and Repairs Notices (3.22 MB) is a detailed, technical guide for local authorities.
Can also be downloaded in three smaller parts: Part 1 (961k), Part 2 (797k), Part 3 (1.5 MB).

Enabling Development and the Conservation of Heritage Assets: Policy Statement and Practical Guide to Assessment (1.35 MB) sets out criteria which are particularly applicable to the assessment of development proposals advanced to rescue buildings at risk.

Managing local authority heritage assets - some guiding principles for decision-makers is a guide for local authority portfolio holders, corporate property officers, conservation specialists facilities managers and corporate estate architects and surveyors who deal with the care of historic assets in council ownership. The aim of the guidance is to promote and encourage appropriate standards in the management of these assets and high quality design in new work related to them, including public spaces.

Simply click on the pdf or the summary link to view the contents or summary of each publication.

 If you do not have a free copy of the Adobe Acrobat Viewer please click here to download it.

Printed copies of the publications listed above, the national summary volume of the Register of Buildings at Risk and the illustrated Register of Buildings at Risk in London are available free of charge from:

English Heritage Customer Services,
PO Box 569, Swindon Wiltshire SN2 2YP
Telephone: 0870 333 1181; Fax: 01793 41492
e-mail: customers@english-heritage.org.uk

Access the English Heritage catalogue of Publications.