Your Property

House and garden

This section is primarily aimed at anyone who lives in or manages a historic place, including a listed building.

It includes advice on making changes to your property or maintaining your home in a sympathetic way. There is also practical advice on how to make your home more energy efficient. The section also contains useful information if you are responsible for looking after a historic park or garden, a scheduled monument or even a historic shipwreck.

If you would like to find out if your property is listed you can search The National Heritage List for England

Altering Listed Buildings

If you want to demolish, alter or extend a listed building in a way that affects its character, you must first apply for listed building consent from your local planning authority. 

Altering listed buildings

Looking after your property

Find out how to look after your property, with advice on different types of surveys, how to obtain professional help, and guidance on maintenance or repair.

Looking after your property

Support for Developers 

Find out how English Heritage can help you breathe new life into redundant and threatened historic buildings.

Support for Developers 

Conservation Principles

English Heritage has published the key principles we use to make decisions and offer advice about all aspects of the historic environment.

See Conservation Principles

Grants

English Heritage runs a number of grant schemes to help with caring for all sorts of buildings, monuments and landscapes. 

Find out about grants

Saving Energy

You can improve the energy efficiency of your home in ways which are sympathetic to its historic character. 

More on saving energy