Your Property

House and garden

This section is aimed at anyone who lives in a listed building, conservation area or an older property.

 

It includes advice on what to consider if you are making changes to your property, how to maintain your home in a sympathetic way and steps you can take to make it more energy efficient.

 

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 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

Maintaining your property

If you are planning to repair an older buildings or you want to find out how to keep your property in good condition, see our section on looking after your property.

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 Available

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

More on our 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

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Insuring a Listed Property

Heritage insurance for businesses from Ecclesiastical.

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