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A relatively workaday month was followed through from beginning to end with H+R South staff travelling to support H+R North at Stonecross Mansion in Ulverston, Cumbria for Persimmon Homes. Stonecross is a very large but dilapidated mansion in the process of conversion and refurbishment. H+R have a wide-ranging brief covering the building as a whole and particularly the eradication of dry rot. Yan, the new H+R Rothound who is based in Cumbria has been extensively deployed there H+R South staff…

H+R returned to Liverpool’s Heap’s Rice Mill to better identify the general condition of the timber structures following improved access.  The Grade II listed building which borders the Albert Dock UNESCO World Heritage Site will be transformed into 123 apartments following the £130m development of the south waterfront H+R were invited to undertake a reconnaissance survey of Manchester’s Grade II* Great Northern Warehouse and Deansgate Terraces, which is to undergo a £300m regeneration that will see an improved residential, commercial…

Some truly impressive project work came H+R’s way in August despite it being a classic holiday month. Specialist timber condition and service life investigations were undertaken at Buckingham Palace and Leeds Castle in Kent. In addition, the rare dovecote at Tendring Park in Suffolk was surveyed as part of the overall Natural England scheme for the estate which is being project managed by H+R An H+R surveyor was amused to come across a resident urban fox that had taken up…

The usual and wide range of buildings were encountered during the month covering a mansion in Mayfair and several impressive country houses including penetrating damp investigations at the aptly named Saltmarshe Hall in East Yorkshire and also on a row of thatched cottages in Cambridgeshire. What made a difference to the month was being appointed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to assess damp penetration and retained moisture issues with one of their Lutyens designed memorials. We were also appointed…

Chosen from many suggestions, the new 10-week-old Rothound sprocker puppy has been named Pip and she has started her initial training with Orian Hutton. Pip has already shown herself to be a confident, intelligent and calm pup which are essential pre-requisites for her life to come H+R have started extensive investigations at Athlone House on Hampstead Heath which forms part of the ‘true life’ back story to the newly released film ‘Hampstead’ starring Diane Keaton. H+R have also been undertaking…

H+R carried out a damp and timber decay survey of the derelict Rutland Mills complex of approximately 100,000 sq ft that will form the Wakefield Waterfront mixed-use redevelopment H+R were also called out to a Grade I listed church in West Yorkshire following a resurgence of dry rot to a suspended timber floor shortly after a series of repairs.  Perhaps it was not so surprising to find a human Humerus bone beneath a light peppering of dry rot spores H+R…