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  • Café/refreshments available
  • Toilets available
  • Picnic area available
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  • Train station within one mile

Traditional Building Skills and Building Conservation Courses

Cressing Temple

  •  Cafe
  •  Toilets
  •  Picnic

Address: Witham Road, Cressing, Braintree, CM77 8PD

Telephone: 01376 584903

Website: www.cressingtemple.org.uk

Traditional Building Skills Courses and Seminars
Since 1997 the Historic Buildings and Conservation team at Essex County Council has run a series of one, two or three day hands-on courses in traditional building skills. The courses aim to raise awareness of the importance of protecting our historic buildings by using the appropriate methods and materials to repair and conserve them.

The programme responds to the ongoing shortage of traditional building skills, and aims to provide a greater access to craftspeople through re-training, as well as giving home owners the skills to repair their properties.

Most of the courses are held at the historic site of Cressing Temple however, some of the courses are held at sites around the county where students work on real projects giving them a unique opportunity to learn by repairing a historic structure or building.

Traditional building professionals provide tuition on techniques for the conservation and repair of historic fabric through the use of traditional materials such as lime plaster, wattle and daub, thatch and flint. Hands-on courses and associated lectures on specialist topics are suitable for those wanting to expand their skills or hone existing talents, either for home conservation projects or to expand business prospects.

 

Lime Plaster, Run Mouldings & Pargetting
26th -27th January 2012, Cressing Temple Barns
A two-day course covering the art and craft of lime plastering, mouldings run in situ, and pargetting. It is open to working plasterers who want to broaden their experience, home owners and the enthusiastic amateur. No experience needed.

Price
cost £190

 

Structural Repairs to historic buildings – Some case studies
9.30am to 12.30pm, 9th February 2012 at Cressing Temple
Standard engineering solutions to repair problems are often inappropriate for historic buildings. Instead a conservation approach taking into account their construction, materials and character is required. This seminar considers some repairs to the structure of masonry and timber buildings and the philosophy behind them. Ian is a structural engineer who has spent the last 35 years dealing almost exclusively with historic structures from the prehistoric to modern movement buildings. He was chief engineer at English Heritage from 1987 until 1997.

Price including lunch
cost £50

 

Building Regulations and Historic Buildings
9.30am to 12.30pm, 8th March 2012 at Cressing Temple
Building regulations and listed buildings often seem to be in conflict, a situation more apparent than real. These two talks will address the application of the Building Regulations to listed buildings, covering disabled access, insulation, fire and sound.

Price including lunch
cost £50

 

Build Your Own Bread Oven
15th March 2012, Cressing Temple Barns
Take outdoor cooking to the next level by learning how to build a traditional brick bread oven for your back garden. This course would be suitable for homeowners, or bricklayers and builders who would like to offer their clients something different.

Price
cost £95

 

A tour of a traditional brick works & a guided walk through Bury St Edmunds (CPD Certificates provided)
29th March 2012
A rare opportunity to visit Bulmer Brick & Tile Company and Bury St Edmunds in the company of one of the country’s leading traditional brick-makers. You will look at and discuss the conservation and repair of historic rubbed and gauged brickwork. The day will help professionals to specify and oversee work in the correct manner, and will also be of interest to the enthusiastic amateur.

Price
cost £95

 

 

Contact details

For more information contact Katie Seabright on:

Telephone:
01245 437672

E-mail:
traditional.buildingskills@essexcc.gov.uk

 

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