Roughcast - The No-Nonsense Building Surveying & Damp Podcast
Sep 28, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min · 10 segments
Welcome back to another insightful episode of our podcast! This time, we dive deep into the fascinating world of historic surveying with expert Scott Enders from Heritage Consulting. Scott shares…
Scott EndersGuest
Adam WallisHostUnknown SpeakerPanelistto start picking ahead about old houses, mainly because there's so much to learn and it's so much more interesting than new ones, in my opinion.
My issue with the fact that you do like a handful a year of the really old stuff is even when I go and do CPD and I go and do all these other courses, how much of that I retain going into these older houses is questionable.
And I think about the same thing when it's the other surveyors doing a level two on a cob house and i'm like okay because you're really really providing appropriate advice there but i want to talk about like something i've noticed with listed and heritage surveyors architecture seems to come in a lot more with the older stuff both with dating the
property and then understanding the construction
as well do you find that yeah i mean you've got to know a little bit about history and stuff and like kind of architectural features and stuff.
So in order to date a building, sometimes you've got to look at, you know, like the internal doors and are the internal doors Victorian or Georgian or, you know, or do they predate Georgian? You've got to look at all these details and all the fixtures and fittings to try to help date a building.
And you've got to know... a little bit about when things started coming in, you know, when were these certain features common and, you know, when did they start going out of date.
So, yeah, that's quite important to know, you know, and also just kind of a way of life as well.
How did they live back then in the Victorian and Georgian times? You know, that's quite important.
Yeah, architecture, you need to know about the architectural features and in order to date stuff.
I just find I just constantly, that's all the reading I end up doing when I do an old house.
It's just I start reading about, like, I go through, I've got architectural books and I'm flicking through just trying to identify doors and things like that.
The thing is, though, as you say, like, you can read about it and then you won't come across it for, like, a year.
to, like, old, like, heritage surveyors is it's really easy to kind of go down the rabbit holes for your own interest but what does it really mean to your client and that's something i think about as well it's like does it really matter if it was built in 1720 or 1650 to my client probably that's
the thing that's the thing because we're not really looking at that are we we're looking at the condition of the building so yeah you know i i spend and i spend a lot of time doing some research because i have a history section in my report and i i include like old maps extracts of old ordnance survey maps And, you know, just to see how the building has grown and changed over time.
to start picking ahead about old houses, mainly because there's so much to learn and it's so much more interesting than new ones, in my opinion.
My issue with the fact that you do like a handful a year of the really old stuff is even when I go and do CPD and I go and do all these other courses, how much of that I retain going into these older houses is questionable.
And I think about the same thing when it's the other surveyors doing a level two on a cob house and i'm like okay because you're really really providing appropriate advice there but i want to talk about like something i've noticed with listed and heritage surveyors architecture seems to come in a lot more with the older stuff both with dating the
property and then understanding the construction
as well do you find that yeah i mean you've got to know a little bit about history and stuff and like kind of architectural features and stuff.
So in order to date a building, sometimes you've got to look at, you know, like the internal doors and are the internal doors Victorian or Georgian or, you know, or do they predate Georgian? You've got to look at all these details and all the fixtures and fittings to try to help date a building.
And you've got to know... a little bit about when things started coming in, you know, when were these certain features common and, you know, when did they start going out of date.
So, yeah, that's quite important to know, you know, and also just kind of a way of life as well.
How did they live back then in the Victorian and Georgian times? You know, that's quite important.
Yeah, architecture, you need to know about the architectural features and in order to date stuff.
I just find I just constantly, that's all the reading I end up doing when I do an old house.
It's just I start reading about, like, I go through, I've got architectural books and I'm flicking through just trying to identify doors and things like that.
The thing is, though, as you say, like, you can read about it and then you won't come across it for, like, a year.
to, like, old, like, heritage surveyors is it's really easy to kind of go down the rabbit holes for your own interest but what does it really mean to your client and that's something i think about as well it's like does it really matter if it was built in 1720 or 1650 to my client probably that's
the thing that's the thing because we're not really looking at that are we we're looking at the condition of the building so yeah you know i i spend and i spend a lot of time doing some research because i have a history section in my report and i i include like old maps extracts of old ordnance survey maps And, you know, just to see how the building has grown and changed over time.
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