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Please note some courses are run on specific sites and not all are at Cressing Temple. Please check details carefully.
THE CITY AND COUNTRY BURSARY SCHEME FOR ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL TRADITIONAL BUILDING
SKILLS COURSES - NOW AVAILABLE - CLICK HERE.
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Hands-on Traditional
Building Skills Courses
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 courses are run from our workshop at Cressing Temple Barns, but where possible we use live sites throughout the county. Our tutors are all excellent craftsmen who run their own businesses using their skills every day, and who have a wealth of experience and knowledge.
Those attending the courses include owners of historic buildings, practising craftsmen who want to specialise in traditional repairs, and general builders and contractors as well as interested amateurs. Courses are open to all skill levels unless specified otherwise.
Running alongside the hands-on courses is a comprehensive range of short lecture sessions. Titles vary annually but their aim remains the same, to educate and inform professionals such as surveyors, architects, building contractors, self-employed tradesmen, plus the owners of historic buildings, in the technical and practical issues involved in the care and repair of our historic buildings.
Courses
include:
LIME MORTAR & CONSERVATION BRICKWORK
OWNERS' LIME PLASTER
COURSE
LIME PLASTER, RUN MOULDINGS & PARGETTING
REPAIR & CONSERVATION
OF HISTORIC JOINERY
A TOUR OF A TRADITIONAL BRICK WORKS & A GUIDED WALK THROUGH
BURY ST EDMUNDS
BRICK ARCHES - REPAIR & CONSTRUCTION
LIME PLASTER FOR
PLASTERERS
AN INTRODUCTION TO THATCH
TIMBER FRAME REPAIRS
WATTLE &
DAUB
FLINT WALLING
Most of the courses are held at the historic site of Cressing Temple between Braintree and Witham. However, some of the courses are held at sites around the county and where possible our students work on 'real' projects for example St Botolph's Church, Hadstock.
Flint
Walling Course
For the last 10 years we have been running our flint walling
course at the beautiful grade I listed church of St Botolph's in Hadstock. On
the three day course the students have the opportunity to learn and then practice
their new found skills on the perimeter wall under the expert eye of our tutor.
The courses were started
because the Historic Building Advisers at ECC recognised that there was a
skills shortage and owners of historic buildings were having problems finding
craftsmen with the right skills to repair their buildings. Those attending
the courses range from owners of historic buildings, practising craftsmen
who want to specialise in traditional repairs and enthusiastic amateurs who
are just interested. The tutors used for these traditional building skills
courses are all excellent craftsmen and run their own businesses using their
skills every day.
For
more information contact Katie Seabright on Tel: 01245 437672
Email: Traditional.BuildingSkills@essexcc.gov.uk
