Around a quarter of all existing buildings are of traditional construction, built before 1918 with methods and materials no longer in common use.

Advice and guidance is available from English Heritage on ways to make changes to your property/maintaining your home in a sympathetic way.

Please see the documents below for information on improving the energy efficiency of roofs, walls and floors:

- Insulating dormer  windows.pdf

- Draught proofing windows and doors.pdf

- Early cavity walls.pdf

- Insulating flat  roofs.pdf

- Insulating pitched roofs at ceiling level - cold roofs.pdf

- Insulating pitched roofs at rafter level - warm roofs.pdf

- Insulating solid walls.pdf

- Insulating solid-ground floors.pdf

- Insulating thatched roofs.pdf

- Insulating timber framed walls.pdf

- Insulation of suspended floors.pdf

- Open fires chimneys and flues.pdf

- Secondary glazing for windows.pdf