Recording buildings

The group has recorded over 1600 buildings to date. For each building studied, the group produces a measured survey with plans, drawings and a written report. The originals are held in the group's own archive, and a copy is sent to the owner/occupier. With their agreement a copy is also sent to the National Monuments Record in Swindon, to become part of the national archive available for further research and study, and to the archives of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in Leeds.

To see the list of buildings recorded by the group, click here.

To consult or obtain copies of the reports on the buildings recorded by the group, please contact either of the following archive services:

Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Claremont, 23 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9NZ, telephone 0113 245 6362, email archive@yas.org.uk
National Monuments Record, Great Western Village, Kemble Drive, Swindon SN2 2GZ, telephone 01793 414600.

Guidelines on Recording a Vernacular Building

The Group has compiled some Notes on the Recording of Vernacular Buildings - a set of guidelines outlining the basic method used by the Group to measure, draw and describe a building. Those who are new to recording, in particular, may find these notes useful - they are available here in pdf format (to view pdf files you will need Acrobat Reader - if you do not have it, you can download it from here).
Another useful document is English Heritage's publication on Understanding Historic Buildings: A Guide to Good Recording Practice (2006), which is available (in three parts) via the English Heritage web site:
Part 1 (pages 1-18)
Part 2 (pages 19-31 - including drawing conventions)
Part 3 (pages 31-39)

Building Investigation

Do you have an interesting building?
Could we help to interpret it?

If you are interested in having a building investigated by the group, please either email the details to David Crook or print out this page, fill in the form below, and return the completed form to:

David Crook, Secretary, YVBSG, 18 Sycamore Terrace, Bootham, York YO30 7DN.

You might also like to read our Guidance for Householders sheet.

I would be interested in having my building investigated.

Name: ____________________________________________________________

Address: __________________________________________________________

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Postcode: __________________________________________________________

Telephone: _________________________________________________________

Email: _____________________________________________________________

Brief details of the building:

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Please enclose an SAE for the reply.