by Hugh Conway Morris | Nov 12, 2019
Vestry Hall, City of LondonSensitive repair works to a significant historic building.Vestry Hall was designed by well-known architect and architectural historian Sir Bannister Fletcher in the early years of the 20th century. Now listed at Grade II, it is the home of...
by Peter Preston | Aug 8, 2019
Lecture on Great Coxwell BarnGrand-scale timber framing and the Cistercian legacy. Manifest gave a presentation to the Clanfield & Bampton Historical Society on Great Coxwell Barn, one of the most impressive (not to say staggeringly beautiful) medieval barns in...
by Peter Preston | Aug 8, 2019
Repairs to a Cob Barn in Warwickshire Emergency works and fabric inspections. Working through a contact with a mud-builder in Cumbria, we were asked to visit a beautiful old farmyard in Warwickshire, and to inspect a small and rather curious open-fronted cob barn,...
by Peter Preston | Aug 8, 2019
Timber-Framed Aisled BarnA conservation management plan. A local, family-owned company came into possession of this listed, timber-framed aisled barn as part of their purchases in south Oxfordshire, and commissioned Manifest to carry out a detailed fabric inspection. ...
by Peter Preston | Aug 8, 2019
Drystone Wall Repairs Like-for-like repair of traditional drystone walling. Manifest were commissioned to survey and specify repairs to a drystone wall in an Oxfordshire garden. It remains unknown quite what caused the collapse, but poor workmanship...
