• Receive a professional consultancy service tailored to the needs of those involved with pre-1945 buildings, structures or landscapes
• Get answers to the questions you want to ask to meet your particular needs about any subject to do with buying / repairing / converting / extending / renovating / maintaining/ working with, or just living in part of our built heritage
• Providing you with your own technical specialists with years of experience in dealing with historic buildings
• Supplying independent and unbiased help and advice – we are not connected to any government, lobbying organisation or trade body
• Overcome your historic building problems - we understand the difficulties and headaches encountered by those who work with or own the built heritage and landscapes
• Practical solutions to the unique problems experienced with historic buildings
• A service backed by professional indemnity insurance
• Regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

Membership is by subscription and allows access to the advisory and other services, FAQs and the databases. Our normal subscription provides:

• e-mail access to our technical and associated advice system including 2 ‘free’ questions included within your subscription
• periodic electronic newsletter
• access to technical digests and other similar information
• access to a wide range of professional services at preferential rates
• information on specialist seminars, exhibitions and other events connected with historic buildings and landscapes

The service allows you easy access to specialists on any subject relating to historic buildings and landscapes, whether it concerns building, financial, tax or other matters. We will always deal with your enquiry in strict confidence. For more details as to how your enquiry will be handled click here

When you have a question about any subject concerning historic buildings or landscapes, the best place to start is our frequently asked questions (FAQs) section. Subscribing members can access the full extent of our expanding FAQ pages, but non members can access only the summary section for each question. These questions are typical or generic problems that our clients have encountered.

If the FAQ section does not answer your question, then you can obtain a detailed and personalised response from HBAS’ specialist consultants. That is achieved by using the on-line enquiry form in your personal member’s portal to which you can attach supporting material (photos, videos, drawings, etc) to help explain your enquiry. We will then confirm the question to ensure we understand it correctly. Once we have your confirmation that we have interpreted your question correctly, we will provide you with the most appropriate response.

Sometimes we cannot answer a complex question by e-mail in the normal manner because there may be other factors that need to be taken into account. In such an event we will either ask you to supply further information or we can arrange to visit the site and carry out an inspection and analysis. This ensures that our answer really provides the best solution to your unique set of circumstances.