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What’s Your Heritage? Consultation Report

As part of Scotland’s Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017, we asked people in Scotland ‘What’s Your Heritage?’

Bibliography of Properties in Care

By Morag Cross 1994 and revised by Dennis Gallagher 2003

Your Historic Place - Pilot Version

The Your Historic Place lens is designed to be used with the Place Standard Tool.

Researching Your Graveyard - Reference Report

A guide to finding information on the history of an individual burial ground.

Inform Guide: Fire Safety in the Home

An INFORM guide giving an introduction to the factors which can create a fire risk within a historic property.

External consultation: Call for Evidence on Empty Homes in Scotland

"External consultation: Call for Evidence on Empty Homes in Scotland" is the HES submission to the Local Government and Communities Committee outlining HES' review of empty homes in Scotland.

Managing Access to Properties in Care Policy

Historic Environment Scotland's Managing Access to Properties in Care policy outlines how we look after the historic sites in our care.

Inform Guide: Gilding Techniques, Care and Maintenance

INFORM guide to identifying, maintaining and repairing gilding.

Properties in the Care of Scottish Ministers Annual Report 2016-17

Historic Environment Scotland's first annual report on the upkeep and management of our Properties in Care

Properties in the Care of Scottish Ministers Annual Report 2022-23

HES activity and achievements at the Properties in Care in 2022-23

Inform Guide: Care and Maintenance of Corrugated Iron

This INFORM guide provides some historical background to the use of corrugated iron and outlines the various issues relating to the conservation, repair and maintenance of the material.

Progress report on the conservation and management of properties in care

The purpose of this report is to provide an update on progress one year on, in relation to the properties in care, with a particular focus on conservation.