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Managing Change in the Historic Environment: Historic Battlefields

This guidance note provides advice for planning authorities, public bodies and others involved in planning land management activities.

Edinburgh Castle's Role as a Gun House

Research report on the castle’s role as a gun house.

Technical Paper 08

A paper modelling the thermal upgrades at a Conservation Group pilot site.

Skaill Farm, Westness, Orkney

Report on the measured survey of Skaill Farm in 2017-18

Historic Environment Scotland: Organisational and Cultural Review

Independent report by David Martin, commissioned by the HES Board.

Scotland's Protected Historic Places

The reports on this page concern work we began in 2024 to review national-level historic environment designation in Scotland and to develop a long-term strategy.

Romantic Scotland - Chinese Perceptions of Cultural Heritage

Research report from the international project ‘Producing/Consuming Romantic Scotland’.

Technical Paper 29

A review of traditional buildings/structures in Scotland where hot-mixed lime mortars have been used for the repair or re-instatement of their external coatings since 1997.

Graveyards and Gravestones 2

Information on best practice in maintaining a historic graveyard from planning through to implementation.

Soft Capping in Scotland

This Research Report covers the use of plants on masonry to preserve traditional buildings.

Inform Guide: Dry Stone Walls

This guide aims to raise awareness of the importance and complexity of dry stone walling in Scotland, and describes the maintenance tasks that can be performed to prolong the life of such walls.

Refurbishment Case Study 2

A case study describing upgrades carried out to a single-storey stone cottage.

Technical Paper 03

A report on four different energy modelling methodologies in relation to a traditional tenement flat.

Technical Paper 11

A report outlining dilemmas in the effective conservation of Scottish Renaissance interiors.

Resumption Operating Standards

Our Resumption Operating Standards (which replaces the former Minimum Operating Standards) provides the latest information on HES’s corporate policies and management of properties, as we transition through the next phase of the resumption process.