Energy Efficiency

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You can improve the energy efficiency of your home in ways sympathetic to its historic character. For example by draught-proofing, improving insulation or bringing internal shutters back into use. Changing to a condensing flue gas boiler and improving heating controls or the introduction of secondary glazing can also significantly improve energy performance.

Climate Change and your Home

More detailed advice and guidance which can be customised to the particular period of your house and where you live in England is available on our Climate Change and Your Home website.

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Guidance on Energy Conservation

A guidance document called Energy Conservation in Traditional Buildings and published by English Heritage looks at methods of improving insulation and other ways of improving a building's energy efficiency.

Guidance on energy conservation

Sash windows

Sash windows are a precious part of our built heritage that makes the places we work and live special. But keeping them is not just a matter of taste it also makes economic and ecological sense.