Restoring Richmond's Georgian and Riverside Properties
The borough enforces its heritage protection through a House Extensions & External Alterations SPD and individual Conservation Area Appraisals for areas like Richmond Hill, Twickenham and Barnes, and is explicit that even modest proposals, window replacement, roof alterations, small extensions, need to be prepared carefully against these detailed requirements. The Thames itself is a defining practical factor too: riverside and low-lying properties can fall within flood zones, which brings flood risk assessment and resilient design into scope alongside the usual heritage considerations. For a Richmond property, that generally means the same breathable, traditional approach we apply everywhere, lime over cement, matched joinery over off-the-shelf replacement, but with conservation area appraisal detail and, for riverside properties, flood risk factored in from the start.
