About

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Stewart Historic Property Advice (SHPA) is a bespoke service offering a broad range of advice to help you repair and enhance or simply conserve and maintain your period property.  Based in Edinburgh, the services are available across the UK.

Services offered include:

• Advice on Restoration of Features, Details & Traditional Materials
• Home Report Guidance & Accompanied Viewings 
• Specialist Assistance in Sourcing Period Property
• Advice on Retaining & Enhancing Value
• Services to Architectural Professions
• Research on Historic Properties 

You may find the services useful for either your current property or at the point when you may be sourcing a traditional property.  For example you may be looking for a property to conserve or restore and make your own or would like to make some adaptations and improvements to your existing property.  Maybe you are looking for a property at a distance or perhaps you are just looking for advice on some of the finer details, or want to find out more about the history, of your current property.  Whatever the scale of your ambitions, I can provide experienced guidance and valuable peace of mind. 

Gill has 20 years’ practical experience in the conservation and maintenance of historic buildings; an honours degree in the Applied Arts; a master’s degree in Architectural Conservation; and is an affiliate of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation.  She also has experience of planning including working within the planning and listed building consent framework.  She has worked for a variety of large and small organisations from the private to public and charitable sectors.  This experience has given her a broad range of skills, technical knowledge and insight into the many facets and complexities of the conservation and management of the historic built environment. 

Most recently at Simpson & Brown Architects Gill contributed to condition surveys of the National Galleries of Scotland’s five category A-listed buildings and played a key role in development of the Traditional Buildings Health Check Scheme pilot study in Stirling, where she assisted in the physical surveys of a wide range of traditional properties within the City boundary. 

Prior to that, Gill was with Glasgow Building Preservation Trust for around 10 years and was responsible for a number of the Trust’s projects.  As Senior Project Development Officer she had lead responsibility for the project delivery and fundraising to conserve and re-use two category B-listed buildings that had been classified as Buildings at Risk. Gartnavel Royal Hospital Chapel was transformed into the Calman Cancer Therapy Centre for the charity Cancer Support Scotland and Pollokshaws West Station was restored and adapted for South West Community Cycles as a resource centre to support children from an area of multiple deprivation. 

Gill started her career working for the Cockburn Association Edinburgh’s Civic Trust and the Scottish Civic Trust, advocating best practice in applications for repairs and alterations to listed buildings and proposals affecting Conservation Areas and assisted in recording and reporting on the condition of buildings on the Buildings at Risk Register, across Scotland.