Courses
Choose your course
Two courses, built for different professions and different risk, to the same standard of evidence-led, scenario-based content. Each one follows a single realistic case from start to finish, with feedback on every answer and a record you build as you go. Pick the one that fits your work and start straight away.
For architects
Understand heritage risk early enough to shape the design, not just justify it afterwards.
Workflow
Project brief -> heritage baseline and significance -> design and consent strategy -> early specialist heritage advice.
What you will be able to do
- - Read a listed building's significance the way a heritage consultant does, before the design is fixed.
- - Build an evidence baseline that actually supports a consent strategy, not just a retrospective justification.
- - Recognise the point in a project where late-stage redesign risk becomes real - and how to avoid it.
- - Know when a project has moved beyond straightforward heritage risk and needs specialist input.
For solicitors and licensed conveyancers
Recognise the issue, understand the risk, know the limit of your role - and refer confidently when specialist heritage input is required.
Workflow
Listed property instruction -> listing and works evidence -> advice to the buyer and lender obligations -> referral for specialist heritage advice.
What you will be able to do
- - Check the official listing, and know what the list description does and doesn’t tell you.
- - Tell planning permission, listed building consent and building regulations sign-off apart, and know which one answers which question.
- - Spot when the approvals and the property don’t seem to match, and know who should check.
- - Explain to a buyer why “it’s been there for years”, “the seller says it’s fine” or a FENSA certificate doesn’t settle a listed building question.
- - Keep a clear file note of what you asked, what you advised and when you referred for specialist advice.
Questions about the courses
Do I need to register?+
No. There is no sign-up. Choose a course and start.
How long does a course take?+
About an hour. Heritage Design Risk for Architects has 7 chapters and Listed Property Risk for Conveyancers has 6. You can stop between chapters.
Will it remember where I got to?+
Yes, in the same browser on the same device. If you switch device or clear your browser data, you start again.
Can I do it on my phone?+
It works on any device, but it is designed for a desktop or laptop screen. On a tablet, use landscape.
Do I get a certificate?+
Yes. When you finish, you can print a certificate of completion with your name, and fill in a CPD reflection for your own records.
Does it cover Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland?+
No. Both courses cover England only.
Is this legal or professional advice?+
No. The courses are general training built around a worked example. They are not advice on any particular property, transaction or project.
What happens to my answers?+
They stay in your browser. Nothing you enter in a course is sent to us.
I have a live project or transaction. Can you help?+
Yes. Tell us about it and we will come back to you. You keep the client; we provide the specialist heritage advice. Need advice on a live project?
Who writes the courses?+
Recept Heritage, heritage consultants. About Recept Heritage