Intelligent, incisive, pragmatic, highly qualified and experienced professionals in the business of delivering practical solutions to the challenges of property management. If you plan to solve a problem, protect assets, add value, develop land or work on buildings, please get in touch. Specialist surveyors Smith & Garratt focus on four core areas of expertise.
We are the go-to multi-award-winning heritage consultants for the north and Scotland. We are effective and successful planning consultants on both sides of the Border. At our foundation we are surveyors and valuers. With our talented architect, in-house legal skills and many years of experience, we are respected for our multi-disciplinary joined-up thinking and practical problem solving.
Smith & Garratt have acknowledged expertise with heritage property, regularly working on listed buildings and Scheduled Monuments. We deliver works to historic buildings - from the design stage and obtaining statutory consents to budgeting, procurement and supervision of delivery.
We are the go-to multi-award-winning heritage consultants for the north and Scotland. We are effective and successful planning consultants on both sides of the Border. At our foundation we are surveyors and valuers. With our talented architect, in-house legal skills and many years of experience, we are respected for our multi-disciplinary joined-up thinking and practical problem solving.
Smith & Garratt have acknowledged expertise with heritage property, regularly working on listed buildings and Scheduled Monuments. We deliver works to historic buildings - from the design stage and obtaining statutory consents to budgeting, procurement and supervision of delivery.
Services
Smith & Garratt is a family-owned firm of specialist surveyors.
From our main offices on the Scottish Border we offer services in England and Scotland.
Our founding surveyor, Hugh Garratt, is from a farming family and studied at the Royal Agricultural College before becoming a chartered surveyor.
Twenty years a land agent he found most enjoyment in overcoming technical challenges.
When aged 40 Hugh decided to take a law degree, after which he saw the opportunity to create a firm specialising in his three special interests - planning and development, heritage buildings and private client advisory work.
From our main offices on the Scottish Border we offer services in England and Scotland.
Our founding surveyor, Hugh Garratt, is from a farming family and studied at the Royal Agricultural College before becoming a chartered surveyor.
Twenty years a land agent he found most enjoyment in overcoming technical challenges.
When aged 40 Hugh decided to take a law degree, after which he saw the opportunity to create a firm specialising in his three special interests - planning and development, heritage buildings and private client advisory work.
The Smith & Garratt logo features a classical window with no indication whether the view is from within, from without, or whether it is a stand-alone monumental structure.
It is representative of our work - which is generally traditional in nature and includes interior works, exterior works, and stand-alone or landmark tasks.
We are known for our award-winning works to historic buildings; perhaps less well known are the works we undertake for clients at milestones in their lives - the rigorous survey of that special property, the planning consent that unlocks potential, strategic advice at a crossroads, an expert opinion in the hour of need.
It is representative of our work - which is generally traditional in nature and includes interior works, exterior works, and stand-alone or landmark tasks.
We are known for our award-winning works to historic buildings; perhaps less well known are the works we undertake for clients at milestones in their lives - the rigorous survey of that special property, the planning consent that unlocks potential, strategic advice at a crossroads, an expert opinion in the hour of need.
We are specialist surveyors with acknowledged expertise in traditional and period properties.
We advise on a whole range of properties - castles and country houses, town houses, cottages, farm buildings, buildings in good condition, buildings in shocking condition, buildings with supposedly inexplicable defects, bridges, towers, cellars.
We help clients to maintain, to repair, to improve, to alter, to build.
We provide building healthcare - from a routine check to pathology, and from accident and emergency to planned surgery - your building is safe in our hands.
We advise on a whole range of properties - castles and country houses, town houses, cottages, farm buildings, buildings in good condition, buildings in shocking condition, buildings with supposedly inexplicable defects, bridges, towers, cellars.
We help clients to maintain, to repair, to improve, to alter, to build.
We provide building healthcare - from a routine check to pathology, and from accident and emergency to planned surgery - your building is safe in our hands.
As much as half of Smith & Garratt's energy is spent on the conservation of special buildings.
Conservation is about preparing a building for continued use or a new use; in many cases it is about saving the building by making it useful.
Conservation involves a mix of preservation, restoration and alteration.
Our favourite conservation projects begin by working on a concept with our client, preparing designs and taking them through the local authority consent processes - listed building consent and building standards approval - before dealing with procurement and project delivery.
Conservation is about preparing a building for continued use or a new use; in many cases it is about saving the building by making it useful.
Conservation involves a mix of preservation, restoration and alteration.
Our favourite conservation projects begin by working on a concept with our client, preparing designs and taking them through the local authority consent processes - listed building consent and building standards approval - before dealing with procurement and project delivery.
Restoration is the specialist task of accurately revealing, recovering or representing the state of a historic building as it appeared at a particular period of its history, protecting its heritage value.
Restoration may reverse decay or alterations.
It is an exacting process, requiring a clear understanding of the archaeology of the building - its historic development, the fabric of the building, what is important and how to preserve it and its significance.
Smith & Garratt's restoration credentials are illustrated in these three case studies.
Restoration may reverse decay or alterations.
It is an exacting process, requiring a clear understanding of the archaeology of the building - its historic development, the fabric of the building, what is important and how to preserve it and its significance.
Smith & Garratt's restoration credentials are illustrated in these three case studies.
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