Marianne Suhr Explained

Marianne Suhr MRICS (born c. 1969) is an English Chartered Building Surveyor,^[1] writer, and expert on historic buildings. She co-presented the television series Restoration with Ptolemy Dean and Griff Rhys Jones.^{[2] [3]}

Work

Suhr trained with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and runs training courses for them.^[4] She also writes articles for national newspapers and magazines, including contributions to Period Living.^[5]

In October 2005, Suhr joined Richard Chartres, Bishop of London at St Giles in the Fields, London, to launch a new maintenance project for the capital's historic churches.^[6]

In Restoration, she toured the United Kingdom looking for restoration projects, repairing old buildings, mixing building mud and dowsing.^[3]

On her own account, she restored a derelict thatched cottage in Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire, with a friend. On completion of the project, in May 2005, she advised "Don't expect to make money on a project if you're going to do it properly. It involves a lot of time, expensive materials and specialist craftsmen. Estimate the cost and duration of the work, then double both."^[7] In 2006, with her partner Richard, she renovated a timber-framed house in Oxfordshire as a home.^[8]

On British house-hunters in France, she has said:^[9]

Publications

• Urban Renewal Berlin: Experience Examples Prospects (Senate Building and Housing Department, 1991)
• Old House Handbook: a Practical Guide to Care and Repair (with Roger Hunt) (London, Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2008,)
• Old House Eco Handbook: a Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability (with Roger Hunt) (London, Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2013,)

External links

• Profile: Marianne Suhr Building surveyor and co-presenter of the BBC's Restoration series at British Library Direct

Notes and References

1. Web site: Biographies . 2012-10-10 . BBC.
2. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1437706/ Marianne Suhr
3. http://www.electricsky.com/catalogue_detail.aspx?program=860 Project: Restoration
4. Web site: The Old House Consultancy :: Profile . 2024-05-14 . oldhouseconsultancy.co.uk.
5. http://www.homebuildingshow.co.uk/experts/Marianne-Suhr.aspx Speaker Profile: Marianne Suhr, H&R Period Property Expert
6. http://www.maintainyourbuilding.org.uk/press/00002.html Support from on high for gutter project!
7. https://archive.today/20120913230105/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2005/06/01/pmarianne29.xml A proper Restoration job
8. https://archive.today/20070625164524/http://www.periodliving.co.uk/Features.aspx?Action=826436321&ID=fc92d185-03bf-46c8-ba5f-e28d7d178137 Marianne Suhr's Renovation Diaries
9. https://web.archive.org/web/20060406035453/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2006/02/08/pruin08.xml How not to wreck a French ruin