Profile: James Moir
Other roles
Formerly
Founder Member of Devon Buildings Group
Hon Secretary of North Devon Conservation Society
Chair Bucks Curators Group
Founder Member of Chiltern District Museums Group
Founder Member of Chiltern District Tourism Association
Founder Member of the Ecological Vernacular Buildings Forum
Member of Spatial Planning Advisory Group, Heritage Alliance
Member of English Heritage Buildings at Risk Officers Group
Chair of Judges, Chiltern Design Awards
Editor of Vernacular Architecture
Editor of APT News
Director of Heritage Hub, Berkhamsted
Currently
Chair of Buckinghamshire Historic Buildings Trust
Trustee of Berkhamsted Castle Trust
Memberships
I believe our built heritage – and the skills required to conserve and enhance it - lies at the heart of great place-making. I therefore help organisations and individuals achieve their goals to regenerate, manage, promote, or interpret their historic assets.
Publications
- Are you being listed? in Disappearing Devon (with P. Brain) Devon Books 1987
- South Molton Town Trail in Devon Town Trails: North Devon Devon Books 1988
- Vernacular Architecture: Open Air Museums and the Ecological Framework VA 28 1997
- Thatch in England 1790-1940 (with J. Letts): English Heritage 1999
- Chiltern Buildings Design Guide: Technical Note: Flint: The Chilterns Conservation Board 2003
- Past Premise, Future Promise: An Integrated Buildings Strategy for the Chilterns in 'New Perspectives on Chiltern Landscapes: Papers presented at the Chilterns Historic Environment Conference 2003' ed M. Solik
- Heritage Building Crafts (with Bob Bilbrough) in 'Crafts in the English Countryside: Towards a Future' ed E.J.T. Collins, Countryside Agency Publications 2004
- Chiltern Buildings Design Guide: Technical Note: Brick: The Chilterns Conservation Board 2006
- Chiltern Buildings Design Guide: Technical Note: Roofing Materials: The Chilterns Conservation Board 2007
- Technologies for Re-locating Buildings: Part 1: Norway in Structural Mover, Vol 25, No.1, March 2007, 62-68
- No. 173 High Street, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire: An analysis of a thirteenth-century urban timber-framed building in 'Vernacular Architecture' Vol 38, 2007, pp.48-57 (with A. Gibson & M. Dunn)
- Technologies for Re-locating Buildings: Part 2: China in Structural Mover, Vol 26, No.2, June 2008, 44-52
- Company Profile: Shanghai Evolution Building Shift Engineering Company in Structural Mover, Vol 26, No.2, June 2008, 54-58
- Working with Building Preservation Trusts in Context, No 114 May 2010 pp.11-12. See also 'Vox pop' pp.58-59
- Gentrification and the NPPF in Context, No 126 Sept 2012 pp
- Discover History in Rectory Lane Cemetery The Rectory Lane Cemetery Project, Publication 1, 2014
- Continuity and change in Northern Ireland: The potential of building preservation trusts in Context, No 140 July 2015,.15-17
- Geology Tour, Rectory Lane Cemetery, 2021
- New or Rew Street, Berkhamsted, Chronicle, 2022.