House surveys in Herefordshire

Herefordshire is one of the most rural counties in England, with the cathedral city of Hereford and a handful of market towns set among orchards, hop yards and farmland. The county is famous for black-and-white timber-framed buildings, which are found in Leominster, Ledbury and villages along the Black and White Village Trail, while the local Old Red Sandstone gives Ross-on-Wye and much of the countryside their red stone buildings. The River Wye and its tributaries, including the Lugg and Frome, flood regularly. Survey issues include timber-frame decay, damp in solid stone walls, listed building controls and flood risk.