Historic Environment Scotland has produced a series of best practice guides on making alterations to historic buildings. 

If you are looking to extend or make alterations to any historic building, these short guides give practical advice on what to consider. The information is useful if you occupy a historic building or your company carries out work on behalf of clients with historic buildings.

The guides provide non-statutory guidance notes that explain how to apply government policies. They'll help ensure any changes you make are in line with the Scottish Planning Policy and the Historic Environment Policy for Scotland.

Each guide looks at a different topic and discusses:

• the key issues that might arise
• how best to deal with such issues
• the reasoning behind this advice
• additional sources of information

The guides are available to download in PDF format. Each file is less than 25 MB in size. 

This is a free service. 

This practical advice is useful if you occupy a historic building or your company carries out work on behalf of clients with historic buildings.

The time needed to read each guide varies. On average, it will take 10 to 20 minutes to read each one.

The guides provide non-statutory guidance notes on making alterations to historic properties, that explain how to apply government policies.

Visit the Historic Environment Scotland website to download and read the guides.