Recent emergency recording (Britain, national monuments, preservation)

This article is the fifth in a regular series on discoveries made during emergency recording work by some of the national agencies. As in previous years, there appears to be no shortage of unexpected discoveries to be recorded, such as a medieval hall house in Carmarthenshire and some fascinating nineteenth-century industrial survivals, including a coffin-furniture maker in Birmingham and a printer in Denbigh. Regular readers may notice that schools have featured in all but one of the past five years. Along with some other types of institutional buildings, schools are particularly vulnerable to change, especially when small buildings may become redundant as a result of economies of scale. As ever, we are most grateful for their help in providing information and illustrations to Richard Suggett of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of England, now of English Heritage. The editor would welcome comments on the value of this compilation and in order to assist those inquiring about a particular site contact names and addresses are given at the end of the article.