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Heritage Craft Placements
Browse work placements with verified heritage craft specialists across the UK. Free for 16–25 pre-apprenticeships; the same hosts also accept screened adult career changers on selected listings (look for the “Open to career changers” tag).
Westmoor Stoneworks Trust
An opportunity to work in Westmoor's stoneyard. You will be assigned to a journeyman mason working on the current conservation programme, learning to read historic stone, select appropriate replacement stone, and use traditional hand tools. The placement provides a strong foundation for a career in conservation masonry.
Brookehaven Estate Trust
Brookehaven's joinery workshop produces and repairs timber elements throughout the house and its many outbuildings. Students will work on live projects using both hand tools and traditional machines, learning to make mortice-and-tenon joints, repair sash windows, and understand historic timber species selection.
Marshfield Hall
Conservation stonemasonry placement at one of England's finest historic estates. Work alongside experienced masons on estate buildings, walled gardens, and traditional farm structures. Experience includes lime mortar work, stone repair, and understanding regional stone types.
Wansford House Conservation
Work alongside our lead roofing team on the roofs and turrets of Wansford House. You will learn to cut, dress and solder lead sheet using traditional methods, and understand why lead remains the material of choice for complex historic roof forms. Safety training and all PPE provided.
Marshfield Hall
Work with our estate bricklayers repairing and repointing Victorian walled garden structures using traditional lime mortars. You will learn to match historic bonding patterns, mix lime mortar by hand, and understand the difference between repointing and re-facing.
Ravenmere Castle
Ravenmere's conservation team maintains over a mile of medieval curtain wall and a range of towers, gatehouses and ancillary buildings. Students gain hands-on experience cutting and bedding replacement stonework in lime mortar, and understand the principles of like-for-like repair in a scheduled ancient monument.
Wansford House Conservation
Learn traditional lime plastering techniques used in the interior conservation of the house's state rooms and servant quarters. You will understand the three-coat lime plaster system, work with hair-reinforced backing coats, and carry out finishing work to match historic surfaces.
Westmoor Stoneworks Trust
Join our carving studio for two weeks and learn the basics of architectural stone carving under the guidance of our resident carver. You will work on small practice pieces before contributing to simple decorative repairs. Students leave with a completed carving piece to take home.