ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to increase awareness about the extent, nature, value and condition of historic timber roofs in Scotland in order to understand what their conservation needs are. It shows that Preliminary results obtained from the creation of a relational database of 1550 buildings, related mapping, survey of 56 buildings of the period across Scotland and historical/archival research. The chapter aims to increase awareness about the extent, value and nature of seventeenth and eighteenth century timber roofs in Scotland and to understand what their conservation needs are. An initial survey and assessment of 56 buildings across Scotland has allowed identifying different roof structural types, their design, development and their pathologies and possible causes. Seventeenth and eighteenth century Scottish built heritage has not been sufficiently researched. A relational database and mapping of seventeenth and eighteenth century Scottish buildings has been developed and used to select 56 key buildings to survey.
