Ellen Leslie

Ellen Leslie MA DipCons(AA) FRSA is a heritage consultant and historian providing a research service across the UK for building conservation specialists and other property professionals as well as private home owners. 

Her work supports planning applications and requests for listed building consent, in the form of heritage reports and assessments.

The research can also simply satisfy a homeowner's curiosity uncovering the story of the house, from who's lived there to how it has structurally changed over the decades and centuries. Ellen also carries out other forms of historical investigation, including family and business history, helping to establish the provenance of antiques or artefacts or providing research services for authors.

Ellen studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. There she attained the Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Historic Buildings. She completed an MA in Historical Research at Birkbeck College in 2014. She had graduated with Honours in Politics, Philosophy and History from the same college in 2001.

Ellen is a member of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB), an Affiliate member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) and a member of the Royal Historical Society (RHS). Ellen is a trustee of the Zibby Garnett Travel Fellowship, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a former Guardian of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

Ellen regularly gives talks and her day-to-day work and historic building's news can be followed on her Facebook Page  ""Ellen Leslie - Historic Buildings Research"