People - Staff at Archaeology South-East

Maggie HENDERSON

• Historic Buildings Archaeologist

Research Interests
• Transition in terms of technology: the interface between traditional carpentry and the onset of engineering. How this filters through from large estates to more humble domestic buildings.
• Innovation in architecture.
• Wealth and display: the use of architectural components: materials, features, fixtures and fittings to display wealth.
• Historic water management: conduits, culverts, wells, cisterns and water towers. The relation between large estates and the towns or villages associated with them or historically dependant upon them.

Professional Skills
• Historic Building Recording and Analysis.
• Measured Survey - from hand drawn to 3D models created using a Total Station.
• Historic Building Photography.
• Advice on listed buildings and conservation matters

Career Summary
2006 - present - Senior Archaeologist (Historic Buildings), Archaeology South- East
2005 - 2006 - Historic Buildings Archaeologist, Self-employed
2002 - 2005 - Project Officer, John Moore Heritage Services, Oxford
2000 - 2002 - Surveyor and Archaeological Illustrator, AOC Archaology Ltd, London
1998 - 2000 - Archaeologist and Illustrator, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Edinburgh
1995 - 1998 - Freelance Archaeologist, Edinburgh

Qualifications
• 1995 - MA in Archaeology University of Edinburgh
• 2002 - Historic Building Survey, English Heritage
• 2002 - Photographing Historic Buildings, English Heritage

Membership of Learned Societies and Professional Recognition
• Member of the Vernacular Architecture Group



Key Projects
Kingpost, Elham, Kent (National Trust):
A late Medieval Wealden House with an inserted 16th century smoke bay and jettied first floor. Later developments to the house include the rebuilding of the former service end and the insertion of a substantial brick chimney stack in the 17th century.

Petworth House Attics, West Sussex (National Trust):
A detailed measured survey and analysis of the roof construction at the southern end of Petworth House. The work revealed a fine designed truss of early 18th century origin, inserted to carry an elaborately painted suspended ceiling over the great staircase.

Petworth House Woodyard Buildings, West Sussex (National Trust):
A detailed measured and interpretative survey of a complex of ancillary buildings associated with the manor house. The survey revealed the historic core of the structures to be of early 17th century origin and to have been purpose built to store and supply water to the house and town.

Chartwell House, Chartwell, Kent (National Trust):
A measured and interpretative survey of Chartwell House, the former home of Sir Winston Churchill. The survey revealed that the earliest phase of construction dated to the first half of the 16th century with many later additions and alterations culminating in the 1920s by a programme of work commissioned by Churchill and carried out by the architect Philip Tilden.


Childwickbury Water Tower, St Albans: A total station survey of a rare 18th century circular water tower.

Petworth House Attics (National Trust), West Sussex: A detailed measured survey and analysis of the roof construction at the southern end of Petworth House.

Scotney Castle Estate (National Trust), Kent: Vernacular buildings survey of a number of properties within the estate. The surveys included measured plans to create a base-line digital record of the Estate.

Knole, Sevenoaks (National Trust), Kent: A survey of the Orangery roof and the walls of Stone Court in addition to sub-surface survey of the courtyards of Stone Court and Green Court .

The Chantry House, Horsham: A phased analysis and interpretation of a 15th century timber framed building in Horsham, West Sussex.