Book a House Story Consultation

Confirm your period home's research potential

Our House Story Consultation helps you understand which service best suits your period home through a clear, carefully guided process.

After booking: Pre-consultation form

Once your consultation is booked, we will send you a short Pre-Consultation Information Form to complete and return. This allows us to prepare properly, understand your property in advance, and make the most of our initial conversation. Once we have received your completed form, we will send you a link to arrange your consultation call.

Step 1: Consultation call

We begin with a relaxed 20–30 minute conversation. During the call, we listen carefully, ask thoughtful questions, and begin to build a picture of both your property and what you hope to uncover. It is also an opportunity to clarify key details and set expectations for the next stage.

Step 2: Feasibility assessment

Within 7-14 days, we’ll carry out a high-level assessment of the historical records likely to survive for your home and its surroundings, using online sources and archive catalogues. This helps us understand the depth of material available and the level of House Story to which your property is best suited.

Step 3: Personal recommendation

Once the assessment is complete, we will recommend the House Story best suited to your home’s research potential and talk you through the next steps, answering any questions you may have along the way.

Consultation price: £100 (fully credited toward your House Story)

Please note: House Stories begin from £3,000 - find out more

If you’re ready to begin, book your consultation below and we’ll look forward to learning more about your home.

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*To help us prepare properly for your consultation call, we kindly ask that your Pre-Consultation Information Form and any supporting material are returned within 3 working days of booking. Please be aware that anything received later than this may delay the process.

Once we have received your completed form, we will send you a link to arrange your initial consultation call. If you need to reschedule your consultation call, we are happy to do so with at least 24 hours’ notice. Please note that missed consultation calls without notice are non-refundable.

Questions before booking? Please get in touch

FAQs

  • You don't need to - you can book your House Story directly and get started straight away. Booking directly means your project is placed into our schedule from the outset and the process begins sooner.

    Every House Story already includes a consultation as part of the journey, and if we find during the feasibility stage that a different package would be a better fit, we'll let you know and adjust if agreed.

    If you'd prefer to have a conversation before committing, a consultation is always available - but it isn't a necessary first step.

  • The aim of our feasibility assessment is to provide confidence in the depth of research available for your home and to identify which House Story is likely to be the best fit. In over 90% of cases, we are able to do this within the time available for the consultation.

    If, during the consultation, it is only possible to confirm a smaller House Story than the one you may have had in mind, we will always recommend the level we are currently confident in fulfilling. Further exploratory research may still uncover enough to support a larger House Story, and where appropriate we will advise on that potential. This may involve speculative research in archive collections, further mapping of census records, or other work to identify the property more clearly in the surviving historical record.

    In rarer cases, it may not be possible to confirm any level of House Story with confidence without moving beyond the feasibility assessment into further exploratory research. If that happens, we will explain the position clearly and advise on the potential value of taking that next step. If you decide not to pursue it, we will provide a full refund of your consultation fee.

  • No. The consultation is designed to assess the research potential of your home rather than to carry out the research itself. You will receive our recommendation for the most suitable House Story, but the historical discoveries and findings form part of the House Story service itself.