Marianne Suhr MRICS (born c. 1969) is an English Chartered Building Surveyor, writer, and expert on historic buildings. She co-presented the television series Restoration with Ptolemy Dean and Griff Rhys Jones.Marianne Suhr at imdb.com, accessed 23 July 2008Project: Restoration at electricsky.com, accessed 23 July 2008
Work Suhr trained with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and runs training courses for them. She also writes books, and articles for national newspapers and magazines, including contributions to Period Living.Speaker Profile: Marianne Suhr, H&R Period Property Expert at homebuildingshow.co.uk, accessed 23 July 2008
In October 2005, Suhr joined Richard Chartres, Bishop of London at St Giles in the Fields, London, to launch a new maintenance project for the capital's historic churches.Support from on high for gutter project! , press release at maintainyourbuilding.org.uk, accessed 23 July 2008
In Restoration, she toured the United Kingdom looking for restoration projects, repairing old buildings, mixing building mud and dowsing.
On her own account, she restored a derelict thatched cottage in Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire, with a friend. On completion of the project, in May 2005, she advised "Don't expect to make money on a project if you're going to do it properly. It involves a lot of time, expensive materials and specialist craftsmen. Estimate the cost and duration of the work, then double both." In 2006, with her partner Richard, she renovated a timber-framed house in Oxfordshire as a home. dated 23 November 2006 (from January 2007 issue of Period Living magazine), accessed 23 July 2008
On British house-hunters in France, she has said:How not to wreck a French ruin, The Daily Telegraph, accessed 23 July 2008
Publications Urban Renewal Berlin: Experience Examples Prospects (Senate Building and Housing Department, 1991) Old House Handbook: a Practical Guide to Care and Repair (with Roger Hunt) (London, Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2008, ) Old House Eco Handbook: a Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability (with Roger Hunt) (London, Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2013, )
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External links Profile: Marianne Suhr Building surveyor and co-presenter of the BBC's Restoration series at British Library Direct