LIVERYMAN LUCY DENTON WRITES ABOUT STATIONERS' HALL IN COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE

About Lucy Denton

Lucy is an architectural historian, arts researcher and writer whose career began at an architects' practice in Yorkshire, before she won a placement at The Times newspaper's property section. She then moved on to a Scottish conservation practice in Edinburgh, and was set to work on a Conservation Management Plan on a Grade I Listed Victorian church located in a World Heritage Site researching primary sources in county archives - where she also found new evidence relating to its architectural attribution. After a stint at Phillips Auctioneers she finished her second degree, before taking up roles at Sotheby's, first in the Country House Sales, and then the Early British Paintings departments. She was a researcher to Sir Simon Jenkins for his book on country houses, and then went on to what is now ArtUK, a charity founded in 2003 by a former diplomat to catalogue and photograph oil paintings in public ownership; the catalogue for North Yorkshire, one of the first of the county compilations to be completed, was published in 2006.

A role at a rural regeneration company as heritage and arts specialist led to projects at Wentworth Woodhouse and many other country house estates around the UK; the historic buildings report on Wentworth Woodhouse as part of a Conservation Management Plan remains as one of the most comprehensive studies of the site undertaken to date. Independent consultancy work which followed included recording the collections of a Scottish castle, heritage reports for Savills, as well as an advisory role for a BBC series. 

 

She was then taken on by a London planning company where projects included Annabel’s Club on Berkeley Square and IWM Duxford, before becoming consultant to ADAM Architecture in 2019, along with a number of other practices, writing reports on country houses, townhouses and other sites. She has written articles for press and publications including Hudson’s Historic Houses, The London Magazine, the in-house magazine to 5, Hertford Street, an in-flight magazine for a British airline and more; she regularly writes for Country Life. She is also a consultant to the Rectory Society, and a founding Trustee of the Commonwealth Heritage Forum.