About Us
UK Heritage is a seller of premium architectural antiques. Founded in 2006, our 15,000 sq. ft reclamation yard in rural Herefordshire is home to our Heritage Galleries, showrooms and spacious warehouse, filled to the brim with hand-picked architectural antiques steeped in history.
Our Heritage
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2006
UK Heritage is Founded
After leaving university, Ben Couchman establishes UK Architectural Heritage in an old 18th century barn in the scenic rural countryside of Wormelow, Herefordshire. Known today as ‘Grove Barn’, this same building still forms part of our extensive 15,000 sq/ft site to this very day.
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2008
Our First Showroom
Starting out with less than 100 pieces of stock, UK Heritage rapidly expands, opening a showroom alongside Grove Barn dedicated to quality antiques and reclaimed fireplaces. At the same time, Ben also introduces his carefully-sourced architectural antiques to the online and international market, setting up the very first UK Heritage website.
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2010
Workshop Opens
UK Heritage opens a specialist in-house workshop, enabling more antiques destined for disuse to be respectfully restored, ready for reuse in interiors and gardens across the UK and further afield.
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2015
A New Warehouse
Almost 10 years after Ben founded UK Architectural Heritage, our reclamation yard in Herefordshire houses more than 1000 pieces. The site expands again, opening a brand new warehouse, offering more fascinating items than ever before.
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2024
Heritage Galleries
With more than 2500 antiques in-stock, 3 large modern warehouses and a dedicated UK Heritage team, our first floor showroom is transformed into a dedicated gallery space known as ‘Heritage Galleries’. This area showcases our most premier stock, each item brought to life with our signature blue backdrop.
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2025 & beyond
Future Plans
Sourcing quality architectural antiques and unique decorative pieces is Ben’s speciality. As UK Heritage grows, Ben and the team will continue to offer only the finest and most beautiful items to our customers, clients and designers across the globe. We strive to become leaders in our field, offering excellent customer service and exceptional presentation, all while investing in quality items and innovating the antiques world like you’ve never seen before.
Our Team
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Ben
Director
Ben is UK Heritage’s founder. He has a great eye for beautiful and historic pieces and loves nothing more than helping each architectural antique write a new chapter in its history. His knowledge of each piece is unparalleled. A walk with him around our showrooms can often feel more like a personal tour of a…
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Emily
Head of Web Content / Office Coordinator
Emily is UK Heritage’s Head of Web Content and Office Coordinator. You can find her upstairs in the office researching our items and telling the story of our unique architectural antiques. She also writes a range of content for our blog including insights into the varied styles of different historical eras, useful buying guides as…
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Will
Yard Supervisor
Will is UK Heritage’s Yard Supervisor. From the moment an architectural antique enters our yard to its delivery to you, Will ensures that every item is carefully processed and safely stored in our warehouse or displayed in our gallery and showroom spaces. When he’s not in the yard, Will can be found out on the…
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Hattie
Marketing & Brand Executive
Hattie is UK Heritage’s Marketing & Brand Executive. When she’s not upstairs in the office researching and writing about our architectural antiques, you’ll find her out and about in the yard, capturing videos of our most exciting antique arrivals and behind the scenes clips for our social media channels.
Our home in Herefordshire
Our impressive 15,000 sq/ft rural site in Herefordshire is one of the largest salvage yards in the UK, home to more than 2,500 antiques. Arranged around a courtyard, it includes an old 18th century barn and our dedicated Heritage Gallery showrooms as well as three large, modern warehouses, full to the brim with historical pieces. It only takes a quick walk around our spectacular showrooms to be enthused by our remarkable items, each hand-picked by our founder Ben for its beauty and provenance.
Who we work with
Since 2006, we’ve supplied unique architectural items to interior and garden designers, architects, filmmakers, retailers and private clients across the globe. Our list of previous customers is quite impressive too, having worked with Netflix, Claridge’s, Chelsea Flower Show and Warner Brothers, just to name a few.
Our Ethos
We Don’t Buy New
Sustainability is the beating heart of our business and in a world full of waste, we don’t want to contribute. Our antiques are hand-picked, salvaged from disuse and – when required – sympathetically restored by our specialist team so that the beauty of each architectural antique can be enjoyed for many more years to come.
Member of LAPADA
We are a member of LAPADA, the Largest Association of Professional Art and Antiques Dealers in the UK. As such, we abide by a strict Code of Practice and meet the highest standards of subject knowledge and antique quality. Find out more here.
Product Expertise
You know your project. We know our architectural heritage. Combine the two and we can help you find exactly what you’re looking for. For each and every item, we provide as much information as possible including a detailed report of condition and dimensions to ensure that you’ve got as much information as possible before you buy. From initial enquiry to delivery, our team is on hand every step of the way.