Roger Hunt studied stage management at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then worked in film, television and photography. Loving history and having been intrigued by building techniques and materials since childhood he started writing about buildings. He is now an award winning writer with a particular interest in both sustainable and vernacular architecture and the materials and techniques used in construction.
Roger is the co-author, with Marianne Suhr, of Old House Handbook in association with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. He is the author of Rural Britain: Then and Now, a celebration of the British countryside featuring photographs from The Francis Frith Collection; Villages of England; and Hidden Depths, an archaeological exploration of Surrey's past. He also contributed a chapter to the Reader's Digest book The Story of Where you Live and wrote Hamptons International's millennium book The House 1000-2000. Currently he is writing a follow up to Old House Handbook which will look at retrofitting buildings to make them more sustainable.
His work appears in magazines such as Show House, a title aimed at the housebuilding industry, Period Living, House & Garden, Grand Designs, Homebuilding & Renovating, Real Homes and Listed Heritage.
Roger Tweets regularly and, as well as blogging on his own huntwriter.com site, is a guest blogger on sustainability for British Gas.
He was named B2B Property Journalist of the Year at the Headline Property Awards 2008; was highly commended in the Sustainable/Environmental Property Journalist of the Year category of the LSL Property Press Awards 2011; and was runner up as Best Newcomer in the primelocation.com Blog Awards 2010.
Roger is a judge of the What House? Awards for new housing and is on the editorial board of Cornerstone, the magazine of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB). He has lectured for the SPAB and at the National Homebuilding & Renovating Show and the National Home Improvement Show.
Roger is interested in landscaping gardens and renovating houses. Although based in the UK, his latest renovation project is Tashmoo, a 1900 house on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, USA.
