HerilisT
Vintage & Listed Property Specialists
Formerly M. Kirk Plumbing & Building Services
HerilisT provides specialist property management, restoration, repair, and maintenance services for vintage, listed, and historically sensitive properties across Yorkshire.
With over 35 years of hands-on building fabric experience, HerilisT combines traditional craftsmanship with practical modern reliability — supporting private homeowners, landlords, estates, and property managers responsible for buildings that require informed care rather than generic maintenance.
From private residences to larger heritage properties, we coordinate trusted specialist trades including stonemasons, plumbers, electricians, joiners, decorators, roofers, and traditional craftspeople — assembling the right team for each building and every stage of work.
Property Management & Building Care
Older properties require continuity, observation, and timely intervention.
We provide responsive maintenance and long-term management support for:
- Listed and heritage properties
- Character homes and period buildings
- Landlords and managed rentals
- Estates and multi-building portfolios
- Buildings requiring sensitive repair approaches
Our work includes both day-to-day maintenance and larger restoration programmes, with careful attention given to original materials, structural longevity, and the overall character of the building.
Restoration & Repair
We specialise in sympathetic renovations, sensitive repairs, and responsive building maintenance where inappropriate modern intervention can often create long-term damage.
Whether addressing:
- Lime mortar and breathable masonry
- Water ingress and drainage issues
- Roof and leadwork repairs
- Plumbing failures in older buildings
- Stonework deterioration
- Poor previous repairs
- Long-overdue maintenance works
We approach each building individually — respecting its age, materials, and intended function.
We work where stone meets timber, where lead meets slate, and where traditional materials still need room to breathe.
Traditional Craftsmanship. Modern Reliability.
While our approach is rooted in traditional building knowledge, HerilisT is equally focused on practical response and dependable service.
We provide:
- Rapid response plumbing assistance
- Emergency stabilisation & loss mitigation
- Planned maintenance works
- Building fabric inspections
- Property management support
- Specialist contractor coordination
Our aim is simple:
To protect buildings properly, reduce avoidable deterioration, and provide dependable long-term support for the people responsible for them.
Custodianship, Not Development.
Some structures deserve careful stewardship rather than unnecessary disruption.
HerilisT exists to restore, maintain, and protect buildings with respect for craftsmanship, history, and long-term continuity.
We believe in buildings with memory, houses with breath, and repairs carried out with restraint rather than excess.
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