Simon Thomas Herrick BSc, DipArch (Birmingham), RIBA trained at Leeds and Birmingham Schools of Architecture and still managed economics and social history at the University of Surrey in Guildford. He graduated from Birmingham in July 1978.

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Early in his career he worked at Birmingham City Council Architects’ Department and Walsall Borough Council Architects’ Department. In private practice he worked for Alan McChesney AIA in West Chester, Pennsylvania and for Bob Harrison RIBA in North London. Before setting up his own practice in Stratford-on-Avon in 1988, he was the Conservation Architect at Solihull Council in the West Midlands. There, his finest moment was to establish Ashleigh Road as a Conservation Area.

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Apart from his architectural work, he has written various books and publications and has contributed to books and publications by other authors (mainly in association with Alan Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire). Occasionally he teaches and lectures.

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Not surprisingly, his architectural work is inventive and varied. It responds to client brief, context and budget. It is often within Conservation Areas or is associated with Listed Buildings, or both. Like Alan McChesney, he draws with a pencil.

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His whole career has been inspired by his home town of Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire and particularly Ozleworth Church, two valleys away.