Tim is an apprentice trained, award winning bricklayer, who in his early twenties attended night school, then undertook a degree in archaeology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, followed by a Masters at the University of York.

Throughout his career he continued to work practically, pioneering the reintroduction of lime finishes to Scotland and crucially, this practical work was predicated on archaeological evidence rather than assumed values. Training the next generation of young builders has been a core value of his working life and this continues through the management of the Lime Finishes Group.

Major projects include The Great Hall at Stirling Castle and Kilcoe Castle in S.W Cork (picture, left). He retired in 2018 to undertake his PhD at the University of Stirling, The Cultural and physical factors in the history and development of traditional external wall coatings in Scotland, gaining his doctorate early in 2023.

Tim is co-author of Historic Scotland's Technical Papers 31and 33. He is now a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Stirling.