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I live in a small listed house (village toll house) and we’ve managed to improve the heat retention and insulate as much as possible with really not much issues from planning department.
We’ve had all new double glazed sash and case windows and I installed secondary glazing which is incredible at sound reduction as well as heat retention. I replaced all the floors (which were no original) and insulated underneath and we’ve added and replaced existing skylights with heritage ones which are better performing than the 30 years velux things when we moved in.
The only thing we can’t do is solar and external insulation and internal would just make the house too tiny (it’s already tiny).
I don’t think being in a listed building is nearly as much of an issue as folk make it - but maybe we’ve been lucky.