English Buildings

  Friars and their successors Anyone alighting from the train at Beverley station should find it easy enough to locate the remains of the me...

  Embarrassment of riches? This is the magnificent railway station building at Needham Market, an impressive Jacobean revival design by Fred...

  A spirit of place and time I have visited Chastleton House before, but the other week the Resident Wise Woman and I decided that it was ti...

Resurrection Readers who would like to see some older timber-framed architecture, after two posts on half-timbered buildings of the 19th an...

Aid for the industrious Wondering along an unfamiliar street in Hereford, I came across this arch, looking like a Jacobean relic stranded in...

A glimpse of the heavens En route across Somerset, I decided to stop at Muchelney, where I’d not been for years. I planned to revisit the m...

Sledgehammered I was saddened to read about the demolition of a Jacobean plaster ceiling in a building in Bristol the other day. This b...

The real thing After Jacobean revival doorway of the previous post , here’s an example of a genuine Jacobean manor house. It’s Yarnton ...

A ‘sort of Jacobethan’ This doorway in the middle of Northampton, sandwiched between two shops, is easy to miss. Easy to miss, that is, u...

Local colour On a somewhat unproductive day, I thought I'd go through my photographs of some of the places I've visited recentl...

Rooms with a view Rounding a bend in a lane in Shropshire, I caught a sudden glance of a small pointed roof and stopped to find this li...

On-street irregular In contrast to the rather grand timber-framed houses in my previous posts, here's a more modest example from H...

Dazzler One of my readers asked me, in response to the previous post about a building in Buckinghamshire, whether I had any thoughts on...

A glimpse of gables After a short walk around the restored docks at Lydney when I watched mist lift from the River Severn, I walked bac...

Stone, glass, and sunshine The recent cold weather, which has clad the Cotswolds in ice and snow, has meant I’ve not been much out and about...