English Buildings

Show of strength   Framlingham Castle looks very impressive as you approach it from the town. Today the entrance is along a path bounded by ...

  Local industry Many people visit the Cotswolds, and most of them come to see quaint limestone cottages and medieval churches, and to walk ...

Have a butcher’s at this After a necessarily brief trip to Hereford recently, the Resident Wise Woman and I simultaneously came up with t...

Where is it? It’s odd, said a Czech friend, how many English houses have their chimneys at the end. We were having this conversation in s...

Added extra Bredon is in South Worcestershire. The low-lying apple-growing country of Evesham is not far away, but neither are the Cotswo...

Wood and stone Heading towards the church in Fownhope, I was distracted by this interesting house. I’m attracted by Herefordshire timber-...

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

Alternative settlements (1) From Turkey to Colombia, from Italy to Wales, there is a tradition that if you can build a house in a single ...