English Buildings

Hot hut Here is another look back at a building I saw at the ChiItern Open Air Museum back in last summer. It is, as many of my readers will...

  Corrugated surprise There’s a way of thinking about architecture that puts building materials in a hierarchy of prestige and value. At the...

Any excuse… …for a bit of corrugated iron and an old advertising sign. Yes, they’re things I am particularly drawn to. I like corrugated iro...

The Worm Years ago, when I started this blog, Great Malvern station was one of the buildings I wanted to include. Its combination of impres...

The joys of the wriggly stuff Up there in the list of my obsessions are various things that are not strictly architecture, but which are adj...

Tin tabernacle As regular readers will know, I’m a great fan and regular user of Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England books, to which I ...

  Not quite doomed We know it’s all fleeting now, don’t we? In these times of pandemic and climate change we know that things we’ve taken fo...

More curves Bear with me, patient reader, as I indulge my interest with yet one more bit of corrugated iron. The key to the material’s succe...

Curvy   Somewhere in rural Worcestershire, on a road I use quite often when there are no restrictions on travel, these pleasant curves pop u...

  Buildings great and small   A while back, well before the curse that is Covid 19 restricted everyone’s movements, my son and his girlfrien...

Job done These are probably the humblest of all railway buildings. They’re lamp huts or tool sheds, and these corrugated iron versions, just...

Pantiles I’ve always admired the rippling effect of a traditional pantile roof. The ripple comes from the S-shaped profile of the panti...

Halting for a moment One of the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic for our household has been a change in the way we buy our food...

Nissen and his huts The other day I was driving to Cirencester and the route was blocked by roadworks in a village. I took the prescri...

Flexible, portable, durable The Northamptonshire town of Brackley is somewhere I’ve visited often, but on my most recent visit I left ...

Six of the best: Old iron Since my last two posts – one on a house clad in corrugated iron in Mordiford, Herefordshire, one featuring ...

Flat-pack houses, Edwardian style Thinking about the corrugated-iron house in the previous post , I thought I should have a look in a cat...

Off the radar I’m always on the look-out for interesting corrugated iron buildings. They’re mostly off the radar, not the sort of thing...

A twinge of nostalgia Making a trip to Salisbury the other day, I decided to divert and look at the church at Farley, a rather beautifu...

Changing times, changing materials Shape and form are of the essence of architecture. They’re a huge part of what gives a building its ch...