English Buildings

The heart and the honeysuckle, revisited Walking around Cheltenham this afternoon I was reminded that I was going to post an example o...

Backward glance (5): A tall house near the Gate This backward glance focuses on an area of London in which I lived for a while. Its pat...

Brighton cheerful Grubbing around in Brighton back-streets looking for the work of local architect Amon Wilds, I came across this lovel...

Perceptions of the doors (1) Doors and doorways can tell you quite a lot about a building, or about the people who live there. I’m rather...

A tall house near the Gate Clanricarde Gardens, just off Notting Hill Gate, is a street of very tall, narrow houses built between 1869 an...

Say it large On my way to visit friends near Mornington Crescent the other day, I decided to take a detour around the edge of Regent’s Park ...

Windows on the world Every time I go to Bath I marvel at its Georgian architecture. The way both individual buildings and the larger plan...