English Buildings

Extreme windows From the Cotswolds to London, the dormer window provides an excellent way of squeezing a little more accommodation out of...

Harold Pinter, who died this Christmas, had been making us smile, and laugh, and wince, and think with his plays for 50 years. It occurred t...

The silver swan Swans – elegant, silent, monogamous, soft of down but powerful of wing – are amongst the most emblematic of our birds. Th...

Eastward ho! Only a couple of miles from the Stow house in the previous post is this cottage on the edge of the village of Lower Swell. V...

Stone roses There are some buildings that just make me smile, no matter how often I see them. This is one: a house of about 1730 (now a c...

The end of the road Take the steepest and narrowest of the roads leading out of the town where I live, a route that rises rapidly up the Cot...

My world, and welcome to it It’s customary, even in these difficult times, to count the number of shopping days to Christmas. But this ye...