English Buildings

Fragments I sometimes feel sorry for archaeologists. They can spend months digging for a couple of potsherds and a post hole, and then ...

Postcards from England: 1. Old and new In five years of blogging I've visited and passed by many buildings, and shared a good numbe...

A house and its garden I first saw Rousham when I was a teenager, and I can remember being somehow surprised by the house. There seemed...

Right stuff, White Stuff “Ah, I know what that will be,” I thought to myself, looking up above a shop called White Stuff in the main st...

A bold front Pargetting, decoratively moulded exterior plasterwork, is a technique I associate with Suffolk, where plastered walls bear i...

Five early pieces: 5 My final reprise (for now) is one of my smallest buildings (and one of my shortest posts). The roundhouse in Melksha...

Five early pieces: 4 Another celebratory 5th-anniversary reposting, this time of a favourite landmark in a small Northamptonshire town....