English Buildings

G'day! The Coronet, Notting Hill Gate, was once my local cinema. I must have passed it hundreds of times and have seen a few movies...

Urns and tuns Looking at this elaborate attic feature, with its scrolls, urns, and terracotta swag, one would be forgiven for thinking it...

More festive letters As a follow-up to my post about the lettering on the Woolpack pub in Slad, here's an example of something along ...

Associations There are buildings that are more important for their associations than for their architecture. The Woolpack, the vil...

What goes round… Once upon a time we all sent lots of letters. Often we'd run out of postage stamps and the Post Office and shops w...

The looker-on After my post about the lovely late-medieval manor house of Treago , someone asked me whether I'd been inside this fasc...

Towers among trees This charming house caught my eye as I glimpsed it across fields and through trees. Called Treago, it was originally...