English Buildings

In a Bath tea-shop I have a certain fondness for old enamel advertising signs – their strong colours and period letterforms are hard to...

Corrugated irony Regular readers will not be surprised to see me posting a brightly coloured corrugated iron garage. I have a weakness ...

Well glazed Bumbling around Shropshire in search of timber-framed buildings, I came across this small gem: a Primitive Methodist chapel d...

In the sun My visit to Hook Norton reminded me that it was almost exactly seven years since I went there to look at the brewery . And,...

High windows Finding myself near Hook Norton the other day, and recalling that my most memorable trip there involved a visit to the bre...

A world of wood Perhaps it should be one of the rules for the architectural traveller. As well as ‘Look up’, ‘Walk along alleys’, and ‘Go...

How Tudor is it? Admiring the King’s Arms in the middle of the Northamptonshire village of Farthingstone (my photograph is taken from the...