English Buildings

Keep safe   Stuck indoors the other day, I found myself looking something up in The English Buildings Book , a volume of nearly 400 pages th...

Rustic Gothic  Here’s just the sort of thing for a mid-19th century garden-owner to relax in after a few hard hours digging or weeding. It’s...

  Summer days, 4 For my final post in this short series about seaside buildings, here’s a very different structure on the Quay in Dartmouth....

  Summer days, 3 On one of many recent days stuck in doors, the Resident Wise Woman reflected that it was fortunate at least that we’d manag...

Summer days, 2 This bit of seaside domestic architecture made me pause, and took me back. It’s years since I saw the film Mary Poppins (in ...

Summer days, 1  As the sleet came down in late December, I found myself looking through my files of photographs and came across a number tak...

  Tapestry If the Herefordshire farmyard in my previous post presented a pleasant contrast between timber and brickwork, this large barn nea...