English Buildings

Well floored Buildwas Abbey, where the Resident Wise Woman and I were pleased to find ourselves on our own in an atmosphere of almost monast...

  Not quite doomed We know it’s all fleeting now, don’t we? In these times of pandemic and climate change we know that things we’ve taken fo...

Made to measure? Wall boxes are quite a common feature of Britain’s streetscapes. They’ve existed since the 1850s and provided the Post Offi...

A house in a day? This house in Much Wenlock is called Squatter’s Cottage. The implication is that it was built by a squatter, who put up a ...

Gothick delight I caught sight of this house on a late-afternoon walk in Much Wenlock. I’d already noticed one or two other examples in the ...

Staggering architecture This is a building that startled me in two distinct ways when I was looking at the wonderful 18th-century clothiers’...

  Maritime Lynn, 2 As well as the Pilot Office for people managing the shipping in the harbour and its approaches, the other prominent archi...