English Buildings

Round-up I belong to a local Facebook group here in our corner of the Cotswolds. People post news, coming events, and other items of interes...

All about line I’d planned to go over to Frampton-on-Severn, stroll along the enormous village green, and look at some favourite buildings. ...

  A spirit of place and time I have visited Chastleton House before, but the other week the Resident Wise Woman and I decided that it was ti...

Inside view Anyone who looks at the different types of building that I write about on the English Buildings blog would be forgiven for think...

Where was I? Year: 1968. Scene: A red Humber Sceptre driving along a lane in remote Somerset, my father at the wheel, me in the passenger se...

Markers of significance Oh I do like a good sign. Shop signs, inn signs, ghost signs, road signs. Signs that tell us to ‘Commit no nuisance’...

  Welcome intervention I’ve written before about the many positive contributions to British culture made over the centuries by those who arr...