English Buildings

It's time for my latest selection of favourite posts from this blog, with a new set of links in the column to the right underneath The E...

Roadside eyecatcher We’re so used to rectangular and square buildings that different shapes stand out. This house, on the A361 in Northampto...

Inspired by Vanbrugh? Readers of my previous post may be interested to see a picture of the church at Horton that I mentioned there. It’s a...

Vantage point This tall brick tower, which dominates high ground near Chalbury Common in Dorset, is the kind of thing I normally leave to Pe...

Into the woods Driving around Dorset in search of churches and follies, I half expected to come across this house, having read about it i...

Jack and Percy Yes, those of you who saw my previous post about the notices will probably have guessed that it was Jack in the Green who arr...

'What, has this thing appeared again tonight?'* One aspect of looking at buildings is noticing the notices that appear on them. On m...