English Buildings

The white stuff When I lived in Notting Hill I occasionally walked past this block of flats on Campden Hill Road. As one often does wh...

Heraldic Coade I was admiring a neoclassical shop front near Bath's Pulteney Bridge when my eye was caught by the royal arms above th...

Bird spotting A while back I posted some decorative tile panels advertising post cards and road maps, from the front of a branch of W H S...

Number one, and Number Six Pevsner classifies the houses of Buckingham Place, in the little enclave between Buckingham Palace and Victo...

Together again Some time ago I posted a curious capital from the church at Ludgershall in Buckinghamshire in which, instead of the usu...

A nice slice A nice slice of brown bread and honey always seems to conjure up for me images of pleasant winter evenings in front of the f...

Postcards from England: 2. Shells suit The next in my series of postcards of buildings is the Shell House in Polperro. Originally a 19t...