English Buildings

Timber tower My recent posts have been about timber-framed houses, but here's something more unusual: a timber-framed church tower. T...

Paycocke's displayed Last for now in my line of posts about timber-framed houses is Paycocke's, the beautiful merchant's hous...

On-street irregular In contrast to the rather grand timber-framed houses in my previous posts, here's a more modest example from H...

In the Weald This post continues my short series on timber-framed buildings with another type that is associated with a specific  Engli...

Dazzler One of my readers asked me, in response to the previous post about a building in Buckinghamshire, whether I had any thoughts on...

Bucks bricks Walking around Wendover looking at house fronts and brickwork, I was soon struck by Vine Tree House, with its front of about...

Pepper pot Boston Stump, the Gherkin, the Shard: we like to give nicknames to buildings, especially towers, of unusual shape, and this ...