English Buildings

Sea views I suppose I'm not the first person to notice that there have evolved, over the years, certain styles of house that seem espe...

Upstairs Watching my aged mother-in-law, a few months before the end of her life, bravely tackling the two steps up to our front door,...

High Street heroes At first glance, this striking shop front is confusing, first because it’s not the 17th-century building it might ...

Blink and you miss it A few years ago I made my first visit to Bury St Edmunds and, keen to see the cathedral and various other architect...

Wood and wind When landlord Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie and his architect F. Forbes Glennie created Thorpeness as a holiday village, they gav...

Moving building For as long as I can remember, I’ve admired the combination of ingenuity and functionalism represented by the typical Engl...

Cloud-capped tower There really is nowhere quite like Thorpeness, a 1920s seaside village, all weatherboarding, timber-framing (or is it m...