English Buildings

Off piste in Evesham, 1 Sometimes, when I have time on my hands in a familiar place (or a place I think of as familiar) I give myself the si...

  Caring It took me many visits to the Oxfordshire town of Chipping Norton before I came across the former hall of the Oddfellows, a philant...

Endangered species The White Bear in Shipston-on-Stour is one of those old inns with large bay windows and an elliptical arch to one side, l...

For vigour What’s this, in the park of the 18th-century house of Lydiard Tregoze, near Swindon? Not a sheep wash. Certainly not something fo...

Quirky things in quiet corners I begin blogging again with this eye-catching little building, which is in the showpiece village of Broadway....

Open again First, I offer my apologies to those regular readers who have come to like my posts of old and interesting English buildings. A p...

Light thrown on the familiar A brief stop in Taunton on my way deeper into southern Somerset a while ago saw the south facade of the castle...