English Buildings

Tower of strength In the Napoleonic era, Britain feared a French invasion and between 1796 and 1815, a string of 103 towers were built along...

Almost perfect… It’s almost a perfect Georgian town house, the sort of residence that a prominent citizen of a provincial town might build....

A quoit and its context Cornwall is known for some of Britain’s most striking prehistoric remains, notably quoits, stone structures consisti...

Lost industry In eastern Cornwall the other week, and driving towards the Devon border and the house of friends we were to visit, it occurre...

The business end Cotehele is a wonderful house (see previous posts about our visit last month) but I want to pay tribute to one aspect tha...

The beauties of imperfection Modern window glass is almost perfectly flat, flatter than any pancake. It also has few if any internal imperfe...

An ancient place Cotehele is one of the most romantically beautiful houses in the care of the National Trust.* It was built by three genera...