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Caption For Huttoft, The Church C1960

The church is a curious mix of greenstone and limestone giving a patchwork quilt effect, while the chancel is in brick.

Caption For Wainfleet, Woolpack Hotel C1955

Just off Market Place is the Wainfleet School of 1484, now the public library, another of Lincolnshire's medieval brick buildings, a long first floor hall with giant polygonal towers flanking the west

Caption For Leicester, The Town Hall C1950

After the piped water and the sewers came the benevolent face of bureaucracy in the new brick-faced Town Hall, designed by local architect F J Hames in 1876 in a friendly yet impressive Queen Anne

Caption For Chilham, Old Wives' Lees 1908

His brick Jacobean mansion, Chilham Castle, allegedly designed by Inigo Jones, stands on the west side of the Square at Chilham itself.

Caption For Ollerton, Thoresby Hall, The Queen Victoria Room C1965

To the north of the house Warner's have built a brick and stone-dressed bedroom block and a spa and health club.

Caption For Northampton, Park Avenue Methodist Church C1960

These architects had a prolific practice building non-conform- ist churches in a late Gothic style, usually in hard red brick with stone dressings, as here.

Caption For Sudbury, King Street C1955

The two brick buildings on the left are now Huffer's and Mill House Fabrics.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Bury House 1897

This view is of the west front of this attractive house which, beneath its roughcast facade of about 1800, is a mid 17th-century house with a late 16th-century parlour wing; the three brick stacks probably

Caption For Thetford, The Grammar School 1921

The school is a beautiful knapped flint and brick structure, and so is its surrounding wall; it was built in 1876.

Caption For Boston, Hussey Tower 1893

This mid 15th-century brick tower, here seen in rural tranquillity with cattle grazing, now sits amid football pitches near Boston College's Rochford Campus.

Caption For Shackleford, Village 1906

mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly trimmed hedges at the crossroads, and the weatherboard and brick

Caption For Portsmouth, The Floating Bridge, Crossing To Gosport 1898

In 1862 she became a boys' training ship, a role she fulfilled until 1906 when she was sent for breaking up.

Caption For Oving, Church And Black Boy Inn C1955

The cottage now has its stone exposed, and a lean-to conservatory replaces the brick lean-to.

Caption For Stourbridge, Lower High Street C1950

The contraption on the brick wall of Allin's Newsagents beside the pub is a vending machine.

Caption For Boxford, View From Church Tower C1965

The red brick Ashley House, with the large white gable (centre), was built for Joseph Simpson in 1875; due to its cost, it was known as Simpson's Folly.

Caption For Carlton In Lindrick, High Road C1965

Two miles south of Langold, Carlton in Lindrick is a village of two parts, the original village to the south and a large former colliery village with hard red brick semi-detached houses.

Caption For Boston, The Windmill C1965

This tall Lincolnshire-style brick tower mill, seven storeys high, was built in 1819; it was powered by five patent sails and winded by a fantail.

Caption For Ibstock, Main Street C1965

The discovery of a suitable brick-making clay in 1830 led to the opening of a second industry, which continues today.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square 1901

Beyond the Clocktower, the Georgian brick front belongs to the George Inn, which was replaced by Burtons in 1936.

Caption For North Tidworth, Holy Trinity Church C1965

The top of the canopy has been repaired in brick.