Search Results

In medieval times St John's was a cluster of timber-framed houses round the church, and a busy junction on the roads to Malvern, Hereford and Leominster.

The elegant Georgian house on the right of the road has been converted to offices.

Maffey's has gone, and is now a private house with a portico. All the buildings beyond it have been demolished and replaced with modern development.

North of Grantham, set in its seven hundred acre landscaped deer park, Belton House was begun in 1685; it is architecturally conservative for that date with its cupola and balustraded flat roof.

is suggested that the remains of Herstmonceux Castle form part of the oldest brick mansion in Britain; it was built in 1441, following a grant from the King to Roger de Fiennes to 'embattle' his manor-house

Petworth House was re-built at the end of the 17th century; it incorporated a 13th-century chapel and undercroft that was already on the site.

Amberley Castle, which lies on higher ground above the River Arun's flood plain, is in fact a fortified manor house constructed between the 13th and 16th centuries by the Bishops of Chichester as part

Oast houses like these can be seen in the east and middle of the county; they were used for storing hops, which were dried before being despatched to the local brewery.

By 1960 more than 30 years had passed since the house had been given a Jacobean-style facelift. The bastard son of Richard III is buried at the ancient village church.

They have acquired plastic shopfronts at ground level, and now house a tile shop, a dental practice and an Indian restaurant. The block in the background dates from the middle of the 20th century.

Now 'The Inn at Whitewell', the place has a reputation for serving good food and was built towards the end of the 14th century as a manor house by Walter Urswyck, a Keeper in the Royal Forest.

Behind the two buses stands the County Sessions House, its splendid multi-columned tower rising over 170 feet into the air.

This pretty village has a number of attractive houses. This picture shows the varied building materials used in Norfolk: flint, clay-lump and the famous Norfolk Red brick.

Beyond the Tavern, the Half Moon Pub had been a beer house for at least fifty years. It is now closed.

Here on the left is the estate office of the Manor House, further up the lane.

The shop is an old property, and so is the long barn (left) under the trees, but some newer houses have appeared. This is limestone country, and there are underground streams and caves hereabouts.

Tenby has observed the weather for the Meteorological Office since 1892, and the tower still houses the sunshine meter.

In the post-war period the provision of Local Authority housing increased to meet the demands of a rising population.

The building dividing the junction was built in 1739 as a toll-house, but since the late 1930s it has been the home of Hudson's ice cream.

On the right is a fine display of baskets and tinware, although the street was known at one time for its slaughter houses.

Maffey's has gone, and is now a private house with a portico. All the buildings beyond it have been demolished and replaced with modern development.

Historian Arthur Mee described Botley as 'a delightful old town with quaint shops, handsome houses, and pretty inns'.William Cobbett was equally fulsome, maintaining that Botley had everything in it

It is also here that Stoke-on-Trent's world-famous collection of Staffordshire figures, pottery, porcelain and ceramics are housed in a superb museum.

We are looking westwards to the Victorian skyline of Westgate and along the cliffs to Ledge Point.At the time this picture was taken,Tower House Retreat at Westgate, founded in 1879, was the only