Search Results

Strangely, in an area where most old timber houses are having their plaster removed, the black and white house pictured here has since been plastered and painted white.

The Friary was the Richmond town house of the Huttons, the squires of Marske; it later belonged to the Robinson family for many years.

The Friary was the Richmond town house of the Huttons, the squires of Marske; it later belonged to the Robinson family for many years.

Built in the early 19th century, Preshute House was home to the Rev P W Taylor, MA at the time of this photograph.

The house nearest the camera was once the village poorhouse. It dates from the 16th century.

This delightful house, originally known as Halton Grange, was built by the soap manufacturer, Thomas Johnson in the 1850s.

This great house near Fowey was the seat of the Rashleigh family. It was surrounded by its own wooded grounds, leading down to the sea at Polridmouth Bay.

To the east, beyond the town hall, houses grew up along the road out of the town as it descended off the ridge towards the River Colne.

Plenty of stone-built houses and cottages stand in the shadow of Wytham Great Wood, and just to the south lies 700-acre Wytham Park. The house is now part of Oxford University.

It is a beautiful Jacobean house, now in the care of the National Trust and open to visitors. Kipling's literary work 'Puck of Pook's Hill' (1906) is set in the area.

The White Lion, one of many public houses in the village, was called the Rose and Crown in 1766, when it formed part of a marriage settlement between Mary Field and John Smith of Hitchin.

The large shelter and the Jubilee fountain replaced the grand wrought iron gates of Torbay House as the focal point of Torbay Road.

The Plough pub, now a free house, can be found on the Warwick Road.

This photograph shows the range of substantial brick-fronted Georgian houses at the north end.

This five-storey L-plan tower house was built by the Earl of Mar in 1628. It was here in 1714 that a so-called hunt was assembled by John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar.

The Godolphins built the Angel as their town house in the 17th century, and it became a hotel in the mid 18th century.

The house and shop to the left have been demolished. Off to the left are the first rural council houses in England, built in 1893.

The Palladian-style building on the extreme left of the picture houses the Council offices; the town's court house was formerly here.

The house on the left - The Laurels - is now, indeed, called Pond House.

These early industrial houses no longer remain, but the Britannia Inn, where the workers drank, has survived from the 1840s. The Bridge End public house (right) has much more recent origins.

Next-door-but-one we can see the sign of the Castle public house. Before the mid 1870s, it was called the Tumble-down Dick.

The cluster of timbered houses are of late 15th century date.

The Court House gets its name because it was once, in the 16th century, the home of a leading lawyer and speaker in the House of Commons.

The telephone box has gone, and the Post Office and shop, owned by R Boardman at this time, has closed, but the post box has become the letter box to the house.