We love an Art Nouveau building. 🤩 Local architect Arthur Wakerley designed The Turkey Café in Leicester, which opened in 1901. It became a popular meeting place for women to discuss the progress of women’s rights. Men also gathered in the smoke room at the back of the café.

#planning and #listed building consent achieved to revitalise #TheHorns at #CraziesHill #Berkshire - a #community #pub tinyurl.com/szckn56p

This timber-framed merchant’s house in Gloucester, dating back to the late 16th century, has been restored. 🙌 26 Westgate is the largest surviving historic timber-framed townhouse in England and has been on our #HeritageAtRisk Register since 2012.

Saved from being put in the skip, I've collected these 4 original doors from an 1860's property, currently being 'done up'. I've also received a call this morning from another 'developer' who has around eight that he's removing from a late Victorian house. Shame, but I'll save em

Castle Hill - a missing piece added to the picture historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li… #HistoricEngland #MissingPiecesProject via Historic England Reading Civic Society Reading Conservation Area Advisory Committee #heritage #listedbuildings

Castle Hill - a missing piece added to the picture historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li… #HistoricEngland #MissingPiecesProject via Historic England #rdguk Reading Conservation Area Advisory Committee #heritage #listedbuildings Reading Civic Society

Surveying a house in Leicestershire. Its all about the brickwork. Early 18thC bricks w/ angled skintlings & mid-19thC bricks w/ horizontal skintlings. Skintlings are the creases where the bricks were stacked in the kiln. This changes from angled to horizontal in early 19thC.

Another missing piece added to the picture historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li… #HistoricEngland #MissingPiecesProject via Historic England Reading Civic Society Reading Conservation Area Advisory Committee #rdguk

Delighted to add another missing piece to the picture historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li… #HistoricEngland #MissingPiecesProject via Historic England #Chalgrove #Oxfordshire #thatch #heritage

Lovely to see this project completed! #wallingford #listed #heritage instagram.com/reel/DMSKrabIs…

Another missing piece added to the picture historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li… #HistoricEngland #MissingPiecesProject via Historic England

It’s publication day! 🎉🎉🎉 Hodder & Stoughton (no longer active) The Soho Agency #thestolencrown

Delighted to add a missing piece to the picture historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li… #HistoricEngland #MissingPiecesProject via Historic England #ForestofDean #listedbuilding #architecture

Today we lost not only one of Britain’s greatest boxers, but a friend, a mentor, a warrior, Ricky Hatton. As fighters, we tell ourselves we’re strong — we train, we sweat, we take hits, we get up. But sometimes the hardest fight happens in silence, in the mind. Mental health

Delighted to share I have added a missing piece to the picture historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li… #HistoricEngland #MissingPiecesProject via Historic England #architecture #history #listedbuilding

Another missing piece to the picture! historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li… #HistoricEngland #MissingPiecesProject via Historic England #Newnham #ForestofDean #architecture #heritage

Shopfronts nearly always look better when they harmonise with the local identity rather than try to harmonise with the brand’s global identity.

Cruck frame barn, dated c 1550, from Llanerch Banna (Flint) and now at St Fagans National Museum of History. Such curved timbers known as crucks will feature a fair bit in my upcoming online talk on 25 Nov, Dating Ancient Buildings. Booking is now open. eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-ancie…

Reading Abbey Ruins looking spectacular this evening! #illuminate #Reading #rdguk #listed #building #architecture

What on earth is this? A bundle of reeds suspended from the roof of an 18th century Lincolnshire house. An uncommon sight but we have testimony from a former landowner to explain it. To find out more join me on 2 April for The Folklore of Ancient Buildings eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-folklore…