Ads
related to: small english villages pictures interior architecture for sale craigslist
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Bourton-on-the-Water model village was one of the first to be built in England, being completed between 1936 and 1940. [1] Possibly the only earlier example is the Bekonscot model village in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, which is the oldest in the world, being begun in 1929, though not finished until the later 20th century.
Old villages such as Portslade, Rottingdean, Ovingdean and Patcham, with ancient churches, farms and small flint cottages, became suburbanised as the two towns grew and merged, and the creation of "Greater Brighton" in 1928 brought into the urban area swathes of open land which were then used for housing and industrial estates. Many buildings ...
Birley Old Hall is a small English country house in the Birley Edge area of the City of Sheffield, England.The hall stands in an exposed situation at almost 200 metres (660 ft) above sea level on Edge Lane, some 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) north-west of the city centre.
Ranging from France to South Africa and everywhere in between, these beautiful areas should be on any world traveler's bucket list.
High-tech architecture is mostly associated with non-domestic buildings, perhaps due to the technological imagery. The two most prominent proponents were Richard Rogers and Norman Foster. Rogers' most iconic English building is the Lloyd's building, situated nearby is Foster's most famous 30 St Mary Axe building (nicknamed The Gherkin). Their ...
Halton House is a country house in the Chiltern Hills above the village of Halton in Buckinghamshire, England It was built for Alfred Freiherr de Rothschild between 1880 and 1883. It is used as the main officers' mess for RAF Halton and is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England .
Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066. Anglo-Saxon secular buildings in Britain were generally simple, constructed mainly using timber with thatch for roofing.
An estate village is a village wholly within and part of a private estate. Usually several hundred years old, they are often well preserved by the family that owns the estate. They often have small commercial operations such as pubs, craft shops, and village stores, as well as rented residential housing.