“Bristol is perhaps the one southern city which really feels independent of London,” writes Owen Hatherley in his brilliant architectural travelogue A New Kind Of Bleak. During the six weeks I have spent immersing myself in four English cities, that book and its predecessor, A Guide To The New Ruins Of Great Britain, always came with me – and in Bristol, the former works as an unflinchingly honest guidebook. It is undeniably true that, as Hatherley points out, the bleak area around Temple Read more [...]

Adam Afriyie, the wealthy Conservative MP who is selling his Westminster house for £16.7m, has now put a second of his homes up for sale for nearly £5m. The MP for Windsor, who was touted as a potential challenger to David Cameron for the Tory leadership in 2013, has put his eight-bedroom home, in his constituency in Old Windsor, Berkshire, on the market with a price tag of £4.85m. He had already put his large home near the Houses of Parliament on the market this spring, but neither Read more [...]

Living in a tony, historic neighborhood of Boston requires some deep pockets, and if you also want to park your car there, you'll have to shell out some serious change. A parking spot in the Brimmer Street Garage, located in the city's historic Beacon Hill neighborhood, had been listed for $650,000 by real estate agent Aaron Cohen before the listing was taken down Tuesday, Boston real estate agent and publisher of The Bates Real Estate Report David Bates told ABC News today. In Cohen's listing, Read more [...]

Although the proposal has won backing of local councillors and the East Durham Business Service, Durham County Council’s own design and conservation, landscape and archaeology departments have all objected to the plan. The country hotel is itself a Grade II-listed building which is thought to date back to the 16th Century although the main house is largely 18th Century and served in the past as offices for the National Coal Board. The application seeks to build four two-storey houses. Read more [...]

A18TH century grade II listed pub in Caldicot has been sold. Ye Olde Tippling Philosopher, on Chepstow Road, was Caldicot’s oldest pub until its closure in October 2011. It has now been sold by Enterprise Inns plc. Leaseholders called time on the business in 2011 after failing to stave off the effects of falling trade, competition from other pubs and the effects of the smoking ban. A planning application by Enterprise Inns was approved in July Read more [...]

If you've been on the fence about listing your home for sale, you wouldn't be alone.With the leaves changing and the holidays quickly approaching, several homeowners that have had their home listed for sale over the spring and summer are getting ready to remove the "for sale" sign in the yard. Many sellers that had been considering selling, though hadn't gotten their house on the market yet, are deciding to hold off until spring. Why wait? Houses sell all year long, and Read more [...]

Tweet While working on the book Houses of the Hamptons 1880-1930, I and my co-author Anne Surchin got to visit many of the incredible houses that still exist from the Hamptons Gilded Age era. The Gilded Age (1880-1930) produced a great diversity of architectural styles for every decade of that period. When asked during book signings or lectures if I have any favorite houses discovered during the Read more [...]

Image copyright Land Securities/Erith Ebbsfleet, in Kent, would appear to be an ideal development opportunity, as estate agents put it. In the Thames Estuary, it's just 17 minutes from central London via high-speed rail, the giant Bluewater shopping centre is a short drive away and there's planning Read more [...]

Image copyright Land Securities/Erith Ebbsfleet, in Kent, would appear to be an ideal development opportunity, as estate agents put it. In the Thames Estuary, it's just 17 minutes from central London via high-speed rail, the giant Bluewater shopping centre is a short drive away and there's planning Read more [...]

<!-- remove the whitespace added by escenic before end of tag --> By William Cash 5:30PM GMT 02 Nov 2015 Comments Many of the older guests – owners of some of the most beautiful and magnificent country houses in Britain – will well remember an exhibition held 40 years ago at the Victoria and Albert Museum. One of the most haunting features of The Destruction of the Country House 1875-1975 was the Hall of Destruction, Read more [...]