2.11.14

Houses of the North York Moors: Thornton-le-Dale

The Owlets (left - formerly Brenmar), Thornton-le-Dale High Street, C18 house with C19 shopfront. Grade II Listed. Hammered sandstone walls with stepped eaves course, pantile roof and central brick chimney stack. Pilaster and bracketed entablature shopfront with panelled shutters (British Listed Buildings). Amber Croft (right).

25.10.14

Houses of the North York Moors: Beadlam

White Cottage. Grade II Listed C17 cottage with earlier origins (British Listed Buildings).

20.10.14

York Odeon Cinema, Blossom Street, York, 1937, Architect: Harry Weedon

York Odeon Cinema, Blossom Street. Grade II Listed Art Deco style cinema designed by architects Harry Weeden and Robert Bullivant in 1937 for Oscar Deutsch, founder of the 1930s Odeon cinema chain: 'Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation.'

6.10.14

Houses of the North York Moors: Kirkbymoorside, Market Town

6 High Market Place, brick, became a fashionable building material in the late C18 and early C19 (Houses of the North York Moors, 1995: 207).

26.9.14

2-12 Blossom Street, Micklegate Bar, York, 1863

North view of numbers 2-12 Blossom Street, at junction with Queen Street. Located outside and south of the medieval city wall by the southern gate Micklegate Bar. An area where skilled workers, clerks and merchants resided. Built circa 1863, Grade II Listed.

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Barker Tower, on the River Ouse, York

C13 Medieval toll tower where the city wall meets the River Ouse. View south from Lendal Bridge

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99 Southwark Street, Kirkaldy Testing Museum, Southwark, London, 1873, Architect: Thomas Roger Smith

Victorian Italian Romanesque. London stock brick in English bond. Commissioned, designed and purpose built as a commercial materials testing laboratory to house engineer David Kirkaldy's 1863 hydraulic material testing machine: Kirkaldy's Testing and Experimenting Works. Now Kirkaldy Testing Museum. Grade II Listed (English Heritage).

23.8.14

2-10 Theobald's Road, Bloomsbury, London, 1877, Architect: James William Brooker

Grade II Listed, Victorian, pale London stock and stucco dressings (British Listed Buildings). 
Builders: Florence & Isaacs (A. J. Browne and Company).

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Houses of the North York Moors: Appleton-le-Moors

Ivy Dene, early-mid C19. Materials: Dressed limestone with sandstone quoin stones, pantile roof, brick chimney stacks and stone coped gables. East-facing front elevation. Grade II Listed

23.3.14

Harome, North Yorkshire

Black Eagle Cottages, C17 and earlier, cruck frame, limestone, thatch and brick, Grade II Listed

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