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Official Twitter account of the Vernacular Architecture Group. Follow us for events and updates on historic buildings #history #archaeology #conservation
We’re helping save Charing Palace in Kent. 🙌 Our £300K grant has funded urgent repairs to the former great hall. The buildings have been on our #HeritageAtRisk Register for many years, but are now being brought back to life by @SpitalfieldsT. ➡️ bit.ly/CharingPalace
🐝 New Bee Boles Added! We've been updating the register & are excited to share 2 new additions recently recorded in the Scottish Borders & N Yorkshire. Explore the growing register: bit.ly/3SzpkOF #BeeBoles #HistoricBeekeeping #ScottishBorders #NorthYorkshire #bees
Call for Papers! VAG Winter Conference at University of Nottingham, 10 and 11 January 2026. Theme: 'Vernacular buildings in urban contexts: The study of urban building types and integration with urban studies'. Papers invited - full details in the CFP at vag.org.uk.
An updated version of the VAG Dendrochronology Database has just been published. The database contains tree-ring dates for over 4900 buildings in the UK - have a browse at doi.org/10.5284/1132568.
The VAG Wealden Houses database has just been updated - check it out at doi.org/10.5284/1011977 (where you can also find a definition of a Wealden House). The photo shows an example in Goodramgate, York.
Birtles Farm, a 17thC house better known to millions of readers as Highmost Redmanhey from Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. I'll be talking about this & other sites at an event on Alan Garner & Archaeology at Biddulph Grange in 2 weeks, 6 July nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/shropshi…
Hall I'th' Wood was visited during the VAG Spring Conference a couple of years ago. Lovely variety of decorative framing!
This timber-framed house dates back to the early 1500s. 🤩 As one of only 48 Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester, Hall I'th' Wood represents a rare and valuable example of Tudor architecture. Uncover your local hidden histories: ➡️historicengland.org.uk/local
Last year I visited a lovely cottage in Alvington, Forest of Dean which had lots of deliberate burn marks on the hearth lintel and some excellent concentric circles on a ceiling beam. If you have marks or objects in your building please post photos :-) apotropaios.co.uk
The Swan in Stratford St Mary, Suffolk, has won the Historic England Conservation Award at @CAMRA_Official’s Pub Design Awards! 🏆 This beautifully restored Grade II listed 17th-century pub blends historic character with thoughtful modern design.
The Historic England Archive strives to make its collections accessible every day. We hold a massive 15.7 million items! Over 6 million have been catalogued. Over 700,000 have been digitised and can be viewed online👇 historicengland.org.uk/images-books/p… #ArchivesAreAccessible #IAW2025
Interested in historic farm buildings? The Historic Farm Buildings Group organises conferences with visits to farmsteads, and produces a journal and newsletters. Membership costs just £15 per year. The Group has relaunched its website - have a look at hfbg.org.uk.
Our June Newsletter is hot off the press and is now available on our website - check it out for up-to-date info on events, publications, interesting buildings and more! yvbsg.org.uk/newsheets/jun2…
Hurry! There are still few places on our outing to Alan Garner's Old Medicine House, Blackden, nr Holmes Chapel, Weds 11 June. Meet on site at 1.50pm. £15. Contact Pauline Clarke ([email protected]) to book. Non-members welcome!
Older mud-wall gable at one end - see how #walled thatch 'tea-cosy's - down to protect the top of the mud wall. The other end has a stone gable with modern flashing over the thatch. Guess the mud house was built C1870, or even MUCH earlier and extended in stone at a later date.
It's #NationalBiscuitDay! We don't have any traditional biscuits to show you, just a vernacular oven so that you can imagine the aroma of baking ... Ulster 2024
Isn't there something 'timeless and serene' about this mud-walled #thatch #cottage situated on the bend of the road outside #enniscorthy co #Wexford I guess the little window facing the road is a later add-on but it helps to show that the cottage floor level is below the road.
📣 Stockport’s Angel Inn is now Grade II listed. Built in the 1500s, it features timber from a tree alive in 1086 and rare wattle-and-daub, a building technique used before the 18th century. Its history spans Civil War plotting to Victorian concerts: ➡️ bit.ly/TheAngelStockp…
We've just launched our new Local Heritage Hub 🚀 With nearly 400 locations, every county, city, district, and major town in England now has a dedicated digital page that uncovers its rich and layered history. ➡️ historicengland.org.uk/local 📸 Bute Street, Luton, 1928.
Do you recognise these cottages? They could be in #Suffolk. This photograph was taken in the 1930s or 1940s by Herbert Edward Tuppen. #ArchiveDetectives #ArchiveMystery