UK retrospective. Heritage and Architecture.

You might think Stilton would have cheese on its signs, but the locals just think of it as another village, not as Cheese Central.

 

In Norfolk there is extensive use of small stones. I think they cover the buildings, rather than being the only structural element.

Interesting detailing in Norfolk buildings. In a second hand bookshop near this building, the proprietor had been at Meerilinga Nuclear Test Site in the Central Australian Desert when he was 19 and in the RAF.

 

Back in Stilton, here are some pretty terrace houses.

Archways like these are common in old Inns, designed for the horses/ coaches to fit through, into the courtyard and stables beyond.

Sometimes the stones are used to make interesting patterning. At first I thought these Monopoly Board house shapes were uninteresting, but when you realise many have been habited for hundreds of years, ones appreciation grows.