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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 23h

I realise not everyone can get to my book tour dates, so I will be doing an online launch event on Wednesday 7 October at 7pm (UK time) 🙂 For more info & bookings, please visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-buildi...

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The stunning 15th century roof structure of the Church of All Saints, Saltfleetby, Lincolnshire 🤩

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Time seems to gather in the gables at the beautiful Turton Tower in Lancashire. Carved timber, quatrefoiled plaster and ochre sandstone jostle together in one glorious whole. A visual delight.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The half-timbered early 16th century ‘Pitchmarket’ at Cerne Abbas in Dorset. The name derives from the market which was once held outside the house, where millers would ‘pitch’ for corn. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #CerneAbbey #Dorset

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Kristof Haneca @kristofhaneca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧱 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬? Our new open-access paper uses dendrochronologically dated buildings in #Bruges and #Damme to build a regional brick-size chronology for medieval Flanders. 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘺: doi.org/10.1080/0305... #dendrochronology #BuildingArchaeology

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Chronologies in clay: Brick sizes as a regional dating method in medieval flanders

This study develops a reference chronology of brick sizes for medieval Bruges (Belgium) using systematically measured bricks from well-dated buildings spanning the early thirteenth to late sixteent...

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hearthtaxnews.bsky.social @hearthtaxnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dates for diaries 2027: Hearth Tax Digital launches will be held at Chester on 21 Feb, for Cheshire & Chester, and 12-13 March, for Lancashire & Westmorland. Details to follow later.

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Somerset Vernacular Building Research Group (SVBRG) @svbrg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Incredibly fortunate to be welcoming Linda Hall this Wed 16 Sep. Linda’s remarkable book ‘Period House Fixtures and Fittings 1300-1900’ is a bible to surveyors like us. And an extra treat, Linda will be ending the evening with a short performance on her historical instrument the nyckelharpa.

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A tiny selection of the many, many, fantastic buildings in Stamford, Lincolnshire 😍

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🧵26-29 Chapel Street, Buckfastleigh, Devon are a row of 4 cottages with a tenter loft for drying cloth, on the upper storey from the late 17th century or early 18th century. The cottages are built from painted local grey limestone rubble. The tenter loft, a very unusual survival in Devon was used

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🧵The Saracen's Head, The Green, King's Norton, Birmingham is a Tudor Merchant's House with the north range dating from 1492 with later alterations. A timber framed building with a tiled roof is built over two storeys & 3 bays. It was built by the wonderfully named wealthy merchant, Humphrey Rotsey.

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R Moore Building Conservation @rmbconservation.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

😯 ✨🏛️ A special one for #ThrowbackThursday. You know that moment when you walk into an old place and then think that there's something older beyond what presents itself? Join us at the moment we found a time capsule in timber and stone. rmbconservation.co.uk/news-posts/p...

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A glimpse of the early C16th Number 1 Myddylton Place, Saffron Walden, where history is written into the walls. Look closely for the 👻 ghost of a medieval shopfront hidden in plain sight—a time capsule revealing secrets from centuries ago.

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Researching House History, a talk for Bolton #FamilyHistory Society by Anne Mealia, takes place online and in person on Wednesday August 5th from 7.30pm. £5 (free for Society members). #HouseHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

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Researching House History

A Talk by Anne Mealia

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#Northumberland Archives will be running a free 2 hour event House History: An introduction to researching your property in #Morpeth on October 20th, introducing the types of documents used in researching #HouseHistory. Free, but booking essential. #OnePlaceWednesday

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House History: An introduction to researching your property

Northumberland Archives staff will introduce the type of documents used in researching house history.

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Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group @yvbsg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Very enjoyable visit to Foulbridge Farm in the Vale of Pickering on Saturday - a Georgian farmhouse incorporating a timber-framed hall built by the Knights Templar in 1288. Lots to see - interesting construction, burn marks, nice range of farm buildings, pig feeding troughs and a three-seater privy!

The Knights Templar hall of 1288 at Foulbridge Farm.

Burn marks on a brace in Foulbridge Hall.

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

On 27 July 2015 I drew Duttons for Buttons. 32 Coppergate is a Grade 2* listed 15th-century timber-framed building, built c 1422 for wealthy merchant William Alne. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #sketchbook #ArtShare

Pencil drawing of a row of buildings, all three storeys high. In the centre is a rendered timber framed building with overhanging upper floors. To the right is a later building copying the style of the older building.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Mischief Tavern, Fye Bridge Street, Norwich is a former house, now public house that dates from the late 16th century with 17th century additions & alterations. Built from flint & stone dressings with plinth with 19th & 20th century brick dressings & alterations & pantile roofs. /1

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Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group @yvbsg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Great visit to Baildon Hall (now a social club) on Saturday. A largely C17 stone house with C19 alterations, incorporating a C15 timber-framed wing. An earlier screens passage still survives inside.

Remnant of screens passage with three doorways.

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Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Huge thanks to members of the Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group for organising and hosting a superb VAG Spring Conference. We saw an excellent variety of Scottish buildings ranging from castles to longhouses, and enjoyed every minute!

The unusual electricity substation in Culross.

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Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Culross - what a wonderful place to visit on the final day of the VAG Spring Conference. Vernacular surprises around every corner (even on a rainy day)!

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Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Final day of the VAG Spring Conference and it was great to start the day with a visit to the fabulous Bannockburn House to see its remarkable plasterwork and other features. Thanks for the tour, @bannockburnhouse.bsky.social!

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Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Moirlanich Longhouse, near Killin, visited during VAG Spring Conference. Lovely example of a cruck-framed cottage with byre, with 'hingin lum' (hanging chimney) and box beds. National Trust for Scotland - well worth a visit!

Hingin lum (hanging chimney) at Moirlanich Longhouse.

Parlour with box beds at Moirlanich Longhouse.

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Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A castle, a long house, a tin tabernacle and a historic library and chapel - a wonderful variety of buildings for day two of the VAG Spring Conference in Stirling!

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Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

More images from day one of the VAG Spring Conference in Stirling (where Christmas has come early to one shop).

Oval window at The Gold Lion hotel, Stirling.

Window inscribed 'keep smiling' at the Boys' Club, Stirling.

Stonework at The Gold Lion hotel, Stirling.

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Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Great day in Stirling on day one of the VAG Spring Conference, exploring the city and the castle (including the secret bits!).

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Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The rather lovely venue for this year's VAG Spring Conference - Stirling University. About to kick off with an introductory talk on 'Living in a cold, wet climate: environment, materials and vernacular buildings in Scotland'. Very appropriate as we've had a heavy shower earlier this evening!

VAG conference delegates on Stirling University campus.

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Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group @yvbsg.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Our June Newsletter is hot off the press! Catch up with all our latest news, including info about forthcoming events, publications and of course buildings in Yorkshire (and elsewhere)! www.yvbsg.org.uk/newsheets/ju...

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This might look unappealing, but what you are seeing is a rare survival of a smoke bay (the blackened timbers which were part of a type of proto-chimney), dated 1500. Then in the late 16th century a brick chimney was built within the old smoke bay. Surveyed today in Notts.

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Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Hello! Anyone in #Hampshire know if Kevin Stubbs - historic buildings expert - is still around and active in building conservation? Or if anyone knows of other Hampshire cob wall experts please

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The ginnel from the other side, in Powell's Yard, with a person walking past. The Wealden hall house on the left, behind 51 Goodramgate, was restored in the 1930s having become derelict. It is now a ladies clothes shop. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #watercolour #drawing #ArtShare

Medieval timber framed building on the left with a three storey brick building beyond it that has a number of windows . A green door with rounded arch topis approached by a short flight of curving steps with a handrail. A passageway to the right of the door leads through the building. A person walking past can be seen at the end of the passage.

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Somerset Vernacular Building Research Group (SVBRG) @svbrg.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

We are thrilled to welcome the artisan plasterer Philip A. Gaches, who specialises in the repair of historic plasterwork. Philip will explain how and why ceilings began to be plastered in the 15th century, and how the process developed in technique and design. Wed 15 Apr, 7pm doors, 7.30pm start.

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Maenan Old Hall, Llanrwst in the Conwy Valley, North Wales. The house looks mostly 18th or 19th century from outside but had parts dating from 1509. Sketched on the 2018 Vernacular Architecture Group conference. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #sketchbook #ArtShare

The exterior of Maenan Old Hall at Llanrwst, in the Conwy Valley of North Wales. Drawn from a vantage point in the grounds with the Eryri Mountains in the distance.

Maenan Old Hall, looking toward the entrance at the lower end. We were told 'no interior photography' so I had to have a go at some of the 1582 plasterwork covering the 1509 cruck. This is as far as I got after the owner had finished telling us about the hall and a painting on the wall. Then it was time to move on.

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Gorgeous Mulberry Court, Royston, Hertfordshire 🤩

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Lovely reminders (more FB Memories) of the Vernacular Architecture Group 2018 conference at Lafoty, Anglesey, a medieval hall house with later additions + me, illustrator at work, photographed by Linda Hall. #pencil #drawing #illustrator

Pencil drawing of Lafoty Farm, Anglesey, North Wales. The hall and nearer, lower end, wing are late medieval in date, the best preserved of Anglesey's medieval buildings. Another wing was added in the late 16th century. There are some later farm buildings alongside, including a two-storey barn.

Photograph of the author sketching a roof truss in the medieval hall house of Lafoty Farm on Anglesey. In the foreground a table has old photographs of the farm on it and a chair holds an open camera bag.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Hidden in plain sight: the polite facade of Richborough House in Sandwich, Kent, hides a late C16th timber framed house with brick nogging.

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Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A one-day conference on Exeter's buildings coming up soon ...

Poster advertising conference on Exeter's buildings on 25 April 2026.

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

What on earth is this then? A bundle of reeds suspended from the roof of an 18th century Lincolnshire house. An uncommon sight but we have testimony from a former landowner to explain it. To find out more, join me on 2 April for The Folklore of Ancient Buildings: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-folklo...

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Karen Averby @karenaverby.bsky.social has registered her Kings Norton Green One-Place Study! Researching the Medieval & other buildings here—which reflect the social, economic and architectural history of The Green—will hopefully reveal stories of the people associated with them. #OnePlaceWednesday

Kings Norton Green One-Place Study.
Image: Photo of The Green at Kings Norton - a grassy area with several trees - and buildings and many parked cars beyond. The buildings include A church with a spire, at least one half-timbered building, and a variety of other commercial and residential properties, all hidden to varying degrees by trees.
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Archaeology often challenges assumptions about listed buildings. This Leicestershire house was thought to be 17th century until a survey revealed evidence that it was mediaeval. On 26 Feb I'll be speaking online about Reinterpreting Listed Buildings: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Always pleased too see tree-ring dates published in @varchgroup.bsky.social journal. This year I'm amused to learn that Ye Olde Mitre Inne at Barnet is actually older (1538, 1546-78) than usually claimed (1633). That never happens with pubs! Its still not ye oldest in the country though!

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Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group @yvbsg.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Happy #ValentinesDay! It's time to bring out the annual 'hearts on buildings' again. If you know of more examples, do post them below.

Heart on voussoir, Clapham, North Yorkshire.

Heart in decorative brickwork, Northern France.

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The "Great Stable" at Tattershall Castle... or is it? This 15thC listed building was once presented as stables until survey revealed it was a lodging range for retainers. We'll be Reinterpreting Listed Buildings during an online talk on 26 Feb. More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Dendrochronology helped to push back the date of construction for many ancient buildings, sometimes by several centuries. I'll be looking at tree-ring dating on 26 Feb as part of the Reinterpreting Listed Buildings online talk: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre... 📸 Martin Bridge

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The next Triskele Heritage online talk is Reinterpreting Listed Buildings. It looks at why buildings were listed, what conditions were like for listing investigators, why many listings were short & inaccurate, plus how new research is pushing back dating. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...

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Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group @yvbsg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

'Vernacular Architecture of the Yorkshire Dales' - YVBSG day school held in conjunction with Upper Wharfedale Heritage Group on 28 Feb 2026 in Skipton Town Hall. Do join us for an excellent programme of talks exploring the wonderful traditional buildings of the Dales! www.yvbsg.org.uk/events.html

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The next Triskele Heritage winter lecture is happening next week. Please do feel free to share far and wide if you can 🙂 More info and bookings can be found here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mediae...

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

New to the @heritagewshc.bsky.social Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre blog: A new dating technique for historic buildings. When dendrochronology failed and carbon-14 dating didn't match what was known about certain roof truss features, another technique was tried... #OnePlaceWednesday

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A new dating technique for historic buildings - Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Wiltshire Buildings Record experimented with a new technique to date a building and found a surprising result.

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Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Do you have a research project that would benefit from extra funding? The VAG offers grants for the study and presentation of vernacular architecture and there's still time to submit an application for the current round of Research Grants! Closing date: 28 February. See www.vag.org.uk/grants.htm.

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