As one travels north on the A6 one of the less uplifting sights in an area of stunning beauty is...
As one travels north on the A6 one of the less uplifting sights in an area of stunning beauty is...
Someone mentioned to me the other day that there were many other lost houses of historic and architectural importance apart...
This impressive Regency villa was built on an elevated site in the district of California, Derby, looking south but with...
Sir Vauncey Harpur-Crewe of Calke, 10th Bt. was a true eccentric; unpredictable, obsessive and solitary. One of his pastimes was...
If you drive along the road from Swarkestone Bridge to Chellaston you will notice, just as you turn east after...
Some lost houses leave no trace behind, some fragments, some a wing or two incorporated into something else, and some,...
Architect Joseph Aloysius Hansom undertook the work of creating an Elysium amongst the dark hills above Derwent. Next time you...
When architects design their own houses, there is always something of interest. Richard Leaper was Derby’s Regency period amateur architect...
It was of brick with quoins and other dressings of coal measures sandstone, undoubtedly from a local quarry (or re-used from...
Snelston was the most ambitious Gothic house in Derbyshire, renowned for its splendour, but also one of the more short-lived...

by Brian Spencer Sited comfortably above Trent Valley’s flood plain, and away from busy through roads, Melbourne has grown from...

by Brian Spencer The only time I have previously travelled through Kent was on my way to Dover for the...

We supposed that Sir Nikolaus Pevsner missed Horsley Woodhouse because he probably travelled north along the Derby to Heanor road,...

Leafy side roads lined with pleasant houses, home for many Derby commuters, fill a sheltered hollow where the Ecclesbourne meets...