Wroxeter Revisited
Oct. 8th, 2011 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
endlessraritiesAnd now I'd like to introduce to you my favourite thing about Wroxeter. I'm sure that if I'd visited the actual village, I'd have been bowled over by the church, but I didn't have time to fit that into the itinerary, unfortunately.
Instead, I found this:-
It sits just opposite the English Heritage visitor centre, and it may well be in English Heritage ownership. It's just gorgeous. A well-preserved farmsteading, with all sorts of bits and bobs surviving. Like a range of cartsheds:-
And a Dutch Barn:-
I'd be inclined to suggest it was Edwardian in date, because it seems quite modern in appearance, but I suppose it could be late nineteenth century. And the fact that some of the brick buildings incorporate stone footings makes me suspect that the farm buildings have been highly modified through the centuries, and that its origins are earlier,
Terrible, isn't it? I went skipping along to a Roman site and wound up waxing lyrical about a modern farmsteading!! What's the matter with me?
But how can anyone not get enthusiastic about decorative brickwork like this:-
A nice surprise, and a serious bit of serendipity. I'm just glad the powers that be didn't knock it down as modern junk way back in the 1950s, claiming that it ruined the setting of the Roman city...
Instead, I found this:-
It sits just opposite the English Heritage visitor centre, and it may well be in English Heritage ownership. It's just gorgeous. A well-preserved farmsteading, with all sorts of bits and bobs surviving. Like a range of cartsheds:-
And a Dutch Barn:-
I'd be inclined to suggest it was Edwardian in date, because it seems quite modern in appearance, but I suppose it could be late nineteenth century. And the fact that some of the brick buildings incorporate stone footings makes me suspect that the farm buildings have been highly modified through the centuries, and that its origins are earlier,
Terrible, isn't it? I went skipping along to a Roman site and wound up waxing lyrical about a modern farmsteading!! What's the matter with me?
But how can anyone not get enthusiastic about decorative brickwork like this:-
A nice surprise, and a serious bit of serendipity. I'm just glad the powers that be didn't knock it down as modern junk way back in the 1950s, claiming that it ruined the setting of the Roman city...
