Sunday, August 23, 2009

Lavenham


High street in Lavenham

de Vere House; stone, brick, half-timbered
 
de Vere door moulding detail; hmmmmm...that de Vere? I thought they were from Oxford...
 Leaning houses
 
A really bad case

Lavenham was once an important wool center, but declined after the Reformation. Everything, including war and developers, passed it by. There remain some 300 registered medeival/renaissance buildings, mostly half-timbered types, many about to fall over but for their neighbors leaning back into them.

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