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- ABATTOIR — A building where animals are slaughtered.
Search the NHLE for: ABATTOIR - ABBEY — A religious house governed by an abbot or abbess. Use with narrow terms of DOUBLE HOUSE, MONASTERY or NUNNERY.
Search the NHLE for: ABBEY - ABBOTS PALACE — The official residence of an abbot.
Search the NHLE for: ABBOTS PALACE - ABBOTS SUMMER PALACE — An official residence of an abbot during the summer months.
Search the NHLE for: ABBOTS SUMMER PALACE - ACCIDENT HOSPITAL — A hospital which primarily cares for patients injured in accidents.
Search the NHLE for: ACCIDENT HOSPITAL - ACCOMMODATION BRIDGE — A bridge, often over a canal or road, allowing access between two parcels of land.
Search the NHLE for: ACCOMMODATION BRIDGE - ACCUMULATOR HOUSE — A building used for the collection and storage of electricity using large lead-acid batteries (accumulators).
Search the NHLE for: ACCUMULATOR HOUSE - ACID WORKS — A building or site used for the production of acids by a range of chemical processes.
Search the NHLE for: ACID WORKS - ACTIVITY CENTRE — Site or building constructed or adapted for indoor and/or outdoor leisure and sport activities, for example archery, team-building and "outward-bound" activities based on military training.
Search the NHLE for: ACTIVITY CENTRE - ADIT — Horizontal tunnel opening from the surface used for haulage or access to a mine. It can also be used for drainage.
Search the NHLE for: ADIT - ADMISSION HOSPITAL — A separate hospital building, or block of an asylum, where new arrivals were segregated from old inmates for a defined period. This system was developed from the mid-19th century onwards.
Search the NHLE for: ADMISSION HOSPITAL - ADULTERINE CASTLE — A castle erected without permission, ie. without a royal licence to crenellate.
Search the NHLE for: ADULTERINE CASTLE - AERIAL ROPEWAY — A system of overhead cables from which cars or containers are suspended (usually driven electrically).
Search the NHLE for: AERIAL ROPEWAY - AGAPEMONE — Religious establishment, founded in Somerset, where free love was practised.
Search the NHLE for: AGAPEMONE - AGGREGATE FIELD SYSTEM — A field system which appears to have developed in an organic, or piecemeal, fashion over time.
Search the NHLE for: AGGREGATE FIELD SYSTEM - AGGREGATE VILLAGE — A settlement whose plan suggests the aggregation of several formerly distinct settlement nuclei into a single settlement.
Search the NHLE for: AGGREGATE VILLAGE - AGRICULTURAL BUILDING — A building used for an agricultural and/or subsistence purpose. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL BUILDING - AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE — An educational establishment where agricultural theory and practice is taught.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE - AGRICULTURAL DWELLING — Buildings and structures inhabited by agricultural workers.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL DWELLING - AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING WORKS — Small engineering works specialising in the production of items such as ploughs and threshing machinery.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING WORKS - AGRICULTURAL HALL — A hall used for the promotion and selling of agricultural produce and practice.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL HALL - AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY DEPOT — A site for the sale or hire of agricultural machinery.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY DEPOT - AGRICULTURAL MERCHANTS — The premises of an agricultural merchant where agricultural equipment, animal feed and fertilizers can be bought.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL MERCHANTS - AGRICULTURE AND SUBSISTENCE — Sites, buildings, structures, features and areas of land associated with cultivation, the rearing of livestock, gathering, hunting & fishing. Includes farm based processing of foodstuffs & storage of agricultural produce.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURE AND SUBSISTENCE - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS CENTRE — A building used as a control centre for the Air Raid Precautions network, responsible for issuing air raid warnings and coordinating fire and rescue services.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS CENTRE - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS HEADQUARTERS — A building used in the Second World War to co-ordinate action against enemy air raids.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS HEADQUARTERS - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS SITE — A site used by the Air Raid Precautions network. Use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS SITE - AIR RAID SHELTER — A fortified structure used to protect civilians and military personnel from enemy bombing.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID SHELTER - AIR RAID WARDENS POST — A purpose-built or adapted structure intended as a headquarters for an air raid precautions warden.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID WARDENS POST - AIR RAID WARNING SIREN — A siren used to warn of an impending attack by enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID WARNING SIREN - AIR TERMINAL — A building at an airport from where passengers embark and disembark from an aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: AIR TERMINAL - AIRCRAFT — An aircraft, either whole or in part. Aircraft often survive as commemorative monuments, gate guardians or crash sites.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT - AIRCRAFT ENGINE FACTORY — A factory where aircraft engines are assembled.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT ENGINE FACTORY - AIRCRAFT FACTORY — A factory where aircraft are assembled.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT FACTORY - AIRCRAFT HANGAR — A structure used for the housing and servicing of aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE A) — A permanent military RAF aircraft hangar type, designed in 1924. It features a steel frame (with longitudinal ridge and valley trusses for the roof) reinforced concrete and brick infilling for the walls. Typically 122 foot span by 249 foot in length.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE A) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE C) — A type of large steel framed aircraft hangar introduced by the Royal Air Force in its Expansion Period with a number of designs between 1934 and 1939, to accomodate heavy bombers.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE C) - AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE UNIT — Site used for the maintenance of aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE UNIT - AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTION — Shallow ditches and/or poles erected across open land to obstruct the landing of enemy aircraft and gliders.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTION - AIRCRAFT TESTING SITE — A site used for the functional testing of aircraft and their components.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT TESTING SITE - AIRFIELD — An area or site used for the landing and take-off of aircraft, often including associated buildings, equipment and other installations.
Search the NHLE for: AIRFIELD - AIRFIELD DEFENCE SITE — A site or building associated with active or passive defence of the landing ground and buildings of an airfield.
Search the NHLE for: AIRFIELD DEFENCE SITE - AIRMENS INSTITUTE — An building, often including recreational facilities, provided for the relaxation of serving Royal Air Force Personnel.
Search the NHLE for: AIRMENS INSTITUTE - AIRPORT — A site, including an airfield and customs house, where air passengers embark and disembark.
Search the NHLE for: AIRPORT - AIRSHIP HANGAR — A hangar for the storage and maintenance of dirigible motor-driven balloons.
Search the NHLE for: AIRSHIP HANGAR - AISLED BARN — A barn in which a central space is separated from side aisles by posts and braces.
Search the NHLE for: AISLED BARN - AISLED BUILDING — A building with an aisle along one or both sides. Usually a row of posts separates the main space from the aisle.
Search the NHLE for: AISLED BUILDING - AISLED HALL HOUSE — A house with an open hall whose main span is separated by an arcade from the side aisles.
Search the NHLE for: AISLED HALL HOUSE - AISLED HOUSE — Use where the intervening arcade is closed but timber-framed.
Search the NHLE for: AISLED HOUSE - ALE STORE — A building or area within a brewery where barrels of ale are stored.
Search the NHLE for: ALE STORE - ALIEN CELL — A residence of two or three monks dependent on a foreign mother house sent to exploit a distant estate. Alien houses were officially suppressed in 1414.
Search the NHLE for: ALIEN CELL - ALIEN PRIORY — A priory dependent on a foreign mother house. Use with narrow terms of DOUBLE HOUSE, MONASTERY or NUNNERY.
Search the NHLE for: ALIEN PRIORY - ALLAN WILLIAMS TURRET — A rotating, domed, steel turret set over a circular pit used as a gun emplacement.
Search the NHLE for: ALLAN WILLIAMS TURRET - ALLEY — A passageway or lane between buildings.
Search the NHLE for: ALLEY - ALLOTMENT — A share or portion of land, allotted to a person, often used for growing, vegetables, fruit, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ALLOTMENT - ALMONRY — A building adjacent to a monastery where alms were distributed to the poor.
Search the NHLE for: ALMONRY - ALMS TABLE — Place where food or money was handed out to the poor.
Search the NHLE for: ALMS TABLE - ALMSHOUSE — A house devoted to the shelter of the poor and endowed by a benefactor for this use.
Search the NHLE for: ALMSHOUSE - ALPINE GARDEN — A garden which consists of rocks and rock-loving plants that require little water.
Search the NHLE for: ALPINE GARDEN - ALTAR — An elevated table or podium on which to place or sacrifice offerings to the deities.
Search the NHLE for: ALTAR - ALTAR TOMB — A tomb or memorial, resembling an altar, often with a recumbent effigy on top.
Search the NHLE for: ALTAR TOMB - ALUM HOUSE — A building used for the crystallization process in alum making.
Search the NHLE for: ALUM HOUSE - ALUM QUARRY — A site where alum (hydrous sulphate or salt and alumina) is quarried.
Search the NHLE for: ALUM QUARRY - ALUM WORKS — A group of buildings or works where the evaporation and crystallization of sodium aluminium sulphate solution is performed.
Search the NHLE for: ALUM WORKS - AMBULANCE GARAGE — A place where ambulances are serviced and maintained.
Search the NHLE for: AMBULANCE GARAGE - AMBULANCE STATION — A building where ambulances are housed awaiting emergency calls.
Search the NHLE for: AMBULANCE STATION - AMERICAN GARDEN — A concept dating in England from the second half of the 18th century, when hardy North American plants were relatively easy to obtain.
Search the NHLE for: AMERICAN GARDEN - AMMUNITION DUMP — An installation used for the storage of ammunition.
Search the NHLE for: AMMUNITION DUMP - AMMUNITION STAND — An area of hardstanding on which ammunition is stored.
Search the NHLE for: AMMUNITION STAND - AMPHITHEATRE — An oval or circular structure with seats rising in tiers around a central open space. Used for religious ceremonies, entertainment, training and armed combat contests.
Search the NHLE for: AMPHITHEATRE - AMUSEMENT ARCADE — A place for recreation with electronic game machines and gambling machines.
Search the NHLE for: AMUSEMENT ARCADE - AMUSEMENT PARK — A recreation ground with usually permanent structure. It usually contains rides such as ghost trains, helter skelter and roller coasters.
Search the NHLE for: AMUSEMENT PARK - ANCHORESSES CELL — A small dwelling for the solitary confinement of a pious reclusive religious woman or nun, often attached to the north wall of a church. A squint enabled the occupant to witness the Mass.
Search the NHLE for: ANCHORESSES CELL - ANCHORITE CELL — A small dwelling for the solitary confinement of a pious reclusive religious man or monk, often attached to the north wall of a church. A squint enabled the occupant to witness the Mass.
Search the NHLE for: ANCHORITE CELL - ANDERSON SHELTER — An air raid shelter, designed to be placed in the garden. Made from prefabricated components, they were often semi-sunken and the structure then covered with soil for added protection.
Search the NHLE for: ANDERSON SHELTER - ANGLE TOWER — A fortified tower found at the angle of a castle wall.
Search the NHLE for: ANGLE TOWER - ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL — The principal Anglican church in a diocese in which the cathedra or bishop's throne is to be found.
Search the NHLE for: ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL - ANGLICAN CHAPEL — A chapel where the followers of the Anglican tradition worship.
Search the NHLE for: ANGLICAN CHAPEL - ANGLICAN CHURCH — Any church of the Anglican Communion.
Search the NHLE for: ANGLICAN CHURCH - ANGLICAN MONASTERY — A place of residence and worship for Anglican monks.
Search the NHLE for: ANGLICAN MONASTERY - ANGLICAN NUNNERY — A place of worship and residence for Anglican nuns.
Search the NHLE for: ANGLICAN NUNNERY - ANIMAL BURIAL — Deliberate interment of a complete, or substantially complete, animal. Use the object type thesaurus term ANIMAL REMAINS where skeleton is fragmentary.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL BURIAL - ANIMAL CAGE — A box or place of confinement for animals, made wholly or partly of wire, wood or bars of metal, so as to admit air and light.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL CAGE - ANIMAL CEMETERY — A burial site for animals.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL CEMETERY - ANIMAL FOOD PROCESSING PLANT — Buildings used in the production of animal food.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL FOOD PROCESSING PLANT - ANIMAL HOUSE — Living quarters for animals, birds, etc, as pets or for observation, entertainment, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL HOUSE - ANIMAL MEMORIAL — A monument commemorating an animal.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL MEMORIAL - ANIMAL SANCTUARY — A place where injured or endangered animals are kept and looked after.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL SANCTUARY - ANIMAL SHED — A building in which animals are housed. For non agricultural use see ANIMAL HOUSE and narrow terms in RECREATIONAL class.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL SHED - ANIMAL STALL — A stall where animals are kept individually.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL STALL - ANIMAL TOMB — A burial site for an animal, usually commemorated by a gravestone or other structure.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL TOMB - ANIMAL WASH — A place or building where animals can be washed. Often in the form of a pool with a walled funnel-like structure enabling animals to be guided into the pool.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL WASH - ANNEALING FURNACE — For reheating of worked metal or glass to make it malleable or to harden it after use for toolmaking, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ANNEALING FURNACE - ANNEXE ENCLOSURE — A subsidiary enclosure externally attached to an enclosure of known or unknown date and function. The annexe is generally smaller than, and secondary to, the main enclosure. Use more specific site type where known. Do not use for Roman military sites.
Search the NHLE for: ANNEXE ENCLOSURE - ANTENNA ARRAY — A structure used for the transmission and interception of radio signals. Usually composed of a number of different elements such as aerials, receiving equipment and supporting pylons.
Search the NHLE for: ANTENNA ARRAY - ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY — A site containing one or more artillery pieces and/or rocket launchers for firing at enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY - ANTI AIRCRAFT GUN EMPLACEMENT — Gun emplacement for static or mobile light anti aircraft artillery.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI AIRCRAFT GUN EMPLACEMENT - ANTI AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS ROOM — A one or two storey reinforced concrete structure, usually associated with two T shaped radio masts. Term is specific to army anti-aircraft control centres operational between 1950-55.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS ROOM - ANTI INVASION DEFENCE SITE — Sites, buildings and structures associated with the prevention of an invasion by a hostile force.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI INVASION DEFENCE SITE - ANTI TANK CUBE — Cubes of solid concrete, usually with sides of 3 feet 6 inches or 5 feet which when placed in rows were intended to form a substantial barrier to enemy armoured divisions in the event of invasion.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK CUBE - ANTI TANK CYLINDER — Blocks of solid concrete, in the form of cylinders usually 2 feet across x 2 feet 6 inches or 3 feet high. Cylinders were mainly used in road blocks intended to impede enemy movement in the event of invasion.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK CYLINDER - ANTI TANK OBSTACLE — Obstacles like concrete cubes, cylinders or pimples erected in the defence of Britain.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK OBSTACLE - ANTIQUE MARKET — An indoor market used for the sale of antique goods.
Search the NHLE for: ANTIQUE MARKET - ANTLER WORKING SITE — A site which has produced evidence of in situ production of items derived from antler.
Search the NHLE for: ANTLER WORKING SITE - APARTMENT — A room or suite of rooms used as dwellings, eg. in private houses, hotels or tenement houses.
Search the NHLE for: APARTMENT - APIARY — A place where beehives are kept.
Search the NHLE for: APIARY - APPRENTICE HOUSE — A lodging house for apprentices learning a trade or profession. This accommodation was often provided in lieu of wages.
Search the NHLE for: APPRENTICE HOUSE - APPROACH ROAD — A road, sometimes raised as a causeway, which serves as an approach road to a building or bridge.
Search the NHLE for: APPROACH ROAD - AQUARIUM — A zoo building containing artificial ponds or tanks in which aquatic plants and animals are kept alive for purposes of observation and study.
Search the NHLE for: AQUARIUM - AQUEDUCT — An artificial water channel for carrying water over long distances. Use also for bridge-like structures that carry the channel or canal across a valley, river or other obstacle.
Search the NHLE for: AQUEDUCT - ARBORETUM — A place devoted to the cultivation and exhibition of rare trees.
Search the NHLE for: ARBORETUM - ARBOUR — A lattice work bower or shady retreat covered with climbing plants.
Search the NHLE for: ARBOUR - ARCH — A structure over an opening usually formed of wedge-shaped blocks of brick or stone held together by mutual pressure and supported at the sides; they can also be formed from moulded concrete/ cast metal. A component; use for free-standing structure only.
Search the NHLE for: ARCH - ARCH BRIDGE — A curved structural span which is supported at the sides or ends. May vary in shape from the horizontal flat arch through semicircular and semielliptical forms.
Search the NHLE for: ARCH BRIDGE - ARCHBISHOPS PALACE — The official residence of an archbishop, eg. Lambeth Palace.
Search the NHLE for: ARCHBISHOPS PALACE - ARCHDEACONRY — The residence and office of an archdeacon.
Search the NHLE for: ARCHDEACONRY - ARCHERY BUTTS — A mound or structure on which targets are placed for archery practice or competition.
Search the NHLE for: ARCHERY BUTTS - ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT — Use more specific term where known.
Search the NHLE for: ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT - ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL — An educational establishment where the art and theory of building and construction is taught.
Search the NHLE for: ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL - ARMAMENT DEPOT — A building used to store military equipment and ammunition.
Search the NHLE for: ARMAMENT DEPOT - ARMAMENT MANUFACTURING SITE — A building or site used for the manufacture, assembly and testing of weapons, explosives and associated military hardware.
Search the NHLE for: ARMAMENT MANUFACTURING SITE - ARMOURED VEHICLE — An armoured fighting vehicle. Often survive as commemorative monuments, targets and coastal wrecks.
Search the NHLE for: ARMOURED VEHICLE - ARMOURY — A place where weapons are kept.
Search the NHLE for: ARMOURY - ARMY CAMP — A site where an army or body of troops is, temporarily or permanently, lodged, with or without entrenchments and fortifications.
Search the NHLE for: ARMY CAMP - ARMY OFFICE — A building used for a variety of administrative purposes, usually at a military base.
Search the NHLE for: ARMY OFFICE - ARSENAL — A building or large scale site for the manufacture and/or storage of weapons, ammunition and equipment.
Search the NHLE for: ARSENAL - ARSENIC CALCINER — A type of calcining kiln used in arsenic manufacture.
Search the NHLE for: ARSENIC CALCINER - ARSENIC MINE — When secondary product use with major product and MINE, eg. COPPER MINE.
Search the NHLE for: ARSENIC MINE - ARSENIC WORKS — Buildings and plant used for the extraction and purification of arsenic oxide into various forms of pure arsenic.
Search the NHLE for: ARSENIC WORKS - ART AND EDUCATION VENUE — Buildings and structures associated with educational and artistic recreational activities.
Search the NHLE for: ART AND EDUCATION VENUE - ART GALLERY — A building in which works of art are displayed, permanently or temporarily.
Search the NHLE for: ART GALLERY - ART SCHOOL — A place where the creative arts are taught to students.
Search the NHLE for: ART SCHOOL - ARTEFACT SCATTER — A spatially discrete scatter of mixed artefactual material found on the ground, seabed or riverbed which may have been deposited over time rather than resulting from one particular event. Index particular types where appropriate.
Search the NHLE for: ARTEFACT SCATTER - ARTIFICIAL MOUND — An artificial hill constructed in Tudor gardens, especially, to provide a good view.
Search the NHLE for: ARTIFICIAL MOUND - ARTILLERY CASTLE — Castles constructed between 1481 and 1561 for defence using heavy guns.
Search the NHLE for: ARTILLERY CASTLE - ARTILLERY FORT — A fortified building or site with purpose built emplacements for artillery pieces.
Search the NHLE for: ARTILLERY FORT - ARTILLERY SCHOOL — A training establishment for gunnery personnel.
Search the NHLE for: ARTILLERY SCHOOL - ARTILLERY TOWER — A fortified tower designed to house a number of artillery pieces and a small garrison. Artillery towers first appear in England in the 16th century.
Search the NHLE for: ARTILLERY TOWER - ARTISTS STUDIO — An apartment, usually with a north-light, used by artists.
Search the NHLE for: ARTISTS STUDIO - ARTS CENTRE — A building housing a variety of facilities, such as theatres, galleries, concert halls, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ARTS CENTRE - ASH HOPPER — A hopper for the storage of ash.
Search the NHLE for: ASH HOPPER - ASH HOUSE — A small outlying farm building, especially common in southern England, used to store ash (which was used as a fertilizer).
Search the NHLE for: ASH HOUSE - ASH PIT — A pit containing burnt ashes.
Search the NHLE for: ASH PIT - ASHKENAZI MATZEVAH — A matzevah from the Ashkenazi group of Jews descended from medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland and Eastern Europe. Characterised by upright headstones with Hebrew Inscriptions
Search the NHLE for: ASHKENAZI MATZEVAH - ASSAY OFFICE — A building for the weighing or testing of metals, eg. at a mine site.
Search the NHLE for: ASSAY OFFICE - ASSEMBLY HALL — A hall in which public assemblies and meetings can be held.
Search the NHLE for: ASSEMBLY HALL - ASSEMBLY PLANT — A factory for the assembly of components. Usually associated with the manufacture of vehicles: cars, lorries, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ASSEMBLY PLANT - ASSEMBLY ROOMS — A building or set of rooms, primarily of the 18th century, in which social gatherings and balls were held.
Search the NHLE for: ASSEMBLY ROOMS - ASSIZE COURT — Court where sessions were held periodically in each county in England, for the purpose of administering civil and criminal justice. Presided over by itinerant judges acting under certain special commissions. Abolished 1971 and in 1972 replaced by Crown C.
Search the NHLE for: ASSIZE COURT - ASTROLABE — Fixed instrument to measure altitude of stars and planets.
Search the NHLE for: ASTROLABE - ATHENAEUM — A type of public building common in the 18th and 19th century, serving as an educational and/or learned society institute.
Search the NHLE for: ATHENAEUM - ATHLETICS TRACK — A running track used for athletic practice and competition.
Search the NHLE for: ATHLETICS TRACK - ATMOSPHERIC ENGINE HOUSE — Building housing a form of early steam engine using steam at atmospheric pressure. Chiefly employed in mine pumping.
Search the NHLE for: ATMOSPHERIC ENGINE HOUSE - ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY — A railway worked by the propulsive force of compressed air or by the formation of a vacuum.
Search the NHLE for: ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY - ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY ENGINE HOUSE — An engine house which used air pressure to power trains on the experimental atmospheric railways of the 1840s.
Search the NHLE for: ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY ENGINE HOUSE - AUCTION HOUSE — A place where public sales of goods are made by competitive bidding.
Search the NHLE for: AUCTION HOUSE - AUGUSTINIAN ALIEN CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Augustinian order dependent on a foreign mother house.
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN ALIEN CELL - AUGUSTINIAN CELL — A small monastery or nunnery of the Augustinian order dependent on a larger mother house.
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN CELL - AUGUSTINIAN DOUBLE HOUSE — A mixed house of Augustinian nuns, canonesses and canons.
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN DOUBLE HOUSE - AUGUSTINIAN FRIARY — A house of friars of the Augustinian order. Also known as Austin Friars
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN FRIARY - AUGUSTINIAN GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Augustinian order.
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN GRANGE - AUGUSTINIAN MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Augustinian canons.
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN MONASTERY - AUGUSTINIAN NUNNERY — An abbey or priory of Augustinian canonesses.
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN NUNNERY - AUXILIARY FORT — A permanent Roman fort enclosed by a number of ditches and ramparts, used to house a garrison of auxiliaries.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY FORT - AUXILIARY HIDE — WWII secret bases, sometimes partially underground, intended for use by the British resistance in the eventuality of a foreign invasion.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY HIDE - AUXILIARY UNIT OPERATIONAL BASE — A well concealed structure, usually constructed underground, intended for use by members of the British Resistance Organization in the event of invasion.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY UNIT OPERATIONAL BASE - AVENUE (LANDSCAPE FEATURE) — A monument consisting of parallel lines of banks, ditches, stones, timber posts or trees which appears to mark out an approach to another monument or monuments. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: AVENUE (LANDSCAPE FEATURE) - AVIARY — A house, enclosure or large cage for the keeping and breeding of birds.
Search the NHLE for: AVIARY
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- BACK HOUSE — A brewing or baking house attached to a vernacular building, 16/17th century.
Search the NHLE for: BACK HOUSE - BACK TO BACK HOUSE — A house in a terrace consisting of a double row of houses sharing a common back wall, characteristic of industrial cities in the North of England.
Search the NHLE for: BACK TO BACK HOUSE - BACK TO BACK TERRACE — A terrace consisting of a double row of houses sharing a common back wall, characteristic of industrial cities in the North of England.
Search the NHLE for: BACK TO BACK TERRACE - BACK TO EARTH HOUSE — A type of back to back house built on a hillside, of four storeys and with entrances at different levels.
Search the NHLE for: BACK TO EARTH HOUSE - BACK TO EARTH TERRACE — A terrace of BACK TO EARTH HOUSES.
Search the NHLE for: BACK TO EARTH TERRACE - BACKYARD — A small yard attached to the rear of a house or other building.
Search the NHLE for: BACKYARD - BADGER PIT — A site used for the sport of badger baiting using fighting dogs.
Search the NHLE for: BADGER PIT - BADMINTON COURT — An indoor play area for the game of badminton.
Search the NHLE for: BADMINTON COURT - BAGGAGE HALL — Use for distinct structure on a large scale.
Search the NHLE for: BAGGAGE HALL - BAILEY — The courtyard of a castle, ie. the area enclosed by the rampart or curtain. Use with wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BAILEY - BAITING PLACE — A site where the baiting of animals took place. Use more specific site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BAITING PLACE - BAKEHOUSE — A service building to a country house, farm, etc, used for baking. If commercial premises use BAKERY.
Search the NHLE for: BAKEHOUSE - BAKERY — A commercial bakery or bread factory. If domestic use BAKEHOUSE.
Search the NHLE for: BAKERY - BALLAST POND — A water-filled hole used for the disposal of aggregate originally used as ballast in ships.
Search the NHLE for: BALLAST POND - BALLET SCHOOL — A training school where ballet is taught.
Search the NHLE for: BALLET SCHOOL - BALLOON SHED — A building used for fabricating balloon and airship envelopes.
Search the NHLE for: BALLOON SHED - BALLROOM — A room designed or suitable for dancing.
Search the NHLE for: BALLROOM - BALUSTRADE — A row of balusters, usually made of stone, surmounted by a rail or coping.
Search the NHLE for: BALUSTRADE - BANDSTAND — A platform or other structure for the use of a band of musicians.
Search the NHLE for: BANDSTAND - BANJO ENCLOSURE — A monument consisting of a small (generally less than 100m diameter) subcircular enclosure with a narrow approach way consisting of parallel ditches (thus banjo shaped). Believed to be associated with stock management in the Later Prehistoric period.
Search the NHLE for: BANJO ENCLOSURE - BANK (EARTHWORK) — Linear or curvilinear construction of earth, turf and stone, often, but not always accompanied by a ditch. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BANK (EARTHWORK) - BANK (FINANCIAL) — An establishment used for the custody of money received from, or on behalf, of its customers.
Search the NHLE for: BANK (FINANCIAL) - BANK BARN — A multi-purpose, two-storey barn, built on a hillside with entrances at both levels to a first floor threshing barn and ground floor animal housing.
Search the NHLE for: BANK BARN - BANK BARROW — A poorly understood Neolithic monument comprising a very long, narrow earthen mound. They may be of single-phase construction, or represent the addition of a linear extension to the bank of an existing Long Barrow.
Search the NHLE for: BANK BARROW - BANQUETING HOUSE — A hall, apartment or large room, designed or used primarily for festive or state functions.
Search the NHLE for: BANQUETING HOUSE - BAPTIST BURIAL GROUND — A cemetery for baptist followers.
Search the NHLE for: BAPTIST BURIAL GROUND - BAPTIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Baptists. The first Baptist church was formed by Thomas Helws in 1611 and gave rise to the General Baptist Movement.
Search the NHLE for: BAPTIST CHAPEL - BAPTISTERY — An area of a church, often a free-standing building, in which baptism is administered
Search the NHLE for: BAPTISTERY - BARBERS SHOP — A hairdressing establishment for men.
Search the NHLE for: BARBERS SHOP - BARBICAN — Any earthworks, walling, bastion or fortified outwork, or combination of these, generally with ditch or moat.
Search the NHLE for: BARBICAN - BARK HOUSE — A building used for storing tree bark.
Search the NHLE for: BARK HOUSE - BARK MILL — Mill for grinding bark usually for use in the tanning industry. Use with power type(s), eg. WATERMILL where known.
Search the NHLE for: BARK MILL - BARK POT — A large cauldron used in the making of a preservative from the bark of spruce, fir or other conifers. The preservative was used to treat nets, sails and other fishing gear.
Search the NHLE for: BARK POT - BARMKIN — A defensive cattle enclosure added to fortified towers.
Search the NHLE for: BARMKIN - BARN — A building for the storage and processing of grain crops and for housing straw, farm equipment and occasionally livestock and their fodder. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BARN - BARRACKS — A building used to house members of the armed forces.
Search the NHLE for: BARRACKS - BARRAGE — A manmade barrier built across a river in order to increase the depth of water.
Search the NHLE for: BARRAGE - BARRAGE BALLOON SITE — A site where a single large balloon was attached by fine wire cables to the ground to form an aerial obstruction to attacking enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: BARRAGE BALLOON SITE - BARRIER — An obstruction, usually manmade, which is used to restrict or prevent access to a settlement, building or area of land. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BARRIER - BARROW — Artificial mound of earth, turf and/or stone, normally constructed to contain or conceal burials. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BARROW - BARROW CEMETERY — A cluster of closely spaced barrows and related monuments (eg. ring ditches). Use with specific barrow-types where known.
Search the NHLE for: BARROW CEMETERY - BARYTES MILL — A mill in which barytes concentrates were ground to fine white powder, normally by use of flat millstones similar to those of a corn mill.
Search the NHLE for: BARYTES MILL - BARYTES MINE — A site where barytes (barium sulphate) is mined. Barytes is also commonly worked from the waste tips of lead mines.
Search the NHLE for: BARYTES MINE - BARYTES WORKS — A complex of buildings where barytes is processed for industrial use.
Search the NHLE for: BARYTES WORKS - BASCULE BRIDGE — A bridge that incorporates one or two spans that tilt at the abutments, to move up and out of the way of shipping. The most famous example of which is Tower Bridge, London.
Search the NHLE for: BASCULE BRIDGE - BASE CRUCK HOUSE — A CRUCK HOUSE where the cruck blades are truncated and joined by a collar beam, above which is a separate roof construction.
Search the NHLE for: BASE CRUCK HOUSE - BASEMENT — Component. Use wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BASEMENT - BASILICA — An aisled timber or masonry hall, serving as the chief administrative public meeting centre and law courts for a Roman town. Usually located alongside the forum.
Search the NHLE for: BASILICA - BASKET MAKERS WORKSHOP — A workshop where baskets were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: BASKET MAKERS WORKSHOP - BASTION — A flanking tower, or projection from the main walls of a defensive work from which a garrison can defend the ground in front or on the flank.
Search the NHLE for: BASTION - BASTION OUTWORK — Earthworks and buildings added around a bastion to enhance protection of the bastion.
Search the NHLE for: BASTION OUTWORK - BASTION TRACE FORT — A fort with projecting bastions, which came into use from the 16th century onwards.
Search the NHLE for: BASTION TRACE FORT - BASTLE — A fortified house of two or three storeys, the lower floor being used to house animals and the upper for domestic use.
Search the NHLE for: BASTLE - BATH HOUSE — A building equipped with facilities for bathing, and occasionally public baths.
Search the NHLE for: BATH HOUSE - BATHS — A building, usually open to the public, containing a number of areas for bathing. In the case of such a complex containing baths for swimming, also index with INDOOR or OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL.
Search the NHLE for: BATHS - BATTERY — A site where guns, mortars or searchlights are mounted. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BATTERY - BATTERY MILL — Mill incorporating water-powered hammers for beating brass sheet, etc. into vessels, pots, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BATTERY MILL - BATTLE HEADQUARTERS — A concrete structure designed to be the headquarters for the coordination of an airfield's defences. Constructed partially underground it was only intended to be occupied during an attack.
Search the NHLE for: BATTLE HEADQUARTERS - BATTLEFIELD — The field or area of ground on which a battle or skirmish was fought.
Search the NHLE for: BATTLEFIELD - BEACH DEFENCE — Obstacles such as scaffolding, barbed wire and concrete blocks or cylinders placed on a beach to impede the progress of enemy soldiers, vehicles or watercraft landing from the sea.
Search the NHLE for: BEACH DEFENCE - BEACH DEFENCE BATTERY — Gun battery built specifically to mount short range weapons to defend a beach against an attempted landing.
Search the NHLE for: BEACH DEFENCE BATTERY - BEACH HUT — A small timber one-roomed dwelling where holiday makers could rest after a day spent sunbathing, swimming and playing on the beach.
Search the NHLE for: BEACH HUT - BEACON — A site or structure on which a signal, especially a fire, could be placed as a warning or means of communication. Use for beacon sites or surviving beacon structures.
Search the NHLE for: BEACON - BEAM ENGINE — A steam engine with a horizontal beam connecting the piston and crank.
Search the NHLE for: BEAM ENGINE - BEAM ENGINE HOUSE — A building housing a beam engine.
Search the NHLE for: BEAM ENGINE HOUSE - BEAR ENCLOSURE — An enclosure, usually within a zoo, designed to represent the natural environment for bears, including shelter. For bear baiting enclosures use BEAR PIT.
Search the NHLE for: BEAR ENCLOSURE - BEAR PIT — A pit where bears were housed for baiting and entertainment purposes. If not used for baiting use BEAR ENCLOSURE.
Search the NHLE for: BEAR PIT - BEE BOLE — A recess in a stone or brick wall, usually bounding a garden or orchard, set two to three feet from the ground and facing south to south-east to catch the morning sun, in which a bee skep/beehive is placed. Often found in groupings of three to six.
Search the NHLE for: BEE BOLE - BEE GARDEN — A garden in which bees are kept.
Search the NHLE for: BEE GARDEN - BEEHIVE — A receptacle used as a home for bees, traditionally made of thick straw-work in the shape of a dome, but sometimes made of wood.
Search the NHLE for: BEEHIVE - BEER CELLAR — A building or subterranean structure used for the storage of beer.
Search the NHLE for: BEER CELLAR - BEER HOUSE — A building licensed for the sale of beer.
Search the NHLE for: BEER HOUSE - BEER SHOP — A building where beer was sold or displayed.
Search the NHLE for: BEER SHOP - BELFAST TRUSS AIRCRAFT HANGAR — A type of aircraft hangar from the closing years of WWI either of steel or wood utilising a type of lattice work roof support known as a Belfast Truss, which features diagonally interlaced pieces of thin pine. The roof appears as a smooth curve.
Search the NHLE for: BELFAST TRUSS AIRCRAFT HANGAR - BELL BARROW — A round barrow in which the mound and ditch are separated from each other by a berm. The ditch may be accompanied by an external (or occasionally internal) bank.
Search the NHLE for: BELL BARROW - BELL CASTING PIT — A pit, sometimes found close to a church or cathedral, where bells were cast in medieval times.
Search the NHLE for: BELL CASTING PIT - BELL FOUNDRY — A workshop or factory where bells are made by casting molten metal into moulds.
Search the NHLE for: BELL FOUNDRY - BELL MAST — A tall pole topped with a bell used to summon the workforce to their place of work.
Search the NHLE for: BELL MAST - BELL PIT — A bell-shaped pit used in early coal mining. Use with functional type if known, eg. COAL WORKINGS.
Search the NHLE for: BELL PIT - BELL TOWER — A tower or turret in which bells are hung.
Search the NHLE for: BELL TOWER - BELLAND YARD WALL — A wall within a lead mine surrounding a dressing floor, where waste from mining and smelting is deposited, to protect livestock from entering and consuming contaminated material and becoming poisoned, or 'bellanded'.
Search the NHLE for: BELLAND YARD WALL - BELLOWS HOUSE — A building housing a set of bellows used to provide the blast of air to a blast furnace or similar installation.
Search the NHLE for: BELLOWS HOUSE - BELVEDERE — A turret, tower or look out occupying a prominent position to provide a view, either a separate building, or part of a villa.
Search the NHLE for: BELVEDERE - BENCH — A long seat, usually made of stone or wood, with or without a back.
Search the NHLE for: BENCH - BENCH MARK — Mark, usually consisting of a horizontal line above an arrow, cut by the Ordnance Survey as part of the survey of Britain and referenced to a known height above mean sea level.
Search the NHLE for: BENCH MARK - BENEDICTINE ALIEN CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Benedictine order dependent on a foreign mother house.
Search the NHLE for: BENEDICTINE ALIEN CELL - BENEDICTINE CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Benedictine order dependent on an English mother house.
Search the NHLE for: BENEDICTINE CELL - BENEDICTINE DOUBLE HOUSE — A mixed house of nuns and religious men of the Benedictine order.
Search the NHLE for: BENEDICTINE DOUBLE HOUSE - BENEDICTINE GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Benedictine order.
Search the NHLE for: BENEDICTINE GRANGE - BENEDICTINE MONASTERY — An abbey or priory for monks of the Benedictine order.
Search the NHLE for: BENEDICTINE MONASTERY - BENEDICTINE NUNNERY — An abbey or priory for nuns ofthe Benedictine order.
Search the NHLE for: BENEDICTINE NUNNERY - BERM — A horizontal surface separating the base of a rampart or earthwork from an associated ditch or moat. Can also refer to a continuously sloping bank of earth against a wall, as in a fortified city wall.
Search the NHLE for: BERM - BERTH — A place where a ship lies at a wharf. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BERTH - BET TAHARA — A cleansing house associated with Jewish burial ceremonies
Search the NHLE for: BET TAHARA - BETTING OFFICE — An establishment where wagering and the placing of bets takes place.
Search the NHLE for: BETTING OFFICE - BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for Bible Christians, a group who split from the Wesleyan Methodists to form their own church in the South West of England. They were amalgamated into the United Methodist Church in 1907.
Search the NHLE for: BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHAPEL - BICYCLE FACTORY — A factory for the assembly of bicycles.
Search the NHLE for: BICYCLE FACTORY - BICYCLE SHED — A shelter for the storage of bicycles.
Search the NHLE for: BICYCLE SHED - BIER HOUSE — A building containing a bier; a movable stand on which a corpse, often in a coffin, is placed prior to burial.
Search the NHLE for: BIER HOUSE - BILLIARD HALL — A Hall where billiards was played.
Search the NHLE for: BILLIARD HALL - BINDERY — A bookbinding workshop.
Search the NHLE for: BINDERY - BINGO HALL — A place where the popular gambling game of bingo is played.
Search the NHLE for: BINGO HALL - BIRD BATH — An ornamental receptacle to catch rainwater for birds to drink from and bathe in. Sometimes mounted on a column or plinth.
Search the NHLE for: BIRD BATH - BIRD SANCTUARY — An area where birds are protected and bred.
Search the NHLE for: BIRD SANCTUARY - BISCUIT FACTORY — A factory where biscuits are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: BISCUIT FACTORY - BISHOPS PALACE — The official residence of a bishop.
Search the NHLE for: BISHOPS PALACE - BISHOPS SUMMER PALACE — An official residence of a bishop used during the summer months.
Search the NHLE for: BISHOPS SUMMER PALACE - BIVALLATE HILLFORT — A hilltop enclosure bounded by a double line of ramparts.
Search the NHLE for: BIVALLATE HILLFORT - BLACKSMITHS WORKSHOP — Place where a smith works iron. May be for small scale local use or within a larger industrial complex.
Search the NHLE for: BLACKSMITHS WORKSHOP - BLANKET MILL — A factory where lengths of soft, woollen cloth, loosely woven to retain heat, used as a bed covering, were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: BLANKET MILL - BLAST FURNACE — Smelting furnace into which compressed hot air is driven.
Search the NHLE for: BLAST FURNACE - BLAST PEN — A protective structure, often made of sandbags with reinforcement, designed to protect aircraft at airfields from enemy attack.
Search the NHLE for: BLAST PEN - BLAST SHELTER — A structure, usually of earth and concrete, and usually, although not always, subterranean, designed for protection against explosives.
Search the NHLE for: BLAST SHELTER - BLAST SHELTER (2360/41) — An unroofed structure, found on military airfields, protected by brick walls and earth banks for shelter during air raids.
Search the NHLE for: BLAST SHELTER (2360/41) - BLAST WALL — A reinforced wall designed to reflect the blast from an explosion. Often found associated with powder magazines, pillboxes and air raid shelters.
Search the NHLE for: BLAST WALL - BLEACH WORKS — A works where bleach is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: BLEACH WORKS - BLEACHERY — Bleach works or bleach house for bleaching of textiles, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BLEACHERY - BLENDER SHED — A building where threads of different qualities and colours are mixed together.
Search the NHLE for: BLENDER SHED - BLIND BACK HOUSE — A house with windows and doors on one side only; often built facing inwards onto a burgage plot, or sometimes on a steep slope, with no apertures on the uphill side.
Search the NHLE for: BLIND BACK HOUSE - BLISTER AIRCRAFT HANGAR — A type of transportable aircraft hangar patented by Miskins and Sons in 1939. The arched hangar was constructed of steel or wooden ribs and generally clad in steel sheets. The hangar did not require any foundations and could be anchored by iron stakes.
Search the NHLE for: BLISTER AIRCRAFT HANGAR - BLOCK MILL — Building housing machinery used in the production of wooden pulley blocks for the rigging of sailing ships.
Search the NHLE for: BLOCK MILL - BLOCKHOUSE — A detached fort covering a strategic point.
Search the NHLE for: BLOCKHOUSE - BLOOMERY — A charcoal fired shaft furnace used for the direct reduction of iron ore to produce wrought iron.
Search the NHLE for: BLOOMERY - BLOWING ENGINE HOUSE — Steam engine, usually, driving a centrifugal fan to provide an air blast for a blast furnace.
Search the NHLE for: BLOWING ENGINE HOUSE - BLOWING HOUSE — A building containing a small stone cylindrical furnace, eg. used for tin smelting in Cornwall.
Search the NHLE for: BLOWING HOUSE - BLUNGING PIT — Pit for mixing raw materials with water in the preparation of a clay body.
Search the NHLE for: BLUNGING PIT - BOAR PEN — A pen to separate the boar from the other pigs.
Search the NHLE for: BOAR PEN - BOARD SCHOOL — 19th century school administered by a school board.
Search the NHLE for: BOARD SCHOOL - BOARDING KENNEL — A house or range of buildings where domestic dogs and cats can be kept for a period.
Search the NHLE for: BOARDING KENNEL - BOARDING SCHOOL — A private school offering term time accommodation for pupils being taught there.
Search the NHLE for: BOARDING SCHOOL - BOAT HOUSE — A house or shelter for the storage and/or launching of boats.
Search the NHLE for: BOAT HOUSE - BOAT LIFT — A structure used for the lifting of boats and other water craft.
Search the NHLE for: BOAT LIFT - BOAT SHED — A light, mostly wooden errected structure serving as workshop for the building, storage, repair and maintenance of boats.
Search the NHLE for: BOAT SHED - BOAT STORE — A place where boats are stored.
Search the NHLE for: BOAT STORE - BOAT YARD — A place where boats are built and stored.
Search the NHLE for: BOAT YARD - BOATING LAKE — A lake, often artifical, in a park or open space, used for the recreational rowing and sailing of boats.
Search the NHLE for: BOATING LAKE - BOBBIN MILL — A mill manufacturing bobbins for the textile industry.
Search the NHLE for: BOBBIN MILL - BOG GARDEN — A soft, marshy garden, often peat-based where water- and peat-loving plants are grown.
Search the NHLE for: BOG GARDEN - BOILER HOUSE — A building housing a boiler, often connected to a steam engine house.
Search the NHLE for: BOILER HOUSE - BOILER ROOM — A room containing a boiler, used to provide heating.
Search the NHLE for: BOILER ROOM - BOILER SHOP — Workshop for the construction and maintenance of boilers within an industrial complex.
Search the NHLE for: BOILER SHOP - BOILER WORKS — Engineering works dedicated solely to the manufacture and repair of boilers.
Search the NHLE for: BOILER WORKS - BOILING HOUSE — A building, or part of a building for the boiling and preparation of animal feed, usually attached to pigsties.
Search the NHLE for: BOILING HOUSE - BOLLARD — A wooden, stone or iron post for securing things to or for preventing vehicular access to pedestrianized areas.
Search the NHLE for: BOLLARD - BOMB CRATER — A depression in the ground caused by the explosion of a mine or bombshell.
Search the NHLE for: BOMB CRATER - BOMB STORE — A complex of buildings and earthworks constructed for the storage of bombs and pyrotechnics.
Search the NHLE for: BOMB STORE - BOMBING DECOY — A system of lights, controlled fires or dummy constructions, used during WWII to provide a counterfeit target for enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBING DECOY - BOMBING DECOY SITE — A site comprising a system of lights, controlled fires or dummy constructions, used during WWII to provide a counterfeit target for enemy aircraft. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBING DECOY SITE - BOMBING RANGE — An area of land, with associated buildings and targets, used for practicing the dropping of bombs and other aspects of air warfare.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBING RANGE - BOMBING RANGE MARKER — A range marker allowing bombers to locate the bombing range.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBING RANGE MARKER - BOMBING RANGE OBSERVATION POST — Buildings and structures used to monitor the accuracy of bombs dropped on a bombing range
Search the NHLE for: BOMBING RANGE OBSERVATION POST - BONDED WAREHOUSE — A warehouse, usually under the charge of CUSTOM HOUSE officials, in which goods were stored before the duty had been paid. Often found in dockyards, harbours, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BONDED WAREHOUSE - BONE MILL — A mill for grinding or crushing bones, in the process of making bone china, for example.
Search the NHLE for: BONE MILL - BONHOMMES MONASTERY — A residence of the Bonhommes brethren, who followed the Augustinian rule.
Search the NHLE for: BONHOMMES MONASTERY - BOOKING OFFICE — An establishment where tickets/reservations for events, journeys or entrance to a site can be purchased.
Search the NHLE for: BOOKING OFFICE - BOOM — A barrier, usually of wood or chain, stretched across the entrance to a harbour, port or anchorage, to control entry and/or limit the effect of the weather on the wave action.
Search the NHLE for: BOOM - BOOM TOWER — A tower at the mouth of the harbour to defend the end of the harbour boom.
Search the NHLE for: BOOM TOWER - BOOT SCRAPER — A small metal bar for the cleaning of dirty footwear before entering a house, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BOOT SCRAPER - BORING MILL — A building containing a machine tool for boring out large cylindrical holes in items such as steam engine cylinders, pump barrels, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BORING MILL - BORSTAL — An institution for the imprisonment and training of 16-21 year olds first established officially in 1908. Replaced by Youth Custody Centres in 1982.
Search the NHLE for: BORSTAL - BOTANIC GARDEN — A garden designed to provide living material for the study of botany and horticulture.
Search the NHLE for: BOTANIC GARDEN - BOTHY — Small building in which labourers, such as miners and tin workers. They are also associated with gardens where they provide on-site accommodation for gardeners and estate workers.
Search the NHLE for: BOTHY - BOTTLE KILN — A large, "bottle-shaped", oven of brick construction used in the baking or firing of pottery.
Search the NHLE for: BOTTLE KILN - BOTTLE WORKS — A site where the manufacture of glass bottles takes place.
Search the NHLE for: BOTTLE WORKS - BOTTLING PLANT — A plant for bottling manufactured goods, as opposed to a BOTTLE WORKS where bottles were made.
Search the NHLE for: BOTTLING PLANT - BOUNDARY — The limit to an area as defined on a map or by a marker of some form, eg. BOUNDARY WALL. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY - BOUNDARY BANK — An earthen bank that indicates the limit of an area or a piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY BANK - BOUNDARY CROSS — A sculpted cross, or a cross incised into stone or trees, to mark a parish boundary.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY CROSS - BOUNDARY DITCH — A ditch that indicates the limit of an area or a piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY DITCH - BOUNDARY FENCE — A fence that indicates the limit of an area or a piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY FENCE - BOUNDARY MARKER — A marker of some form used to indicate the limit of an area or a piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY MARKER - BOUNDARY PLATE — A plate, usually of wood or metal, used to indicate the limit of an area or piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY PLATE - BOUNDARY POST — A stone or metal post that indicates the limit of an area or piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY POST - BOUNDARY STONE — A stone that indicates the limit of an area or piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY STONE - BOUNDARY WALL — Any wall enclosing a building or complex of buildings, eg. prisons, dockyards, factories, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY WALL - BOUSE TEAM — Term for ore store/ore hopper, used particularly in Yorkshire and Derbyshire.
Search the NHLE for: BOUSE TEAM - BOWL BARROW — A round barrow featuring a mound surrounded by a ditch, with no intervening berm. The ditch may be accompanied by an external bank.
Search the NHLE for: BOWL BARROW - BOWLING ALLEY — An indoor alley for playing bowls or skittles.
Search the NHLE for: BOWLING ALLEY - BOWLING CLUB — A site, usually consisting of a bowling green and pavilion, frequented by lawn bowlers.
Search the NHLE for: BOWLING CLUB - BOWLING GREEN — A closely mown piece of ground used for the game of lawn bowling.
Search the NHLE for: BOWLING GREEN - BOWLING GREEN PAVILION — A building, often located in a park, where players can change and store equipment and from where spectators can watch the game.
Search the NHLE for: BOWLING GREEN PAVILION - BOX FRAME HOUSE — A timber framed house comprising horizontal and vertical timbers, forming the walls of the building and directly supporting the roof.
Search the NHLE for: BOX FRAME HOUSE - BOXING ARENA — An area, often including a platform, used for boxing competitions.
Search the NHLE for: BOXING ARENA - BOXING CLUB — A venue, with a boxing ring and associated facilities, which is used to train for and undertake amateur or professional boxing.
Search the NHLE for: BOXING CLUB - BRAKE HOUSE — A building housing the brakes for an incline railway or tramway.
Search the NHLE for: BRAKE HOUSE - BRASS FOUNDRY — A workshop or factory where brass articles are made by casting molten material into a mould.
Search the NHLE for: BRASS FOUNDRY - BRASS WORKS — A brass manufacturing complex incorporating battery mill furnaces, hammers, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BRASS WORKS - BREAKWATER — A structure which protects a beach or harbour by breaking the force of the waves.
Search the NHLE for: BREAKWATER - BREASTSHOT WHEEL — A waterwheel in which the incoming water is directed onto the periphery below the top of the wheel.
Search the NHLE for: BREASTSHOT WHEEL - BREASTWORK — A temporary fieldwork, usually a few feet in height, constructed for defence against enemy forces.
Search the NHLE for: BREASTWORK - BRETHREN MEETING HOUSE — A place of meeting and worship for Brethren, a fundamentalist puritan sect founded in Ireland in the late 1820s and established in England in Plymouth in the 1830s.
Search the NHLE for: BRETHREN MEETING HOUSE - BREWERY — A commercial building, or buildings, used for the production of beer and other alcoholic drinks. Size may range from a single room such as a microbrewery in a public house to a complex of buildings including production line machinery for bottling.
Search the NHLE for: BREWERY - BREWHOUSE — An outbuilding containing brewing equipment, as opposed to a large commercial BREWERY. Often found in conjunction with public houses, country houses etc.
Search the NHLE for: BREWHOUSE - BREWING AND MALTING SITE — Buildings and structures associated with the process of brewing and malting.
Search the NHLE for: BREWING AND MALTING SITE - BRICK DRYING SHED — A building in which newly made bricks are laid out to dry.
Search the NHLE for: BRICK DRYING SHED - BRICK KILN — A kiln or furnace for the firing of bricks.
Search the NHLE for: BRICK KILN - BRICKEARTH PIT — A pit used for the excavation of clay suitable for making bricks.
Search the NHLE for: BRICKEARTH PIT - BRICKWORKS — An industrial manufacturing complex producing bricks.
Search the NHLE for: BRICKWORKS - BRICKYARD — Small scale enterprise producing bricks but not at the same site as the extraction of clay.
Search the NHLE for: BRICKYARD - BRIDGE — A structure of wood, stone, iron, brick or concrete, etc, with one or more intervals under it to span a river or other space. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BRIDGE - BRIDGE CHAPEL — A place of worship situated at the end of, or built onto, the structure of a bridge. Often associated with bridge maintenance through the collection of donations, they may be endowed as a chantry for the celebration of Masses for the soul of the founder.
Search the NHLE for: BRIDGE CHAPEL - BRIDGE KEEPERS COTTAGE — The residence of a bridge keeper.
Search the NHLE for: BRIDGE KEEPERS COTTAGE - BRIDGETTINE DOUBLE HOUSE — An abbey of the Bridgettine double order of nuns and religious men.
Search the NHLE for: BRIDGETTINE DOUBLE HOUSE - BRIDGETTINE NUNNERY — An abbey founded in 1415 for nuns of the Bridgettine order.
Search the NHLE for: BRIDGETTINE NUNNERY - BRIDLEWAY — A path, barred to vehicles, reserved for riding horses.
Search the NHLE for: BRIDLEWAY - BRINE PUMP — A pump used for moving brine (salt water).
Search the NHLE for: BRINE PUMP - BRINE SHAFT — A shaft cut to facilitate the extraction of salt from halite deposits by pumping water into the deposit and pumping out brine from which the salt is later extracted.
Search the NHLE for: BRINE SHAFT - BRITISH AND FOREIGN SOCIETY SCHOOL — A school founded by the British and Foreign Society to provide non-denominational education. Usually built and supported by voluntary contributions.
Search the NHLE for: BRITISH AND FOREIGN SOCIETY SCHOOL - BRITISH LEGION HALL — A place where members of the British Legion meet.
Search the NHLE for: BRITISH LEGION HALL - BROADCASTING RADIO STATION — A building used for broadcasting radio programmes for public entertainment. Often includes recording studios, transmitters and offices. Use RADIO STATION for non-broadcasting uses eg. Military.
Search the NHLE for: BROADCASTING RADIO STATION - BROADCASTING TRANSMITTER — A structure, building or site housing equipment for transmitting radio or television signals.
Search the NHLE for: BROADCASTING TRANSMITTER - BRUSH FACTORY — A factory where brushes are manufactured. Use for all types of brush.
Search the NHLE for: BRUSH FACTORY - BUDDHIST MONASTERY — A place of worship and residence for followers of Buddha.
Search the NHLE for: BUDDHIST MONASTERY - BUDDHIST TEMPLE — A place of worship for the followers of Buddha.
Search the NHLE for: BUDDHIST TEMPLE - BUDDLE — A stone-lined pit or tank, sometimes circular, for concentrating ores by sedimentation.
Search the NHLE for: BUDDLE - BUDDLE HOUSE — Building or structure housing a buddle.
Search the NHLE for: BUDDLE HOUSE - BUFFER DEPOT — A strategic food store, directly operated by, or on behalf of, the government. The stores were used to store a variety of foodstuffs. They were in operation from the end of the Second World War until the early 1990's.
Search the NHLE for: BUFFER DEPOT - BUFFET — A small eating and drinking establishment or refreshment bar.
Search the NHLE for: BUFFET - BUILDERS MERCHANTS — The premises of a builders merchant where building materials such as stone, cement, bricks, tiles and timber could be bought.
Search the NHLE for: BUILDERS MERCHANTS - BUILDERS YARD — An area where builders keep building materials such as brick, stone, planks and cement.
Search the NHLE for: BUILDERS YARD - BUILDING — A structure with a roof to provide shelter from the weather for occupants or contents. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BUILDING - BUILDING PLATFORM — A site where a building once stood as identified by a level area of ground, often compacted or made from man-made materials. Use only where specific function is unknown, otherwise use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: BUILDING PLATFORM - BULL PEN — An enclosure for the containment of a bull.
Search the NHLE for: BULL PEN - BULLRING — An arena for bull-baiting, not a tethering ring.
Search the NHLE for: BULLRING - BULWARK — Unspecified defensive structure like a mound of earth, a rampart, an embankment or a wall-like fortification. Also used as an early term for a bastion or blockhouse. Use more specific term where known.
Search the NHLE for: BULWARK - BUNGALOW — A one-storey house.
Search the NHLE for: BUNGALOW - BUNKER — A structure, often built undergound, used for defence and co-ordination of military activity.
Search the NHLE for: BUNKER - BUOY — A floating, fixed marker used to indicate to a navigator a sea area to approach or avoid.
Search the NHLE for: BUOY - BUOY STORE — A building used to store navigational buoys.
Search the NHLE for: BUOY STORE - BURGH — A civil and administrative area incorporating a town of medieval origin.
Search the NHLE for: BURGH - BURH — An Anglo-Saxon fortified town or other defended site, not necessarily urban.
Search the NHLE for: BURH - BURIAL — An interment of human or animal remains. Use specific type where known. If component use with wider site type. Use FUNERARY SITE for optimum retrieval in searches.
Search the NHLE for: BURIAL - BURIAL PIT — A place where dead bodies are buried together. Often unconsecrated ground.
Search the NHLE for: BURIAL PIT - BURIAL VAULT — A built structure, generally below ground, designed for the interment of several burials over a period of time. Usually constructed with a door or sealed entrance to allow reopening for further burials.
Search the NHLE for: BURIAL VAULT - BURNT MOUND — A mound of fire-cracked stones, normally accompanied by a trough or pit which may have been lined with wood, stone or clay. Assumed to be locations where heated stones were used to boil water primarily for cooking purposes.
Search the NHLE for: BURNT MOUND - BUS DEPOT — A building, with adjacent open areas, in which buses are maintained, usually having an extensive area free from upright columns or stanchions to permit overnight storage, repair bays, stores and an office.
Search the NHLE for: BUS DEPOT - BUS SHELTER — A structure providing protection against the weather at bus stops.
Search the NHLE for: BUS SHELTER - BUS STATION — A building and open area from which buses, usually those working local or regional services, begin or end their journeys.
Search the NHLE for: BUS STATION - BUSINESS CENTRE — A building providing business premises to companies or individuals, sometimes for short periods, in exchange for a membership fee.
Search the NHLE for: BUSINESS CENTRE - BUSINESS PARK — An area speciallly developed to accommodate commercial buildings.
Search the NHLE for: BUSINESS PARK - BUST — A piece of sculpture usually representing the head, shoulders and breast of a person.
Search the NHLE for: BUST - BUTCHERS SHOP — A shop where meat is sold. Often includes large cold stores for the refrigeration and storage of carcasses and a butchery where the carcass is cut up prior to sale.
Search the NHLE for: BUTCHERS SHOP - BUTCHERY SITE — A site used for the butchery of animals.
Search the NHLE for: BUTCHERY SITE - BUTTER FACTORY — A group of buildings containing machinery for the production in bulk of butter or related dairy products.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTER FACTORY - BUTTER MARKET — An indoor or outdoor market where butter was sold.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTER MARKET - BUTTER WELL — A small stone structure, usually at a spring or bog, in which dairy products were kept cool on slate shelves.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTER WELL - BUTTERY — A room used primarily for storing food and drink.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTERY - BUTTON MILL — A factory where buttons are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTON MILL - BUTTS — A mound or structure on which an archery, musketry or artillery target is erected. Use specific type where known.
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- CABARET — A club often with a dance floor or small stage and featuring entertainment generally of an improvisational, satirical, or topical nature which can be watched by the clientele whilst they drink and dine.
Search the NHLE for: CABARET - CABINET — A small garden enclosure within a BOSQUET or surrounded by clipped hedges.
Search the NHLE for: CABINET - CABINETMAKERS — A building or workshop where fine furniture, often veneered, is made.
Search the NHLE for: CABINETMAKERS - CABMENS SHELTER — A small, often weatherboarded, roadside house in which cab drivers could rest and take refreshments. Late 19th century onwards.
Search the NHLE for: CABMENS SHELTER - CAFE — A cheap eating and drinking establishment usually serving snacks and non-alcoholic drinks.
Search the NHLE for: CAFE - CAIRN — A monument featuring a bank or mound constructed primarily of stone. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CAIRN - CAIRN ALIGNMENT — Long alignment of cairns lying between two large cairns; first recognized as a site type on Sourton Tor, Dartmoor.
Search the NHLE for: CAIRN ALIGNMENT - CAIRN CEMETERY — A group of cairns in close proximity which are predominantly funerary or ritual in nature.
Search the NHLE for: CAIRN CEMETERY - CAIRNFIELD — A group of cairns occurring within close proximity to each other. Use for instances where the majority are clearance cairns. Also index specific types where known.
Search the NHLE for: CAIRNFIELD - CAISSON — Floatable vessel used as a floodgate in docks.
Search the NHLE for: CAISSON - CALAMINE MILL — A mill used for the preparation and production of Calamine.
Search the NHLE for: CALAMINE MILL - CALAMINE MINE — Where secondary product use with major product and MINE, eg. LEAD MINE.
Search the NHLE for: CALAMINE MINE - CALCINER — A kiln for roasting ore.
Search the NHLE for: CALCINER - CALCINING KILN — A kiln in which the prolonged heating or roasting of materials to drive off water, volatiles and sulphur so that they may be reduced to a powder, was performed.
Search the NHLE for: CALCINING KILN - CALCITE MINE — A place where calcite is extracted using both quarrying and deeper mining techniques. Calcite/limestone is used for making glass, paper, photography, statues, building, and animal food.
Search the NHLE for: CALCITE MINE - CALF HOUSE — A building used to house calves.
Search the NHLE for: CALF HOUSE - CALVARY — A representation of the crucifixion of Christ or related scenes as a sculpture in a churchyard, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CALVARY - CALVINISTIC METHODIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists, Welsh Methodists who split from the established church in 1811.
Search the NHLE for: CALVINISTIC METHODIST CHAPEL - CAMBER — Traditionally a dock where cambering, the bending of beams for shipbuilding, took place. Now used for a small dock.
Search the NHLE for: CAMBER - CAMEL HOUSE — A house used to accommodate camels, often found at a zoo or wildlife park.
Search the NHLE for: CAMEL HOUSE - CAMELLIA HOUSE — A 19th century glasshouse built specifically for the fostering of camellias.
Search the NHLE for: CAMELLIA HOUSE - CAMERA — A subsidiary form of preceptory provided with a chapel. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CAMERA - CAMERA OBSCURA — A building or room in which images of outside objects are projected on to a screen from a long-focus lens using natural light.
Search the NHLE for: CAMERA OBSCURA - CAMPUS — The grounds of an institution for higher education eg. a university, including the educational buildings, entertainment and sports facilities and student's halls of residence.
Search the NHLE for: CAMPUS - CANAL — An artificial navigable waterway used for the transportation of goods. Nowadays also used for recreational purposes.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL - CANAL BASIN — An open area of water, usually artificial and enclosed by dock gates or locks, lined with wharves and warehouses, where barges, narrow boats and other canal vessels can load and unload goods and supplies.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL BASIN - CANAL BOAT YARD — A place where canal boats are built and maintained.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL BOAT YARD - CANAL BRIDGE — A bridge over a canal.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL BRIDGE - CANAL DOCK — An artificial area of open water, situated on a canal, enclosed by masonry and fitted with dock gates in which ships can be repaired, loaded/unloaded or berthed.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL DOCK - CANAL DOCKYARD — An enclosure containing a dock, boat yard, warehouse, etc, in which canal vessels are built and repaired, and all sorts of stores and merchandise for transportation brought together.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL DOCKYARD - CANAL FEEDER — A channel which feeds water from a reservoir into a canal when the water level gets low.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL FEEDER - CANAL GATEHOUSE — A gatehouse bridging a canal.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL GATEHOUSE - CANAL INCLINED PLANE — A prepared slope with rails on which boats can be transferred from one canal to another at a higher or lower level. The boats can either be floated in a caisson or carried in a cradle or sling.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL INCLINED PLANE - CANAL LIFT — A massive structure designed to transfer canal boats between different canal or river navigations, eg. Anderton boat lift.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL LIFT - CANAL LOCK — A rectangular chamber of brick or stone with heavy wooden gates at either end equipped with sluices to let water in and out, thereby enabling a canal boat to be lowered or raised to a different level.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL LOCK - CANAL MILEPOST — A post set up alongside a canal to mark the miles to and from a place.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL MILEPOST - CANAL OFFICE — A building or room, where business and/or administrative activities to do with the canals was conducted.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL OFFICE - CANAL PORT — An inland settlement such as Runcorn, Ellesmere Port or Stourport, that combines docks and terminal facilities at the interface between land and canal transportation systems.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL PORT - CANAL RESERVOIR — A supply of water used to keep canals that were vulnerable to water shortage topped up.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL RESERVOIR - CANAL SLUICE — A channel for taking a rapidly flowing stream of water away from a canal lock, or away from the canal itself.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL SLUICE - CANAL TRANSPORT SITE — Buildings and structures associated with canal transport.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL TRANSPORT SITE - CANAL TUNNEL — A tunnel with a canal running through it.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL TUNNEL - CANAL TUNNEL PORTAL — An often stately and ornate entrance to a canal tunnel.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL TUNNEL PORTAL - CANAL WAREHOUSE — A large building, situated by or near a canal, used for the temporary storage of goods or merchandise awaiting transportation to or from the canal.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL WAREHOUSE - CANAL WHARF — A large wooden structure built alongside the edge of a canal where narrow boats may lie for the loading and unloading of goods.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL WHARF - CANAL WORKERS COTTAGE — The residence of a canal worker.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL WORKERS COTTAGE - CANCER HOSPITAL — A hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of patients with cancer or related illnesses.
Search the NHLE for: CANCER HOSPITAL - CANDLE FACTORY — A building or buildings used for the manufacture of candles.
Search the NHLE for: CANDLE FACTORY - CANNON — A large mounted gun, now disused and placed in a prominent position as a piece of street furniture or as a "feature".
Search the NHLE for: CANNON - CANNON BOLLARD — A bollard made from, or in the form of, a cannon barrel.
Search the NHLE for: CANNON BOLLARD - CANNON BORING MILL — A building used for drilling out the bores of cannon and other military pieces.
Search the NHLE for: CANNON BORING MILL - CANOPIED TOMB — A tomb with a raised canopy over it.
Search the NHLE for: CANOPIED TOMB - CANTEEN — A self-service dining room, especially for workers/employees; also in institutions, such as schools, hospitals, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CANTEEN - CANTILEVER BRIDGE — A specialized form of truss bridge that extends or cantilevers from both sides of the pier, the inner 'arms' usually supporting a central span.
Search the NHLE for: CANTILEVER BRIDGE - CANTILEVER CRANE — A crane consisting of a lattice girder carried on a lattice tower forming a T-shaped structure. A hoist is carried along the girder by a 'crab', enabling the crane to perform a variety of tasks eg loading/unloading of ships.
Search the NHLE for: CANTILEVER CRANE - CANVAS WORKS — A site where canvas, coarse, unbleached cloth, made from hemp or flax, was manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CANVAS WORKS - CAPSTAN — An apparatus around which cables or hawsers are wound for hoisting anchors, lifting weights, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CAPSTAN - CAPSTAN HOUSE — A small building housing a mechanism used for winding a cable.
Search the NHLE for: CAPSTAN HOUSE - CAR FACTORY — A factory where cars are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CAR FACTORY - CAR PARK — A place where cars and other road vehicles may be parked and left.
Search the NHLE for: CAR PARK - CAR RAMP — An inclined concrete ramp on which cars can move from one level to another.
Search the NHLE for: CAR RAMP - CARDING MILL — A small workshop, employing up to 10 men, working on hand-operated carding engines and hand jennies, spinning yarn for handloom weavers.
Search the NHLE for: CARDING MILL - CARE HOME — A short or long term residential home for people not requiring medical intervention or nursing care, usually for older people.
Search the NHLE for: CARE HOME - CARMELITE FRIARY — A house of friars, originally hermits from Mount Carmel. Also known as ' white friars'.
Search the NHLE for: CARMELITE FRIARY - CARMELITE NUNNERY — A site inhabited by a modern order of nuns, founded in 1900 at Lanherne, Cornwall, following Carmelite traditions.
Search the NHLE for: CARMELITE NUNNERY - CARPENTERS WORKSHOP — A place where products are manufactured from wood.
Search the NHLE for: CARPENTERS WORKSHOP - CARPET FACTORY — A factory where carpets are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CARPET FACTORY - CARPET MANUFACTURING SITE — Includes any textile floor covering.
Search the NHLE for: CARPET MANUFACTURING SITE - CARPET MILL — A factory where carpets are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CARPET MILL - CARPET WEAVERS WORKSHOP — A building where carpets and other floor furnishings were woven.
Search the NHLE for: CARPET WEAVERS WORKSHOP - CARRIAGE HOUSE — An outbuilding used for the storage and maintenance of horse-drawn carriages.
Search the NHLE for: CARRIAGE HOUSE - CARRIAGE RAMP — A ramp or incline between differing levels constructed to allow carriages access.
Search the NHLE for: CARRIAGE RAMP - CARRIAGE SPLASH — Purpose built area, incorporating water supply, for the cleaning of carriages, carts, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CARRIAGE SPLASH - CARRIAGE WORKS — A building or works in which carriages were built. Use RAILWAY CARRIAGE WORKS for sites making railway carriages.
Search the NHLE for: CARRIAGE WORKS - CARRIAGEWAY — The part of a road intended for vehicular traffic.
Search the NHLE for: CARRIAGEWAY - CARRIERS PREMISES — A site used by a carrier to accommodate his horses and vehicles and store goods awaiting transportation, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CARRIERS PREMISES - CART SHED — A building used for housing, and protecting from the weather, carts, waggons and farm implements, often open-fronted.
Search the NHLE for: CART SHED - CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Carthusian monks.
Search the NHLE for: CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY - CARTRIDGE HOUSE — A component building of an explosives works where cartridges were filled with explosives with the aid of cartridging machines.
Search the NHLE for: CARTRIDGE HOUSE - CARVED STONE — A stone (including standing stones, natural boulders and rock outcrops) decorated with carved motifs.
Search the NHLE for: CARVED STONE - CARVING — A carved figure or design.
Search the NHLE for: CARVING - CARYATID — A column, in the form of a female figure, used to support an entablature.
Search the NHLE for: CARYATID - CASCADE — An artificial fall of water often taking the form of a water staircase.
Search the NHLE for: CASCADE - CASCADE HOUSE — An often ornate building housing the source of an ornamental cascade, eg. Chatsworth House.
Search the NHLE for: CASCADE HOUSE - CASEMATE — An explosive-proof vaulted chamber used for the storage or ordnance.
Search the NHLE for: CASEMATE - CASINO — A public music or dancing establishment often with facilities for gambling.
Search the NHLE for: CASINO - CASTING FLOOR — A floor area, covered in sand, onto which hot metal from a furnace is cast.
Search the NHLE for: CASTING FLOOR - CASTING HOUSE — Building or structure covering a casting floor or pit.
Search the NHLE for: CASTING HOUSE - CASTLE — A fortress and dwelling, usually medieval in origin, and often consisting of a keep, curtain wall and towers etc.
Search the NHLE for: CASTLE - CASUAL WARD BLOCK — A wing in a workhouse to accommodate vagrants overnight.
Search the NHLE for: CASUAL WARD BLOCK - CATACOMB (FUNERARY) — A funerary site, either totally or partially underground, for the depositing of the dead. Often found in cemeteries in the form of a circular or semi-circular sunken area comprising of several galleries with vault entrances built into the side.
Search the NHLE for: CATACOMB (FUNERARY) - CATERING COLLEGE — A training college for chefs and other catering students.
Search the NHLE for: CATERING COLLEGE - CATHEDRAL — The principal church of a diocese in which the cathedra or bishop's throne is to be found.
Search the NHLE for: CATHEDRAL - CATHEDRAL CLOSE — An enclosed area of ground immediately surrounding a cathedral.
Search the NHLE for: CATHEDRAL CLOSE - CATHEDRAL PRECINCT — An area of ground immediately surrounding a cathedral.
Search the NHLE for: CATHEDRAL PRECINCT - CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH — A nonconformist church for the followers of Edward Irving.
Search the NHLE for: CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH - CATTLE DOCKS — Pens for housing cattle awaiting transportation.
Search the NHLE for: CATTLE DOCKS - CATTLE PEN — An enclosure for cattle.
Search the NHLE for: CATTLE PEN - CATTLE SHELTER — An open sided building known to have been used for sheltering cattle.
Search the NHLE for: CATTLE SHELTER - CATTLE STALL — A stall, often within a cow house, where cattle are kept individually.
Search the NHLE for: CATTLE STALL - CATTLE TROUGH — A long metal or stone vessel for cattle to drink water from.
Search the NHLE for: CATTLE TROUGH - CAUSEWAY — A road or pathway raised above surrounding low, wet or uneven ground.
Search the NHLE for: CAUSEWAY - CAUSEWAYED ENCLOSURE — A Neolithic monument comprising an irregularly circular enclosing ditch, interrupted by frequent causeways, and often accompanied by an internal bank, also causewayed.
Search the NHLE for: CAUSEWAYED ENCLOSURE - CAVALRY BARRACKS — A barracks including stables and associated buildings housing a cavalry regiment.
Search the NHLE for: CAVALRY BARRACKS - CAVE — A subterranean feature entered from a hillside, cliff face, etc. A cave may have been used for occupation, storage, burial, refuse, or as a hide-away. Index with site type or objects where known.
Search the NHLE for: CAVE - CAVITATION TUNNEL — A tunnel used to test scale model propellers and hulls to consider the impact of caviation on wake, propulsion, vibration and noise.
Search the NHLE for: CAVITATION TUNNEL - CELL — A monastic enclave dependent on a mother house.
Search the NHLE for: CELL - CELL BLOCK — A building containing a number of single roomed cells used for detaining prisoners.
Search the NHLE for: CELL BLOCK - CELLAR — A room or group of rooms usually below the ground level and usually under a building, often used for storing fuel, provisions or wines.
Search the NHLE for: CELLAR - CELLAR DWELLING — A basement or cellar, usually within a house, leased as a separate dwelling.
Search the NHLE for: CELLAR DWELLING - CELLARERS RANGE — Living and working quarters for the cellarer who was in charge of provisions and the running of the cellar.
Search the NHLE for: CELLARERS RANGE - CELTIC FIELD SYSTEM — A fairly regular system of small rectangular fields. Examples may date from the middle Bronze Age to the Roman period. The word 'Celtic' carries no chronological or cultural connotations in this context.
Search the NHLE for: CELTIC FIELD SYSTEM - CEMENT KILN — A kiln used to calcine the component parts of cement to remove excess water and other ingredients.
Search the NHLE for: CEMENT KILN - CEMENT WORKS — A site where cement is manufactured for the building industry.
Search the NHLE for: CEMENT WORKS - CEMENTATION FURNACE — Large open hearth furnace often located inside a brick cone for use in steelmaking.
Search the NHLE for: CEMENTATION FURNACE - CEMENTATION STEEL WORKS — Production of steel by reheating wrought iron in charcoal filled containers.
Search the NHLE for: CEMENTATION STEEL WORKS - CEMETERY — An area of ground, set apart for the burial of the dead.
Search the NHLE for: CEMETERY - CEMETERY CHAPEL — A place of worship within the grounds of a cemetery.
Search the NHLE for: CEMETERY CHAPEL - CEMETERY LODGE — A small house or cottage at the entrance to a cemetery, usually occupied by a caretaker or gardener, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CEMETERY LODGE - CENOTAPH — A sepulchral monument erected to commemorate a person or persons buried elsewhere.
Search the NHLE for: CENOTAPH - CENTRE OF RESISTANCE — An area, often a village, with fixed defences such as pillboxes, anti tank ditches and gun emplacements, designed to stop the advance of an enemy force and to hold out for an agreed period of time.
Search the NHLE for: CENTRE OF RESISTANCE - CEREMONIAL MAST — The rigging mast of a sailing ship erected as a monument. Used for naval displays.
Search the NHLE for: CEREMONIAL MAST - CEREMONIAL PLATFORM — A structure used for music, dance, ceremonial or civic events.
Search the NHLE for: CEREMONIAL PLATFORM - CESS PIT — A pit for the reception of night-soil and refuse.
Search the NHLE for: CESS PIT - CHAFF HOUSE — An area within a building (usually the barn or stable) for storing husks from the grain crop (chaff) for animal feed after it has been threshed and winnowed in the barn.
Search the NHLE for: CHAFF HOUSE - CHAIN HOME LOW STATION — A radar station with sets operating on a wavelength of 1.5m. Chain Home Low Stations were intended for use in locating low-flying aircraft but was also capable of detecting high-flying aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: CHAIN HOME LOW STATION - CHAIN HOME STATION — Part of the WWII air defence radar system, whereby in 1939 a chain of radar stations were established along the south and east coast of Britain. The equipment was based upon apparatus developed for ionospheric research.
Search the NHLE for: CHAIN HOME STATION - CHAIN LOCKER SHOP — A building for the storage, repair and maintenance of chains for lighthouses, lightships and lightbouys.
Search the NHLE for: CHAIN LOCKER SHOP - CHAIN PROVING HOUSE — Building housing apparatus for testing chain links.
Search the NHLE for: CHAIN PROVING HOUSE - CHAIN SHOP — A building in which wrought iron or steel chains were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CHAIN SHOP - CHALET — A Swiss-styled house, usually with steeply pitched and projecting roof.
Search the NHLE for: CHALET - CHALK PIT — A place from which chalk is extracted.
Search the NHLE for: CHALK PIT - CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — A building housing a board organized to protect the interests of commerce.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - CHAMBERED BARROW — A Neolithic burial monument comprising a stone-built chamber within an earthen mound. Use more precise term where known.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED BARROW - CHAMBERED CAIRN — A Neolithic burial monument comprising a stone-built chamber within a mound of stones. Use more precise term where known.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED CAIRN - CHAMBERED GRAVE — Saxon rectangular burial chamber comprising a large sunken 'room' lined with wood. 6th and 7th century AD.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED GRAVE - CHAMBERED LONG BARROW — A Neolithic burial monument comprising a stone-built chamber within a rectangular or trapezoidal earthen mound.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED LONG BARROW - CHAMBERED LONG CAIRN — A Neolithic burial monument comprising a rectangular or trapezoidal stony mound which contains either a passage at one end with or without lateral chambers, or one or more smaller chambers entered from the side of the mound.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED LONG CAIRN - CHAMBERED TOMB — A Neolithic burial monument comprising a stone-built chamber within a mound of earth or stone. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED TOMB - CHANDLERY — Traditionally the premises of a chandler, a maker and seller of candles. Now, a shop for the retail of groceries and other provisions.
Search the NHLE for: CHANDLERY - CHANGING ROOMS — A building within a complex, such as a leisure centre, school, industrial site etc, often containing toilet and washing facilities, where individuals can change their clothes. For a changing room within a larger building, see Components.
Search the NHLE for: CHANGING ROOMS - CHANTRY CHAPEL — A chapel attached to, or inside, a church, endowed for the celebration of Masses for the soul of the founder.
Search the NHLE for: CHANTRY CHAPEL - CHANTRY COLLEGE — A building used for the education of, and as a residence for, chantry priests.
Search the NHLE for: CHANTRY COLLEGE - CHAPEL — A freestanding building, or a room or recess serving as a place of Christian worship in a church or other building. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CHAPEL - CHAPEL OF EASE — A church built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently.
Search the NHLE for: CHAPEL OF EASE - CHAPLAINCY — The residence and office of a chaplain.
Search the NHLE for: CHAPLAINCY - CHAPTER HOUSE — The building attached to a cathedral or collegiate church where the dean, prebendaries or monks and canons met for the transaction of business.
Search the NHLE for: CHAPTER HOUSE - CHARCOAL BURNERS HUT — A crude shelter for persons engaged in the production of pure carbon by the controlled burning of wood and other organic materials.
Search the NHLE for: CHARCOAL BURNERS HUT - CHARCOAL BURNERS SITE — A site, often in a woodland clearing, used for the production of pure carbon by the controlled burning of wood and other organic materials.
Search the NHLE for: CHARCOAL BURNERS SITE - CHARCOAL STORE — A building, structure or site used for the storage of charcoal.
Search the NHLE for: CHARCOAL STORE - CHARITY SCHOOL — A school established by a charity.
Search the NHLE for: CHARITY SCHOOL - CHARNEL HOUSE — A building where the bones of the dead were stored.
Search the NHLE for: CHARNEL HOUSE - CHARTIST COLONY HOUSE — A dwelling house forming part of a Chartist Land Colony.
Search the NHLE for: CHARTIST COLONY HOUSE - CHARTIST COLONY SCHOOL — A school used by the children of settlers at a Chartist Colony.
Search the NHLE for: CHARTIST COLONY SCHOOL - CHARTIST LAND COLONY — A model village established by the chartists.
Search the NHLE for: CHARTIST LAND COLONY - CHATTRI — An umbrella-shaped pavilion, Indian in origin, constructed over a funerary site. Can also refer to a funerary monument or cenotaph constructed in this style.
Search the NHLE for: CHATTRI - CHAUFFEURS FLAT — The residence of a chauffeur or driver
Search the NHLE for: CHAUFFEURS FLAT - CHEESE FACTORY — A factory where cheese is produced and processed.
Search the NHLE for: CHEESE FACTORY - CHEESE LOFT — An area within a building used for the storage of cheese.
Search the NHLE for: CHEESE LOFT - CHEESE MARKET — A market for the sale of cheeses.
Search the NHLE for: CHEESE MARKET - CHEMICAL INDUSTRY SITE — Sites for the manufacture of substances or items by controlled chemical reactions.
Search the NHLE for: CHEMICAL INDUSTRY SITE - CHEMICAL PRODUCT SITE — Sites where controlled chemical reactions are employed to help manufacture domestic products.
Search the NHLE for: CHEMICAL PRODUCT SITE - CHEMICAL PRODUCTION SITE — Sites used for the manufacture of chemicals used as the basis for complex chemical processes or products.
Search the NHLE for: CHEMICAL PRODUCTION SITE - CHEMICAL WORKS — An industrial complex involved in the production of chemicals.
Search the NHLE for: CHEMICAL WORKS - CHEMISTS SHOP — A shop which dispenses medicinal drugs and other health-related items. Can include an area for the preparation and manufacture of medicines and other drugs.
Search the NHLE for: CHEMISTS SHOP - CHEST HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital treating patients with chest disorders and diseases, can be pre sanatoria.
Search the NHLE for: CHEST HOSPITAL - CHEST TOMB — A tomb designed in the form of a cist or stone box placed over a burial. Its outward form often reproduces the features of the classical sarcophagus or medieval effigy base.
Search the NHLE for: CHEST TOMB - CHILDRENS CARE HOME — A residential home for children with physical or learning disabilities, sensory impairment and/or mental health issues but who do not necessarily need medical attention.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS CARE HOME - CHILDRENS HOME — A residential establishment for the care and accommodation of children and young people.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS HOME - CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of children.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS HOSPITAL - CHILDRENS PLAYGROUND — An area of ground used for children to play on, often attached to a school.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS PLAYGROUND - CHILDRENS PLAYHOUSE — Building used for children to play in.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS PLAYHOUSE - CHILDRENS WARD — An area within a hospital where children are accommodated during the period of their medical or surgical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS WARD - CHILDRENS ZOO — A garden or park, with ancilliary buildings, in which young and domesticated animals are kept for public exhibition, especially for children. Children are given the opportunity to come into close contact and handle animals.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS ZOO - CHIMNEY — Chimney used on an industrial or commercial site.
Search the NHLE for: CHIMNEY - CHINA CLAY DRIES — Building with underfloor kiln used for drying China Clay slurry prior to packing and transportation. Central feature of China Clay Works.
Search the NHLE for: CHINA CLAY DRIES - CHINA CLAY WORKS — Works producing a refractory clay, kaolin. An essential raw material of porcelain and some types of papermaking.
Search the NHLE for: CHINA CLAY WORKS - CHINA FACTORY — A factory where china products are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CHINA FACTORY - CHINESE GARDEN — An 18th century garden with a Chinese layout and ornaments.
Search the NHLE for: CHINESE GARDEN - CHINESE PAVILION — A light, ornamental structure in a garden, park or place of recreation built in the Chinese style.
Search the NHLE for: CHINESE PAVILION - CHOCOLATE FACTORY — A factory where chocolate products are produced.
Search the NHLE for: CHOCOLATE FACTORY - CHOIR SCHOOL — A school associated with a cathedral or college originally intended to provide a general education for their choristers.
Search the NHLE for: CHOIR SCHOOL - CHRISTADELPHIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for Christadelphians, a fundamentalist sect founded in America in the late 1840s who rejected the trinity and awaited the second coming of Christ.
Search the NHLE for: CHRISTADELPHIAN CHAPEL - CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION HOSTEL — A hostel owned by a Christian association which provides cheap accommodation for young people.
Search the NHLE for: CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION HOSTEL - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH — A place of worship for Christian Scientists, a sect founded in the mid-19th century in America who believe that God is the only reality and can bring healing to humanity.
Search the NHLE for: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH - CHURCH — A building used for public Christian worship. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH - CHURCH ARMY HOUSE — A place of meeting and worship for followers of the Church Army, a body of trained lay evangelists devoted to evangelism and social work.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH ARMY HOUSE - CHURCH HALL — A hall associated with a church, used for holding functions, meetings and for conducting parish business.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH HALL - CHURCH HOUSE — House owned by the church, often used for meetings.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH HOUSE - CHURCH INSTITUTE — A building used by the church to promote Christianity through lectures, study, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH INSTITUTE - CHURCH OF PECULIAR PEOPLE — An offshoot of the Wesleyan movement founded in 1838 by John Banyard at Rochford, Essex. In 1956 it changed name to the Union of Evangelical Churches. There are 17 chapels in Essex and London.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH OF PECULIAR PEOPLE - CHURCH SCHOOL — A school run by a Christian church.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH SCHOOL - CHURCHYARD — An area of ground belonging to a church, often used as a burial ground.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCHYARD - CHURN STAND — A wooden or stone plinth for depositing milk churns on.
Search the NHLE for: CHURN STAND - CIDER FACTORY — A factory concerned with the commercial manufacture of cider, as opposed to domestic production.
Search the NHLE for: CIDER FACTORY - CIDER HOUSE — A building, or part of a building, for the milling and pressing of cider apples to produce cider (or pears for perry) and for storing the drink in barrels.
Search the NHLE for: CIDER HOUSE - CIDER MILL — A HORSE GIN used for domestic cider manufacture, especially on farms.
Search the NHLE for: CIDER MILL - CIDER PRESS — A press used to extract the juice from apples, which was then used to make cider.
Search the NHLE for: CIDER PRESS - CIDER VAULT — A vault used for the storage of cider.
Search the NHLE for: CIDER VAULT - CINEMA — A building where people pay to see films and 'moving pictures'.
Search the NHLE for: CINEMA - CINERARY URN — Urn containing a cremation. Where component use with wider site type.
Search the NHLE for: CINERARY URN - CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE — A circular shaped area of land enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier.
Search the NHLE for: CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE - CIRCUMVALLATION — A rampart or other defensive entrenchment.
Search the NHLE for: CIRCUMVALLATION - CIRCUS (RECREATIONAL) — A site where traditional public shows, in which the display of exotic animals, combined with feats of agility and comedy, were held.
Search the NHLE for: CIRCUS (RECREATIONAL) - CIRCUS (ROMAN) — A rectangular arena, rounded at one end designed for chariot racing. The racetrack circled a central barrier (spina) constructed between two turning posts (metae). The only known example found in Britain, so far, is in Colchester.
Search the NHLE for: CIRCUS (ROMAN) - CIRCUS (URBAN) — A circular range of houses dating from the 18th century, eg. John Wood's Circus at Bath.
Search the NHLE for: CIRCUS (URBAN) - CIST — Generally rectangular structure normally used for burial purposes, and formed from stone slabs set on edge, and covered by one or more horizontal slabs or capstones. Cists may be built on the surface or sunk into the ground.
Search the NHLE for: CIST - CIST GRAVE CEMETERY — A cemetery comprising inhumations or cremations interred in stone cists.
Search the NHLE for: CIST GRAVE CEMETERY - CISTERCIAN CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Cistercian order dependent on an English mother house.
Search the NHLE for: CISTERCIAN CELL - CISTERCIAN GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Cistercian order.
Search the NHLE for: CISTERCIAN GRANGE - CISTERCIAN MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Cistercian monks.
Search the NHLE for: CISTERCIAN MONASTERY - CISTERCIAN NUNNERY — An abbey or a priory of Cistercian nuns.
Search the NHLE for: CISTERCIAN NUNNERY - CISTERN — A covered tank in which rainwater is stored for use when required.
Search the NHLE for: CISTERN - CIVIC CENTRE — A building or building complex where municipal offices and other public buildings are situated.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIC CENTRE - CIVIL — Sites, buildings, structures etc associated with the civil administration of settlements & enforcement of the laws of the land. Includes local & central government, settlements granted by the crown or ruling administration does not manorial settlements.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIL - CIVIL DEFENCE BUILDING — A building used to coordinate civil defence in times of war. Can also be utilized as aid centres in times of national emergency.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIL DEFENCE BUILDING - CIVIL DEFENCE SITE — Sites and buildings used in the coordination of the defence of the civilian population during times of war. Could also be used during times of national emergency.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIL DEFENCE SITE - CIVIL DEFENCE TRAINING GROUND — An area used for the training of personnel in civil defence procedures.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIL DEFENCE TRAINING GROUND - CIVITAS CAPITAL — A planned administrative capital for local government which provided amenities for the Roman and peregrine (non-Roman) inhabitants of the town.
Search the NHLE for: CIVITAS CAPITAL - CLAMP — A temporary structure used for the firing of bricks or tiles. Unfired bricks or tiles were stacked upon a layer of fuel (usually wood) and then surrounded by a wall of old bricks and covered by a layer of mud or clay. The clamp was then fired.
Search the NHLE for: CLAMP - CLAMP KILN — A temporary kiln, in which the pots are stacked and baked in a pit underneath a bonfire.
Search the NHLE for: CLAMP KILN - CLAPPER BRIDGE — A simple form of stone slab bridge, particularly associated with South West England.
Search the NHLE for: CLAPPER BRIDGE - CLASSROOM — A room where a class of pupils is taught.
Search the NHLE for: CLASSROOM - CLAY MILL — A factory containing machinery for processing clay for the manufacture of bricks, tiles or pottery.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY MILL - CLAY MINE — A site where clay is mined from the ground.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY MINE - CLAY PIPE KILN — For the production of clay tobacco pipes.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY PIPE KILN - CLAY PUDDLING PIT — A pit used for the containment of clay whilst it is mixed to the right consistency for brickmaking.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY PUDDLING PIT - CLAY STORE — Purpose-built structure with thick walls used to store clay before transportation.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY STORE - CLAY TOBACCO PIPE FACTORY — A factory where tobacco pipes made of clay are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY TOBACCO PIPE FACTORY - CLAY WORKINGS — A site where clay is extracted from the surface of the ground.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY WORKINGS - CLEARANCE — An area of ground which has been cleared of plants and other obstruction.
Search the NHLE for: CLEARANCE - CLEARANCE CAIRN — An irregularly constructed, generally unstructured, mound of stones. Often, but not necessarily, circular. Normally a by product of field clearance for agricultural purposes.
Search the NHLE for: CLEARANCE CAIRN - CLEARING HOUSE — A central office dealing with financial accounts.
Search the NHLE for: CLEARING HOUSE - CLERGY HOUSE — A residence for all clergy having the sole or subordinate charge of a living.
Search the NHLE for: CLERGY HOUSE - CLERICAL DWELLING — Residences of religious people and members of the clergy.
Search the NHLE for: CLERICAL DWELLING - CLIFF CASTLE — An enclosure created by constructing one or more lines of ramparts across a promontory which projects into the sea.
Search the NHLE for: CLIFF CASTLE - CLIFF RAILWAY — A railway, usually by the sea, linking the beach with the cliff top. Various mechanisms were used the most common being that the cars were attached to a cable and winding drum and were balanced so that one travelled up, as the other came down.
Search the NHLE for: CLIFF RAILWAY - CLINIC — An institution, sometimes attached to a hospital, where patients may receive treatment or health checks.
Search the NHLE for: CLINIC - CLOCK TOWER — A tower built to display a large clock.
Search the NHLE for: CLOCK TOWER - CLOG MILL — A factory or site where wooden clogs are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CLOG MILL - CLOISTER — A covered walk, walled on one side and usually arcaded on the other, surrounding or partly surrounding an open area in a monastery or similar complex of Christian buildings.
Search the NHLE for: CLOISTER - CLOISTER GARTH — The open space surrounded by a cloister.
Search the NHLE for: CLOISTER GARTH - CLOTH CUTTERS COTTAGE — The residence of a cloth cutter.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH CUTTERS COTTAGE - CLOTH CUTTERS WORKSHOP — A place where processed cloth is cut for use as garments or soft furnishings, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH CUTTERS WORKSHOP - CLOTH DRESSING MILL — Cloth finishing process using machinery to raise the nap of the cloth before shearing.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH DRESSING MILL - CLOTH DRY HOUSE — A building or structure in which processed cloth is dried.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH DRY HOUSE - CLOTH HALL — A market hall where cloth merchants can show their wares and conduct business.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH HALL - CLOTH MARKET — An open market where cloth and other textiles can be traded.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH MARKET - CLOTH WAREHOUSE — A large building used for the storage of finished cloth.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH WAREHOUSE - CLOTHIERS HOUSE — The residence of a clothier.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTHIERS HOUSE - CLOTHING FACTORY — A large factory or series of workshops for the manufacture of clothing.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTHING FACTORY - CLOTHING WORKSHOP — A workshop for the manufacture of clothing, eg. tailor's workshop.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTHING WORKSHOP - CLUB — A building used by an association of persons for social and recreational purposes or for the promotion of some common object.
Search the NHLE for: CLUB - CLUBHOUSE — A building occupied by a club or commonly used for club activities.
Search the NHLE for: CLUBHOUSE - CLUNIAC CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Cluniac order dependent on an English mother house.
Search the NHLE for: CLUNIAC CELL - CLUNIAC GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Cluniac order.
Search the NHLE for: CLUNIAC GRANGE - CLUNIAC MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Cluniac monks.
Search the NHLE for: CLUNIAC MONASTERY - CLUNIAC NUNNERY — An abbey or priory of Cluniac nuns.
Search the NHLE for: CLUNIAC NUNNERY - CLUSTER BLOCK — A multi-storey building in which individual blocks of flats cluster around a central service core.
Search the NHLE for: CLUSTER BLOCK - CLUSTER HOUSE — A group of four houses in quadruplex form within a single block, of approximately square plan and set in a spacious garden. Such houses were usually provided for supervisory or skilled workers within a textile factory.
Search the NHLE for: CLUSTER HOUSE - COACH HOUSE — An outbuilding where a horse-drawn carriage is kept.
Search the NHLE for: COACH HOUSE - COACH WORKS — Traditionally a building or site where stage coaches were built. Nowadays the term is applied to buildings used for the manufacturing of the body work and furnishings of motor vehicles and railway carriages.
Search the NHLE for: COACH WORKS - COACHING INN — A public house offering lodgings to the passengers, and stabling for the horses of stage coaches.
Search the NHLE for: COACHING INN - COACHING INN STABLE — A stable found at a coaching inn where horses are housed.
Search the NHLE for: COACHING INN STABLE - COACHMANS COTTAGE — The residence of a coachman.
Search the NHLE for: COACHMANS COTTAGE - COAL BUNKER — A structure used for the storage of coal.
Search the NHLE for: COAL BUNKER - COAL DEPOT — A depot used for the unloading of coal.
Search the NHLE for: COAL DEPOT - COAL DROP — A crane for lowering loaded coal waggons onto a ship.
Search the NHLE for: COAL DROP - COAL DUTY BOUNDARY MARKER — A cast-iron or stone boundary post, obelisk or plate found on roads, railways, canals etc around London marking the boundary within which a duty was payable on coal.
Search the NHLE for: COAL DUTY BOUNDARY MARKER - COAL EXCHANGE — A stock exchange dealing in the prices for coal and shares in coal production.
Search the NHLE for: COAL EXCHANGE - COAL JETTY — A raised platform for the unloading of coal from waggons or other containers.
Search the NHLE for: COAL JETTY - COAL MERCHANTS — The premises of a coal merchant where coal and other kinds of solid fuel can be bought.
Search the NHLE for: COAL MERCHANTS - COAL MINING SITE — Includes terms for components of site. See also terms in MINING INDUSTRY SITE grouping.
Search the NHLE for: COAL MINING SITE - COAL SHED — A building used to store coal.
Search the NHLE for: COAL SHED - COAL SHUTE — An embanked shute, often stone paved, allowing carts to tip their loads of coal from the road into a storage area.
Search the NHLE for: COAL SHUTE - COAL TIPPLER — Loading machinery tipping coal into railway wagons usually at a pithead.
Search the NHLE for: COAL TIPPLER - COAL WORKINGS — A site where coal is processed.
Search the NHLE for: COAL WORKINGS - COALING CRANE — A crane used for the refueling of coal-powered vessels.
Search the NHLE for: COALING CRANE - COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY — A defensive battery positioned facing out to sea enabling the guns to be brought to bear on enemy shipping and amphibious craft.
Search the NHLE for: COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY - COAST ARTILLERY SEARCHLIGHT — A searchlight battery, which points out to sea, used to locate enemy shipping
Search the NHLE for: COAST ARTILLERY SEARCHLIGHT - COAST BATTERY GUN SITE — A gun emplacement associated with a coastal battery.
Search the NHLE for: COAST BATTERY GUN SITE - COASTAL BATTERY — A defensive gun battery positioned to face out to sea to fire on enemy ships and amphibious craft.
Search the NHLE for: COASTAL BATTERY - COASTAL FISH WEIR — A structure comprising of two walls of stone or wood with nets or fish traps attached. Located in coastal waters, on shelving coastlines or in river estuaries they form large enclosures with a V or L shaped plan. The narrow point on the seaward side.
Search the NHLE for: COASTAL FISH WEIR - COASTAL SALTWORKS — A site, building or factory where seawater is used in the production of salt.
Search the NHLE for: COASTAL SALTWORKS - COASTGUARD STATION — A building or group of buildings situated close to the sea used by coastguards to enable them to monitor the coastline.
Search the NHLE for: COASTGUARD STATION - COASTGUARD TOWER — A tower used as a watch tower by the coastguard. Often, though not always, built as part of a Coastguard Station.
Search the NHLE for: COASTGUARD TOWER - COASTGUARDS COTTAGE — The residence of a coastguard.
Search the NHLE for: COASTGUARDS COTTAGE - COAT OF ARMS — Includes crests, hatchments and supporters.
Search the NHLE for: COAT OF ARMS - COAXIAL FIELD SYSTEM — A field system with one prevailing axis of orientation, in which most field boundaries are either aligned with this axis or run at right angles to it.
Search the NHLE for: COAXIAL FIELD SYSTEM - COBALT MINE — A site where cobalt is mined
Search the NHLE for: COBALT MINE - COBBLED ROAD — A road or street covered with small, rounded cobble stones.
Search the NHLE for: COBBLED ROAD - COBBLERS STALL — A stall where a cobbler mends shoes.
Search the NHLE for: COBBLERS STALL - COBBLERS WORKSHOP — A place where shoes and boots are mended.
Search the NHLE for: COBBLERS WORKSHOP - COCKPIT — A pit or enclosed area used for cockfighting.
Search the NHLE for: COCKPIT - COE — A small hut erected over a mine shaft.
Search the NHLE for: COE - COFFEE BAR — A small, usually inexpensive, restaurant with a limited menu of light meals served at counters or tables.
Search the NHLE for: COFFEE BAR - COFFEE HOUSE — An establishment serving coffee and other refreshments and inexpensive foods. Between the 17th and 18th centuries they were also meeting places for political discussions.
Search the NHLE for: COFFEE HOUSE - COFFIN — A chest made of stone, wood or lead, used to enclose a dead body.
Search the NHLE for: COFFIN - COFFIN REST — A structure, often within a CHURCHYARD or LYCH GATE, on which a coffin could rest prior to burial.
Search the NHLE for: COFFIN REST - COFFIN STONE — A stone found on route to a churchyard on which the coffin is rested during transportation.
Search the NHLE for: COFFIN STONE - COINAGE HALL — Civil building in Cornwall and Devon for assay and sale of tin ingots.
Search the NHLE for: COINAGE HALL - COKE OVEN — Oven for roasting coal to drive off chemical constituents and reduce it to almost pure carbon, ie. coke.
Search the NHLE for: COKE OVEN - COLD STORE — A room or small building kept at low temperatures for the storage of perishable items, particularly food.
Search the NHLE for: COLD STORE - COLLAR FACTORY — A factory where collars, for shirts and other garments, are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: COLLAR FACTORY - COLLECTING BOX — For the collection of money by charities, churches, etc.
Search the NHLE for: COLLECTING BOX - COLLEGE — An establishment, often forming part of a university, for higher or tertiary education.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGE - COLLEGE GARDEN — A formal garden consisting of lawns, walks and borders belonging to a college or university, eg. Oxford or Cambridge.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGE GARDEN - COLLEGE LODGINGS — A place of accommodation at a college for staff and students.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGE LODGINGS - COLLEGE OF SECULAR PRIESTS — A communal residence of secular priests and/or other clerics sometimes with the condition of learning and education attached.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGE OF SECULAR PRIESTS - COLLEGE OF THE VICARS CHORAL — A communal residence of secular vicars whose duties included the education of choristers attached to cathedrals and collegiate churches.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGE OF THE VICARS CHORAL - COLLEGIATE CHAPEL — A chapel attached to or founded by a college.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGIATE CHAPEL - COLLEGIATE CHURCH — A church attached to or founded by a college.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGIATE CHURCH - COLLIERY — A place where coal is mined.
Search the NHLE for: COLLIERY - COLLIERY INSTITUTE — A building where miners could improve their knowledge by attending lectures and using the reading room facilities.
Search the NHLE for: COLLIERY INSTITUTE - COLLIERY RAILWAY — Railway constructed specifically for the movement of coal around the pithead of a coal mine.
Search the NHLE for: COLLIERY RAILWAY - COLONIA — A town founded as an act of government by charter to house Roman or Latin citizens, usually retired legionaires who had been granted land within a territorium.
Search the NHLE for: COLONIA - COLONNADE — A row of columns supporting an entablature.
Search the NHLE for: COLONNADE - COLOUR HOUSE — A small dye works, often associated with a CALICO PRINTING WORKS.
Search the NHLE for: COLOUR HOUSE - COLUMBARIUM — A wall with niches in a CREMATORIUM to display the urns containing ashes. Use only when related to funerary site.
Search the NHLE for: COLUMBARIUM - COLUMN — Use for free standing column.
Search the NHLE for: COLUMN - COMBINATION BARN — A threshing barn which also houses farm animals and is somethimes used to stotre grain, house carts and other functions.
Search the NHLE for: COMBINATION BARN - COMBINATION FARM BUILDING — A multi-purpose farm building.
Search the NHLE for: COMBINATION FARM BUILDING - COMBING SHED — A textile building where the process of combing, a preparatory process for long wools, takes place.
Search the NHLE for: COMBING SHED - COMBING WORKS — A site where the process of combing, the preparatory process for long wools, takes place.
Search the NHLE for: COMBING WORKS - COMMAND POST — A military building from which the guns of a battery were directed.
Search the NHLE for: COMMAND POST - COMMEMORATIVE — Sites, buildings, structures, features & areas of land commemorating an historical event, person or animal.
Search the NHLE for: COMMEMORATIVE - COMMEMORATIVE BRASS — A brass plaque, usually on the ground rather than a wall fixture, commemorating a person or event.
Search the NHLE for: COMMEMORATIVE BRASS - COMMEMORATIVE GARDEN — A garden created to commemorate a person or event.
Search the NHLE for: COMMEMORATIVE GARDEN - COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENT — A building, structure or landscape created to commemorate a person or event.
Search the NHLE for: COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENT - COMMEMORATIVE STONE — A stone commemorating a person or event.
Search the NHLE for: COMMEMORATIVE STONE - COMMERCIAL — Sites, buildings, structures & features related to the sale, exchange &/or storage of goods or services. Includes commercially operated catering establishments & lodging premises.
Search the NHLE for: COMMERCIAL - COMMERCIAL ART GALLERY — A building in which works of art are displayed for sale.
Search the NHLE for: COMMERCIAL ART GALLERY - COMMERCIAL COLLEGE — A college where subjects relating to trade and commerce are taught.
Search the NHLE for: COMMERCIAL COLLEGE - COMMERCIAL OFFICE — The administrative office of a commercial concern.
Search the NHLE for: COMMERCIAL OFFICE - COMMUNE — A place where a group of people live together sharing accomodation and goods, forming their own community based upon common ideals.
Search the NHLE for: COMMUNE - COMMUNITY CENTRE — A place providing social, recreational, and educational facilities for a neighbourhood.
Search the NHLE for: COMMUNITY CENTRE - COMMUNITY GARDEN — A garden maintained by, and for the benefit of, a community.
Search the NHLE for: COMMUNITY GARDEN - COMPOSITE FRAMED BUILDING — A modern building system in which both steel and concrete are utilized together to carry the load in ways that neither material predominates over the other. There are many varieties e. g. a steel frame surrounding a concrete core.
Search the NHLE for: COMPOSITE FRAMED BUILDING - COMPOUND STEAM ENGINE — A steam engine that uses the same steam successively to drive pistons in high and then low pressure cylinders.
Search the NHLE for: COMPOUND STEAM ENGINE - COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL — A usually large school providing courses for children of all abilities, between the ages of eleven and sixteen.
Search the NHLE for: COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL - COMPRESSOR HOUSE — A type of engine house creating power by means of compressed air, typically associated with collieries where it is used for raising coal.
Search the NHLE for: COMPRESSOR HOUSE - COMPUTER CENTRE — A building housing computers and information technology equippment e.g. for a business, factory or other instituion.
Search the NHLE for: COMPUTER CENTRE - CONCENTRIC CASTLE — A castle surrounded by two or more lines of walled fortifications.
Search the NHLE for: CONCENTRIC CASTLE - CONCERT HALL — An establishment where musical performances take place.
Search the NHLE for: CONCERT HALL - CONCRETE FRAMED BUILDING — A modern building in which the load is carried by a reinforced concrete framework. Use for reinforced concrete buildings.
Search the NHLE for: CONCRETE FRAMED BUILDING - CONCRETE WORKS — A site where concrete and concrete products are manufactured from a mixture of cement and aggregate.
Search the NHLE for: CONCRETE WORKS - CONDENSER — An apparatus used for the process of condensing: the conversion of vapour into a liquid.
Search the NHLE for: CONDENSER - CONDENSING CHIMNEY — A tall chimney terminating a CONDENSING FLUE, used to extract metal from the smoke produced by a lead smelter.
Search the NHLE for: CONDENSING CHIMNEY - CONDENSING FLUE — A stone channel sunk into the ground, employed from the mid-19th century, to carry away gases produced during smelting.
Search the NHLE for: CONDENSING FLUE - CONDUIT — A pipe or channel for conveying water or other liquids.
Search the NHLE for: CONDUIT - CONDUIT HEAD — A head of water raised in a conduit system.
Search the NHLE for: CONDUIT HEAD - CONDUIT HOUSE — A small building built over the end of a water conduit or spring.
Search the NHLE for: CONDUIT HOUSE - CONFECTIONERS SHOP — A place, often including a BAKERY, where sweetmeats and pastries are sold.
Search the NHLE for: CONFECTIONERS SHOP - CONFECTIONERY WORKS — A site where products containing sugar or honey, such as cakes, sweets, crystallized fruits or jam, were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CONFECTIONERY WORKS - CONFERENCE CENTRE — A purpose-built, or modified, building where organizations and associations meet for presentations and consultation.
Search the NHLE for: CONFERENCE CENTRE - CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of the Congregational Church. These churches, the first of which was founded in 1616 in Southwark, practised self government. Most of them were merged to form the United Reformed Church in 1972.
Search the NHLE for: CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL - CONSERVATORY — A glasshouse used to grow and display tender decorative plants. May be either an extension to a house or freestanding.
Search the NHLE for: CONSERVATORY - CONSTABLES OFFICE — The premises of a police officer for a parish or township who was appointed to act as a conservator of the peace within the district.
Search the NHLE for: CONSTABLES OFFICE - CONSULATE — The residence or official premises of a consul, the official appointed by a state to protect its citizens and commercial interests in a foreign state.
Search the NHLE for: CONSULATE - CONTINUOUS JETTY HOUSE — A jettied house where the overhanging upper storey runs along the entire length of one side.
Search the NHLE for: CONTINUOUS JETTY HOUSE - CONTROL ROOM — A room or building housing the controls to a mechanized system, eg. in a power station, airport, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CONTROL ROOM - CONTROL TOWER — A high building at an airport from which air traffic is controlled by radio.
Search the NHLE for: CONTROL TOWER - CONTROL TOWER (5223A/51) — Central two-storeyed tower surmounted by an octagonal glazed control room giving a 360 degree view. Flanked by single-storey wings.
Search the NHLE for: CONTROL TOWER (5223A/51) - CONVALESCENT HOME — An establishment where patients can rest and recover after an operation or illness.
Search the NHLE for: CONVALESCENT HOME - CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL — A hospital where patients can rest and recover after an operation or illness. Medical facilities for treatment are also available.
Search the NHLE for: CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL - CONVENT SCHOOL — A school conducted by members of a convent.
Search the NHLE for: CONVENT SCHOOL - CONVEYOR — A mechanism used to transport minerals or granulated materials.
Search the NHLE for: CONVEYOR - COOKHOUSE — A camp kitchen, usually associated with the military.
Search the NHLE for: COOKHOUSE - COOLING POND — A pond used for dissipating heat by evaporation from steam engine condensate. Mid 19th century to mid 20th century.
Search the NHLE for: COOLING POND - COOLING ROOM — A processing house or room in a brewery.
Search the NHLE for: COOLING ROOM - COOLING TOWER — Wooden or ferro-concrete tower for cooling waste, hot water from a power station. The water cascades from the top of the tower to a pond in the bottom.
Search the NHLE for: COOLING TOWER - COOPERAGE — A barrel-making workshop or factory, found in conjunction with a number of industries.
Search the NHLE for: COOPERAGE - COOPERATIVE STORE — A store belonging to a cooperative society.
Search the NHLE for: COOPERATIVE STORE - COPPER MINE — Where several minerals produced, use with other products and MINE, eg. ARSENIC MINE.
Search the NHLE for: COPPER MINE - COPPER ROOM — A room containing copper or steel vessels in which hops are added to the basic beer mixture.
Search the NHLE for: COPPER ROOM - COPPER WORKING SITE — A site where copper or copper based alloys are produced by smelting copper ore.
Search the NHLE for: COPPER WORKING SITE - COPPER WORKINGS — A site where copper ore is extracted directly from the surface of the ground.
Search the NHLE for: COPPER WORKINGS - COPPER WORKS — A site or establishment for the casting and refining of metallic copper.
Search the NHLE for: COPPER WORKS - COPPICE — A managed small wood or thicket of underwood grown to be periodically cut to encourage new growth providing smaller timber.
Search the NHLE for: COPPICE - COPPICE BARN — Open sided barn for the storage of wood produced by the periodic cutting of small trees.
Search the NHLE for: COPPICE BARN - CORD RIG — Narrow ridges representing the surviving surface traces of later prehistoric cultivation.
Search the NHLE for: CORD RIG - CORDITE FACTORY — A factory principally engaged in the manufacture of the propellant explosive cordite.
Search the NHLE for: CORDITE FACTORY - CORN DRYING KILN — A building found in conjunction with a WATERMILL, used for the drying of corn after harvesting, with a slatted drying floor set above a kiln.
Search the NHLE for: CORN DRYING KILN - CORN DRYING OVEN — A heated stone, brick or iron chamber used for drying corn.
Search the NHLE for: CORN DRYING OVEN - CORN EXCHANGE — A building where samples of corn were sold or auctioned during the early to mid 19th century. When not in use, between market days, the buildings were used as public halls.
Search the NHLE for: CORN EXCHANGE - CORN MILL — A mill for grinding corn. Use with power type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CORN MILL - CORONATION STONE — A stone on which a monarch traditionally sat during the coronation ceremony.
Search the NHLE for: CORONATION STONE - CORONERS COURT — A building where an officer of a county, district or municipality acting as a representative of the Crown holds inquests, including deaths through violence or accident and treasure trove.
Search the NHLE for: CORONERS COURT - COTTAGE GARDEN — An informal garden attached to a cottage where flowers, vegetables and fruit trees are grown.
Search the NHLE for: COTTAGE GARDEN - COTTAGE HOME — Accommodation used as an alternative to the workhouse following several Poor Law Acts. Modelled on continental examples and first erected at the end of the 1860s, it is based on the idea of a "village" of small houses accommodating a small group.
Search the NHLE for: COTTAGE HOME - COTTAGE HOSPITAL — Usually a rural hospital with up to 25 beds. Can include small pre-Cranleigh institutions, eg: dispensaries with in-patients.
Search the NHLE for: COTTAGE HOSPITAL - COTTAGE ORNEE — A rustic building of picturesque design.
Search the NHLE for: COTTAGE ORNEE - COTTON EXCHANGE — A building in which the buying of raw cotton and finished goods took place.
Search the NHLE for: COTTON EXCHANGE - COTTON MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings and sites associated with the manufacture of cotton.
Search the NHLE for: COTTON MANUFACTURING SITE - COTTON MILL — Usually a cotton spinning factory, although some mills have weaving sheds attached, in which case the end product is completed cloth, not yarn only.
Search the NHLE for: COTTON MILL - COTTON WASTE WORKS — A works where cotton waste is stored or processed.
Search the NHLE for: COTTON WASTE WORKS - COTTON WORKSHOP — A workshop used in the manufacture and preparation of cotton
Search the NHLE for: COTTON WORKSHOP - COUNCIL FLAT — A council-owned single apartment.
Search the NHLE for: COUNCIL FLAT - COUNCIL FLATS — A council-owned block of flats.
Search the NHLE for: COUNCIL FLATS - COUNCIL HOUSE — A house built by a local authority.
Search the NHLE for: COUNCIL HOUSE - COUNCIL HOUSING ESTATE — A housing estate comprised of housing stock owned and let by a local authority.
Search the NHLE for: COUNCIL HOUSING ESTATE - COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDONS CHAPEL — A place of worship for followers of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, a Calvinistic Methodist sect founded in the 1740s by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDONS CHAPEL - COUNTING HOUSE — An accounts office, especially within an industrial or commercial complex.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTING HOUSE - COUNTRY CLUB — A building, usually in a rural setting, with a range of facilities for the use of members.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTRY CLUB - COUNTRY HOUSE — The rural residence of a country gentleman.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTRY HOUSE - COUNTY COURT — A court established in England and Wales by Parliament in 1846 to decide minor civil disputes.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTY COURT - COUNTY HALL — A building from which the administration of a county is carried out by the County Council. It is also, historically, the site where the county quarter sessions and assizes were held.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTY HALL - COURERY — Subsidiary settlement of lay brothers attached to some Carthusian monasteries.
Search the NHLE for: COURERY - COURT HOUSE — A building in which a judicial court is held.
Search the NHLE for: COURT HOUSE - COURT ROOM — A hall or chamber in which justice is administered.
Search the NHLE for: COURT ROOM - COURTIERS HOUSE — A house in which a member of the Royal Court lives.
Search the NHLE for: COURTIERS HOUSE - COURTYARD — An uncovered area, surrounded or partially surrounded by buildings.
Search the NHLE for: COURTYARD - COURTYARD HOUSE — A building or buildings ranged around a courtyard on at least three sides. They occur in the Iron Age, as well as being an influential plan type of house from the 15th century onwards. Index with appropriate period.
Search the NHLE for: COURTYARD HOUSE - COURTYARD INN — An inn, with an integral courtyard, for the lodging and entertainment of travellers. Often with open galleried wings overlooking the courtyard.
Search the NHLE for: COURTYARD INN - COURTYARD PLAN — A farmstead where the working buildings are arranged around a yard.
Search the NHLE for: COURTYARD PLAN - COVE — Prehistoric structure consisting of three or more standing stones in close proximity to each other, forming an unroofed approximately rectangular structure open in one direction.
Search the NHLE for: COVE - COVERED WAY — A path that is roofed over.
Search the NHLE for: COVERED WAY - COVERED YARD — A covered area of ground attached to a building.
Search the NHLE for: COVERED YARD - COW HOUSE — A building in which cattle are housed overnight, normally tethered in stalls.
Search the NHLE for: COW HOUSE - CRAFT CENTRE — A centre for the teaching of crafts.
Search the NHLE for: CRAFT CENTRE - CRAFT INDUSTRY SITE — Site of small scale industrial production often involving hand work and craft skills.
Search the NHLE for: CRAFT INDUSTRY SITE - CRANE — A large, metal or wooden structure, used for raising, lowering and moving heavy objects. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CRANE - CRANE HOUSE — A component part of a treadmill crane, the shed is used to enclose the treadwheel.
Search the NHLE for: CRANE HOUSE - CRANNOG — An island, partly or wholly artificial, built up by dumping timber, earth and stones onto a lake or river bed. Often revetted with timber piles or palisade.
Search the NHLE for: CRANNOG - CRAZING MILL — Mill for fine grinding of tin ore between millstones.
Search the NHLE for: CRAZING MILL - CREMATION — A funeral rite in which the human body is burnt, usually on a pyre, leaving fragmentary charred or completely combusted remains. Often found buried, occasionally in a container associated with grave goods.
Search the NHLE for: CREMATION - CREMATION BURIAL — The site of the formal burial of cremated bone, sometimes 'urned' in a vessel or casket of glass, wood or, more commonly, ceramic.
Search the NHLE for: CREMATION BURIAL - CREMATION CEMETERY — A cemetery comprising exclusively cremated human remains, some or all of which may be contained within pottery vessels.
Search the NHLE for: CREMATION CEMETERY - CREMATION PIT — A pit over which a corpse has been cremated on a pyre into which the remains and debris, and sometime grave goods, collapse and are buried. Generally confined to the Roman period.
Search the NHLE for: CREMATION PIT - CREMATORIUM — A building or site where bodies are burnt, and the ashes collected for burial or dispersal.
Search the NHLE for: CREMATORIUM - CRESCENT — A row of houses whose facade in plan follows the concave arc of a circle or ellipse, eg. The Royal Crescent, Bath.
Search the NHLE for: CRESCENT - CREW BRIEFING ROOM — A type of military building associated with military airfields, where air crews were briefed for missions. The room could be a seperate building or part of an operations block and are built of varying types of temporary brick or nissen hut constructions.
Search the NHLE for: CREW BRIEFING ROOM - CREW YARD — Open yard for keeping cattle in during winter. Used from the mid-14th century in drier, Eastern, arable counties.
Search the NHLE for: CREW YARD - CRICKET GROUND — The entire playing area and associated buildings upon which the game of cricket is played.
Search the NHLE for: CRICKET GROUND - CRICKET PAVILION — A building adjoining a cricket pitch with facilities for players and spectators.
Search the NHLE for: CRICKET PAVILION - CRICKET PITCH — An area of grass, marked out for use in the game of cricket.
Search the NHLE for: CRICKET PITCH - CROFT — An enclosed piece of land adjoining a house.
Search the NHLE for: CROFT - CROQUET LAWN — A closely mown lawn used for the game of croquet.
Search the NHLE for: CROQUET LAWN - CROQUET SHED — A small garden building used to store equipment used in the game of croquet.
Search the NHLE for: CROQUET SHED - CROSS — A free-standing structure, in the form of a cross (+), symbolizing the structure on which Jesus Christ was crucified and sacred to the Christian faith. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CROSS - CROSS DYKE — A linear earthwork, usually a bank accompanied by a ditch, which runs across rather than along an area or ridge of higher ground.
Search the NHLE for: CROSS DYKE - CROSS INCISED STONE — A stone with a cross carved into the surface.
Search the NHLE for: CROSS INCISED STONE - CROSS PASSAGE HOUSE — A house in which a passage runs across the building, usually adjacent to a hall, between front and back entrance doors.
Search the NHLE for: CROSS PASSAGE HOUSE - CROSS SLAB — A slab of stone, either standing or recumbent, inscribed with a cross. Usually found in association with burials.
Search the NHLE for: CROSS SLAB - CROSS WING HOUSE — A house with a range at the end of it, at right angles to the main range.
Search the NHLE for: CROSS WING HOUSE - CROSSING KEEPERS COTTAGE — A house for the keeper of a level crossing on a railway.
Search the NHLE for: CROSSING KEEPERS COTTAGE - CROWN COURT — A court of criminal, and limited civil, jurisdiction in England and Wales. Established in 1972 to replace the Assize Court, following legislation in 1971.
Search the NHLE for: CROWN COURT - CRUCIBLE FURNACE — A furnace composed of two fire brick boxes: the fire was in the lower box and the upper box held the crucibles. Used in the manufacture of steel.
Search the NHLE for: CRUCIBLE FURNACE - CRUCIBLE STEEL WORKS — Production of high quality steel by reheating cementation steel in a refractory crucible.
Search the NHLE for: CRUCIBLE STEEL WORKS - CRUCK BARN — A barn in which a pair of curved timbers form a bowed A-frame which supports the roof independently of the walls.
Search the NHLE for: CRUCK BARN - CRUCK HOUSE — A house in which a pair of curved timbers form a bowed A-frame which supports the roof independently of the walls.
Search the NHLE for: CRUCK HOUSE - CRUSHING CIRCLE — Horse powered ore crusher, consisting of a stone wheel running over a circular iron or stone bed.
Search the NHLE for: CRUSHING CIRCLE - CRUSHING FLOOR — An area used for crushing mineral ore or stone. Often includes mechanically powered ore crushers.
Search the NHLE for: CRUSHING FLOOR - CRUSHING MILL — A building containing mechanically powered ore crushers or rollers.
Search the NHLE for: CRUSHING MILL - CRYPT — A vault, often located under a chancel or chancel aisle, containing an altar and usually used for burial.
Search the NHLE for: CRYPT - CULTIVATION TERRACE — An area of land, usually on a slope, which has been built up to provide a flat surface for the cultivation of crops.
Search the NHLE for: CULTIVATION TERRACE - CULVERT — A drainage structure that extends across and beneath roadways, canals or embankments.
Search the NHLE for: CULVERT - CUP AND RING MARKED STONE — A stone, either in situ or part of a monument, bearing one or more small, roughly hemispherical depressions surrounded by a concentric arrangement of annular or pennanular grooves. More complex designs may also occur.
Search the NHLE for: CUP AND RING MARKED STONE - CUP MARKED STONE — A stone, either in situ or part of a monument, bearing one or more small, roughly hemispherical depressions, generally created by chipping or pecking.
Search the NHLE for: CUP MARKED STONE - CURFEW BELL TOWER — A tower containing a curfew bell. The bell was rung in the evening, as a signal that fires were to be extinguished.
Search the NHLE for: CURFEW BELL TOWER - CURING HOUSE — A place where meat and fruit, etc, is preserved by salting and/or drying.
Search the NHLE for: CURING HOUSE - CURRIERY — Place where tanned leather is dressed and coloured.
Search the NHLE for: CURRIERY - CURSUS — A long narrow rectangular earthwork enclosure of Neolithic date, usually defined by a bank and ditch and presumed to be of ceremonial function. Known examples range in length from less than 100m to c.10km.
Search the NHLE for: CURSUS - CURTAIN WALL — A wall between two towers or pavilions, usually surrounding a building, and often forming a major part of the defences.
Search the NHLE for: CURTAIN WALL - CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE — A monument consisting of an area of land enclosed by a ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier, where the boundary follows an irregular curving course.
Search the NHLE for: CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE - CUSTOM HOUSE — An office, particularly at a seaport, at which customs are collected.
Search the NHLE for: CUSTOM HOUSE - CUSTOMS LOOKOUT — A building or site from which a watch can be kept to prevent the illegal import/export of goods.
Search the NHLE for: CUSTOMS LOOKOUT - CUTLERY WORKS — A site containing a forge for the manufacture of cutlery.
Search the NHLE for: CUTLERY WORKS - CUTLERY WORKSHOP — A place where metal knives and edge cutting tools were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CUTLERY WORKSHOP
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- D SHAPED BARROW — Not a round barrow ploughed out at one end, but a specific type, the flat edge being additionally defined by stone slabs.
Search the NHLE for: D SHAPED BARROW - D SHAPED ENCLOSURE — An area of land, in the shape of a D, enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier.
Search the NHLE for: D SHAPED ENCLOSURE - DABBIN — Mud walled building found on the Solway Plain.
Search the NHLE for: DABBIN - DAIRY — A building or group of buildings used for the making, processing, storing and selling of milk and other dairy products.
Search the NHLE for: DAIRY - DAM — A barrier of concrete or earth, etc, built across a river to create a reservoir of water for domestic and/or industrial usage.
Search the NHLE for: DAM - DAME SCHOOL — A kind of primary school kept by elderly women.
Search the NHLE for: DAME SCHOOL - DANCE HALL — A public building where regular dances were held.
Search the NHLE for: DANCE HALL - DANCE STUDIO — A building or room used for the practice and study of dance.
Search the NHLE for: DANCE STUDIO - DATE STONE — A stone commemorating the date of a specific event.
Search the NHLE for: DATE STONE - DAY CENTRE — A non residential building providing recreational, social and other facilities, especially for the elderly and those with special needs.
Search the NHLE for: DAY CENTRE - DAY HOSPITAL — A hospital where elderly people receive medical treatment, but not overnight accommodation.
Search the NHLE for: DAY HOSPITAL - DAY MARK — An unlit, highly visible and distinctive feature on the coast that can be used by mariners for navigation during daylight only.
Search the NHLE for: DAY MARK - DAYROOM BLOCK — A hospital block where patients come for day-care medical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: DAYROOM BLOCK - DEANERY — The official residence of a dean.
Search the NHLE for: DEANERY - DEBTORS PRISON — A prison for the confinement of people who owe money.
Search the NHLE for: DEBTORS PRISON - DECONTAMINATION BUILDING — A building used for the treatment of victims of chemical, gas or other forms of contamination.
Search the NHLE for: DECONTAMINATION BUILDING - DECOY POND — A pond or pool with arms covered with nets into which wild birds, are lured and then caught. Monument type includes water feeder channels.
Search the NHLE for: DECOY POND - DEDICATION STONE — A commemorative stone inscribed with a dedicatory inscription to a person or event.
Search the NHLE for: DEDICATION STONE - DEER COURSE — Area in a deer park where a single deer was chased by dogs over a set distance, with bets made on the outcome. It usually includes a stand (for viewing) and can also include three distance markers, a finishing post and a ditch behind the last post.
Search the NHLE for: DEER COURSE - DEER HOUSE — A building for housing deer overnight.
Search the NHLE for: DEER HOUSE - DEER LEAP — Bank to let deer cross ditches, fences or roads, into, but not out of, a deer park.
Search the NHLE for: DEER LEAP - DEER PARK — A large park for keeping deer. In medieval times the prime purpose was for hunting.
Search the NHLE for: DEER PARK - DEER POUND — An enclosure used for corralling deer.
Search the NHLE for: DEER POUND - DEER SHELTER — A building used to shelter deer hunters.
Search the NHLE for: DEER SHELTER - DEFENCE — Sites, buildings, structures & features used in the defence of the civilian population. Includes civil defence sites, weapons stores, training sites, military signals & active defence structures such as anti-aircraft sites.
Search the NHLE for: DEFENCE - DEFENCE LINE — A system of defensive works such as anti-tank obstacles, ditches and pillboxes, designed to stop the advance of an enemy. Defence lines were constructed across and around strategic areas of ground and sites such as industrial towns.
Search the NHLE for: DEFENCE LINE - DEFENCE OBSTRUCTION — Sites and structures, often un-manned, intended to impede or confuse enemy forces.
Search the NHLE for: DEFENCE OBSTRUCTION - DEFENCE WORK — General term describing any defence work where no more specific term is applicable.
Search the NHLE for: DEFENCE WORK - DEFENDED ENCLOSURE — An enclosed area of land of varying size and shape which shows traces of defence.
Search the NHLE for: DEFENDED ENCLOSURE - DEGAUSSING STATION — A site where the magnetic signature of ships was lowered thereby making them less susceptible to magnetic mines.
Search the NHLE for: DEGAUSSING STATION - DENE HOLE — The name of a class of excavations, found in chalk formations in England, consisting of a shaft sunk to the chalk, and there widening out into one or more chambers.
Search the NHLE for: DENE HOLE - DENTAL HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital where medical and surgical dental treatment takes place.
Search the NHLE for: DENTAL HOSPITAL - DEPARTMENT STORE — A large shop supplying many kinds of goods from various departments.
Search the NHLE for: DEPARTMENT STORE - DEPOT — A building or site used as a storage and distribution centre.
Search the NHLE for: DEPOT - DERRICK — A structure consisting of a vertical mast and a horizontal boom operated by cables on a separate engine or motor. Used for hoisting and moving heavy loads or objects.
Search the NHLE for: DERRICK - DESERTED SETTLEMENT — An abandoned settlement, usually of the Medieval period, often visible only as earthworks or on aerial photographs.
Search the NHLE for: DESERTED SETTLEMENT - DETACHED HOUSE — A free-standing house, not joined to another on either side.
Search the NHLE for: DETACHED HOUSE - DEWPOND — A shallow pond, often artificial, fed by the condensation of water from the air, occuring on high land which has no other adequate water supply.
Search the NHLE for: DEWPOND - DIORAMA — A building in which a view is projected onto a wall by means of a lens.
Search the NHLE for: DIORAMA - DIPPING HOUSE — A building in which raw pottery is finished by dipping it in glaze.
Search the NHLE for: DIPPING HOUSE - DIPPING WELL — A natural spring located within a, usually small, man-made structure, such as a niche or a box. The structure is so placed to accomodate use for a specific non-religious function, such as communal bathing.
Search the NHLE for: DIPPING WELL - DIRECTION STONE — A stone, situated alongside a road, providing directions to travellers.
Search the NHLE for: DIRECTION STONE - DISABLED PEOPLES HOME — A residential home for adults with learning difficulties and/or physical disabilities.
Search the NHLE for: DISABLED PEOPLES HOME - DISC BARROW — A round barrow featuring a small mound separated from a ditch of much greater diameter by a wide berm. The ditch may be accompanied by an external (or occasionally internal) bank.
Search the NHLE for: DISC BARROW - DISCOTHEQUE — A club or cafe where popular music is played for dancing.
Search the NHLE for: DISCOTHEQUE - DISINFECTOR HOUSE — A building where patients or inmates of a hospital or workhouse were disinfected and their clothes washed or burnt to prevent the spread of infectious diseases or other ailments.
Search the NHLE for: DISINFECTOR HOUSE - DISPENSARY — A building or room for the distribution of medicines, eg. in a hospital or clinic.
Search the NHLE for: DISPENSARY - DISPERSAL — An area of hardstanding for parking aircraft, in a state of readiness, usually around the perimeter of an airfield.
Search the NHLE for: DISPERSAL - DISPLACED PERSONS CAMP — A camp where people who fled from danger or problem whithin their country or across international borders and who are in need of international protection are temporarily placed.
Search the NHLE for: DISPLACED PERSONS CAMP - DISTILLERY — An establishment or works where the distilling of spirits is carried out.
Search the NHLE for: DISTILLERY - DISTRIBUTION CENTRE — A short-term storage centre of goods or special parts to facilitate the rapid processing of orders and supply of goods to customers; unlike a warehouse, the emphasis is on the moving of goods rather than on a long-term storage.
Search the NHLE for: DISTRIBUTION CENTRE - DITCH — A long and narrow hollow or trench dug in the ground, often used to carry water though it may be dry for much of the year.
Search the NHLE for: DITCH - DITCHED ENCLOSURE — An area of land enclosed by one or several boundary ditches. Double index with a term to indicate the shape of the enclosure where known.
Search the NHLE for: DITCHED ENCLOSURE - DIVING PLATFORM — A tower with one or more horizontal platforms extending out over deep water for use in diving competitions.
Search the NHLE for: DIVING PLATFORM - DIVINITY SCHOOL — A school where theological subjects are taught.
Search the NHLE for: DIVINITY SCHOOL - DOCK — An artificial area of open water, enclosed by masonry and fitted with dock gates in which ships can be repaired, loaded/unloaded or berthed.
Search the NHLE for: DOCK - DOCK AND HARBOUR INSTALLATION — Excludes terms specific to MARINE CONSTRUCTION SITE.
Search the NHLE for: DOCK AND HARBOUR INSTALLATION - DOCK BASIN — An open area of water, usually artificial and enclosed by dock gates or locks, lined with wharves, warehouses and berths to enable vessels to load and unload.
Search the NHLE for: DOCK BASIN - DOCK GATE — A gate used to seal the entrance to a dock to prevent water escaping from a wet dock or entering a dry dock.
Search the NHLE for: DOCK GATE - DOCK WORKERS COTTAGE — The residence of a dock worker.
Search the NHLE for: DOCK WORKERS COTTAGE - DOCKMASTERS OFFICE — An administrative building used by the official in charge of a dock or harbour.
Search the NHLE for: DOCKMASTERS OFFICE - DOCKYARD — An enclosure in which ships are built and repaired, and all sorts of ships' stores are brought together.
Search the NHLE for: DOCKYARD - DOCKYARD RAILWAY — A railway at a dockyard used for the transportation of goods to and from the dock side.
Search the NHLE for: DOCKYARD RAILWAY - DOCTORS HOSTEL — A building, usually associated with a hospital, where doctors live. Include blocks of self-contained flats.
Search the NHLE for: DOCTORS HOSTEL - DOG TROUGH — A long stone or metal vessel for dogs to drink water from.
Search the NHLE for: DOG TROUGH - DOGS HOME — A range of buildings used to house abandoned or stray dogs.
Search the NHLE for: DOGS HOME - DOLPHINARIUM — A pool and ancilliary buildings used for the housing of dolphins.
Search the NHLE for: DOLPHINARIUM - DOME TRAINER — A dome shaped building, housing training apparatus, including a projector, for training ground gunners in the art of airfield defence. (WWII).
Search the NHLE for: DOME TRAINER - DOMESTIC — Sites, buildings, structures and features used for permanent, seasonal or temporary accommodation/habitation & related ancillary buildings. Includes commercial, military and religious sites used for residential purposes as well as industrial workplaces.
Search the NHLE for: DOMESTIC - DOMESTIC CHAPEL — A chapel for a private residence.
Search the NHLE for: DOMESTIC CHAPEL - DOMINICAN FRIARY — A house of friars of the order of St Dominic. Also known as Friars Preachers or 'Black Friars'.
Search the NHLE for: DOMINICAN FRIARY - DOMINICAN NUNNERY — An abbey or priory of Dominican nuns.
Search the NHLE for: DOMINICAN NUNNERY - DONKEY HOUSE — A building used to accommodate donkeys.
Search the NHLE for: DONKEY HOUSE - DONKEY WHEEL — A treadwheel using a donkey as motive power. Usually found operating wells.
Search the NHLE for: DONKEY WHEEL - DOPE SHOP — An aircraft maintenance workshop deriving from the use of weather proofing varnish to aircraft canvas called "dope" in order to keep the canvas taut and airtight. From 1912 onwards.
Search the NHLE for: DOPE SHOP - DORIC TEMPLE — An 18th century garden building, designed in the form of a classical Doric temple, used for standing or sitting in.
Search the NHLE for: DORIC TEMPLE - DORMITORY — Use with wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: DORMITORY - DOUBLE DITCHED ENCLOSURE — An area of land enclosed by two parallel ditches. Use with specific shaped enclosure where known.
Search the NHLE for: DOUBLE DITCHED ENCLOSURE - DOUBLE ENDED HALL HOUSE — A house consisting of a single storey open hall with a two storey domestic range attached to both ends forming an H shape.
Search the NHLE for: DOUBLE ENDED HALL HOUSE - DOUBLE HOUSE — Mixed house of nuns and religious men.
Search the NHLE for: DOUBLE HOUSE - DOUBLE PILE HOUSE — A house having four rooms of equal height on each of two floors; in larger houses there are often two parallel and equal roofs.
Search the NHLE for: DOUBLE PILE HOUSE - DOUBLING MILL — A textile factory where the process of doubling, the twisting together of two spun yarns, takes place.
Search the NHLE for: DOUBLING MILL - DOVECOTE — A building, or part of a building, used to house doves and pigeons, usually placed at a height above the ground, with openings and provision inside for roosting and breeding.
Search the NHLE for: DOVECOTE - DOWER HOUSE — A small house, usually on the estate of a country house, forming part of a widow's dower and intended as her residence.
Search the NHLE for: DOWER HOUSE - DOWNDRAUGHT KILN — A type of pottery kiln in which air rises up inside the oven to be forced back down and out through the base of the oven.
Search the NHLE for: DOWNDRAUGHT KILN - DRAIN — An artificial channel for draining water or carrying it off.
Search the NHLE for: DRAIN - DRAINAGE DITCH — A long, narrow ditch designed to carry water away from a waterlogged area.
Search the NHLE for: DRAINAGE DITCH - DRAINAGE LEVEL — A horizontal tunnel dug specifically for draining, for example, a mine.
Search the NHLE for: DRAINAGE LEVEL - DRAINAGE MILL — Wind or water-powered mill for land drainage in fens or marshlands.
Search the NHLE for: DRAINAGE MILL - DRAINAGE SYSTEM — A system of artificial or natural drains and ditches used to drain off surplus water.
Search the NHLE for: DRAINAGE SYSTEM - DRAMA SCHOOL — A building where students study theatre and the dramatic arts.
Search the NHLE for: DRAMA SCHOOL - DRAW DOCK — An inlet in the banks of a navigable river, often lined with brick and gated, into which boats can be drawn for repair etc.
Search the NHLE for: DRAW DOCK - DRAWBRIDGE — A movable bridge lifted at one end by chains or ropes either to stop traffic passing over it or to let traffic pass under it.
Search the NHLE for: DRAWBRIDGE - DRAWING OFFICE — A commercial building used for the production of detailed, often technical, drawings.
Search the NHLE for: DRAWING OFFICE - DRESSING FLOOR — The place where metallic ores were crushed and washed to remove waste, forming a concentrate which could be used in a smelter.
Search the NHLE for: DRESSING FLOOR - DRESSING MILL — A mill used for the sizing and drying of warp threads before they were wound onto warp beams as part of the power-weaving process.
Search the NHLE for: DRESSING MILL - DRESSING SHED — A shed, often found at a quarry, in which rough stone is shaped or dressed.
Search the NHLE for: DRESSING SHED - DRESSING WASTE — Residues from ore-processing operations; intact tips and deposits may preserve considerable evidence on the processes used. A high rpoportion have been destroyed by reprocessing.
Search the NHLE for: DRESSING WASTE - DRIFT — A straight mine entrance, driven on a constant downwards slope.
Search the NHLE for: DRIFT - DRIFT MINE — A mine in which access is gained by a straight entrance driven on a constant downward slope. Use with product(s) extracted and MINE where known, eg. COAL MINE.
Search the NHLE for: DRIFT MINE - DRILL HALL — A building or site used for the exercise and training of military personnel.
Search the NHLE for: DRILL HALL - DRILL TOWER — A multi-level structure designed to simulate tall buildings to allow firefighters to practice firefighting and rescue techniques
Search the NHLE for: DRILL TOWER - DRINKING FOUNTAIN — A fountain erected specifically to supply drinking water.
Search the NHLE for: DRINKING FOUNTAIN - DRIVE — A road/carriage way giving access from the main road to the house, stables.
Search the NHLE for: DRIVE - DROVE ROAD — A road or track specifically used by drovers or herders to drive their animals to market.
Search the NHLE for: DROVE ROAD - DROVERS HOUSE — The residence of a drover.
Search the NHLE for: DROVERS HOUSE - DROVERS INN — A wayside inn for livestock traders.
Search the NHLE for: DROVERS INN - DRY DOCK — A stone-faced enclosure, with entrance closed by a floatable caisson or by gates, which can be pumped dry for inspection, maintenance, or repair of the hull or underwater fittings of a ship or ships.
Search the NHLE for: DRY DOCK - DRYING HOUSE — A building used to aid in the drying of goods, for example, by means of flowing air.
Search the NHLE for: DRYING HOUSE - DRYING KILN — A furnace or oven used for drying items or materials. Use specific type where possible.
Search the NHLE for: DRYING KILN - DRYING STOVE — A type of drying house, usually circular with a conical roof.
Search the NHLE for: DRYING STOVE - DUCK HOUSE — A building used to accommodate ducks.
Search the NHLE for: DUCK HOUSE - DUCK POND — A pond with protection for nesting ducks and other wild fowl
Search the NHLE for: DUCK POND - DUCKING STOOL — A chair fixed to the end of a plank, in which scolds or dishonest people were tied and ducked in water as a punishment.
Search the NHLE for: DUCKING STOOL - DUNG PIT — A pit used for containing manure.
Search the NHLE for: DUNG PIT - DUST EXTRACTION PLANT — A plant where freshly mined coal was washed down and any dust removed before loading for transport away from the colliery.
Search the NHLE for: DUST EXTRACTION PLANT - DUTCH GARDEN — A 17th century garden in the Dutch style: usually flat and compact, with an emphasis on small canals, hedges, topiary, lead statuary and flowering shrubs and bulbs.
Search the NHLE for: DUTCH GARDEN - DUTY BOUNDARY MARKER — A boundary marker for the payment of tax or duty.
Search the NHLE for: DUTY BOUNDARY MARKER - DUTY POST — A boundary post for the payment of tax or duty.
Search the NHLE for: DUTY POST - DWELLING — Places of residence.
Search the NHLE for: DWELLING - DYE HOUSE — A building, usually one-storeyed, for dyeing cloth.
Search the NHLE for: DYE HOUSE - DYE WORKS — A site used for the production of dyes from natural ingredients.
Search the NHLE for: DYE WORKS - DYKE (DEFENCE) — A defensive or boundary earthwork.
Search the NHLE for: DYKE (DEFENCE)
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- EAR HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of ear disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: EAR HOSPITAL - EAR NOSE AND THROAT HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of ear, nose and throat disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: EAR NOSE AND THROAT HOSPITAL - EARTHWORK — A bank or mound of earth used as a rampart or fortification.
Search the NHLE for: EARTHWORK - EASTERN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL — The principal Eastern Orthodox church in an area.
Search the NHLE for: EASTERN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL - EATING HOUSE — A cheap restaurant.
Search the NHLE for: EATING HOUSE - ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICE — An office which administers the affairs of the church.
Search the NHLE for: ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICE - EDGE TOOL WORKS — A factory or works used for the forging and sharpening of a variety of tools including scythes, spades, etc.
Search the NHLE for: EDGE TOOL WORKS - EDUCATION — Sites, buildings, structures & features relating to the provision of knowledge and skills.
Search the NHLE for: EDUCATION - EEL TRAP — A device with a funnel-shaped entrance designed for catching eels.
Search the NHLE for: EEL TRAP - EFFIGY — A sculptured likeness, portrait or image, often found on a tomb or other memorial.
Search the NHLE for: EFFIGY - ELEANOR CROSS — One of 12 roadside crosses erected by Edward I in memory of his wife, Eleanor of Castile, the most famous being Charing Cross in London.
Search the NHLE for: ELEANOR CROSS - ELECTRIC WINCH — A hoisting mechanism powered by electricity.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRIC WINCH - ELECTRICAL GOODS FACTORY — A site where small electrical goods such as radios, lamps and heaters are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICAL GOODS FACTORY - ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION CABINET — Usually dating from the early 20th century these cabinets, sited alongside public highways, were used for the distribution of electricity for street lighting control and later for domestic use. In Wolverhampton these boxes also serviced the tram system.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION CABINET - ELECTRICITY GENERATING HALL — A building or structure where electricity is generated.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICITY GENERATING HALL - ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production of electricity.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION SITE - ELECTRICITY PYLON — A tall, metal structure erected as a support for electric power cables.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICITY PYLON - ELECTRICITY SUB STATION — Building containing transformers to reduce the high voltage of the National Grid to the lower voltage of domestic supply.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICITY SUB STATION - ELECTRONICS FACTORY — A building or buildings where electronic components or devices are designed, developed, manufactured and assembled.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRONICS FACTORY - ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — A school in which elementary subjects are taught to young children.
Search the NHLE for: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - ELEPHANT HOUSE — A building used to accommodate elephants at a zoo or wildlife park.
Search the NHLE for: ELEPHANT HOUSE - EMBANKED AVENUE — A monument consisting of parallel banks, normally accompanied by ditches, which appears to mark out an approach to another monument or monuments.
Search the NHLE for: EMBANKED AVENUE - EMBANKED STONE CIRCLE — A circular arrangement of spaced stone uprights set within a high bank, often interrupted by a formal entrance gap.
Search the NHLE for: EMBANKED STONE CIRCLE - EMBANKMENT — A long ridge of earth, rocks or gravel primarily constructed to carry a roadway.
Search the NHLE for: EMBANKMENT - EMBARKATION POINT — A site from which troops could be embarked onto transport vessels prior to the D-Day landings can also apply to muster/departure points from which troops embarked for their journey to the Front.
Search the NHLE for: EMBARKATION POINT - EMBASSY — The residence and office of an ambassador.
Search the NHLE for: EMBASSY - EMERGENCY EXIT TUNNEL — A tunnel with strengthened construction, used as an emergency exit from a civil defence building.
Search the NHLE for: EMERGENCY EXIT TUNNEL - EMERGENCY PLANNING CENTRE — A structure, building or room within a building, used by a local authority for the continuance of local government in the event of a military or civil emergency.
Search the NHLE for: EMERGENCY PLANNING CENTRE - ENCLOSED CREMATION CEMETERY — A cemetery of later prehistoric date comprising exclusively cremated human remains, some or all of which may be contained within pottery vessels. The cemetery area is partly or wholly surrounded by an earthwork bank and/or ditch.
Search the NHLE for: ENCLOSED CREMATION CEMETERY - ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEM — A system of individually enclosed fields.
Search the NHLE for: ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEM - ENCLOSED HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT — A settlement showing evidence for one or more hut circles, enclosed by a distinct boundary ditch, wall, earth rampart or similar barrier. Characteristic of the later prehistoric period.
Search the NHLE for: ENCLOSED HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT - ENCLOSED SETTLEMENT — A site used primarily for domestic purposes on at least a semi-permanent or seasonal basis, and which has been surrounded by a bank and ditch, palisade, or some other form of enclosure. Use more specific type(s) where appropriate.
Search the NHLE for: ENCLOSED SETTLEMENT - ENCLOSURE — An area of land enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or other similar barrier. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: ENCLOSURE - END GABLED HOUSE — A house with a pitched roof with a double slope and gables on the side elevations of the building.
Search the NHLE for: END GABLED HOUSE - END JETTY HOUSE — A jettied house where the upper storey only overhangs the end elevation of the building.
Search the NHLE for: END JETTY HOUSE - ENGINE — A machine, powered by steam, gas, electricity or other energy source, which produces energy of movement. Use for stationary industrial engines rather than transport use.
Search the NHLE for: ENGINE - ENGINE HOUSE — A building housing an engine. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: ENGINE HOUSE - ENGINE SHED — A building used to house railway engines.
Search the NHLE for: ENGINE SHED - ENGINEERING WORKS — Any factory or site using machine tools in a manufacturing or processing capacity.
Search the NHLE for: ENGINEERING WORKS - ENGINEERING WORKSHOP — A building or room used for any type of engineering work. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: ENGINEERING WORKSHOP - ENGINEERS HOUSE — The residence of an engineer.
Search the NHLE for: ENGINEERS HOUSE - ENTRANCE GRAVE — A form of Neolithic burial monument primarily found in Cornwall and the Scilly Isles. It comprises a round cairn, usually with a retaining wall or kerb, and an entrance leading directly into a chamber.
Search the NHLE for: ENTRANCE GRAVE - ERECTING SHOP — Engineering workshop used for the final assembly of vehicles or structures from parts produced elsewhere in an engineering works.
Search the NHLE for: ERECTING SHOP - ESSENCE FACTORY — A factory, or group of buildings, containing apparatus used to extract specific properties, e.g flavour or scent, from natural ingredients.
Search the NHLE for: ESSENCE FACTORY - ESTATE BUILDING — A building situated within the estate of a manor or country house.
Search the NHLE for: ESTATE BUILDING - ESTATE COTTAGE — A cottage for workers on a country house estate.
Search the NHLE for: ESTATE COTTAGE - ESTATE LAUNDRY — A laundry situated within the estate of a manor or country house.
Search the NHLE for: ESTATE LAUNDRY - ESTATE OFFICE — An office for the administration of town or country estates.
Search the NHLE for: ESTATE OFFICE - ESTATE VILLAGE — A purpose-built model village for the workers on a country house estate.
Search the NHLE for: ESTATE VILLAGE - EXCHANGE — A multi-purpose commercial building, used primarily as a trading place for merchants, but also incorporating shops, public offices, guildhalls, etc.
Search the NHLE for: EXCHANGE - EXCHEQUER — A building or a room for accounts.
Search the NHLE for: EXCHEQUER - EXCISE OFFICE — A government office used for the collecting of excise tax/duty.
Search the NHLE for: EXCISE OFFICE - EXEDRA — An area of a garden with a semi-circular backdrop formed by an ornamental, architectural structure or a natural feature grown to the required shape eg. a hedge
Search the NHLE for: EXEDRA - EXERCISE YARD — A courtyard in a prison or workhouse for the inmates to take exercise.
Search the NHLE for: EXERCISE YARD - EXHAUSTER HOUSE — A building forming part of a colliery ventilation system exhausting stale air from shafts and headings.
Search the NHLE for: EXHAUSTER HOUSE - EXHIBITION HALL — A hall used for housing public displays.
Search the NHLE for: EXHIBITION HALL - EXHIBITION PAVILION — A pavilion used for exhibitions, e.g. the exhibition pavilions at the Great Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1925.
Search the NHLE for: EXHIBITION PAVILION - EXPERIMENTAL HOUSE — A house built using experimental building techniques and materials.
Search the NHLE for: EXPERIMENTAL HOUSE - EXPLOSIVES FACTORY — A building or buildings where explosives are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: EXPLOSIVES FACTORY - EXPLOSIVES MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production, testing and storage of explosives.
Search the NHLE for: EXPLOSIVES MANUFACTURING SITE - EXPLOSIVES STORE — A building used for the storage of explosives of a non-military function, eg. mining explosives, signal explosivres etc.
Search the NHLE for: EXPLOSIVES STORE - EXTRACTIVE PIT — Surface workings including shallow shafts, lode workings, open-pit methods and quarrying including some mines of stone, clays, compounds, etc. See also MINERAL EXTRACTION SITE.
Search the NHLE for: EXTRACTIVE PIT - EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of eye and ear disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL - EYE HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of eye disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: EYE HOSPITAL
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- FABRICATION SHED — Covered area for making large engineered constructions such as sections of ships or bridges.
Search the NHLE for: FABRICATION SHED - FACADE — Use wider site type where known. Only use term where no other part of original building survives.
Search the NHLE for: FACADE - FACTORY — A building or complex, housing powered machinery and employing a large workforce for manufacturing purposes. Use specific monument type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FACTORY - FACTORY UNIT — A modern small factory or workshop, often in the form of a prefabricated shed.
Search the NHLE for: FACTORY UNIT - FACULTY BUILDING — A departmental building within a college or university where a particular subject is taught and administered.
Search the NHLE for: FACULTY BUILDING - FAIR — A site where a periodical gathering of buyers, sellers and entertainers, meet at a time ordained by charter or statute or by ancient custom.
Search the NHLE for: FAIR - FAIR BOOTH — A covered stall at a market or fair, etc.
Search the NHLE for: FAIR BOOTH - FAIRBAIRN JIB CRANE — A dockside crane with a solid curving jib made out of rivetted iron plates.
Search the NHLE for: FAIRBAIRN JIB CRANE - FAIRGROUND RIDE — Forms of ride which are designed for entertainment.
Search the NHLE for: FAIRGROUND RIDE - FAIRLEAD — A pulley block and metal ring used to guide a line or rope and cause it to run easily without chafing.
Search the NHLE for: FAIRLEAD - FALCONRY — An establishment or building where the breeding and training of birds of prey takes place.
Search the NHLE for: FALCONRY - FAMILY VAULT — A burial vault built to contain the remains of members of a single family, household or dynasty.
Search the NHLE for: FAMILY VAULT - FAN HOUSE — A building housing a fan used for the ventilation of mines
Search the NHLE for: FAN HOUSE - FARM — A tract of land, often including a farmhouse and ancillary buildings, used for the purpose of cultivation and the rearing of livestock, etc. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FARM - FARM BUILDING — A building or structure of unknown function found on a farm. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FARM BUILDING - FARM LABOURERS COTTAGE — The dwelling place of a farm worker.
Search the NHLE for: FARM LABOURERS COTTAGE - FARMHOUSE — The main dwelling-house of a farm, it can be either detached from or attached to the working buildings.
Search the NHLE for: FARMHOUSE - FARMSTEAD — The homestead of a farm consisting of a farmhouse and working farm buildings, with yards, other working areas and usually a garden to the house.
Search the NHLE for: FARMSTEAD - FARMYARD — A yard or enclosure attached to a farmhouse, usually surrounded by other farm buildings.
Search the NHLE for: FARMYARD - FARMYARD CAUSEWAY — An area of hardstanding to allow movement of farm transport in all weathers.
Search the NHLE for: FARMYARD CAUSEWAY - FATTENING HOUSE — A building where animals are deliberately fattened before being killed for their meat.
Search the NHLE for: FATTENING HOUSE - FEATURE — Areas of indeterminate function.
Search the NHLE for: FEATURE - FEED MILL — A building or site for the manufacture of livestock fodder.
Search the NHLE for: FEED MILL - FELLMONGERY — A building used for the preparation of animal skins and hides prior to the tanning process.
Search the NHLE for: FELLMONGERY - FENCE — A construction of wood or metal used to enclose an area of land, a building, etc.
Search the NHLE for: FENCE - FENCING SCHOOL — An establishment where the art of sword fencing is taught.
Search the NHLE for: FENCING SCHOOL - FERME ORNEE — A rustic building of picturesque design, often associated with a model farm, country house or estate. Although ornamental in design they are intended to be functional.
Search the NHLE for: FERME ORNEE - FERMENTING BLOCK — A group of buildings, or part of a works, housing apparatus used in the process of fermentation.
Search the NHLE for: FERMENTING BLOCK - FERNERY (GARDEN) — Area of a garden for the cultivation of ferns.
Search the NHLE for: FERNERY (GARDEN) - FERNERY (GLASSHOUSE) — A glasshouse for the cultivation of ferns.
Search the NHLE for: FERNERY (GLASSHOUSE) - FERRY TERMINAL — An area of a port, dock or harbour, often including buildings for passport control and customs, where passengers and vehicles using ferry services can embark/disembark and where supplies can be taken on board.
Search the NHLE for: FERRY TERMINAL - FERRYKEEPERS COTTAGE — The residence of a ferrykeeper.
Search the NHLE for: FERRYKEEPERS COTTAGE - FIELD — An area of land, often enclosed, used for cultivation or the grazing of livestock.
Search the NHLE for: FIELD - FIELD BARN — An isolated barn, cow house or shelter shed with a hayloft. Typically found in areas where farmsteads and fields were sited at a long distance from each other.
Search the NHLE for: FIELD BARN - FIELD BOUNDARY — The limit line of a field.
Search the NHLE for: FIELD BOUNDARY - FIELD CENTRE — Building used for field studies and outdoor pursuits in the countryside and in an urban context.
Search the NHLE for: FIELD CENTRE - FIELD SYSTEM — A group or complex of fields which appear to form a coherent whole. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FIELD SYSTEM - FIELDWORK — A usually temporary earthwork or fortification, the latter constructed by military forces operating in the field. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FIELDWORK - FIG HOUSE — A greenhouse for the growing of figs.
Search the NHLE for: FIG HOUSE - FIGHTER PEN — A turf-covered mound in a curvilinear E-shape, and hard-standing to take an aircraft. There were usually an access point to an air raid shelter at the rear. In use during WW2
Search the NHLE for: FIGHTER PEN - FIGUREHEAD — A carving, often a bust or full-length figure, originally found above a ship's cutwater. Use as an external feature only.
Search the NHLE for: FIGUREHEAD - FILEMAKERS WORKSHOP — A place where metal-cutting hand files were made.
Search the NHLE for: FILEMAKERS WORKSHOP - FILLING FACTORY — A factory where explosives and the components of munitions of all types are brought together for assembly.
Search the NHLE for: FILLING FACTORY - FILM STUDIO — A building or complex of buildings where cinematographic films are produced.
Search the NHLE for: FILM STUDIO - FILTER BED — A tank or pond containing a layer of sand etc, for filtering large quantities of liquid.
Search the NHLE for: FILTER BED - FILTER HOUSE — A building containing apparatus for the removal of large pieces of detritus from a water supply.
Search the NHLE for: FILTER HOUSE - FINDSPOT — The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name.
Search the NHLE for: FINDSPOT - FINERY — A building used for the decarburizing of pig iron to produce wrought iron.
Search the NHLE for: FINERY - FINGER POST — A signpost, usually placed at a juntion or crossroads, bearing a number of individual signs radiating outward from the post to indicate locations in several directions.
Search the NHLE for: FINGER POST - FININGS WORKS — A factory used for the processing of isinglass, a product obtained from the swim bladders of sturgeon and used in the brewing industry as part of the process for clearing wine and beer.
Search the NHLE for: FININGS WORKS - FINISHING HOUSE — A building or area where processes like bleaching, dressing, etc, are conducted under one roof.
Search the NHLE for: FINISHING HOUSE - FINISHING SHOP — A place where a product is given any finishing processes before being despatched to the user.
Search the NHLE for: FINISHING SHOP - FINISHING WORKS — A large scale works for cloth finishing processes.
Search the NHLE for: FINISHING WORKS - FIRE CLAY WORKS — A building or site used for the production of bricks and other items, from a clay with refractory properties.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE CLAY WORKS - FIRE ENGINE HOUSE — The carriage house or garage for a fire engine - especially those built by insurance companies or industrial concerns.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE ENGINE HOUSE - FIRE HYDRANT — A large discharge pipe with a valve for drawing water from a water main. Used to help extinguish fires.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE HYDRANT - FIRE PIT — A pit dug into the ground or a simple construction made of stone, brick or metal. Designed to contain a fire and prevent it from spreading, but can also be used to heat stone for breaking.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE PIT - FIRE STATION — A civic building housing fire engines and a permanent fire-fighting force.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE STATION - FIREPROOF BUILDING — A building constructed with the minimum amount of combustible materials.
Search the NHLE for: FIREPROOF BUILDING - FIREPROOF FACTORY — A factory, mill or warehouse constructed with the minimum amount of combustible materials.
Search the NHLE for: FIREPROOF FACTORY - FIREWATCHERS POST — A building or structure used to provide protection to an Air Raid Warden or firewatcher during an air raid, thus enabling the identification of the locations of fires caused by incendiary bombs in comparative safety.
Search the NHLE for: FIREWATCHERS POST - FIRING PLATFORM — An area of a site or building providing a stable base for the firing of artillery pieces.
Search the NHLE for: FIRING PLATFORM - FIRING RANGE — A piece of ground over which small arms or large artillery may be fired at targets. For rocket and missile firing use ROCKET TEST FACILITY.
Search the NHLE for: FIRING RANGE - FIRST AID POST — A building with first aid facilities to deal with accidents and other medical emergencies.
Search the NHLE for: FIRST AID POST - FIRST FLOOR HALL HOUSE — A high status building of the medieval period, consisting of a hall and attached room at first floor level with rooms below possibly for storage or living accommodation for a lower status family. The first floor was accessed by an external staircase.
Search the NHLE for: FIRST FLOOR HALL HOUSE - FISH AND CHIP SHOP — A shop where fish and chips are sold.
Search the NHLE for: FISH AND CHIP SHOP - FISH CELLAR — A building where fish are stored. Often taking the form of a single storey building with one room, but also may provide living accommodation for a fisherman above. Found mainly in the South West of England.
Search the NHLE for: FISH CELLAR - FISH FARM — A farm with a pond, river, lake or tanks where fish are kept and bred for commercial purposes.
Search the NHLE for: FISH FARM - FISH HOUSE — A building used for the storage of fish.
Search the NHLE for: FISH HOUSE - FISH LADDER — A series of steps designed to enable fish to ascend a fall of water or a dam.
Search the NHLE for: FISH LADDER - FISH LOCK — A lock, often containing a fish ladder, which allows fish to swim upstream bypassing a weir or other obstacle.
Search the NHLE for: FISH LOCK - FISH MARKET — A market where fish is sold.
Search the NHLE for: FISH MARKET - FISH PROCESSING FACTORY — A factory where fish are processed into food products.
Search the NHLE for: FISH PROCESSING FACTORY - FISH PROCESSING SITE — A place where fish are processed after being caught.
Search the NHLE for: FISH PROCESSING SITE - FISH STONE — A stone slab, raised on stone or wooden piers, used for the display of fresh fish. Usually found in market places.
Search the NHLE for: FISH STONE - FISH TANK — A small brick structure attached to a house for keeping fish prior to cooking.
Search the NHLE for: FISH TANK - FISH TRAP — A device for catching fish, may be a portable or permanent structure, often a fence or row stakes made in a river, harbour, etc
Search the NHLE for: FISH TRAP - FISH WAREHOUSE — A large building where fish are stored before sale.
Search the NHLE for: FISH WAREHOUSE - FISH WEIR — A fence or row of stakes, often with nets attached forming an enclosure within a river or harbour and used for catching, or holding, fish.
Search the NHLE for: FISH WEIR - FISHERMANS HOUSE — A purpose-built fisherman's house, eg. a house with a first floor dwelling and ground floor fish store, or a house with a watch tower for spotting shoals.
Search the NHLE for: FISHERMANS HOUSE - FISHERY — An area where fish are naturally present, eg. part of a river.
Search the NHLE for: FISHERY - FISHING LODGE — A garden building on an estate used by fishing parties.
Search the NHLE for: FISHING LODGE - FISHING PAVILION — A waterside building from which one could fish.
Search the NHLE for: FISHING PAVILION - FISHING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the farming of fish.
Search the NHLE for: FISHING SITE - FISHMONGERS SHOP — A shop where fish is sold.
Search the NHLE for: FISHMONGERS SHOP - FISHPOND — A pond used for the rearing, breeding, sorting and storing of fish.
Search the NHLE for: FISHPOND - FITTERS WORKSHOP — Engineering workshop intended either for final adjustments of new machinery or the fitting of replacement parts to machinery under repair.
Search the NHLE for: FITTERS WORKSHOP - FIVES COURT — A wall and area of ground where the game of fives is played.
Search the NHLE for: FIVES COURT - FLAGPOLE — A freestanding staff upon which a flag is hung.
Search the NHLE for: FLAGPOLE - FLANKING TOWER — Small tower projecting from a castle wall, or other fortified wall. Allows defenders to fire along the length of the wall.
Search the NHLE for: FLANKING TOWER - FLATS — A purpose-built tenement. Use specific monument type where possible.
Search the NHLE for: FLATS - FLAX BEATING STONE — A stone on which flax stems were beaten with wooden mallets, a process known as beetling.
Search the NHLE for: FLAX BEATING STONE - FLAX DRESSING SHOP — A building used for the preparatory processes in which long and short staple flax fibres were separated by passing through combs. Flax dressing or 'heckling' shops may be located both on and off mill sites.
Search the NHLE for: FLAX DRESSING SHOP - FLAX DRY HOUSE — A building used to dry flax.
Search the NHLE for: FLAX DRY HOUSE - FLAX MILL — A mill where flax is processed to make linen, thread and yarn.
Search the NHLE for: FLAX MILL - FLEA MARKET — A street market.
Search the NHLE for: FLEA MARKET - FLEECING SHOP — A workshop, associated with a tannery, in which the fleece is removed from the skin prior to the tanning process.
Search the NHLE for: FLEECING SHOP - FLINT MILL — A mill for crushing flint. Crushed flint was used in the manufacture of pottery in order to whiten and strengthen the body of earthenware pottery.
Search the NHLE for: FLINT MILL - FLINT MINE — A site where flint seams within chalk have been exploited by digging deep vertical shafts, often with horizontal galleries radiating out from the base. Use for Neolithic examples and for Post Medieval gunflint industry.
Search the NHLE for: FLINT MINE - FLINT SCATTER — A spatially discrete, though sometimes extensive, scatter of flint artefacts recovered from the surface, eg. by fieldwalking, rather than from a particular archaeological context.
Search the NHLE for: FLINT SCATTER - FLOCK MILL — A mill for shredding cloth, for use in flock paper, etc.
Search the NHLE for: FLOCK MILL - FLOOD DEFENCES — Manmade constructions used to prevent water flooding the surrounding area. Often taking the form of a bank or wall but may be more elaborate e.g. the Thames Barrier.
Search the NHLE for: FLOOD DEFENCES - FLOOD LOCK — Gates that can be opened or closed, to admit or exclude water, especially flood water.
Search the NHLE for: FLOOD LOCK - FLOOD RELIEF CANAL — A channel dug, or built up, to carry away surplus water from a river or waterway to prevent it bursting its banks and flooding.
Search the NHLE for: FLOOD RELIEF CANAL - FLOOR — A layer of stone, brick or boards, etc, on which people tread. Use broader site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FLOOR - FLOUR MILL — A factory where flour was produced for use in food products.
Search the NHLE for: FLOUR MILL - FLOWER BED — A plot of earth used for the raising of flowers and shrubs.
Search the NHLE for: FLOWER BED - FLOWER BOX — A stone, terracotta, wooden or metal receptacle used to grow flowers in.
Search the NHLE for: FLOWER BOX - FLOWER GARDEN — A garden in which flower beds are the primary focal point.
Search the NHLE for: FLOWER GARDEN - FLOWER MARKET — An outdoor or indoor place where flowers were sold.
Search the NHLE for: FLOWER MARKET - FLUE — A passageway, duct or pipe used for the conveyance of heat, gasses, smoke or air.
Search the NHLE for: FLUE - FLUORSPAR MINE — When a secondary mineral, use term for product type, eg. LEAD MINE.
Search the NHLE for: FLUORSPAR MINE - FLUORSPAR WORKINGS — A site where fluorspar or fluoride of calcium, often used as a flux by copper-ore smelters, is extracted from an open cast mine.
Search the NHLE for: FLUORSPAR WORKINGS - FLYOVER — A bridge for carrying a road or railway over another.
Search the NHLE for: FLYOVER - FODDER STORE — A building used to prepare and store dry food such as hay and straw for the feeding of cattle.
Search the NHLE for: FODDER STORE - FOG HORN — A structure found on lighthouses, piers, etc, capable of emitting a loud noise to warn shipping in foggy weather.
Search the NHLE for: FOG HORN - FOGOU — Underground chambers and stone passages of Iron Age date found in South West England.
Search the NHLE for: FOGOU - FOLLY — A structure, often found in 18th century landscape gardens, that demonstrates eccentricity or excess rather than practical purpose. They can take many forms - ruins, sham castles, towers, hermits' cells or grottoes.
Search the NHLE for: FOLLY - FONT — A vessel, usually made of stone, which contains the consecrated water for baptism. Use a broader monument type if possible.
Search the NHLE for: FONT - FONTEVRAULTINE DOUBLE HOUSE — A priory of double order of Fontevrault nuns and brethren.
Search the NHLE for: FONTEVRAULTINE DOUBLE HOUSE - FOOD AND DRINK PROCESSING SITE — Terms included here are for small scale agricultural production. See also FOOD AND DRINK INDUSTRY SITE grouping in INDUSTRIAL class.
Search the NHLE for: FOOD AND DRINK PROCESSING SITE - FOOD DEPOT — A building or site used for the storage and distribution of food.
Search the NHLE for: FOOD DEPOT - FOOD DRYING ROOM — A room with special ventilation used for the slow drying of foodstuffs.
Search the NHLE for: FOOD DRYING ROOM - FOOD PROCESSING PLANT — A factory or site for the manufacture of food stuffs from raw ingredients.
Search the NHLE for: FOOD PROCESSING PLANT - FOOTBALL GROUND — A site including a pitch, stands and other ancillary buildings associated with the game of football.
Search the NHLE for: FOOTBALL GROUND - FOOTBALL PITCH — A prepared area of grass on which the game of football is played.
Search the NHLE for: FOOTBALL PITCH - FOOTBALL TERRACE — A raised step, usually made of concrete, on which supporters stand to watch a game of football.
Search the NHLE for: FOOTBALL TERRACE - FOOTBRIDGE — A narrow bridge for people and animals to cross on foot.
Search the NHLE for: FOOTBRIDGE - FOOTPATH — A path for pedestrians only.
Search the NHLE for: FOOTPATH - FORD — A shallow place in a river or other stretch of water, where people, animals and vehicles may cross.
Search the NHLE for: FORD - FORD KEEPERS COTTAGE — The residence of a ford keeper.
Search the NHLE for: FORD KEEPERS COTTAGE - FORECOURT — The court or enclosed space at the front of a building or structure.
Search the NHLE for: FORECOURT - FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTITUTE — A building in which an organization or society is instituted to promote foreign languages in England such as French and German, etc.
Search the NHLE for: FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTITUTE - FOREMANS HOUSE — A purpose-built dwelling for the supervisor of a factory, mine or other industrial complex.
Search the NHLE for: FOREMANS HOUSE - FOREST — A large tract of land covered with trees and interspersed with open areas of land. Traditionally forests were owned by the monarchy and had their own laws.
Search the NHLE for: FOREST - FOREST LODGE — A building associated with the legal administration of a forest, eg. Forest of Dean.
Search the NHLE for: FOREST LODGE - FORGE — A building or site where bloom iron or cast iron is forged into wrought iron.
Search the NHLE for: FORGE - FORMAL GARDEN — A garden of regular, linear or geometrical design, often associated with the traditional Italian, French and Dutch styles.
Search the NHLE for: FORMAL GARDEN - FORT — A permanently occupied position or building designed primarily for defence.
Search the NHLE for: FORT - FORTIFICATION — A usually permanent defensive work. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FORTIFICATION - FORTIFIED BUILDING — A building which has been fortified, often as a temporary measure rather than as part of the original design
Search the NHLE for: FORTIFIED BUILDING - FORTIFIED CHURCH — Any church which bears signs of fortification. Churches on the Welsh and Scottish borders were often fortified, only allowing access to the tower from a single opening in the nave.
Search the NHLE for: FORTIFIED CHURCH - FORTIFIED HOUSE — A house which bears signs of fortification. These often include crenellated battlements and narrow slit-like windows.
Search the NHLE for: FORTIFIED HOUSE - FORTIFIED MANOR HOUSE — A manor house, which was granted a royal licence to crenellate.
Search the NHLE for: FORTIFIED MANOR HOUSE - FORTLET — A fortified Roman site, usually under 1 hectare in area, strategically situated, housing small military patrols, often defended by a rampart, one or two ditches and a gate.
Search the NHLE for: FORTLET - FORTRESS — A major fortified place, often a town, capable of containing a large force. If Roman use LEGIONARY FORTRESS.
Search the NHLE for: FORTRESS - FORUM — A large, rectangular open space at the centre of a Roman town, incorporating public spaces and a market area.
Search the NHLE for: FORUM - FOUNDRY — A workshop or factory for casting metals.
Search the NHLE for: FOUNDRY - FOUNTAIN — An artificial aperture from which water springs. The water supply usually came from a lake or reservoir higher up in order to ensure the necessary flow and pressure. More recently fountains have been powered by pumps.
Search the NHLE for: FOUNTAIN - FOUR POSTER STONE CIRCLE — A stone circle featuring four upright stones standing at the corners of an irregular quadrilateral. The monument may feature more than 4 stones, overall, but the corner stones are often the most prominent.
Search the NHLE for: FOUR POSTER STONE CIRCLE - FRAMEWORK KNITTERS COTTAGE — The dwelling and workshop of a framework knitter.
Search the NHLE for: FRAMEWORK KNITTERS COTTAGE - FRAMEWORK KNITTERS WORKSHOP — A room or building for hand knitting garments on simple hand frames.
Search the NHLE for: FRAMEWORK KNITTERS WORKSHOP - FRANCISCAN FRIARY — A friary belonging to the Franciscan order. Includes houses of both Friars Minor and Friars Observant or Capuchins.
Search the NHLE for: FRANCISCAN FRIARY - FRANCISCAN NUNNERY — An abbey of Franciscan nuns also known as Minoresses or Poor Clares.
Search the NHLE for: FRANCISCAN NUNNERY - FREE SCHOOL — A school where no fees were charged.
Search the NHLE for: FREE SCHOOL - FREEMASONS HALL — A meeting place for freemasons.
Search the NHLE for: FREEMASONS HALL - FRIARY — Houses specifically for men and of chiefly mendicant religious orders. The status of priory is represented in several friaries. Use with PRIORY if required.
Search the NHLE for: FRIARY - FRIARY OF CRUTCHED FRIARS — A friary belonging to the Crutched Friars also known as Crosiers or Fratres.
Search the NHLE for: FRIARY OF CRUTCHED FRIARS - FRIARY OF FRIARS OF THE SACK — A friary belonging to the Friars of the Sack also known as Friars of Penance or Penitentia.
Search the NHLE for: FRIARY OF FRIARS OF THE SACK - FRIENDS BURIAL GROUND — A place of burial for members of the Religious Society of Friends, often known as Quakers.
Search the NHLE for: FRIENDS BURIAL GROUND - FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE — A place of worship for members of the Religious Society of Friends, often known as Quakers. The Religious Society of Friends is a denomination founded by George Fox in c.1650 who believed in passivist principles and a rejection of the sacrament.
Search the NHLE for: FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE - FRONT GABLED HOUSE — A house with a pitched roof with a double slope and gables on the front and rear elevations of the building.
Search the NHLE for: FRONT GABLED HOUSE - FRONTIER DEFENCE — A system of fortifications constructed along a national frontier to contain the local population, as well as keep out undesirable raiders eg. Offa's Dyke. Use with more specific monument type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FRONTIER DEFENCE - FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKET — An indoor or outdoor market where fruit and vegetables are sold.
Search the NHLE for: FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKET - FRUIT AND VEGETABLE WAREHOUSE — A warehouse used for the storage of fruit and/or vegetables.
Search the NHLE for: FRUIT AND VEGETABLE WAREHOUSE - FRUIT GROWING WALL — A usually south-facing wall used for the cultivation of fruit plants.
Search the NHLE for: FRUIT GROWING WALL - FRUIT STORE — A building used for the storage of picked fruit.
Search the NHLE for: FRUIT STORE - FUEL DEPOT — A building or site used for the storage and distribution of fuel.
Search the NHLE for: FUEL DEPOT - FUEL STORE — A place where material used for burning is stored.
Search the NHLE for: FUEL STORE - FULLING MILL — A mill for beating and cleaning cloth, using soap or fullers earth.
Search the NHLE for: FULLING MILL - FUNCTION ROOM — A place where social and other functions such as parties, presentations and meetings can be held.
Search the NHLE for: FUNCTION ROOM - FUNERAL CHAPEL — A chapel within a parish church containing an altar and one or more tombs.
Search the NHLE for: FUNERAL CHAPEL - FUNERAL DIRECTORS — The establishment of an undertaker who is responsible for the management of the ceremony connected with the burial or cremation of a dead body.
Search the NHLE for: FUNERAL DIRECTORS - FUNERARY BUILDING — A building associated with funerary rites and burials.
Search the NHLE for: FUNERARY BUILDING - FUNERARY ENCLOSURE — An enclosure, usually private, used for burial. Often found within a cemetery.
Search the NHLE for: FUNERARY ENCLOSURE - FUNICULAR RAILWAY — A cable railway with ascending and descending cars counterbalanced.
Search the NHLE for: FUNICULAR RAILWAY - FURNACE — A chamber in which minerals, metals, etc, are subjected to the continuous action of intense heat. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FURNACE - FURNACE POND — A pond used as a water supply for the operation of a furnace or blast furnace.
Search the NHLE for: FURNACE POND - FURNITURE FACTORY — A factory where furniture is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: FURNITURE FACTORY - FURNITURE SHOP — A shop selling household furniture.
Search the NHLE for: FURNITURE SHOP - FURNITURE SHOWROOM — A room specifically used for the display of furniture and other related materials
Search the NHLE for: FURNITURE SHOWROOM - FURNITURE WORKSHOP — A workshop for the manufacturing of furniture.
Search the NHLE for: FURNITURE WORKSHOP - FURRIERS SHOP — A place where furs are made into finished products.
Search the NHLE for: FURRIERS SHOP - FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE — An educational establishment primarily for children aged 16-18 years old but can provide education for more mature students.
Search the NHLE for: FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE
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- GABLED HOUSE — A house with a pitched or gabled roof with a double slope and gables on two or more sides.
Search the NHLE for: GABLED HOUSE - GALLERIED ROW — A row of houses linked at first floor level by an open continuous gallery which runs through the front of the buildings. Access to the gallery was gained by flights of steps. Commonly found in the city of Chester.
Search the NHLE for: GALLERIED ROW - GALLERIED ROW HOUSE — A house within a row. At first floor level a gallery which runs through the front of the building. Access to the gallery was gained by steps set at intervals along the row. Commonly found in the city of Chester.
Search the NHLE for: GALLERIED ROW HOUSE - GALLOWS — A structure used for execution by hanging. Usually two uprights and a cross-piece, from which the offender is suspended by the neck.
Search the NHLE for: GALLOWS - GALLOWS MOUND — A natural or man-made earth mound on which a gallows was erected.
Search the NHLE for: GALLOWS MOUND - GALVANIZING WORKSHOP — A place where an anti-corrosion coating of zinc is added to iron and steel products to prevent them from rusting.
Search the NHLE for: GALVANIZING WORKSHOP - GAMBLING SITE — Buildings where gambling takes place.
Search the NHLE for: GAMBLING SITE - GAME LARDER — A small building in which game is hung up and kept cool.
Search the NHLE for: GAME LARDER - GAMING HOUSE — An establishment used for gambling.
Search the NHLE for: GAMING HOUSE - GANGWAY — A raised platform or walkway connecting two buildings or a ship with the quay, etc.
Search the NHLE for: GANGWAY - GANTRY — A framework, often made of steel, supporting a crane or similar structure, or for supporting a platform or stage.
Search the NHLE for: GANTRY - GANTRY CRANE — A crane mounted on a large metal gantry, used for the lifting of large-scale building materials, etc.
Search the NHLE for: GANTRY CRANE - GAOL — An institution for the imprisonment of felons and debtors.
Search the NHLE for: GAOL - GARAGE — Use only for buildings which house motor vehicles. Includes garages for vehicle repair. For petrol sales use PETROL STATION.
Search the NHLE for: GARAGE - GARDEN — An enclosed piece of ground devoted to the cultivation of flowers, fruit or vegetables and/or recreational purposes. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN - GARDEN ARCADE — A series of arches, linked together, often made out of clipped hedges or trees with the trunks forming the uprights
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN ARCADE - GARDEN BASIN — A decorative garden ornament, usually of stone, in the form of a wide, shallow dish.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN BASIN - GARDEN BUILDING — Includes some structures that are not strictly buildings. Use a more specific term where possible.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN BUILDING - GARDEN CENTRE — A place where gardening tools, plants, etc, are sold.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN CENTRE - GARDEN FEATURE — Unspecified landscape feature. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN FEATURE - GARDEN HOUSE — A small ornamental building in a garden, usually one-storeyed and consisting of one room. Use a more specific term where known.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN HOUSE - GARDEN OF REST — Garden associated with a crematorium where the ashes of the deceased are scattered or buried.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN OF REST - GARDEN ORNAMENT — A decorative or ornamental structure purposefully situated in a garden. Such as sculptures, sundials, bird baths, gnomes etc.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN ORNAMENT - GARDEN PATH — A path in a garden.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN PATH - GARDEN PORCH — A roofed, lightweight structure, usually attached to a house, provdiing access from and to the garden.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN PORCH - GARDEN RETREAT — A structure or building, often within a secluded area of a garden, where people could go for quiet reflection.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN RETREAT - GARDEN SCREEN — Ornamental wrought iron screen associated with gate lodges or entrance lodges.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN SCREEN - GARDEN SEAT — A type of GARDEN HOUSE, usually in the form of an open-fronted shelter with seat.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN SEAT - GARDEN SHED — A structure in a garden used to house gardening implements, etc.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN SHED - GARDEN STEPS — Stone, brick or wooden steps or stairs found in a garden.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN STEPS - GARDEN SUBURB — A town laid out systematically with spacious and garden-like surroundings.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN SUBURB - GARDEN TABLE — A table found in a garden, often made of stone.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN TABLE - GARDEN TEMPLE — A garden building, usually in the Gothic or classical style. The term can be applied to many types of garden building with an interior space in which to stand or sit. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN TEMPLE - GARDEN TERRACE — A flat, level area of ground within a garden. Often raised and accessed by steps.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN TERRACE - GARDEN VILLAGE — A village laid out systematically with spacious and garden-like surroundings.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN VILLAGE - GARDEN WALL — A stone or brick wall either in, or enclosing, a garden.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN WALL - GAS ENGINE — A machine producing mechanical power by the internal combustion of gas.
Search the NHLE for: GAS ENGINE - GAS ENGINE HOUSE — A building housing a gas engine, used as a power source for driving other machinery.
Search the NHLE for: GAS ENGINE HOUSE - GAS HOLDER — Expanding storage tank for gas, often includes a meter for measuring the amount used.
Search the NHLE for: GAS HOLDER - GAS HOUSE — An ancilliary building, usually to provide gas for lighting a particular building (eg. railway stations, factories, etc) as opposed to public GAS WORKS.
Search the NHLE for: GAS HOUSE - GAS LAMP — A street lamp in which the light is produced by the burning of coal gas. More recently natural gas has been used.
Search the NHLE for: GAS LAMP - GAS METER HOUSE — A building in which apparatus registering the amount of gas consumed is housed.
Search the NHLE for: GAS METER HOUSE - GAS TESTING TRENCH — A purpose-built trench used to test chemical warfare weapons.
Search the NHLE for: GAS TESTING TRENCH - GAS WORKS — An industrial complex concerned with the manufacture of gas for domestic use from coal and oil.
Search the NHLE for: GAS WORKS - GATE — A movable stucture which enables or prevents entrance to be gained. Usually situated in a wall or similar barrier and supported by gate posts.
Search the NHLE for: GATE - GATE GUARDIAN — A vehicle or aircraft placed at the entrance to a site as a symbolic guardian.
Search the NHLE for: GATE GUARDIAN - GATE LODGE — A dwelling, located at the entrance, or gates, to an estate or park, etc.
Search the NHLE for: GATE LODGE - GATE PIER — A pier of brick, masonry, etc, to which the hinges of a gate are attached.
Search the NHLE for: GATE PIER - GATE TOWER — A tower, containing a gate, built into the walls of a town, castle or similar fortification.
Search the NHLE for: GATE TOWER - GATEHOUSE — A gateway with one or more chambers over the entrance arch; the flanking towers housing stairs and additional rooms. Use with wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: GATEHOUSE - GATEMANS HUT — A small building used by a gatekeeper.
Search the NHLE for: GATEMANS HUT - GATEWAY — A substantial structure supporting or surrounding a gate. May be ornate or monumental, and have associated structures such as lodges, tollbooths, guard houses etc.
Search the NHLE for: GATEWAY - GAUGE HOUSE — A building on a river or canal in which the water levels are controlled.
Search the NHLE for: GAUGE HOUSE - GAZEBO — A garden house situated to provide a commanding view.
Search the NHLE for: GAZEBO - GENERAL BAPTIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for General Baptists, a movement established by John Smyth in 1603 and which grew out of the original Baptist church. They believed in free will and are often referred to simply as Baptists.
Search the NHLE for: GENERAL BAPTIST CHAPEL - GENERAL HOSPITAL — A non-specialist hospital dealing in general medical and surgical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: GENERAL HOSPITAL - GENERAL SERVICE FLIGHT SHED — 1st World War end-opening aeroplane hangar.
Search the NHLE for: GENERAL SERVICE FLIGHT SHED - GENERAL STORE — A shop selling a variety of goods and merchandise.
Search the NHLE for: GENERAL STORE - GENERATOR HOUSE — A building housing a generator.
Search the NHLE for: GENERATOR HOUSE - GENTLEMENS CLUB — A building with a range of facilities for the exclusive use of its all-male membership. Rooms were often provided as offices or short term accommodation, and the club could be used for business or social gatherings.
Search the NHLE for: GENTLEMENS CLUB - GERIATRIC HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital where the elderly receive medical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: GERIATRIC HOSPITAL - GIBBET — An upright post with projecting arm from which the body of a criminal would be hung in chains after execution.
Search the NHLE for: GIBBET - GILBERTINE CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Gilbertine order dependent on an English mother house.
Search the NHLE for: GILBERTINE CELL - GILBERTINE DOUBLE HOUSE — A priory of Gilbertine double order of nuns and canons.
Search the NHLE for: GILBERTINE DOUBLE HOUSE - GILBERTINE GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Gilbertine order.
Search the NHLE for: GILBERTINE GRANGE - GILBERTINE MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Gilbertine monks.
Search the NHLE for: GILBERTINE MONASTERY - GILBERTINE NUNNERY — An abbey or priory of Gilbertine Nuns.
Search the NHLE for: GILBERTINE NUNNERY - GIN PALACE — An ornate public house that developed in the 1830s after the passing of a law to encourage the drinking of beer in alehouses licensed for the sale of beer only.
Search the NHLE for: GIN PALACE - GIRAFFE HOUSE — A building in a zoo or wildlife park used to accommodate giraffes.
Search the NHLE for: GIRAFFE HOUSE - GIRDER BRIDGE — A bridge supported by large beams or girders, originally of wood or iron, now usually of steel or reinforced concrete.
Search the NHLE for: GIRDER BRIDGE - GLASS CONE — A conical brick structure in which glass articles were made.
Search the NHLE for: GLASS CONE - GLASS FURNACE — A furnace for the manufacture of glass. Includes glass cones, open hearth and oil-fired furnaces.
Search the NHLE for: GLASS FURNACE - GLASS WORKING SITE — A site used for the production and/or working of glass.
Search the NHLE for: GLASS WORKING SITE - GLASS WORKS — A site where all the processes for the production of glass and objects made from glass are carried out.
Search the NHLE for: GLASS WORKS - GLASSHOUSE — A building made chiefly of glass, used to grow plants and fruit in. Use more specific type where possible.
Search the NHLE for: GLASSHOUSE - GLASSMAKING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production of glass.
Search the NHLE for: GLASSMAKING SITE - GLOVE FACTORY — A factory where gloves are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: GLOVE FACTORY - GLUE FACTORY — A factory where glue is produced.
Search the NHLE for: GLUE FACTORY - GOLD MINE — A place where gold ore is extracted.
Search the NHLE for: GOLD MINE - GOLDSMITHS WORKSHOP — A place where gold is worked into articles or products.
Search the NHLE for: GOLDSMITHS WORKSHOP - GOLF CLUB — A golf course, clubhouse and ancilliary buildings.
Search the NHLE for: GOLF CLUB - GOLF COURSE — A prepared area of ground used to play the game of golf on.
Search the NHLE for: GOLF COURSE - GOODS CLEARING HOUSE — A building in which goods were kept prior to being cleared by customs officers.
Search the NHLE for: GOODS CLEARING HOUSE - GOODS SHED — A building in which railway wagons can unload local goods.
Search the NHLE for: GOODS SHED - GOODS STATION — A railway station or platform built specifically for the loading and unloading of goods.
Search the NHLE for: GOODS STATION - GOODS YARD — A site where merchandise and goods are temporarily stored before or after transportation by rail.
Search the NHLE for: GOODS YARD - GOOSE PEN — An enclosure or pen for confining geese.
Search the NHLE for: GOOSE PEN - GOVERNMENT OFFICE — The offices of a Government Department responsible for the administration of the country.
Search the NHLE for: GOVERNMENT OFFICE - GRADUATE HOUSE — A place where students live, sometimes on a college campus.
Search the NHLE for: GRADUATE HOUSE - GRAFFITI — Casual scribbles or pictographs on ancient walls, stones or other surfaces. In more recent times applied to humourous, satiric or obscene writings or drawings executed anonymously in public places.
Search the NHLE for: GRAFFITI - GRAIN DRIER — A building or room within a granary used to dry grain. Often consisting of an oven with a refractory-brick drying floor above, on which the grain was placed.
Search the NHLE for: GRAIN DRIER - GRAIN ELEVATOR — A machine used for the loading and unloading of grain to and from a warehouse
Search the NHLE for: GRAIN ELEVATOR - GRAIN SILO — A tower used to store grain in.
Search the NHLE for: GRAIN SILO - GRAIN STORAGE PIT — A pit where grain is stored.
Search the NHLE for: GRAIN STORAGE PIT - GRAIN WAREHOUSE — A large building used for the storage of grain.
Search the NHLE for: GRAIN WAREHOUSE - GRAMMAR SCHOOL — A school founded in or before the 16th century, for teaching Latin, later becoming a secondary school teaching languages, history, science, etc.
Search the NHLE for: GRAMMAR SCHOOL - GRANARY — A building, or first-floor room in a building, for the dry and secure storage of grain after it has been threshed and winnowed.
Search the NHLE for: GRANARY - GRAND HOTEL — A large, luxuriously appointed hotel.
Search the NHLE for: GRAND HOTEL - GRANDMONTINE MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Grandmontine monks.
Search the NHLE for: GRANDMONTINE MONASTERY - GRANDSTAND — The principal stand at a sporting ground, eg. at a racecourse.
Search the NHLE for: GRANDSTAND - GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate, usually belonging to a religious order or feudal lord. Specifically related to core buildings and structures associated with monastic land holding. Use specific term where known.
Search the NHLE for: GRANGE - GRANGE BARN — A barn belonging to, or associated with, a grange.
Search the NHLE for: GRANGE BARN - GRAVE — A place of burial. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVE - GRAVE MARKER — A stone, slate, iron or wooden structure used to mark the site of a grave. Use only where evidence of the form is uncertain otherwise use more specific type.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVE MARKER - GRAVE SLAB — A stone used to cover a grave.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVE SLAB - GRAVEBOARD — Wooden board marking a grave.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVEBOARD - GRAVEL PATH — A path covered in a layer of water-worn or pounded stones.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVEL PATH - GRAVESTONE — A stone placed over or at the head or foot of a grave, or at the entrance of a tomb.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVESTONE - GREAT HALL — A large communal room often occupying the full height of the building, used for functions such as meetings, entertainments etc. Traditionally found in medieval buildings but also found in later buildings emulating medieval architecture.
Search the NHLE for: GREAT HALL - GREAT HOUSE — A large house dating from the 16th century onwards, built as a symbol of the wealth and status of the owner but not intended to be defensible unlike the castles and manor houses it replaced.
Search the NHLE for: GREAT HOUSE - GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH — A place of worship for members of the Greek Orthodox Church, the national church of Greece.
Search the NHLE for: GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH - GREENGROCERS SHOP — A shop which sells vegetables and fruit.
Search the NHLE for: GREENGROCERS SHOP - GRILLE — An open grating of wrought iron, bronze or wood, forming a screen to a door, window or other opening, or used as a divider.
Search the NHLE for: GRILLE - GRINDING HOUSE — A building for the crushing of stones and minerals.
Search the NHLE for: GRINDING HOUSE - GRINDSTONE — A large disc of stone revolving on an axis, used for grinding, sharpening and polishing.
Search the NHLE for: GRINDSTONE - GROCERS SHOP — A shop selling tea, butter, flour, sugar, spices, tinned foods and miscellaneous household stores.
Search the NHLE for: GROCERS SHOP - GROTTO — A shady cavern built as a garden feature. In the 18th century it usually took the form of an artificial rocky cave or apartment decorated with stalactites and shells in a wild part of the grounds.
Search the NHLE for: GROTTO - GROUP HEADQUARTERS — A building used as a headquarters and reporting centre for an Army, Navy or Air Force Group.
Search the NHLE for: GROUP HEADQUARTERS - GROYNE — A structure extending into the sea for the purpose of preventing further movement of washed up sand and shingle.
Search the NHLE for: GROYNE - GRUBENHAUS — A timber building based around a sunken hollow, the floor of which may have been suspended above the hollow to counteract dampness. Grubenhauser are believed to date from the 5th to 8th centuries AD but may be earlier. Use Grubenhauser as plural.
Search the NHLE for: GRUBENHAUS - GUARDHOUSE — A building used for the accommodation of a military guard and/or the detainment of prisoners.
Search the NHLE for: GUARDHOUSE - GUEST COTTAGE — Cottage provided for guests to a country house.
Search the NHLE for: GUEST COTTAGE - GUEST HOUSE — A separate residence for guests, a house on a private estate or a monastery building specifically for receiving visitors.
Search the NHLE for: GUEST HOUSE - GUEST WING — A seperate wing of a large house provide accommodation for guests.
Search the NHLE for: GUEST WING - GUIBAL FAN HOUSE — A ventilating fan house with an expanding chimney.
Search the NHLE for: GUIBAL FAN HOUSE - GUILD CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of a guild.
Search the NHLE for: GUILD CHAPEL - GUILDHALL — Traditionally, the hall of a crafts, trade, or merchants' guild. Nowadays, often used to describe a TOWN HALL.
Search the NHLE for: GUILDHALL - GUILLOTINE LOCK — A lock where the gates rise vertically. Rarely found on canals but common on navgable rivers in the Fens, particularly the river Nene.
Search the NHLE for: GUILLOTINE LOCK - GUN EMPLACEMENT — A fortified site in which a gun, mortar or cannon is positioned.
Search the NHLE for: GUN EMPLACEMENT - GUN TESTING SHOP — A workshop for testing guns, incorporating louvred sheds to serve as firing ranges.
Search the NHLE for: GUN TESTING SHOP - GUNCOTTON FACTORY — A factory or works engaged in the manufacture of the explosive guncotton. They may be found as separate factories or form part of a cordite factory.
Search the NHLE for: GUNCOTTON FACTORY - GUNPOWDER DRYING HOUSE — A processing house where surplus water is removed from gunpowder after incorporating.
Search the NHLE for: GUNPOWDER DRYING HOUSE - GUNPOWDER WORKS — A site used for the manufacture of gunpowder.
Search the NHLE for: GUNPOWDER WORKS - GYMNASIUM (SPORTS) — A building or room, originally equipped for gymnastics or indoor sports but also, more recently, equipped with cross-training machines and free-weights for members to improve their physical fitness.
Search the NHLE for: GYMNASIUM (SPORTS) - GYPSUM DRYING KILN — A kiln where gypsum was dried to a state where it could be used as plaster of Paris or for the production of cement.
Search the NHLE for: GYPSUM DRYING KILN - GYPSUM MINE — A site where gypsum and anhydrate is mined.
Search the NHLE for: GYPSUM MINE - GYPSUM QUARRY — A place where gypsum is extracted.
Search the NHLE for: GYPSUM QUARRY
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- HA HA — A dry ditch or sunken fence which divided the formal garden from the landscaped park without interrupting the view.
Search the NHLE for: HA HA - HACKNEY STABLE — A stable used for riding horses or those used to pull coaches, gigs, etc.
Search the NHLE for: HACKNEY STABLE - HAIRDRESSERS SALON — An establishment where people get their hair dressed and cut.
Search the NHLE for: HAIRDRESSERS SALON - HALF TIDE DOCK — A dock with gates which open for access for some hours before and after high water.
Search the NHLE for: HALF TIDE DOCK - HALL HOUSE — A house consisting of a public hall with private living accommodation attached. Built from the medieval period onwards.
Search the NHLE for: HALL HOUSE - HALL OF RESIDENCE — A university or college building set apart for residence or instruction of students. They can be located either on or off campus.
Search the NHLE for: HALL OF RESIDENCE - HAMLET — Small settlement with no ecclesiastical or lay administrative function.
Search the NHLE for: HAMLET - HAMMER — A machine in which a heavy block of metal is used for beating, breaking or driving something.
Search the NHLE for: HAMMER - HAMMER POND — Pond, created specifically for providing power to water-powered forges, blast furnaces, helve or other hammers.
Search the NHLE for: HAMMER POND - HAND CRANE — A mechanism used for lifting and lowering weights, operated by hand.
Search the NHLE for: HAND CRANE - HAND PUMP — A hand operated mechanism used to raise and move water, liquids, compressed gases etc.
Search the NHLE for: HAND PUMP - HANDBALL WALL — A wall used in the game of handball.
Search the NHLE for: HANDBALL WALL - HANGAR — A large shed for the housing of aircraft, etc.
Search the NHLE for: HANGAR - HARBOUR — A sheltered port for ships.
Search the NHLE for: HARBOUR - HARD — A firm beach or foreshore used for landing and loading of ships and other vessels. In more recent times hards have been reinforced with concrete.
Search the NHLE for: HARD - HARD STANDING — A purpose-built area of hard material of indeterminate use.
Search the NHLE for: HARD STANDING - HARDENED AIRCRAFT SHELTER — A type of military aircraft hangar of the Cold War, hardened and therefore protected against the effects of nuclear weapons. It comprises a semi-circular structure built of corrugated-steel supporting a reinforced-concrete skin. Three NATO designs.
Search the NHLE for: HARDENED AIRCRAFT SHELTER - HARDWARE SHOP — A shop selling ironmonger's goods, household tools and utensils.
Search the NHLE for: HARDWARE SHOP - HARE WARREN — An area of land, usually enclosed, set aside for the breeding of hares.
Search the NHLE for: HARE WARREN - HAT FACTORY — A factory where hats are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: HAT FACTORY - HATCHELLING HOUSE — A workshop for combining flax or hemp as a preparatory stage of rope making.
Search the NHLE for: HATCHELLING HOUSE - HATTERS WORKSHOP — A place where hats are made and sold.
Search the NHLE for: HATTERS WORKSHOP - HAULAGE ENGINE HOUSE — Engine driving a continuous wire rope for the haulage of tubs in a mine and at the heapstead.
Search the NHLE for: HAULAGE ENGINE HOUSE - HAUNTED HOUSE — Fairground attraction containing a number of ghoulish displays designed to scare visitors.
Search the NHLE for: HAUNTED HOUSE - HAY BARN — A special type of barn, lacking a threshing floor, usually with open walls, intended for the dry and well ventilated storage of hay only.
Search the NHLE for: HAY BARN - HAYLOFT — A loft over a stable or barn used for storing hay.
Search the NHLE for: HAYLOFT - HEAD RACE — Water channel leading to water wheel.
Search the NHLE for: HEAD RACE - HEADSTOCK — Machinery for raising and lowering men and equipment to and from the surface of a mine.
Search the NHLE for: HEADSTOCK - HEADSTOCK SUPPORT — Platform, usually stone-built, which holds the winding gear of a mine shaft.
Search the NHLE for: HEADSTOCK SUPPORT - HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT — Buildings and structures associated with good health and recreation.
Search the NHLE for: HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT - HEALTH FARM — A place where people can recover from illnesses or health problems through controlled eating and programmes of exercise, etc.
Search the NHLE for: HEALTH FARM - HEALTH WORKERS HOUSE — The residence of health workers. Includes single dwellings of doctors, nurses etc. but not multiple dwellings eg.NURSES HOSTEL
Search the NHLE for: HEALTH WORKERS HOUSE - HEAPSTEAD — Buildings and works around a mine shaft with an artificial embankment on which the winding gear etc, is located.
Search the NHLE for: HEAPSTEAD - HEARSE HOUSE — A type of carriage house, usually in a churchyard, for storing a hearse.
Search the NHLE for: HEARSE HOUSE - HEARTH — The slab or place on which a fire is made.
Search the NHLE for: HEARTH - HEATED WALL — A wall in a flower or kitchen garden, containing conduits or pipes for heating the wall.
Search the NHLE for: HEATED WALL - HEATING PLANT — Building or buildings housing equipment for generating heat for a building complex.
Search the NHLE for: HEATING PLANT - HEAVY ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY — An anti aircraft battery usually mounting weapons with a larger calibre ammunition such as the QF 3.75 inch (94mm) gun.
Search the NHLE for: HEAVY ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY - HEDGE — Usually a row of bushes or small trees planted closely together to form a boundary between pieces of land or at the sides of a road.
Search the NHLE for: HEDGE - HEDGE MAZE — A complex maze incorporating tall hedges. A popular feature of 16th and 17th century gardens.
Search the NHLE for: HEDGE MAZE - HEEL FACTORY — A factory for the manufacture of heels for the shoe making trade.
Search the NHLE for: HEEL FACTORY - HELIOCHRONOMETER — A sundial capable of giving an accurate reading of standard time to the minute.
Search the NHLE for: HELIOCHRONOMETER - HELTER SKELTER — A fairground ride, often a permanent structure, consisting of a tower with an internal staircase and an external spiral shaped slide.
Search the NHLE for: HELTER SKELTER - HELVE HAMMER — A cast iron hammer used for shingling iron or making heavy forgings.
Search the NHLE for: HELVE HAMMER - HEMMEL — A small roofed shelter for cattle without tethering point or stalls, but with a small yard attached. It is often detached from the main range of farm buildings.
Search the NHLE for: HEMMEL - HEMP MILL — A factory where hemp, the woody stalk of the hemp plant, used for the making of coarse cloth and cordage, was processed.
Search the NHLE for: HEMP MILL - HEMP STORE — A building used for the storage of rope made from the fibrous stems of the hemp plant.
Search the NHLE for: HEMP STORE - HEN BATTERY — A series of cages in which hens are confined for intensive egg laying.
Search the NHLE for: HEN BATTERY - HENGE — Circular or sub-circular enclosure defined by a bank and (usually internal) ditch, with one or two (rarely more) entrances. Of ceremonial/ritual function, they contain a variety of internal features including timber or stone circles.
Search the NHLE for: HENGE - HENGE ENCLOSURE — A late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age earthwork enclosure distinguished from a henge primarily by its larger size, irregular shape, and greater complexity of internal features.
Search the NHLE for: HENGE ENCLOSURE - HENGIFORM MONUMENT — A small, circular Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age enclosure which bears a morphological resemblance to henges, but may belong to another category of circular earthwork-defined monuments, or is enclosed by something other than a bank and ditch.
Search the NHLE for: HENGIFORM MONUMENT - HERB DISTILLERY — A distillery for the manufacture of perfumes from herbs.
Search the NHLE for: HERB DISTILLERY - HERB GARDEN — A garden for the cultivation of herbs used for medicinal or culinary purposes.
Search the NHLE for: HERB GARDEN - HERBARIUM — A building or room containing a collection of preserved plants (usually pressed and dried specimens).
Search the NHLE for: HERBARIUM - HERDERS HOUSE — The residence of a herder.
Search the NHLE for: HERDERS HOUSE - HERM — A pedestal terminating in a head or bust of Hermes or some other deity.
Search the NHLE for: HERM - HERMITAGE (RELIGIOUS) — A small hut, dwelling or cave, usually in a secluded spot, in which a hermit lived. Hermits chose to live solitary lives often due to religious motives.
Search the NHLE for: HERMITAGE (RELIGIOUS) - HIDE — A shelter, sometimes camouflaged, for the observation of birds and animals at close quarters.
Search the NHLE for: HIDE - HIDING PLACE — A place used to hide something or someone.
Search the NHLE for: HIDING PLACE - HIGH BREASTSHOT WHEEL — A waterwheel where the water enters below the top of the wheel but above the axle.
Search the NHLE for: HIGH BREASTSHOT WHEEL - HIGH CROSS — A churchyard or memorial cross set on a long shaft.
Search the NHLE for: HIGH CROSS - HILL FIGURE — A giant figure of a man, animal or symbol carved on chalk hillsides mainly in southern England.
Search the NHLE for: HILL FIGURE - HILLFORT — A hilltop enclosure bounded by one or more substantial banks, ramparts and ditches. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: HILLFORT - HILLTOP ENCLOSURE — A substantial area of ground surrounded by slight univallate earthwork often interpreted as stock enclosures or as sites where agricultural produce was stored.
Search the NHLE for: HILLTOP ENCLOSURE - HINDU TEMPLE — A place of worship for followers of Hinduism.
Search the NHLE for: HINDU TEMPLE - HIPPOPOTAMUS HOUSE — A building used to accommodate hippopotami.
Search the NHLE for: HIPPOPOTAMUS HOUSE - HISTORICAL SITE — Site with important historical association.
Search the NHLE for: HISTORICAL SITE - HOGBACK STONE — A North country memorial imitating a wattled hut decorated with formalized bears or snakes.
Search the NHLE for: HOGBACK STONE - HOIST — A mechanical lift or elevator, used to lift goods, etc.
Search the NHLE for: HOIST - HOLDING SHED — A building where merchandise and goods are temporarily stored before or after transportation by rail.
Search the NHLE for: HOLDING SHED - HOLED STONE — An upright, or originally upright, stone featuring a hole which is often large enough in diameter for a person to pass through, eg. Men an Tol, Cornwall. Do not use for perforated portable stone artefacts.
Search the NHLE for: HOLED STONE - HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION — A building used as a temporary form of accommodation during a holiday, which includes self-catering.
Search the NHLE for: HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION - HOLIDAY CENTRE — A place with organized amusements for people on holiday.
Search the NHLE for: HOLIDAY CENTRE - HOLLOW — A hollow, concave formation or place, which has sometimes been dug out.
Search the NHLE for: HOLLOW - HOLLOW WAY — A way, path or road through a cutting.
Search the NHLE for: HOLLOW WAY - HOLY WELL — A well or spring, possessing religious or otherwise ritualistic significance, around which a structure, such as a niche, wall or shelter, has been constructed. In the case of the water source being a natural spring, double-index with SPRING.
Search the NHLE for: HOLY WELL - HOME GUARD HEADQUARTERS — A building used as the headquarters for the Home Guard during the Second World War.
Search the NHLE for: HOME GUARD HEADQUARTERS - HOME GUARD SHELTER — A structure, often concrete or brick, used as a shelter by members of the British citizen army during watch or patrol duties, or air raids, in wartime.
Search the NHLE for: HOME GUARD SHELTER - HOMELESS HOSTEL — A place where the homeless are accommodated, permanently or temporarily.
Search the NHLE for: HOMELESS HOSTEL - HOMESTEAD — A small settlement, usually consisting of one dwelling with ancillary buildings.
Search the NHLE for: HOMESTEAD - HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL — A hospital where more 'natural' means of treatment are used rather than conventional methods.
Search the NHLE for: HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL - HOOP HOUSE — A building in which hoops (for masts) were heated.
Search the NHLE for: HOOP HOUSE - HOP BARN — A barn used to store hops.
Search the NHLE for: HOP BARN - HOP EXCHANGE — A commercial building used primarily as a trading place for breweries and hop merchants.
Search the NHLE for: HOP EXCHANGE - HOP KILN — A kiln for drying hops in a brewery or maltings complex, as distinct from the OASTHOUSES found on farms.
Search the NHLE for: HOP KILN - HOP STORE — A place where hops are stored.
Search the NHLE for: HOP STORE - HOPPERS HUT — A hut provided as accommodation for hop pickers and may also be know as a Hop Pickers' Hut
Search the NHLE for: HOPPERS HUT - HORIZONTAL KILN — A non-vertical kiln where the shaft and burning zone is horizontal to the ground thereby allowing material to be fed in.
Search the NHLE for: HORIZONTAL KILN - HORIZONTAL STEAM ENGINE — A piston mounted horizontally supplying power via a valve gear directly to a crankshaft or flywheel.
Search the NHLE for: HORIZONTAL STEAM ENGINE - HORN WORKING SITE — A site used for the production of items derived from animal horns.
Search the NHLE for: HORN WORKING SITE - HORNWORK — An outwork joined to the mainwork by two parallel wings.
Search the NHLE for: HORNWORK - HORSE ENGINE — A wheel which is turned by a horse in order to provide power. Used in mines, manufacturing and farming.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE ENGINE - HORSE ENGINE HOUSE — A round or polygonal building containing a HORSE ENGINE. Commonly found on farms next to the threshing barn, where it is used to power the machinery.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE ENGINE HOUSE - HORSE EXERCISE RING — An area of ground in which horses can be exercised.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE EXERCISE RING - HORSE HOSPITAL — A specialist veterinary hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of horses.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE HOSPITAL - HORSE PATH — A purpose built section of path linking two sections of a canal enabling a horse to be led over or around an obstacle such as a hill. Horse paths predate towpath tunnels.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE PATH - HORSE RUBBING HOUSE — A building where horses are rubbed down after training.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE RUBBING HOUSE - HORSE STOCK — A frame used to lift unco-operative horses off the ground during shoeing.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE STOCK - HORSE TROUGH — A long, wooden, metal or stone vessel holding drinking water for horses.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE TROUGH - HORSE TUNNEL — A tunnel built alongside a canal tunnel to enable a horse to be unhitched and led through the hillside to meet the barge when it emerged from the tunnel. Mainly built prior to the development of the towpath tunnel.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE TUNNEL - HORSE WHEEL — A simple machine, worked by horses, to provide a power take-off for driving agricultural machinery.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE WHEEL - HORSE WHIM — A horse-powered winding engine used at mining sites.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE WHIM - HORSEHAIR FACTORY — The cleaning and sorting of horse hair mainly for use in the upholstery trade.
Search the NHLE for: HORSEHAIR FACTORY - HORTICULTURAL COLLEGE — An educational establishment where the art of garden cultivation is taught.
Search the NHLE for: HORTICULTURAL COLLEGE - HORTICULTURAL HALL — A hall used for the promotion and selling of horticultural produce and practice.
Search the NHLE for: HORTICULTURAL HALL - HOSIERS COTTAGE — The residence and small-scale workshop of a hosier.
Search the NHLE for: HOSIERS COTTAGE - HOSIERY FACTORY — A factory or works housing machinery used to produce stockings and socks, using mechanized knitting processes.
Search the NHLE for: HOSIERY FACTORY - HOSIERY WORKSHOP — A place where knitted fabrics and legware garments were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: HOSIERY WORKSHOP - HOSPICE — An establishment providing care for the terminally ill.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPICE - HOSPITAL — An establishment providing medical or surgical treatment for the ill or wounded. Use narrower term where possible.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL - HOSPITAL BLOCK — A specialist unit within a hospital complex. It may be a separate building or sometimes linked by a corridor or covered walkway to a main building.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL BLOCK - HOSPITAL BUILDING — A hospital building of uncertain function. Use more specific type if known.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL BUILDING - HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT — A separate functional unit of a hospital not necessarily on the same site.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT - HOSPITAL FOR EPILEPTICS — A specialist hospital for the medical treatment of patients suffering from epilepsy. Originally epilepsy was seen as a mental illness.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL FOR EPILEPTICS - HOSPITAL FOR FISTULA AND RECTAL DISEASES — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of fistular and rectal disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL FOR FISTULA AND RECTAL DISEASES - HOSPITAL FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES — A hospital where people with learning difficulties receive medical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES - HOSPITAL LAUNDRY — A laundry attached to a hospital.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL LAUNDRY - HOSPITAL SCHOOL — A charity school, usually housed in an almshouse.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL SCHOOL - HOSPITAL WARD — A large room, similar to a dormitory, within a hospital, and used for the temporary or permanent accommodation of patients, either waiting for or recovering from operations or undergoing long term treatment.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL WARD - HOSPITALLERS CAMERA — A residence used during short visits by an official and attendants of the Knights Hospitallers for administrative purposes on their estates.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITALLERS CAMERA - HOSPITALLERS CHURCH — A place of worship for the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, a military order dedicated to the provision of hospitality for pilgrims, to the care of the sick and to the protection of the Holy Land.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITALLERS CHURCH - HOSPITALLERS PRECEPTORY — An estate or manor of a subordinate community of the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Includes the mother house, the Priory of St. John, Clerkenwell.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITALLERS PRECEPTORY - HOSTEL — A building, usually containing several dormitories, used as a cheap, short term residence. Use more specific term if known.
Search the NHLE for: HOSTEL - HOTEL — A large building used for the accommodation of paying travellers and guests.
Search the NHLE for: HOTEL - HOTHOUSE — A glasshouse used for the cultivation of tropical plants.
Search the NHLE for: HOTHOUSE - HOUSE — A building for human habitation, especially a dwelling place. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: HOUSE - HOUSE OF CORRECTION — An institution for the imprisonment of vagrants and misdemeanants.
Search the NHLE for: HOUSE OF CORRECTION - HOUSE OF DETENTION — A building in which people are held in a state of imprisonment or confinement as punishment. Usually associated with military and political offenders.
Search the NHLE for: HOUSE OF DETENTION - HOUSE OVER HOUSE — A house in a terrace built on top of another, with access at high and low level to either side.
Search the NHLE for: HOUSE OVER HOUSE - HOUSE PLATFORM — An area of ground on which a house is built. A platform is often the sole surviving evidence for a house.
Search the NHLE for: HOUSE PLATFORM - HOUSING ESTATE — A residential district planned as a unit.
Search the NHLE for: HOUSING ESTATE - HOVEL — A rough shelter or dwelling, sometimes used to house cattle.
Search the NHLE for: HOVEL - HOVERCRAFT TERMINAL — An area of a port, dock or harbour, often including buildings for passport control and customs, where passengers and vehicles using hovercraft services can embark/disembark and where supplies can be taken on board.
Search the NHLE for: HOVERCRAFT TERMINAL - HUGUENOT CHURCH — A place of worship for members of the French Protestant church of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Search the NHLE for: HUGUENOT CHURCH - HULL — Underground passage with storage chambers found in South West England.
Search the NHLE for: HULL - HUNT STANDING — Structure used for viewing deer hunt.
Search the NHLE for: HUNT STANDING - HUNTING LODGE — A weekend retreat for Royal parties and others, when hunting in the Royal forests, or as a viewing station for the chase.
Search the NHLE for: HUNTING LODGE - HUNTING PARK — An enclosed area of parkland used almost exclusively for the hunting of deer.
Search the NHLE for: HUNTING PARK - HUNTING SITE — A building, site or structure associated with the hunting of animals.
Search the NHLE for: HUNTING SITE - HUSH — A ravine formed by using water to reveal or exploit a vein.
Search the NHLE for: HUSH - HUT — A building of basic construction, usually smaller in size than a house and constructed from a variety of materials such as mud, turf, branches, wood, brick, concrete or metal. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: HUT - HUT CIRCLE — A round house indicated by the presence of a low, roughly circular bank of turf, earth or stone, which formed the base of the walls. Characteristic of the later prehistoric period. Where several occur together use HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT.
Search the NHLE for: HUT CIRCLE - HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT — A settlement consisting of several hut circles, either grouped together or dispersed. Characteristic of the later prehistoric period. Use specific forms where supported by the available evidence. For isolated hut circles use HUT CIRCLE.
Search the NHLE for: HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT - HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR TOWER — A structure used for the production of hydraulic power. A head of water was raised at the top of the tower by means of pumps. Used for powering machinery.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR TOWER - HYDRAULIC ENGINE — An engine powered by high pressure water, originally used in mine drainage.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC ENGINE - HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE — An engine house used to pump water to the top of an ACCUMULATOR TOWER.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE - HYDRAULIC LIFT — A lift powered by an hydraulic system.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC LIFT - HYDRAULIC PIPEWORK — Pipes used to carry water or hydraulic fluid for power transmission within a hydraulic system.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC PIPEWORK - HYDRAULIC POWER SITE — Buildings and structures associated with the creation and use of hydraulic power.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC POWER SITE - HYDRAULIC PUMPING STATION — A pumping station used in the production of hydraulic power, eg. in warehouse complexes, goods depots on railways, etc.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC PUMPING STATION - HYDRAULIC RAM — Large piston used to operate lifting bridges, lock gates, etc.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC RAM - HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATION — Power generation by releasing stored water through a turbine driving a generator.
Search the NHLE for: HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATION - HYDROPATHIC INSTITUTE — A 19th century spa building, usually consisting of a hotel with baths used for water treatment.
Search the NHLE for: HYDROPATHIC INSTITUTE - HYPOCAUST — A Roman under-floor heating system in which hot air heated by a stoked furnace, flowed through channels, created by either raising the floor on pillars of brick and tile or cutting channels into the concrete floor and tiling over them.
Search the NHLE for: HYPOCAUST
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- ICE WORKS — A factory or plant for the manufacture of ice using mechanized refrigeration techniques.
Search the NHLE for: ICE WORKS - ICEHOUSE — A structure, partly underground, for the preservation of ice for use during warmer weather.
Search the NHLE for: ICEHOUSE - IMMERSION BATH — A structure, often sunk into the ground, for the purpose of allowing total bodily immersion in mineral sprinwater or similarly beneficial substances.
Search the NHLE for: IMMERSION BATH - INCINERATOR — An apparatus for burning refuse to ashes.
Search the NHLE for: INCINERATOR - INCLINE KEEPERS COTTAGE — The residence of the supervisor of an inclined plane.
Search the NHLE for: INCLINE KEEPERS COTTAGE - INCLINED PLANE — A prepared slope on which rails are laid to enable early tramroads and railways to negotiate a steep gradient.
Search the NHLE for: INCLINED PLANE - INCORPORATING MILL — A stone edge-runner grinding machine or mill used for mechanically grinding and mixing the ingredients of gunpowder.
Search the NHLE for: INCORPORATING MILL - INCURABLES HOSPITAL — A hospital for the care of patients with incurable illnesses.
Search the NHLE for: INCURABLES HOSPITAL - INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Primitive Methodists, a group founded in Manchester who broke away from the Methodists in 1806.
Search the NHLE for: INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHAPEL - INDOOR SWIMMING POOL — An enclosed feature, usually sub-terranean, constructed to contain water for public or private recreation and sporting activities. Often part of a larger SPORTS CENTRE. Use OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL for unenclosed pools.
Search the NHLE for: INDOOR SWIMMING POOL - INDUSTRIAL — Sites, buildings, structures & features related to the extraction, processing & manufacture of finished goods. Includes structures associated with the supply, storage &/or transmission of power.
Search the NHLE for: INDUSTRIAL - INDUSTRIAL BUILDING — Any building designed or adapted to accommodate trades and manufacturing activity. Use more specific site where known.
Search the NHLE for: INDUSTRIAL BUILDING - INDUSTRIAL ESTATE — An area of land owned by a developer, whether a private entrepreneur or a public authority, and divided into plots for leasing or sale to manufacturing or commercial concerns which may share some common services.
Search the NHLE for: INDUSTRIAL ESTATE - INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL — A boarding or day school for children who had committed minor crimes or who lived in circumstances where they were likely to commit crime.
Search the NHLE for: INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL - INDUSTRIAL SITE — An area or defined space believed to have been used for trades and/or manufacturing activity. Only use when evidence for more specific site type is lacking.
Search the NHLE for: INDUSTRIAL SITE - INEBRIATE REFORMATORY — Reformatory established under the Inebriates Acts 1879-1900 for repeat alcohol related offenders
Search the NHLE for: INEBRIATE REFORMATORY - INFANT SCHOOL — A school where young children, usually under the age of seven, are taught.
Search the NHLE for: INFANT SCHOOL - INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL — An isolation hospital for infectious diseases and leprosy, sometimes known as a Pest House; commonly situated on the edge of a town.
Search the NHLE for: INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL - INFIRMARY — A building used for the care of the sick. Only to be used where part of a complex, eg. a workhouse. In such cases use with appropriate monument type.
Search the NHLE for: INFIRMARY - INFORMATION CENTRE — A building used for the dissemination to the public of such items like tourist brochures, travel maps, guide books and other documents, etc.
Search the NHLE for: INFORMATION CENTRE - INGHAMITE CHAPEL — A chapel for followers of Benjamin Ingham after he left the Moravians prior to joining the Sandamanians.
Search the NHLE for: INGHAMITE CHAPEL - INHABITED BRIDGE — A bridge on which dwellings or commercial premises have been built.
Search the NHLE for: INHABITED BRIDGE - INHUMATION — An interment of unburnt, articulated human remains. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: INHUMATION - INHUMATION CEMETERY — An area used for the deposition of human remains where the principal funeral rite is the burial of the corpse complete. Generally indicated by the discovery of articulated human skeletal remains, occasionally with evidence of coffins and/or grave goods.
Search the NHLE for: INHUMATION CEMETERY - INN — A public house for the lodging and entertainment of travellers, etc.
Search the NHLE for: INN - INN SIGN — A decorated, hanging sign, bearing the name and also often a pictorial representation of the inn or public house to which it is attached.
Search the NHLE for: INN SIGN - INNS OF CHANCERY — Buildings in London formerly used as hostels for law students.
Search the NHLE for: INNS OF CHANCERY - INNS OF COURT — A building in London belonging to one of four legal societies having exclusive right of admitting persons to practise at the English bar.
Search the NHLE for: INNS OF COURT - INSCRIBED STONE — An early Medieval commemorative monument in the form of a stone which has been inscribed with symbols.
Search the NHLE for: INSCRIBED STONE - INSTITUTE — A building in which a society or organization is instituted to promote science, art, literature, education, etc. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: INSTITUTE - INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — A building used by an organization instituted to promote the needs and rights of the blind.
Search the NHLE for: INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND - INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF — An establishment where deaf people receive education, training and social support.
Search the NHLE for: INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF - INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS BLOCK — A building or group of buildings in which communications signals, usually intercepted fro military purposes, are analysed.
Search the NHLE for: INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS BLOCK - INTERPRETATION CENTRE — A building housing material used to explain the significance of a site or landscape to the public e. g. an archaeological site or nature reserve.
Search the NHLE for: INTERPRETATION CENTRE - INTERRUPTED DITCH SYSTEM — Ditches interrupted by wide, regular causeways. Each section of ditch is about 30-40m long, and each causeway is 10-15m wide. In some cases, a network of fields has been created. Found mainly in the South East of England.
Search the NHLE for: INTERRUPTED DITCH SYSTEM - INTERVAL TOWER — A tower situated above the rampart walkway and in between the angle towers along a defensive structure, such as a castle wall. They were used as lookout towers, roofed strongpoints or platforms from which missiles could be discharged or artillery fired.
Search the NHLE for: INTERVAL TOWER - INVERTED SYPHON — A sewer or irrigation channel designed to avoid blockage.
Search the NHLE for: INVERTED SYPHON - IRON FOUNDRY — A workshop or foundry where iron articles are made by casting molten material into moulds.
Search the NHLE for: IRON FOUNDRY - IRON FURNACE — A furnace used for smelting or re-heating of iron, either for casting or for further working.
Search the NHLE for: IRON FURNACE - IRON ORE CALCINER — A type of calcining kiln used in the processing of iron ore.
Search the NHLE for: IRON ORE CALCINER - IRON WAREHOUSE — A large building where iron is stored.
Search the NHLE for: IRON WAREHOUSE - IRON WORKING SITE — A site used for the production and/or working of metallic iron.
Search the NHLE for: IRON WORKING SITE - IRON WORKS — A site where iron is smelted or iron goods made.
Search the NHLE for: IRON WORKS - IRONSTONE MINE — A mine for the extraction of iron ore.
Search the NHLE for: IRONSTONE MINE - IRONSTONE PIT — A large pit formed by, and for, the extraction of iron ore.
Search the NHLE for: IRONSTONE PIT - IRONSTONE WORKINGS — A site where iron ore is extracted.
Search the NHLE for: IRONSTONE WORKINGS - ISLAMIC SCHOOL — A school in which students are taught according to the beliefs of the muslim faith.
Search the NHLE for: ISLAMIC SCHOOL - ISLAND — A piece of land, sometimes man-made, completely surrounded by water.
Search the NHLE for: ISLAND - ISOLATION BLOCK — An area within a hospital used for the isolation of patients. Patients were isolated if they had an infectious disease or suffered from a psychiatric illness.
Search the NHLE for: ISOLATION BLOCK - ISOLATION WARD — An area within a hospital where patients with contagious diseases are isolated from the rest of the hospital.
Search the NHLE for: ISOLATION WARD - ITALIAN GARDEN — A garden designed in the style of the elaborate gardens of the Renaissance, eg. formal, geometrical layouts of lawn and paths, stone steps, balustrades and statuary and fountains.
Search the NHLE for: ITALIAN GARDEN
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- JANAZGAH — Muslim funeral mosque.
Search the NHLE for: JANAZGAH - JAPANESE GARDEN — A garden incorporating features of traditional Japanese gardens - a pool, an island, stepping stones or a bridge, cherry trees and other shrubs and flowering plants grown with the emphasis on line.
Search the NHLE for: JAPANESE GARDEN - JEHOVAHS WITNESSES MEETING HOUSE — A place of meeting and worship for Jehovahs Witnesses.
Search the NHLE for: JEHOVAHS WITNESSES MEETING HOUSE - JET WORKING SITE — A site where artefacts are manufactured from jet.
Search the NHLE for: JET WORKING SITE - JET WORKINGS — A site where jet is extracted from the surface of the ground.
Search the NHLE for: JET WORKINGS - JETTIED BUILDING — A building where the upper storeys rest on projecting floor joists and so create the effect of an overhang.
Search the NHLE for: JETTIED BUILDING - JETTIED HOUSE — A house where the upper storeys rest on projecting floor joists and so create the effect of an overhang.
Search the NHLE for: JETTIED HOUSE - JETTY — A mole or pier-like structure situated at the entrance of a harbour, or running out into a lake or the sea, usually used for the landing of craft.
Search the NHLE for: JETTY - JEWELLERY SHOP — A building or other establishment used for the retail, making and repairing of jewellery.
Search the NHLE for: JEWELLERY SHOP - JEWELLERY WORKSHOP — A workshop used for the manufacture of items of jewellery and/or timepieces from precious metals and precious or semi-precious stones.
Search the NHLE for: JEWELLERY WORKSHOP - JEWISH CEMETERY — A burial ground for followers of the Jewish faith.
Search the NHLE for: JEWISH CEMETERY - JEWISH CLEANING ROOM — A room used for the ritual cleaning of the body prior to burial
Search the NHLE for: JEWISH CLEANING ROOM - JEWISH RITUAL BATH — A large bath used for Jewish ritual ceremonies.
Search the NHLE for: JEWISH RITUAL BATH - JEWISH SCHOOL — A school where Jewish children are educated.
Search the NHLE for: JEWISH SCHOOL - JIB CRANE — A crane with a projecting arm, usually one that can be raised and lowered.
Search the NHLE for: JIB CRANE - JOCKEYS QUARTERS — A place where jockeys are accomodated.
Search the NHLE for: JOCKEYS QUARTERS - JOINERS SHOP — A workshop used by a joiner; a craftsman working with wood and producing more ornate work than that of a carpenter.
Search the NHLE for: JOINERS SHOP - JUDGES LODGINGS — Purpose-built lodgings for assize court judges. Early 19th century.
Search the NHLE for: JUDGES LODGINGS - JUNCTION BOX — Casing for electrical connections: an enclosed and protected box inside which electrical circuits are interconnected or branched for distribution.
Search the NHLE for: JUNCTION BOX - JUNCTION LOCK — A lock at the point where two waterways join together.
Search the NHLE for: JUNCTION LOCK - JUNIOR SCHOOL — A school attended by children between the ages of seven and eleven.
Search the NHLE for: JUNIOR SCHOOL - JUVENILE COURT — A court of summary jurisdiction established, following legislation, in 1908 for the trial of offenders below the age of legal reponsibility.
Search the NHLE for: JUVENILE COURT - JUVENILE PRISON — A custodial institution for offenders below the legal age of responsibility.
Search the NHLE for: JUVENILE PRISON
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- KEEP — The major tower of a fortification, often acting as its last defence.
Search the NHLE for: KEEP - KEEP AND BAILEY CASTLE — A castle without a motte.
Search the NHLE for: KEEP AND BAILEY CASTLE - KELP PIT — A stone-lined pit in which seaweed was burnt. The calcined ashes were used in the manufacture of soap and glass, amongst other things.
Search the NHLE for: KELP PIT - KENNELS — A house or range of buildings in which dogs are kept, eg. hunting hounds.
Search the NHLE for: KENNELS - KERB CAIRN — A cairn featuring a mound of small diameter (normally less than 6m), which is surrounded by a kerb of stones which are considerably taller than the mound.
Search the NHLE for: KERB CAIRN - KERBED BOULDER — A Prehistoric monument type in South West England in which a natural boulder is surrounded by a man-made kerb of stones.
Search the NHLE for: KERBED BOULDER - KERBED MOUND — A mound kerbed with wooden stakes or boulders.
Search the NHLE for: KERBED MOUND - KERBSTONE — An edging of stone forming the kerb of a path.
Search the NHLE for: KERBSTONE - KILN — A furnace or oven for burning, baking or drying. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: KILN - KIOSK — A light, open structure for the sale of newspapers, tickets, etc.
Search the NHLE for: KIOSK - KISSING GATE — A small gate swinging in a U or V-shaped enclosure, which allows only one person to pass through at a time.
Search the NHLE for: KISSING GATE - KITCHEN — A building or room where food is prepared and cooked.
Search the NHLE for: KITCHEN - KITCHEN GARDEN — A private garden established primarily for growing vegetables and herbs for domestic consumption.
Search the NHLE for: KITCHEN GARDEN - KNITTING FACTORY — A factory where knitted fabrics are manufacterd using knitting machines.
Search the NHLE for: KNITTING FACTORY - KNOCK STONE — A stone or platform on which lumps of ore are manually broken up.
Search the NHLE for: KNOCK STONE - KNOT GARDEN — An intricately designed garden in which ground coves, low shrubs or coloured earths are arranged in interlacing patterns resembling knots
Search the NHLE for: KNOT GARDEN - KURSAAL — A building used by visitors at a health resort.
Search the NHLE for: KURSAAL
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- LABORATORY — A group of buildings or rooms equipped with apparatus for scientific experiments or other research, testing and investigations.
Search the NHLE for: LABORATORY - LABOUR EXCHANGE — An employment exchange for unemployed labourers, servicemen, etc.
Search the NHLE for: LABOUR EXCHANGE - LABOURERS SHELTER — A simple, lean-to structure, such as those built by the dock companies to provide shelter for dock workers waiting for work.
Search the NHLE for: LABOURERS SHELTER - LACE FACTORY — A factory where lace is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: LACE FACTORY - LACE MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the manufacture of lace.
Search the NHLE for: LACE MANUFACTURING SITE - LACE WAREHOUSE — A building used for the finishing, drying and storage of lace.
Search the NHLE for: LACE WAREHOUSE - LACEMAKERS COTTAGE — The residence of a lacemaker.
Search the NHLE for: LACEMAKERS COTTAGE - LADIES COLLEGE — An educational establishment, often privately funded, for young women.
Search the NHLE for: LADIES COLLEGE - LADY CHAPEL — A chapel dedicated to our Blessed Lady, often placed to the east of the High Altar, sometimes in other positions.
Search the NHLE for: LADY CHAPEL - LAITERIE — A decorative building in the form of a dairy, used for recreation.
Search the NHLE for: LAITERIE - LAITHE — A building combining a cow-house with crop storage space.
Search the NHLE for: LAITHE - LAITHE HOUSE — A laithe with an attached house.
Search the NHLE for: LAITHE HOUSE - LAKE — A large body of water surrounded by land.
Search the NHLE for: LAKE - LAKE VILLAGE — A settlement located on or near to the shores of a lake. Buildings associated with lake villages are usually raised on piles to prevent them from being flooded.
Search the NHLE for: LAKE VILLAGE - LAMBING PEN — An enclosure where ewes are kept at the time of lambing.
Search the NHLE for: LAMBING PEN - LAMELLA AIRCRAFT HANGAR — A steel aircraft hangar evolved from the German "Lamellendach", a segmental roof design of the 1920s using a diamond shaped web of pressed steel producing a hangar with a shallow curving profile. Used for both military and civil purposes.
Search the NHLE for: LAMELLA AIRCRAFT HANGAR - LAMP BRACKET — An often ornate wrought-iron bracket used to hang lamps outside public houses, shops, hotels and restaurants, etc.
Search the NHLE for: LAMP BRACKET - LAMP POST — A post, usually of iron or concrete, used to support a street lamp.
Search the NHLE for: LAMP POST - LAMPHOUSE — For the storage and recharging of battery-powered miners lamps.
Search the NHLE for: LAMPHOUSE - LAMSON PNEUMATIC TUBE SYSTEM — A communication system in which cylindrical containers are propelled through a network of tubes either by compressed air or partial vacuum. They are used for transporting solid objects, as opposed to conventional pipelines, which transport fluids.
Search the NHLE for: LAMSON PNEUMATIC TUBE SYSTEM - LAND ARMY HOSTEL — A building, often converted from its original use, for use as a temporary accommodation by members of the Women's Land Army during the First and Second World Wars.
Search the NHLE for: LAND ARMY HOSTEL - LANDING HOUSE — A house to receive boat landings.
Search the NHLE for: LANDING HOUSE - LANDING PIER — A pier where passsengers can embark and disembark and goods can be transferred to and from vessels.
Search the NHLE for: LANDING PIER - LANDING POINT — A place where vessels can land passengers and goods.
Search the NHLE for: LANDING POINT - LANDING STAGE — A platform, sometimes floating, for the landing of passengers and goods from vessels.
Search the NHLE for: LANDING STAGE - LANDING STEPS — Steps found at a landing point.
Search the NHLE for: LANDING STEPS - LANDMARK TOWER — A prominent structure situated on land specifically as a guide to navigation for travellers or as an aid/warning to sailors out at sea.
Search the NHLE for: LANDMARK TOWER - LANDSCAPE PARK — Grounds, usually associated with a country house, laid out so as to produce the effect of natural scenery.
Search the NHLE for: LANDSCAPE PARK - LARDER — A store for keeping undressed meat.
Search the NHLE for: LARDER - LAST WORKS — A site used for the manufacture of lasts, shoemaker's models of the foot for shaping and repairing footwear. Lasts can be from a variety of materials, such as wood or iron.
Search the NHLE for: LAST WORKS - LAUNDRETTE — An establishment with automatic washing machines available for public use.
Search the NHLE for: LAUNDRETTE - LAUNDRY — A room or building where clothing and other fabrics are washed, mangled, steamed and ironed.
Search the NHLE for: LAUNDRY - LAVATORIUM — A wash room. Use with wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: LAVATORIUM - LAW COURT — A place, hall or chamber in which justice is administered.
Search the NHLE for: LAW COURT - LAW SCHOOL — An educational establishment where law is taught.
Search the NHLE for: LAW SCHOOL - LAWN — A flat, and usually level area of mown and cultivated grass, attached to a house.
Search the NHLE for: LAWN - LAY BROTHERS RANGE — Accommodation in a monastery for new monks.
Search the NHLE for: LAY BROTHERS RANGE - LAY SISTERS HOUSE — A building in which the lay sisters resided. Lay sisters were not nuns and as such weren't bound by any vows. They could leave the convent and even marry if they wished.
Search the NHLE for: LAY SISTERS HOUSE - LEAD MINE — Use with form of extraction where known. Also use MINE and other ores extracted where relevant, eg. SILVER MINE.
Search the NHLE for: LEAD MINE - LEAD SMELTER — A building or site where lead is obtained from ore.
Search the NHLE for: LEAD SMELTER - LEAD WORKING SITE — A site used for the production and/or working of metallic lead.
Search the NHLE for: LEAD WORKING SITE - LEAD WORKINGS — A place where lead ore is extracted from an open cast mine.
Search the NHLE for: LEAD WORKINGS - LEAD WORKS — A factory used for the production of red lead used in glass manufacture, or white lead used as the pigment in white paint.
Search the NHLE for: LEAD WORKS - LEARNED SOCIETY BUILDING — A building for a society formed for the promotion of some branch of learning or science.
Search the NHLE for: LEARNED SOCIETY BUILDING - LEAT — Artificial water channel, usually leading to a mill.
Search the NHLE for: LEAT - LEATHER DRYING SHED — A covered area used for the drying of animal hides.
Search the NHLE for: LEATHER DRYING SHED - LEATHER FACTORY — A factory for the manufacture of leather goods, such as shoes, saddles, etc. Use TANNERY for the manufacture of leather.
Search the NHLE for: LEATHER FACTORY - LEATHER MARKET — An indoor or outdoor market where leather and untreated animal hides are sold.
Search the NHLE for: LEATHER MARKET - LEATHER WAREHOUSE — A large building used for the storage of leather goods or processed animal skins.
Search the NHLE for: LEATHER WAREHOUSE - LEATHER WORKERS SHOP — A workshop used for the small-scale production of leather goods.
Search the NHLE for: LEATHER WORKERS SHOP - LEATHER WORKING SITE — A site used for the manufacture of leather products.
Search the NHLE for: LEATHER WORKING SITE - LECTURE THEATRE — A large room with fixed seating, designed for lectures.
Search the NHLE for: LECTURE THEATRE - LEECH HOUSE — A small house in which leeches were bred for medical purposes.
Search the NHLE for: LEECH HOUSE - LEET HALL — A place where a yearly or half-yearly court of record is held by lords of certain manors.
Search the NHLE for: LEET HALL - LEGAL CHAMBERS — A room in which a judge sits to hear cases and undertake other official proceedings which are not of a sufficient importance to be brought into court.
Search the NHLE for: LEGAL CHAMBERS - LEGAL OFFICE — A building housing the services of professionals with an expert knowledge of the law such as the offices of solicitors, barristers and lawyers.
Search the NHLE for: LEGAL OFFICE - LEGIONARY FORTRESS — A large, fortified permanent Roman military base, made of timber and stone, surrounded by a rampart and ditches.
Search the NHLE for: LEGIONARY FORTRESS - LENDING LIBRARY — A library which lends books (and sometimes other materials) to its members.
Search the NHLE for: LENDING LIBRARY - LENGTHMANS COTTAGE — The residence of an employee with the duty of maintaining a section of a railway or road.
Search the NHLE for: LENGTHMANS COTTAGE - LEPER HOSPITAL — A medieval hospital for lepers, usually consisting of a church and individual shelters for the lepers.
Search the NHLE for: LEPER HOSPITAL - LETTER BOX — A box in which letters are deposited on delivery.
Search the NHLE for: LETTER BOX - LEVEL CROSSING — A controlled point with warning lights and gates or barriers where a road crosses a railway line.
Search the NHLE for: LEVEL CROSSING - LEVEL CROSSING GATE — A mechanized gate or barrier at a level crossing used to prevent road vehicles crossing a railway line when a train is approaching.
Search the NHLE for: LEVEL CROSSING GATE - LIBRARY — A building, room or suite of rooms where books, or other materials, are classified by subject and stored for use by the library's members.
Search the NHLE for: LIBRARY - LICENSED PREMISES — Establishments authorized to sell or allow the consumption of alcoholic liquors on their premises.
Search the NHLE for: LICENSED PREMISES - LIDO — A public recreational complex centred around an open-air swimming pool. Use SWIMMING POOL as a component of LIDO.
Search the NHLE for: LIDO - LIFEBOAT STATION — A building designed to house a lifeboat, usually with a stone ramp to launch the boat into the sea.
Search the NHLE for: LIFEBOAT STATION - LIFEBOATMANS COTTAGE — The residence of a lifeboatman.
Search the NHLE for: LIFEBOATMANS COTTAGE - LIFT — A structure consisting of a box or platform for carrying goods or passengers from one level to another. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: LIFT - LIFT BRIDGE — A bridge that incorporates a span that moves upwards vertically to provide a passageway for navigation.
Search the NHLE for: LIFT BRIDGE - LIFT TESTING TOWER — A tower, consisting of one or several testing shafts, for testing lifts and for training personnel.
Search the NHLE for: LIFT TESTING TOWER - LIFTING AND WINDING STRUCTURE — Structures used for the lifting or hoisting of goods, machinery, vehicles, people and livestock.
Search the NHLE for: LIFTING AND WINDING STRUCTURE - LIGHT ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY — An anti aircraft battery usually mounting smaller, faster weapons such as Bofors guns or a single anti-aircraft machine gun, intended to engage fast low flying aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: LIGHT ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY - LIGHT ENGINEERING WORKS — A group of buildings where consumer goods, such as small machines and electrical components, are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: LIGHT ENGINEERING WORKS - LIGHT INDUSTRIAL UNIT — A workshop or factory unit where small or light goods are manufacture without the need for large-scale industrial machinery.
Search the NHLE for: LIGHT INDUSTRIAL UNIT - LIGHTHOUSE — A tower or structure, with a powerful light or lights at the top, usually erected at an important or dangerous point on or near the sea-coast for the warning and guidance of mariners, but can also be erected inland for the guidance of travellers.
Search the NHLE for: LIGHTHOUSE - LIGHTKEEPERS HOUSE — The residence of a lightkeeper.
Search the NHLE for: LIGHTKEEPERS HOUSE - LILY POND — A water pond in which lilies are grown.
Search the NHLE for: LILY POND - LIME KILN — A kiln in which lime is made by calcining limestone or in some areas chalk.
Search the NHLE for: LIME KILN - LIME WALK — A walk or path lined with lime trees.
Search the NHLE for: LIME WALK - LIME WORKS — A site where lime (calcium carbonate) is made.
Search the NHLE for: LIME WORKS - LIMEHOUSE — A crude, stone-built shelter for persons involved in lime production and the processing of lime burning.
Search the NHLE for: LIMEHOUSE - LIMESTONE QUARRY — A site where limestone is extracted.
Search the NHLE for: LIMESTONE QUARRY - LINEAR CLEARANCE CAIRN — A long, narrow, irregularly constructed and generally unstructured mound of stones. Normally a by-product of field clearance for agricultural purposes, though prehistoric examples may include burials and other deposits.
Search the NHLE for: LINEAR CLEARANCE CAIRN - LINEAR EARTHWORK — A substantial bank and ditch forming a major boundary between two adjacent landholdings. Most date from the late Bronze Age and Iron Age.
Search the NHLE for: LINEAR EARTHWORK - LINEAR FEATURE — A length of straight, curved or angled earthwork or cropmark of uncertain date or function.
Search the NHLE for: LINEAR FEATURE - LINEAR SETTLEMENT — A group of related buildings, primarily with a domestic function, which is arranged along a principle axis such as a main road or routeway.
Search the NHLE for: LINEAR SETTLEMENT - LINEN MILL — A mill where flax fibres were woven into linen cloth.
Search the NHLE for: LINEN MILL - LINEN OR FLAX MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings, sites or structures used for the manufacture of linen and/or flax.
Search the NHLE for: LINEN OR FLAX MANUFACTURING SITE - LINHAY — A two storied open fronted structure comprising a cattle or cart shelter on the ground floor with a hayloft above. Most common in South West England.
Search the NHLE for: LINHAY - LINK TRAINER — A building containing a flight siumlator used to provide safe training for pilots.
Search the NHLE for: LINK TRAINER - LINKMANS HUT — A small shelter used by a man employed to carry links (torches) to light people along a street.
Search the NHLE for: LINKMANS HUT - LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE — A subscription club, usually with a library and newspaper room, established from c.1815-1860, their educational function gradually taken over by the public libraries in the later 19th century.
Search the NHLE for: LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE - LITERARY INSTITUTE — A building in which an organization or society is instituted to promote literature through lectures, study and research, etc.
Search the NHLE for: LITERARY INSTITUTE - LITHIC WORKING SITE — A site which has produced evidence of in situ working of stone for the manufacture of tools, weapons or other objects. Such sites will usually, but not always, be of prehistoric date. Use object material where known.
Search the NHLE for: LITHIC WORKING SITE - LIVERY HALL — A type of guildhall belonging primarily to the London livery companies, but also found elsewhere in the country, so called because of the livery worn by members of the guild.
Search the NHLE for: LIVERY HALL - LIVERY STABLE — A stable where horses are kept at livery, or are let out for hire.
Search the NHLE for: LIVERY STABLE - LIVESTOCK MARKET — A market where cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry are bought and sold.
Search the NHLE for: LIVESTOCK MARKET - LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE — A late 17th - early 18th century house with a central chimney and fireplaces and a central door on the front; this door opened closely against the fireplaces, leaving a small lobby for access to the rooms.
Search the NHLE for: LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE - LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICE — A building which houses the administrative functions of a local authority.
Search the NHLE for: LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICE - LOCK — A section of the water channel on a canal or river shut off above and below by lock gates provided with sluices to let the water out and in, and thus raise or lower boats from one level to another. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK - LOCK CHAMBER — The space enclosed between the gates and side-walls of a lock.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK CHAMBER - LOCK GATE — A large wooden gate, positioned at either end of a canal or river lock, equipped with sluices to let water through.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK GATE - LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE — The residence of a lock-keeper.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE - LOCK UP — A prison used for temporary detention. The typical village lock-up was a one-storeyed, one-celled building, sometimes of round or polygonal plan.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK UP - LOCKSMITHS WORKSHOP — A place where padlocks and rim locks for doors are made from iron and brass.
Search the NHLE for: LOCKSMITHS WORKSHOP - LOCOMOTIVE DEPOT — A place where railway engines are kept.
Search the NHLE for: LOCOMOTIVE DEPOT - LODGE — A small building, often inhabited by a gatekeeper, gamekeeper or similar. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: LODGE - LODGING HOUSE — Purpose built workers' accommodation comprising single rooms with communal eating and washing facilities. Usually for short stay accommodation only.
Search the NHLE for: LODGING HOUSE - LODGINGS — Accommodation in hired rooms or a lodging house.
Search the NHLE for: LODGINGS - LOG CABIN — A small house built out of rough logs.
Search the NHLE for: LOG CABIN - LOGGIA — A covered arcade, often attached to a building, open on one or more sides.
Search the NHLE for: LOGGIA - LOGWOOD MILL — A mill used to process logwood, the inner red wood of a South American tree used widely in dyeing. Imported in the form of logs and cut and ground into dye by a mechanical process.
Search the NHLE for: LOGWOOD MILL - LONG BARROW — A rectangular or trapezoidal earthen mound of Neolithic date, usually accompanied by flanking or encircling ditches, and normally associated with human remains. Mound construction and associated features vary considerably in type and complexity.
Search the NHLE for: LONG BARROW - LONG CAIRN — A rectangular or trapezoidal non-megalithic stony mound of Neolithic date, with human remains in cists rather than a large chamber. Mound construction and associated features vary considerably in type and complexity.
Search the NHLE for: LONG CAIRN - LONG MOUND — A long, narrow mound of earth or stone and of uncertain date and function. Use more appropriate term where possible.
Search the NHLE for: LONG MOUND - LONGHOUSE — A building that housed humans and cattle under one roof, with a shared entrance providing access to the cattle housing (usually downslope) and the dwelling area.
Search the NHLE for: LONGHOUSE - LOOKOUT — A building or site from which a lookout can be kept.
Search the NHLE for: LOOKOUT - LOOMSHOP — The room housing the looms in a domestic handloom weavers cottage. In general, wool loomshops were above the living quarters, whereas cotton loomshops were often below in a cellar, since the floor was usually kept damp to aid the weaving of the cotton.
Search the NHLE for: LOOMSHOP - LOOPHOLED WALL — A wall containing apertures to allow a weapon to be fired through it.
Search the NHLE for: LOOPHOLED WALL - LOOSE BOX — A separate compartment for livestock in which they are free to move about.
Search the NHLE for: LOOSE BOX - LOW BREASTSHOT WHEEL — A waterwheel where water enters below the axle but above the bottom of the wheel.
Search the NHLE for: LOW BREASTSHOT WHEEL - LOW HOUSE — A storehouse in 16th and 17th century houses.
Search the NHLE for: LOW HOUSE - LUTHERAN CHURCH — A place of worship for followers of the teachings of Martin Luther.
Search the NHLE for: LUTHERAN CHURCH - LYCH GATE — A covered gateway, at the entrance to a churchyard, where during a funeral a coffin could be set down until the vicar arrived.
Search the NHLE for: LYCH GATE - LYNCHET — A bank formed at the end of a field by soil which, loosened by the plough, gradually moves down slope through a combination of gravity and erosion.
Search the NHLE for: LYNCHET
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- MACHINE GUN POST — Fixed or hardened installation for machine guns. Temporary soft installations are possible as well.
Search the NHLE for: MACHINE GUN POST - MACHINE HOUSE — A building housing machinery.
Search the NHLE for: MACHINE HOUSE - MACHINE SHOP — Engineering workshop housing specialized machinery such as lathes, presses, etc., for making machines.
Search the NHLE for: MACHINE SHOP - MACHINE TOOL ENGINEERING WORKS — A site where machine tools, machines designed to remove surplus material from a work piece by accurately guided cutting tools, are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: MACHINE TOOL ENGINEERING WORKS - MACHINERY — Apparatus used for applying a mechanical force, or to perform a particular function. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MACHINERY - MAGAZINE — A building in which a supply of arms, ammunition and provisions for an army is stored.
Search the NHLE for: MAGAZINE - MAGISTRATES COURT — A law court exercising summary criminal jurisdiction, preliminary hearings and some civil jurisdiction. Formally established by name following legislation of 1949.
Search the NHLE for: MAGISTRATES COURT - MAGNETOMETER — An instrument for measuring magnetic forces, especially the strength of terrestrial magnetism.
Search the NHLE for: MAGNETOMETER - MAISONETTE — A small house or a portion of a house used as a self-contained apartment.
Search the NHLE for: MAISONETTE - MALT HOUSE — A building with malt kilns for the malting of grains and with other similar equipment for brewing work.
Search the NHLE for: MALT HOUSE - MALT KILN — A kiln with a pyramid roof and capped vent in which barley is dried. Found on the site of a malt house.
Search the NHLE for: MALT KILN - MALTINGS — A type of malt house.
Search the NHLE for: MALTINGS - MAN ENGINE — A machine used to raise and lower miners to and from the pit bottom.
Search the NHLE for: MAN ENGINE - MANAGERS HOUSE — A purpose-built dwelling for the manager of a factory, works, textile mill, etc, often found within the complex itself.
Search the NHLE for: MANAGERS HOUSE - MANGANESE MILL — An mill in which manganese was ground to a powder between two horizontal millstones.
Search the NHLE for: MANGANESE MILL - MANGANESE MINE — A place where manganese ore is extracted. Use with other ores extracted and MINE where relevant.
Search the NHLE for: MANGANESE MINE - MANOR — An area of land consisting of the lord's demesne and of lands from whose holders he may exact certain fees, etc.
Search the NHLE for: MANOR - MANOR FARM — A farm on the estate of a manor.
Search the NHLE for: MANOR FARM - MANOR HOUSE — The principal house of a manor or village.
Search the NHLE for: MANOR HOUSE - MANORIAL CHAPEL — A chapel situated within the demesnes of a manor. Can be a separate building or an integral part of a manor house.
Search the NHLE for: MANORIAL CHAPEL - MANSE — A non-conformist minister's house.
Search the NHLE for: MANSE - MANSIO — A type of Roman lodging house, frequently sited near the town gate.
Search the NHLE for: MANSIO - MANSION FLATS — A type of late 19th century tenement block for tenants of a higher social status - usually reflected in the more ornate facades.
Search the NHLE for: MANSION FLATS - MANSION HOUSE — Traditionally the chief residence of a land owner. Now used specifically to describe the residence of the Lord Mayor of London.
Search the NHLE for: MANSION HOUSE - MANURE SHED — A building used in the preparation of manure.
Search the NHLE for: MANURE SHED - MARINA — A dock or basin, often inland, used for mooring yachts and other small pleasure craft.
Search the NHLE for: MARINA - MARINE ENGINEERING WORKS — Specialized engineering workshop particularly for the production of marine engines or other large components of ships.
Search the NHLE for: MARINE ENGINEERING WORKS - MARINE WORKSHOP — A craft or repair workshop in a boat yard, harbour or naval dockyard.
Search the NHLE for: MARINE WORKSHOP - MARINERS COTTAGE — The residence of a sailor.
Search the NHLE for: MARINERS COTTAGE - MARITIME — Sites, building, structures & features associated with the construction, maintenance & supply of maritime craft. Includes associated ancillary structures such as navigation aids, dockyards, wharves, etc; does not include vessels.
Search the NHLE for: MARITIME - MARITIME OFFICE — A building from where marine operations are directed.
Search the NHLE for: MARITIME OFFICE - MARKER CAIRN — A cairn erected to mark a particular spot in the landscape. Can be used for various reasons.
Search the NHLE for: MARKER CAIRN - MARKER POST — A post, made of wood, metal or other material, erected to mark a particular spot in the landscape. Can be used for various reasons such as measurement, calibration etc.
Search the NHLE for: MARKER POST - MARKER STONE — A stone erected to mark a particular spot in the landscape. Can be used for various reasons.
Search the NHLE for: MARKER STONE - MARKET — An open space or covered building in which cattle, goods, etc, are displayed for sale.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET - MARKET CROSS — A cross found in a market place.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET CROSS - MARKET GARDEN — A piece of land used to grow vegetables to be sold at markets.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET GARDEN - MARKET HALL — A purpose built covered market hall, usually 19th century, although earlier examples do exist, eg. that at Abingdon, Oxfordshire c.1680.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET HALL - MARKET HOUSE — A market building, pre-19th century, incorporating other function rooms, eg. theatres, courtrooms, schoolrooms.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET HOUSE - MARKET PLACE — An area, often consisting of widened streets or a town square, where booths and stalls may be erected for public sales.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET PLACE - MARKET STALL — A structure, often movable, used as a platform for the display of a traders goods in a market.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET STALL - MARRIAGE FEAST HOUSE — A building, often close to a churchyard, used for the entertainment of poor people on their wedding day.
Search the NHLE for: MARRIAGE FEAST HOUSE - MARRIED QUARTERS — Purpose built accommodation for members of the armed forces and their families.
Search the NHLE for: MARRIED QUARTERS - MARSHMANS COTTAGE — The residence of a marsh keeper.
Search the NHLE for: MARSHMANS COTTAGE - MARTELLO TOWER — A coastal gun/watch tower built as part of the anti-invasion defences during the Napoleonic Wars.
Search the NHLE for: MARTELLO TOWER - MASH HOUSE — A brewery building where malt is mixed with hot water to form wort.
Search the NHLE for: MASH HOUSE - MASS GRAVE — A pit used to bury a large number of people who have died, or been killed, either as a result of warfare, epidemics or natural disasters.
Search the NHLE for: MASS GRAVE - MAST HOUSE — A building where masts are made and stored.
Search the NHLE for: MAST HOUSE - MAST POND — A pond with underwater arches where the poles for masts were stored to prevent them from drying and splitting.
Search the NHLE for: MAST POND - MASTER SHIPWRIGHTS HOUSE — The residence of a master shipwright.
Search the NHLE for: MASTER SHIPWRIGHTS HOUSE - MATCH FACTORY — A building where matches are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: MATCH FACTORY - MATERNITY BLOCK — A hospital block where pregnant women are accommodated and receive medical treatment before and after child birth.
Search the NHLE for: MATERNITY BLOCK - MATERNITY CLINIC — A self-contained establishment (out-patients) where pregnant women receive check-ups, counselling and medical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: MATERNITY CLINIC - MATERNITY HOSPITAL — A hospital for the reception of women during their confinement.
Search the NHLE for: MATERNITY HOSPITAL - MATZEVAH — A Jewish graveyard headstone.
Search the NHLE for: MATZEVAH - MAUSOLEUM — A monumental burial place, usually for a single person or family.
Search the NHLE for: MAUSOLEUM - MAYORS RESIDENCE — The official residence of the chief officer of the municipal corporation of a city or borough in England.
Search the NHLE for: MAYORS RESIDENCE - MAYPOLE — A high pole, painted with spiral stripes of different colours and decked with flowers, erected on an open space, often the village green, for merrymakers to dance around on May Day.
Search the NHLE for: MAYPOLE - MAZE — A confusing and baffling network of winding and intercommunicating paths, often bordered by high hedges or walls. Some early examples are believed to have had ritual uses. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MAZE - MEADOW — A piece of grassland, often near a river, permanently covered with grass which is mown for use as hay.
Search the NHLE for: MEADOW - MEAT MARKET — A place where meat is displayed for sale.
Search the NHLE for: MEAT MARKET - MECHANICS INSTITUTE — A building where artisans could learn more about their craft, and the scientific and theoretical principles behind it, by attending lectures and the use of the reading room facilities.
Search the NHLE for: MECHANICS INSTITUTE - MEDICAL CENTRE — A building where advice, counselling and medical treatment is available.
Search the NHLE for: MEDICAL CENTRE - MEDICAL COLLEGE — An establishment where the theory and practice of medicine is taught.
Search the NHLE for: MEDICAL COLLEGE - MEERSTONE — A marker stone showing the extent of a measure of land containing a vein of ore.
Search the NHLE for: MEERSTONE - MEETING HALL — A place where people meet for entertainment, discussion or assembly. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MEETING HALL - MEMORIAL HALL — A hall built as a memorial to a particular person or event.
Search the NHLE for: MEMORIAL HALL - MERCHANTS HOUSE — Originally, a house of higher social status in a town or port, often with a storage cellar.
Search the NHLE for: MERCHANTS HOUSE - MESS — A military dining room where members of the armed forces eat and take recreation.
Search the NHLE for: MESS - MESSUAGE — A dwelling-house with outbuildings and land assigned to its use.
Search the NHLE for: MESSUAGE - METAL FRAMED BUILDING — A modern building in which the load is carried by a metal girder framework and infilled with a light curtain wall.
Search the NHLE for: METAL FRAMED BUILDING - METAL INDUSTRY SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the metal industry.
Search the NHLE for: METAL INDUSTRY SITE - METAL PRODUCT SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the manufacture of products from metals.
Search the NHLE for: METAL PRODUCT SITE - METAL PRODUCTION FURNACE — A furnace where metal is manufactured from ore.
Search the NHLE for: METAL PRODUCTION FURNACE - METAL WORKERS WORKSHOP — A workshop used by a craftsman who works in base or precious metals.
Search the NHLE for: METAL WORKERS WORKSHOP - METAL WORKING SITE — A site where metal is worked. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: METAL WORKING SITE - METAL WORKS — A complex of buildings used for the processing of metals. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: METAL WORKS - METHODIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Methodists, a movement founded by John Wesley. Following his death in 1791 there were many secessions.
Search the NHLE for: METHODIST CHAPEL - METHODIST NEW CONNEXION CHAPEL — A place of worship for followers of the Methodist New Connexion, a movement founded in 1791 when Alexander Kilham led the first group to split from the Methodists.
Search the NHLE for: METHODIST NEW CONNEXION CHAPEL - METHODIST REFORM CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of the Methodist Reform Church. This group was the result of a secession from the Methodists in 1849. They remained until joining with the Wesleyan Association in 1857.
Search the NHLE for: METHODIST REFORM CHAPEL - MEWS — Traditionally a mew was a building housing hawks when they were moulting, however since the C16th the term has been used for a series of stables grouped around an open yard or alley, often with rooms above. Use only for stables otherwise use FALCONRY.
Search the NHLE for: MEWS - MID BREASTSHOT WHEEL — A waterwheel where the water enters at the same level as the axle.
Search the NHLE for: MID BREASTSHOT WHEEL - MIDDEN — A refuse heap.
Search the NHLE for: MIDDEN - MILE PLATE — A plate, usually of wood or metal, set up on a road, canal or railway to mark the miles from or to a place.
Search the NHLE for: MILE PLATE - MILECASTLE — A small, walled fortlet, situated every Roman mile along the length of Hadrian's Wall to defend a gateway allowing the passage of people and as a garrison to accommodate patrol troops.
Search the NHLE for: MILECASTLE - MILEFORTLET — A free standing small turf and timber fortlet, situated every Roman mile along Hadrian's Wall.
Search the NHLE for: MILEFORTLET - MILEPOST — A post or pillar set up alongside a road to mark the miles from or to a place.
Search the NHLE for: MILEPOST - MILESTONE — A stone set up on a road or path to mark the miles from or to a place.
Search the NHLE for: MILESTONE - MILITARY AIRFIELD — A landing and taking-off area for military aircraft. Often includes ancilliary structures and buildings for the maintenance and storage of aircraft, etc.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY AIRFIELD - MILITARY BASE — A building or group of buildings, often surrounded by a system of fortifications, used as a residential and training site by members of an armed force.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY BASE - MILITARY BUILDING — A building of unknown purpose found at a military site. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY BUILDING - MILITARY CAMP — A site where a body of troops is temporarily or permanently lodged, with or without entrenchments and fortifications.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY CAMP - MILITARY CANAL — A canal built as a military obstacle, but also used for the transport of military stores, equipment and personnel.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY CANAL - MILITARY CEMETERY — A burial ground for military personnel.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY CEMETERY - MILITARY CHAPEL — A place of worship for military personnel.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY CHAPEL - MILITARY COLLEGE — A training college for the instruction of military trainees in the theory and practice of warfare.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY COLLEGE - MILITARY DEPOT — A building or group of buildings, often enclosed by a system of fortifications, used by an armed force for the storage and distribution of military equipment.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY DEPOT - MILITARY HEADQUARTERS — A building used as the command centre of a military operation.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY HEADQUARTERS - MILITARY HOSPITAL — A hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of military personnel and/or their families.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY HOSPITAL - MILITARY INSTALLATION — A site and associated buildings used by the military for various purposes. Use only where exact function is unknown otherwise use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY INSTALLATION - MILITARY OBSERVATION SITE — Buildings, structures and sites for the detection of encroaching enemy forces.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY OBSERVATION SITE - MILITARY OFFICE — An administrative building used to organize and co-ordinate the activities of members of the armed forces.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY OFFICE - MILITARY POLICE SECTION HOUSE — A building occupied by the corps responsible for police and disciplinary duties in the armed forces.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY POLICE SECTION HOUSE - MILITARY PRISON — An institution for the imprisonment of military personnel convicted under military law by a military court.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY PRISON - MILITARY RESIDENCE — A residence for military personnel.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY RESIDENCE - MILITARY ROAD — A road used primarily, but not exclusively, for the rapid transport of military vehicles, equipment and personnel.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY ROAD - MILITARY SIGNALLING SITE — Buildings and structures used for sending and receiving signals.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY SIGNALLING SITE - MILITARY SUPPORT BUILDING — An ancilliary building or structure associated with a military base. Use only where exact function is unknown otherwise use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY SUPPORT BUILDING - MILITARY TRAINING SITE — Buildings, structures and sites for the training of military personnel.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY TRAINING SITE - MILK DEPOT — A building where milk is deposited and stored before it is despatched to the consumer.
Search the NHLE for: MILK DEPOT - MILKING PARLOUR — A place used for the milking of cows.
Search the NHLE for: MILKING PARLOUR - MILKING SHED — A building in which cows are milked.
Search the NHLE for: MILKING SHED - MILL — A factory used for processing raw materials. Use more specific mill type where known. See also TEXTILE MILL, for more narrow terms.
Search the NHLE for: MILL - MILL DAM — A dam constructed across a stream to raise its water-level and make it available to power a mill wheel.
Search the NHLE for: MILL DAM - MILL HOUSE — The residence of a miller, often attached to a mill.
Search the NHLE for: MILL HOUSE - MILL LODGE — A northern term for water reservoirs at steam powered industrial sites that are part of the steam raising plant and are used for recirculating condenser cooling water. The lodge had to be large enough to supply the condenser with cool water for a day.
Search the NHLE for: MILL LODGE - MILL POND — The area of water retained above a mill dam for driving a mill.
Search the NHLE for: MILL POND - MILL RACE — The channel of water that provides a current of water to drive a millwheel.
Search the NHLE for: MILL RACE - MILLSTONE — One of a pair of large circular stones used for grinding corn in a mill.
Search the NHLE for: MILLSTONE - MINE — An excavation made in the earth for the purpose of digging out metallic ores, coal, salt, or precious stones etc. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MINE - MINE BUILDING — A building found at the site of a mine. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MINE BUILDING - MINE DRAINAGE AND VENTILATION SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the drainage and/or ventilation of mines.
Search the NHLE for: MINE DRAINAGE AND VENTILATION SITE - MINE LIFTING AND WINDING STRUCTURE — Buildings and structures associated with lifting and winding at the site of a mine.
Search the NHLE for: MINE LIFTING AND WINDING STRUCTURE - MINE PUMPING SHAFT — A shaft, separate to the main working shaft, used to pump water out of the mine workings.
Search the NHLE for: MINE PUMPING SHAFT - MINE PUMPING WORKS — A pumping station for draining a mine or colliery.
Search the NHLE for: MINE PUMPING WORKS - MINE SHAFT — A vertical or inclined excavation giving access to an underground mine.
Search the NHLE for: MINE SHAFT - MINERAL BATHS — Baths containing water impregnated with mineral substances in which patients bathe for medicinal purposes.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL BATHS - MINERAL EXTRACTION SITE — Sites where minerals are extracted from the ground.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL EXTRACTION SITE - MINERAL JELLY STORE — A building where mineral jelly was stored. Mineral jelly was used as a stabilizer in the manufacture of the explosive, cordite.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL JELLY STORE - MINERAL PIT — A pit in the ground from where minerals are dug.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL PIT - MINERAL PRODUCT SITE — Buildings and sites associated with the production of materials made from minerals.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL PRODUCT SITE - MINERAL RAILWAY — A railway used for the conveyance of coal and other minerals.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL RAILWAY - MINERAL WATER FACTORY — A factory which produces artificial imitations of mineral water, such as soda water.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL WATER FACTORY - MINERAL WATER HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital where water treatment is given to patients suffering from muscular-skeletal complaints, etc.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL WATER HOSPITAL - MINERS CHANGING HOUSE — A building for miners to change their clothes.
Search the NHLE for: MINERS CHANGING HOUSE - MINERS READING ROOM — An area of a building providing reading materials for the benefit of colliery workers.
Search the NHLE for: MINERS READING ROOM - MINES RESCUE STATION — A rescue station serving a number of mines in the immediate area.
Search the NHLE for: MINES RESCUE STATION - MINEWATCHERS POST — A building with small observation ports used for plotting mines dropped by parachute.
Search the NHLE for: MINEWATCHERS POST - MINIATURE RAILWAY — A small-scale railway, often for the transportation of children at a place of recreation.
Search the NHLE for: MINIATURE RAILWAY - MINING EXCHANGE — A type of stock exchange for tin which replaced the stannary courts in the mid 19th century.
Search the NHLE for: MINING EXCHANGE - MINING INDUSTRY SITE — Buildings and structures associated with the mining industry.
Search the NHLE for: MINING INDUSTRY SITE - MINSTER — A complex of buildings, often within an enclosure, housing a pre-Benedictine Reform secular religious community. Now commonly used to describe the main church within such a complex, which over time attained higher status.
Search the NHLE for: MINSTER - MINT — A place where money is coined under public authority.
Search the NHLE for: MINT - MISSILE BASE — A site for the storage, preparation and launching of missiles.
Search the NHLE for: MISSILE BASE - MISSILE SILO — An underground vertical cylindrical structure for the storage and launching of ballistic missiles.
Search the NHLE for: MISSILE SILO - MISSILE TEST SITE — An area for the testing of guided missiles.
Search the NHLE for: MISSILE TEST SITE - MISSILE UNDERGROUND LAUNCHER — A prototype semi-underground silo based launch system specifically designed to hold and fire the Blue Streak Missile. The silo was constructed at RAF Spadeadam in c1959 and abandoned in April 1960.
Search the NHLE for: MISSILE UNDERGROUND LAUNCHER - MISSION — A building or compound housing a permanent establishment of members of a religious organization to do missionary work.
Search the NHLE for: MISSION - MISSION CHURCH — A church established by a religious community to propogate its faith.
Search the NHLE for: MISSION CHURCH - MISSION HALL — A building used for meetings and worship by a religious community trying to propogate its faith in an area.
Search the NHLE for: MISSION HALL - MITHRAEUM — A Roman sanctuary, devoted to the Graeco-Roman cult of Mithras.
Search the NHLE for: MITHRAEUM - MIXING HOUSE — A building in which the ingredients of an explosive charge are weighed into their correct proportions and mixed prior to incorporation.
Search the NHLE for: MIXING HOUSE - MIXING HOUSE BARN — A barn with steam powered threshing.
Search the NHLE for: MIXING HOUSE BARN - MOAT — A wide ditch surrounding a building, usually filled with water. Use for moated sites, not defensive moats. Use with relevant site type where known, eg. MANOR HOUSE, GARDEN, etc.
Search the NHLE for: MOAT - MOBILIZATION CENTRE — An installation used to store ammunition and equipment ready for the mobilization of armed forces in the event of a war.
Search the NHLE for: MOBILIZATION CENTRE - MODEL — Use for miniaturized monument type. Index with actual monument type where possible.
Search the NHLE for: MODEL - MODEL DWELLING — Flats or houses first built by 19th century philanthropic societies as a model to encourage the development of approved working class housing.
Search the NHLE for: MODEL DWELLING - MODEL FACTORY — A factory built as a pattern for improved design.
Search the NHLE for: MODEL FACTORY - MODEL FARM — A farm building erected in the 18th and 19th century which were architect-designed rather than built in the local vernacular style.
Search the NHLE for: MODEL FARM - MODEL SETTLEMENT — A planned village or settlement, usually developed by a philanthropic industrialist , to house workers. Most include facilities for the education and betterment of the workers and their families.
Search the NHLE for: MODEL SETTLEMENT - MOLE — A massive structure, usually of stone, serving as a pier or breakwater, or joining two places separated by water.
Search the NHLE for: MOLE - MONASTERY — Houses specifically of monks, canons or religious men but not friars.
Search the NHLE for: MONASTERY - MONASTIC DWELLING — A residence for a member of a religious community eg. Abbot, Prior, Manciple etc. For multiple occupancy use more specific term eg. DORMITORY.
Search the NHLE for: MONASTIC DWELLING - MONASTIC PRECINCT — The area surrounding a monastic house including conventual buildings, outbuildings, cemetery, fishponds, etc, usually marked out by a bank and/or ditch or precinct wall.
Search the NHLE for: MONASTIC PRECINCT - MONUMENT — Sites, buildings, structures & features categorized by their form rather than their function, where this has been deemed to be useful for retrieval purposes. Careful consideration will be given to the inclusion of new terms within this class.
Search the NHLE for: MONUMENT - MONUMENTAL MOUND — A mound in excess of 150 metres in diameter, of Late Neolithic date and presumed ritual function, eg. Silbury Hill.
Search the NHLE for: MONUMENTAL MOUND - MOORING BOLLARD — A post to which ropes are attached to secure vessels at a landing place.
Search the NHLE for: MOORING BOLLARD - MOORISH PAVILION — An often light and airy garden building in the Moorish style used for recreational purposes.
Search the NHLE for: MOORISH PAVILION - MOOT — An outdoor meeting place.
Search the NHLE for: MOOT - MOOT HALL — A meeting hall, sometimes equivalent to a GUILDHALL, but also associated with some early mining industries.
Search the NHLE for: MOOT HALL - MORAVIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for Protestant followers of Hussite doctrines which accept the Bible as the only source of faith.
Search the NHLE for: MORAVIAN CHAPEL - MORAVIAN SETTLEMENT — A community of Protestant followers of Hussite doctrines, first founded by Moravian emigrants in Saxony, Germany.
Search the NHLE for: MORAVIAN SETTLEMENT - MORTUARY — A building or room used for holding, viewing, identifying or examining dead bodies prior to burial or cremation.
Search the NHLE for: MORTUARY - MORTUARY CHAPEL — A place of worship at the site of a mortuary.
Search the NHLE for: MORTUARY CHAPEL - MORTUARY ENCLOSURE — A subrectangular earthen enclosure defined by a ditch, usually with an internal bank, assumed to have been used for the primary exposure or burial of human remains in the Neolithic period prior to secondary burial elsewhere.
Search the NHLE for: MORTUARY ENCLOSURE - MORTUARY HOUSE — Timber or stone built structure, traces of which are found within some long and round barrows, in which human remains were interred prior to mound construction.
Search the NHLE for: MORTUARY HOUSE - MOSAIC — A picture or pattern produced by cementing together small pieces of stone or glass of various colours. May be in the form of a floor.
Search the NHLE for: MOSAIC - MOSQUE — A Muslim temple or place of worship.
Search the NHLE for: MOSQUE - MOTEL — A long, low-rise building consisting of rows of attached individual suites of rooms used for overnight accommodation by motorists.
Search the NHLE for: MOTEL - MOTOR CYCLE FACTORY — A building where motor cycles are assembled.
Search the NHLE for: MOTOR CYCLE FACTORY - MOTOR HOUSE — A building for housing, maintaining and repairing motor cars. Dating to the 1890s.
Search the NHLE for: MOTOR HOUSE - MOTOR TRANSPORT SHED — A building, on a military airfield or base, in which motor vehicles are housed.
Search the NHLE for: MOTOR TRANSPORT SHED - MOTOR VEHICLE ENGINEERING SITE — Buildings and sites associated with the manufacture of motor vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: MOTOR VEHICLE ENGINEERING SITE - MOTOR VEHICLE SHOWROOM — A building or room where motor vehicles are exhibited for sale.
Search the NHLE for: MOTOR VEHICLE SHOWROOM - MOTORING TELEPHONE BOX — A roadside telephone box for use by motorists in need of assistance.
Search the NHLE for: MOTORING TELEPHONE BOX - MOTORWAY — Fast arterial road with separate carriageways limited to motor vehicles
Search the NHLE for: MOTORWAY - MOTTE — An artificial steep-sided earthen mound on, or in, which is set the principal tower of a castle.
Search the NHLE for: MOTTE - MOTTE AND BAILEY — An early form of castle consisting of a flat-top steep-sided earthen mound, supporting a wooden tower, and a bailey.
Search the NHLE for: MOTTE AND BAILEY - MOULD LOFT — Used for the laying out and marking of the smaller parts of a ship prior to construction.
Search the NHLE for: MOULD LOFT - MOULD STORE — A building or room used for the storage of pottery moulds.
Search the NHLE for: MOULD STORE - MOUND — A natural or artificial elevation of earth or stones, such as the earth heaped upon a grave. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MOUND - MOUNTING BLOCK — A block for mounting a horse.
Search the NHLE for: MOUNTING BLOCK - MOVABLE BRIDGE — A type of bridge which has machinery and movable elements, eg. to allow vessels to pass.
Search the NHLE for: MOVABLE BRIDGE - MOVING QUAY CRANE — A crane mounted on wheels and/or rails, used for the unloading of ships' cargoes.
Search the NHLE for: MOVING QUAY CRANE - MUFFLE KILN — A kiln in which the contents are protected from the fire, usually by a lining of tiles or refractory bricks.
Search the NHLE for: MUFFLE KILN - MULTI STOREY CAR PARK — A car park, on two or more levels.
Search the NHLE for: MULTI STOREY CAR PARK - MULTI STOREY MILL — A mill, on two or more levels.
Search the NHLE for: MULTI STOREY MILL - MULTI STOREY STABLE — A stable, on two or more levels.
Search the NHLE for: MULTI STOREY STABLE - MULTIPLE DITCH SYSTEM — A multiple, parallel arrangement of linear earthwork ditches, usually accompanied by banks, and often of considerable territorial extent. Usually of later prehistoric or Roman date.
Search the NHLE for: MULTIPLE DITCH SYSTEM - MULTIPLE DWELLING — Buildings designed for the accommodation of large numbers of people, rather than single families, etc.
Search the NHLE for: MULTIPLE DWELLING - MULTIPLE ENCLOSURE FORT — Hillslope forts with wide spaced ramparts.
Search the NHLE for: MULTIPLE ENCLOSURE FORT - MULTIVALLATE HILLFORT — A hillfort enclosure with defences composed of more than one bank and ditch.
Search the NHLE for: MULTIVALLATE HILLFORT - MUNGO MILL — A mill for the manufacture of low grade cloth made from ground-up heavy woollen rags.
Search the NHLE for: MUNGO MILL - MUNICIPIUM — A town for citizens of Roman or Latin status with a constitution governed by charter, which if possessing only Latin rights could be promoted to the status of a colonia.
Search the NHLE for: MUNICIPIUM - MUNIMENT HOUSE — A building where documents such as title-deeds, charters, etc, were kept as evidence of rights or privileges.
Search the NHLE for: MUNIMENT HOUSE - MUNITION HOUSE — A building for the storage of ammunition and other military stores.
Search the NHLE for: MUNITION HOUSE - MUNITIONS FACTORY — A building or site used for the manufacture of weapons, ammunition and military supplies. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MUNITIONS FACTORY - MURAL — A picture or pattern produced by either by cementing together small pieces of stone or glass of various colours or by painting directly onto a wall.
Search the NHLE for: MURAL - MUSEUM — A building, group of buildings or space within a building, where objects of value such as works of art, antiquities, scientific specimens, or other artefacts are housed and displayed.
Search the NHLE for: MUSEUM - MUSEUM SHIP — Permanently moored historic maritime craft preserved and converted into a museum and open to the public.
Search the NHLE for: MUSEUM SHIP - MUSIC HALL — A hall licensed for musical performances, singing, dancing and other entertainments, exclusive of dramatic performance.
Search the NHLE for: MUSIC HALL - MUSIC ROOM — A building or room, purpose built for the teaching, rehearsing and playing of music.
Search the NHLE for: MUSIC ROOM - MUSIC SCHOOL — A building or school where music is taught.
Search the NHLE for: MUSIC SCHOOL - MUSIC SPEECH AND DANCE VENUE — Buildings and structures associated with the performance of musical, oratory and dance events.
Search the NHLE for: MUSIC SPEECH AND DANCE VENUE - MUSICAL INSTRUMENT FACTORY — A factory where musical instruments are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: MUSICAL INSTRUMENT FACTORY - MUSLIM CEMETERY — A burial ground for followers of the Islamic faith.
Search the NHLE for: MUSLIM CEMETERY - MUSTARD MILL — A mill where mustard is produced.
Search the NHLE for: MUSTARD MILL
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- NAAFI BUILDING — A building, administered by the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, providing retail and leisure services to members of the armed forces.
Search the NHLE for: NAAFI BUILDING - NAIL FACTORY — A factory where nails are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: NAIL FACTORY - NAIL SHOP — A small work shop for nail manufacture, most commonly situated at the back of a nailer's dwelling.
Search the NHLE for: NAIL SHOP - NAMED TREE — A tree named after a person or event associated with it, e.g. Byron's Oak at Newstead.
Search the NHLE for: NAMED TREE - NATIONAL PARK — Areas of land that have been designated as national property where habitation and commercial activities are restricted to preserve their outstanding landscapes.
Search the NHLE for: NATIONAL PARK - NATIONAL SCHOOL — A school established by the National Society which was founded in 1811 to promote the education of the poor.
Search the NHLE for: NATIONAL SCHOOL - NATURE RESERVE — Area of land set aside and managed for the preservation of flora, fauna, their natural habitats and physical features.
Search the NHLE for: NATURE RESERVE - NAVAL COLLEGE — A shore establishment for the teaching of maritime theory and practical skills.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL COLLEGE - NAVAL DOCKYARD — A naval base that builds, repairs, docks or converts warships, and is manned by civilian engineers and workers and administered by engineer duty officers.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL DOCKYARD - NAVAL HEADQUARTERS — A building used for the daily administration of the Royal Navy.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL HEADQUARTERS - NAVAL OFFICE — A building used for a variety of administrative purposes, usually at a naval dockyard.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL OFFICE - NAVAL OFFICERS HOUSE — The residence of a Royal Navy or Merchant Navy officer.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL OFFICERS HOUSE - NAVAL OFFICERS MESS — A building providing accommodation, dining and recreational facilities for commissioned naval officers.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL OFFICERS MESS - NAVAL STOREHOUSE — A building for the storage of all stores supplied for naval service other than victualling and armament.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL STOREHOUSE - NAVIGATION AID — Buildings, sites and structures used by mariners for purposes of navigation.
Search the NHLE for: NAVIGATION AID - NEEDLE MILL — A mill or works where needles were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: NEEDLE MILL - NET HOUSE — A free-standing building with enough space to hang and dry nets.
Search the NHLE for: NET HOUSE - NET LOFT — A component of another building, often a house, used for storing nets.
Search the NHLE for: NET LOFT - NET MAKING SITE — A building or room where nets are made
Search the NHLE for: NET MAKING SITE - NEUROLOGY HOSPITAL — A hospital for the treatment of diseases of the nerves and nervous system.
Search the NHLE for: NEUROLOGY HOSPITAL - NEWSPAPER OFFICE — A building or set of rooms where a newspaper is compiled and produced, before being printed. May include facilities for printing.
Search the NHLE for: NEWSPAPER OFFICE - NIGHT FIGHTER STATION WATCH OFFICE — A two storey building with a watch office on the ground floor and a control room above. Originally based on drawing number 12096/4.
Search the NHLE for: NIGHT FIGHTER STATION WATCH OFFICE - NIGHTCLUB — An establishment open at night for refreshment and entertainment.
Search the NHLE for: NIGHTCLUB - NISSEN HUT — A prefabricated structure of a steel frame clad in corrugated iron. Semi-circular in section they were used as accommodation for the armed forces and, during WWII, as emergency housing for bombed out civilians. Also used for storage.
Search the NHLE for: NISSEN HUT - NITROGLYCERINE WORKS — A works or factory where nitroglycerine is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: NITROGLYCERINE WORKS - NONCONFORMIST CEMETERY — A burial ground for Nonconformists. Use more specific term where known.
Search the NHLE for: NONCONFORMIST CEMETERY - NONCONFORMIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of Protestant sects dissenting from the established Church.
Search the NHLE for: NONCONFORMIST CHAPEL - NONCONFORMIST CHURCH — A place of worship for members of Protestant sects dissenting from the established Church.
Search the NHLE for: NONCONFORMIST CHURCH - NONCONFORMIST MEETING HOUSE — A building used for services by a nonconformist protestant sect, especially by Quakers and Presbyterians.
Search the NHLE for: NONCONFORMIST MEETING HOUSE - NORTH LIGHT FACTORY — A type of factory building, often single-storey, designed so that windows incorporated into the vertical faces of its saw-tooth roof can allow the maximum amount of natural light into its interior.
Search the NHLE for: NORTH LIGHT FACTORY - NORTH LIGHT SHED — A single storey building designed so that windows incorporated into the saw tooth roof catch the available light.
Search the NHLE for: NORTH LIGHT SHED - NOTICE BOARD — A large board, often attached to the side of a building, on which advertisements can be displayed. Use for external structures only.
Search the NHLE for: NOTICE BOARD - NUCLEAR BUNKER — A reinforced concrete structure, often sited underground, used as a shelter from the threat of nuclear attack.
Search the NHLE for: NUCLEAR BUNKER - NUCLEAR TEST SITE — Site associated with the testing of nuclear material or its containers.
Search the NHLE for: NUCLEAR TEST SITE - NUNNERY — Houses specifically of nuns/canonesses or religious women.
Search the NHLE for: NUNNERY - NURSERY — A room or a building set aside for infants and young children.
Search the NHLE for: NURSERY - NURSERY GARDEN — A horticultural site where trees, shrubs and plants are grown for sale and transplanting elsewhere.
Search the NHLE for: NURSERY GARDEN - NURSERY SCHOOL — A school for pre-Infant school children, usually 3-5 years old.
Search the NHLE for: NURSERY SCHOOL - NURSES HOSTEL — A building where nurses live.
Search the NHLE for: NURSES HOSTEL - NURSES TRAINING SCHOOL — An establishment for the theoretical and practical training of nurses.
Search the NHLE for: NURSES TRAINING SCHOOL - NURSING HOME — A residential home for older people or people with physical and/or mental disabilities who need care provided by registered nurses.
Search the NHLE for: NURSING HOME
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- OASTHOUSE — A building for the storage and drying of hops, often including a hop drying kiln. Usually built as part of a farm.
Search the NHLE for: OASTHOUSE - OBELISK — A tall, tapering pillar with a pyramidal top, generally square on plan. Used in England from the late 16th century as a public, funerary or garden monument.
Search the NHLE for: OBELISK - OBSERVATION POST — A building or site for watching specific military activities or the movement of enemy forces, etc.
Search the NHLE for: OBSERVATION POST - OBSERVATION TOWER — An observation tower is a structure used to provide panoramic views of the surrounding area. They are often used as attractions at seaside resorts e.g. Blackpool Tower.
Search the NHLE for: OBSERVATION TOWER - OBSERVATORY — A building containing celestial telescopes in which astronomical or meteorological phenomena may be observed.
Search the NHLE for: OBSERVATORY - OCCUPATION SITE — A site showing some signs of occupation but evidence is insufficient to imply permanent settlement.
Search the NHLE for: OCCUPATION SITE - OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY UNIT — A centre where treatment and rehabilitation training is given to patients recovering from injuries or accidents.
Search the NHLE for: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY UNIT - OCTAGONAL TEMPLE — A garden building, octagonal in plan, designed in the style of a classical temple, used for standing or sitting in.
Search the NHLE for: OCTAGONAL TEMPLE - ODDFELLOWS HALL — A building used by the society, fraternity or order organized under this name with initiatory rites, mystic signs of recognition and various degrees of dignity or honour, for social or benevolent purposes.
Search the NHLE for: ODDFELLOWS HALL - OFFICE — A building or room where business, administrative or professional activities are conducted. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: OFFICE - OFFICERS MESS — A building providing dining facilities and recreation for commissioned officers.
Search the NHLE for: OFFICERS MESS - OFFICERS QUARTERS — A building where military officers are accommodated.
Search the NHLE for: OFFICERS QUARTERS - OFFICIAL RESIDENCE — Used where an existing building is designated as the residence of an official.
Search the NHLE for: OFFICIAL RESIDENCE - OHEL — Prayer hall at burial ground, especially a small walk-in memorial devoted to a deceased Hasidic rabbi.
Search the NHLE for: OHEL - OIL ENGINE — An internal combustion engine powered by the combustion of vapourized oil.
Search the NHLE for: OIL ENGINE - OIL MILL — A factory where fruit and seed oil is produced by an oil machine.
Search the NHLE for: OIL MILL - OIL RETORT HOUSE — A structure erected for the processing of shale, to extract oil through heating.
Search the NHLE for: OIL RETORT HOUSE - OIL SILO — An underground structure for the storage of mineral oil.
Search the NHLE for: OIL SILO - OIL WORKS — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the retrieval, refining, processing and storage of petroleum oil.
Search the NHLE for: OIL WORKS - ONION DRYING SHED — A building where onions are laid out to dry.
Search the NHLE for: ONION DRYING SHED - OPEN AIR SCHOOL — An early to mid 20th century school designed to effect maximum ventilation and sunlight for its pupils.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN AIR SCHOOL - OPEN AIR THEATRE — An outdoor theatre for the staging of dramatic productions.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN AIR THEATRE - OPEN CAST MINE — An excavation open to the sky, caused by the extraction of coal, stone or similar. Use with product type where known.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN CAST MINE - OPEN FIELD — An area of arable land with common rights after harvest or while fallow. Usually without internal divisions (hedges, walls or fences).
Search the NHLE for: OPEN FIELD - OPEN HALL HOUSE — A house consisting of a single storey hall with two storey domestic ranges attached to either one or both ends.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN HALL HOUSE - OPEN ROPEWALK — A long, narrow, rectangular plot of land used for the manufacture of rope. Usually walled, it may include small buildings and awnings at each end. Often attached to a warehouse.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN ROPEWALK - OPEN TRAINING PRISON — An institution for the imprisonment of prisoners who can be trusted to serve their sentence without likelihood of escape and of being a threat to the public. There is no physical barrier designed to prevent absconding.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN TRAINING PRISON - OPERA HOUSE — An often ornately decorated theatre for the performance of opera.
Search the NHLE for: OPERA HOUSE - OPERATING THEATRE — A room where surgical operations are performed. Originally in the form of a room with a raised table surrounded by tiered seating from where students could watch an operation or disection be performed.
Search the NHLE for: OPERATING THEATRE - OPERATIONS BLOCK — A building of varying designs intended for directing military aviation operations. Normally associated with military airfields.
Search the NHLE for: OPERATIONS BLOCK - OPERATIONS ROOM — A room used for directing military operations and exercises.
Search the NHLE for: OPERATIONS ROOM - OPPIDUM — An imprecise term used to describe large Iron Age settlements of town-like proportions.
Search the NHLE for: OPPIDUM - OPTICIANS — An establishment for the testing of eyesight, making up of optical prescriptions and the sale of spectacles.
Search the NHLE for: OPTICIANS - ORANGERY — A gallery or building in a garden, usually south facing, used for the growing of oranges and other fruit.
Search the NHLE for: ORANGERY - ORCHARD — An enclosure used for the cultivation of fruit trees.
Search the NHLE for: ORCHARD - ORDNANCE DEPOT — A building or site used by the armed forces for the storage and issuing of military stores and materials.
Search the NHLE for: ORDNANCE DEPOT - ORDNANCE FACTORY — A building or site used for the manufacture of small arms and artillery pieces, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ORDNANCE FACTORY - ORDNANCE STORE — A building or site used by the armed forces for the storage and issuing of military stores and materials.
Search the NHLE for: ORDNANCE STORE - ORDNANCE YARD — A storage area usually for naval weapons and stores.
Search the NHLE for: ORDNANCE YARD - ORE HEARTH — A furnace for smelting ore in which the fuel and ore are mixed.
Search the NHLE for: ORE HEARTH - ORE STORE — A storehouse for ore, often found in conjunction with a BLAST FURNACE.
Search the NHLE for: ORE STORE - ORE WASHING PLANT — A plant incorporating a range of ore processing operations such as buddles.
Search the NHLE for: ORE WASHING PLANT - ORE WORKS — A site or building where ore is processed to obtain metal.
Search the NHLE for: ORE WORKS - ORGAN BLOWING CHAMBER — A dedicated room for housing the organ feeder bellows, can be an underground chamber or a free-standing building.
Search the NHLE for: ORGAN BLOWING CHAMBER - ORGAN FACTORY — A factory where musical organs are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: ORGAN FACTORY - ORLIT POST — A small prefabricated, reinforced concrete structure manufactured by Messrs Orlit Ltd for the Royal Observer Corps. The first were ordered in 1951, most were redundant by 1955, a few remained in use in eastern England until 1965.
Search the NHLE for: ORLIT POST - ORNAMENTAL BRIDGE — A bridge built to enhance or compliment the surrounding landscape. Mainly found on estates or in parkland and usually 18th and 19th century.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL BRIDGE - ORNAMENTAL CANAL — An artificial stretch of water, usually rectangular in shape, used decoratively, particularly in formal gardens, eg. Long Water, Hampton Court. Occasionally used to supply water to cascades.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL CANAL - ORNAMENTAL FOUNTAIN — An often highly elaborate water fountain, usually found in parks, gardens or urban spaces.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL FOUNTAIN - ORNAMENTAL GARDEN — A decorative garden, often landscaped, laid out with intricate flower beds and hedges, and often containing ornate sculptures, fountains and garden ornaments.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL GARDEN - ORNAMENTAL LAKE — An artificial lake, often made by damming a stream. A common feature of landscape parks.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL LAKE - ORNAMENTAL POND — A small artificial pond of water often found in parks and gardens, for decorative purposes.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL POND - ORPHAN SCHOOL — A school for parentless children.
Search the NHLE for: ORPHAN SCHOOL - ORPHANAGE — A public institution for the care and protection of children without parents.
Search the NHLE for: ORPHANAGE - ORTHODOX CHURCH — A place of worship for followers of the Orthodox Catholic Church. Use only where the specific denomination is unknown.
Search the NHLE for: ORTHODOX CHURCH - ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL — A hospital devoted to the curing or correcting of physical deformities.
Search the NHLE for: ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL - OSSUARY — A building, site or container used to store the bones of the dead after they have been removed from graves to allow new burials.
Search the NHLE for: OSSUARY - OUTBUILDING — A detached subordinate building. Use specific type where known, eg. DAIRY.
Search the NHLE for: OUTBUILDING - OUTDOOR PLAYHOUSE — A purpose built theatre with a central open yard, dating to the Elizabethan period. Famous examples include The Globe and the Swan.
Search the NHLE for: OUTDOOR PLAYHOUSE - OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL — An unenclosed feature, usually sub-terranean, constructed to contain water for public or private recreation and sporting avtivities. Sometimes part of a LIDO complex. Use INDOOR SWIMMING POOL for pools with a covering structure.
Search the NHLE for: OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL - OUTFARM — A multi-purpose farm building in an outlaying area of a farm.
Search the NHLE for: OUTFARM - OUTFITTER — A shop that sells men's clothes, either off the peg, bespoke or both.
Search the NHLE for: OUTFITTER - OUTPATIENTS DEPARTMENT — A hospital department which treats patients without keeping them in overnight or for a longer period.
Search the NHLE for: OUTPATIENTS DEPARTMENT - OVAL BARROW — A form of Neolithic long barrow comprising an oval, rather than rectangular or trapezoidal mound.
Search the NHLE for: OVAL BARROW - OVAL ENCLOSURE — An oval shaped area of land enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier.
Search the NHLE for: OVAL ENCLOSURE - OVEN — A brick, stone or iron receptacle for baking bread or other food in.
Search the NHLE for: OVEN - OVERSHOT WHEEL — A waterwheel turned by the force of water falling upon the top of the wheel into buckets placed round the circumference.
Search the NHLE for: OVERSHOT WHEEL - OX ENGINE HOUSE — A round or polygonal building containing a wheel turned by an ox to provide power.
Search the NHLE for: OX ENGINE HOUSE - OXHOUSE — A building in which oxen are accommodated.
Search the NHLE for: OXHOUSE - OYSTER BEDS — A place where oysters are bred for consumption.
Search the NHLE for: OYSTER BEDS
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- PACKHORSE BRIDGE — A high-humped, narrow, cobbled bridge used by trains of packhorses, often located in upland areas where the bulk of goods were carried by horses.
Search the NHLE for: PACKHORSE BRIDGE - PACKHORSE ROAD — Narrow, rough tracks often over upland routes used by packhorse trains to carry goods.
Search the NHLE for: PACKHORSE ROAD - PACKING HOUSE — An ancillary building in a factory or other industrial complex where manufactured goods are packaged.
Search the NHLE for: PACKING HOUSE - PADDOCK — An enclosed field for horses.
Search the NHLE for: PADDOCK - PAGODA — A tall, polygonal structure with ornamental roofs at each storey which is associated with Buddhist temples; the style was adapted for secular eyecatchers and pavilions in the 18th century in England.
Search the NHLE for: PAGODA - PAINT FACTORY — A building or buildings used for the production of paints, varnishes, colours and distemper.
Search the NHLE for: PAINT FACTORY - PAINT SHOP — Workshop for the painting of vehicles, machines, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PAINT SHOP - PALACE — A substantial house in a town or the country (particularly associated with medieval London). Use more specific monument types where known.
Search the NHLE for: PALACE - PALISADE — An enclosure of stakes driven into the ground, sometimes for defensive purposes.
Search the NHLE for: PALISADE - PALISADED ENCLOSURE — An enclosed settlement surrounded by a single or double row of close-set timbers embedded in a foundation trench, without ditches or banks.
Search the NHLE for: PALISADED ENCLOSURE - PALISADED HILLTOP ENCLOSURE — A small, defended settlement dating to the Early Iron Age, located on spurs, promontories or hilltops. The defences are marked by single or double trenches which originally held substantial palisades.
Search the NHLE for: PALISADED HILLTOP ENCLOSURE - PALISADED SETTLEMENT — A settlement site enclosed within a timber palisade.
Search the NHLE for: PALISADED SETTLEMENT - PALM HOUSE — A greenhouse used for growing palms and/or tropical plants.
Search the NHLE for: PALM HOUSE - PAPER MILL — A factory where paper is made. Use with power type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PAPER MILL - PARACHUTE STORE — Distinctive clerestory-roofed building, used for the drying and storage of military parachutes.
Search the NHLE for: PARACHUTE STORE - PARADE GROUND — A place where military personnel parade, practice marching, assemble or muster for a march or any other special purpose.
Search the NHLE for: PARADE GROUND - PARCHMENT WORKS — A works used for the production of parchment from animal skin.
Search the NHLE for: PARCHMENT WORKS - PARISH BOUNDARY — The limit line of a parish.
Search the NHLE for: PARISH BOUNDARY - PARISH CHURCH — The foremost church within a parish.
Search the NHLE for: PARISH CHURCH - PARISH HALL — A hall built for the use of people living within a parish boundary.
Search the NHLE for: PARISH HALL - PARISH SCHOOL — A school serving or supported by a parish. Usually teaching religious as well as conventional education.
Search the NHLE for: PARISH SCHOOL - PARK — An enclosed piece of land, generally large in area, used for hunting, the cultivation of trees, for grazing sheep and cattle or visual enjoyment. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PARK - PARK PALE — A wooden stake fence, often associated with deer hunting.
Search the NHLE for: PARK PALE - PARK SHELTER — A shelter in a public park.
Search the NHLE for: PARK SHELTER - PARK WALL — A stone or brick wall enclosing a park.
Search the NHLE for: PARK WALL - PARLIAMENT HOUSE — A building in which a parliament meets and conducts the business of government.
Search the NHLE for: PARLIAMENT HOUSE - PARROT HOUSE — A building or cage in which parrots are bred and kept.
Search the NHLE for: PARROT HOUSE - PARTERRE — A level space in a garden occupied by ornamental flower beds.
Search the NHLE for: PARTERRE - PARTICULAR BAPTIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Particular Baptists, a Calvinistic Baptist denomination who believe in predestination.
Search the NHLE for: PARTICULAR BAPTIST CHAPEL - PASTURE — A field covered with herbage for the grazing of livestock.
Search the NHLE for: PASTURE - PATH — A way made for pedestrians, especially one merely made by walking (often not specially constructed).
Search the NHLE for: PATH - PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT — A hospital department where research and treatment into the causes and nature of diseases or abnormal bodily conditions is carried out.
Search the NHLE for: PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT - PATIENTS VILLA — A detached block within a hospital complex used as sleeping accommodation for patients.
Search the NHLE for: PATIENTS VILLA - PATIO — A small paved area attached to a building.
Search the NHLE for: PATIO - PATTERN SHOP — Workshop for the manufacture of master parts from working drawings which are then used as patterns for mass manufacture.
Search the NHLE for: PATTERN SHOP - PAVEMENT — A path or road for pedestrians, laid or beaten in with stones or other materials.
Search the NHLE for: PAVEMENT - PAVEMENT LIGHTS — A frame containing glass tiles or bricks set into a pavement to allow the lighting of basement areas.
Search the NHLE for: PAVEMENT LIGHTS - PAVILION — A light, sometimes ornamental structure in a garden, park or place of recreation, used for entertainment or shelter. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PAVILION - PAVILION WARD BLOCK — Detached block comprising one or more storeys of wards.
Search the NHLE for: PAVILION WARD BLOCK - PAWNSHOP — A pawnbrokers shop or place of business.
Search the NHLE for: PAWNSHOP - PAY OFFICE — An office for the payment of wages, especially in industrial or commercial complexes.
Search the NHLE for: PAY OFFICE - PEACOCK HOUSE — A building used to house peacocks.
Search the NHLE for: PEACOCK HOUSE - PEAT CUTTING — A site where peat (vegetable matter decomposed in water and partly carbonised), used for fuel, is cut.
Search the NHLE for: PEAT CUTTING - PEAT STAND — A structure used to dry peat on.
Search the NHLE for: PEAT STAND - PEAT STORE — A fuel store for the storage of dried peat.
Search the NHLE for: PEAT STORE - PEAT WORKINGS — Sites and structures associated with the cutting and processing of peat.
Search the NHLE for: PEAT WORKINGS - PEDESTAL — A concrete, cylindrical pedestal on which a spigot mortar was mounted. The pedestal is often the only evidence for a Spigot Mortar emplacement to survive.
Search the NHLE for: PEDESTAL - PEDESTRIAN TUNNEL — An underground foot tunnel primarily constructed to allow for the passage of pedestrians beneath an over ground obstacle.
Search the NHLE for: PEDESTRIAN TUNNEL - PELE TOWER — A strong, fortified dwelling, of between two and four storeys. Occupied only in times of trouble built mainly in the border country of the North from the mid 14th to the 17th century.
Search the NHLE for: PELE TOWER - PEN — A small enclosure for cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, etc. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PEN - PEN FACTORY — A building or buildings used for the production of pens.
Search the NHLE for: PEN FACTORY - PEN POND — A pond storing water to supply a HAMMER POND.
Search the NHLE for: PEN POND - PENCIL MILL — A factory where pencils are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: PENCIL MILL - PENGUIN POOL — A pool of water, and ancillary buildings, designed to accommodate penguins.
Search the NHLE for: PENGUIN POOL - PENTECOSTALIST CHURCH — A place of worship for followers of the Pentecost (ie. emphasising the gifts of the Holy Spirit).
Search the NHLE for: PENTECOSTALIST CHURCH - PEOPLES COLLEGE — A training college where workers can attend classes in vocational subjects. The classes are often day-release and sanctioned by the employer.
Search the NHLE for: PEOPLES COLLEGE - PERFUMERY — A place where perfume is sold, as well as manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: PERFUMERY - PERGOLA — Timber or metal structure consisting of upright and cross members designed to support climbing plants.
Search the NHLE for: PERGOLA - PETROL PUMP — A pump used to transfer petrol from a storage tank into cars, lorries and other road vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: PETROL PUMP - PETROL STATION — A place where vehicles can be filled up with petrol, oil, water, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PETROL STATION - PETTY SESSIONS COURT — A court of summary jurisdiction formally recognized by statute in 1848. Renamed Magistrates Court, following legislation, in 1949.
Search the NHLE for: PETTY SESSIONS COURT - PEWTER WORKS — A site or building used for the manufacture of goods made from pewter, an alloy of tin and lead.
Search the NHLE for: PEWTER WORKS - PHARMACY — A building where the study and practice of preparing, preserving, compounding and dispensing drugs is performed.
Search the NHLE for: PHARMACY - PHEASANTRY — A place where pheasants are reared and kept.
Search the NHLE for: PHEASANTRY - PHOENIX CAISSON — A floatable concrete vessel, numbers of which made up the main breakwater of the Mulberry Harbours used to secure beachheads during the allied invasion of Europe in June 1944.
Search the NHLE for: PHOENIX CAISSON - PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY — A place where photographs are displayed for sale.
Search the NHLE for: PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY - PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO — A place where photographs are taken of people or things on a commercial basis.
Search the NHLE for: PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO - PHYSIC GARDEN — A garden maintained for the study and cultivation of plants for medicinal purposes.
Search the NHLE for: PHYSIC GARDEN - PHYSIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENT — A hospital department where heat, light, sound, electricity, etc, is administered to patients suffering from muscular or skeletal disorders.
Search the NHLE for: PHYSIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENT - PIANO FACTORY — A factory where pianos are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: PIANO FACTORY - PICKETT HAMILTON FORT — A sunken, circular, concrete pillbox used on airfields. They remained flush with the surface to permit the free movement of aircraft but, if attack threatened, could be raised hydraulically or by a counterbalance, and manned to give covering fire.
Search the NHLE for: PICKETT HAMILTON FORT - PIE AND MASH SHOP — A cheap eating establishment traditionally serving jellied eels, pies and mash.
Search the NHLE for: PIE AND MASH SHOP - PIER — A structure of iron or wood, open below, running out into the sea and used as a promenade and landing stage.
Search the NHLE for: PIER - PIER PAVILION — A pavilion at the end of a PLEASURE PIER.
Search the NHLE for: PIER PAVILION - PIERMASTERS HOUSE — The residence of a piermaster.
Search the NHLE for: PIERMASTERS HOUSE - PIGGERY — A place where pigs are reared.
Search the NHLE for: PIGGERY - PIGSTY — An enclosure for pigs that includes a covered pen and yard.
Search the NHLE for: PIGSTY - PILE — Component: Use wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PILE - PILLAR BOX — A hollow pillar, erected in a public place, containing a receptacle for posting letters.
Search the NHLE for: PILLAR BOX - PILLBOX — An often squat building with thick, loopholed walls and a flat roof, designed to accommodate a variety of weapons, usually strategically positioned to cover a vulnerable point in a defensive system. Many were built to standardized designs.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX - PILLBOX (AIR MINISTRY PATTERN) — A pillbox built to a design drawn up by the Air Ministry. Usually found on or near airfields.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (AIR MINISTRY PATTERN) - PILLBOX (ASSAULT TRAINING) — A pillbox constructed for use in training exercises forming part of a simulated defensive position
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (ASSAULT TRAINING) - PILLBOX (CANTILEVERED) — A pillbox in which the roof is detached from the walls and supported by a central pillar, thus leaving an embrasure allowing a 360 degree field of fire.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (CANTILEVERED) - PILLBOX (SHELLPROOF) — A pillbox with walls that have been thickened to protect against shells. Double index with specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (SHELLPROOF) - PILLBOX (TYPE CP/6/40/111) — A circular pillbox, usually consisting of a concrete pipe with a timber and corrugated iron roof, surrounded and covered by earth and sandbags. Built to a design by Norcon Ltd, a company dealing in concrete pipes.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE CP/6/40/111) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) — A hexagonal pillbox, with an internal anti-ricochet wall and loopholes for fives light machine guns and one rifle. Originally designed to have 15in bulletproof walls many were built with 42in thick shellproof walls. Designed by DFW branch 3.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/23) — A rectangular pillbox with an enclosed square plan section for three light machine guns and an adjacent open area housing a mounting for a light anti-aircraft weapon. Designed by DFW branch 3.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/23) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) — A hexagonal pillbox with an interanl anti-ricochet wall. The rear wall was lengthened to take two rifle loopholes in addition to the five light machine gun. Both 15in and 42in thick walls are common. Designed by DFW branch 3.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/25) — A circular pillbox designed by the Engineering and Metals Company using 'Armco' corrugated iron sheets as the inner and outer skins into which concrete was poured, giving a 12in wall thickness. The design was taken up by DFW and assigned a drawing number.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/25) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/26) — A square pillbox with loopholes for four light machine guns with 18 in thick walls. Probably designed by DFW branch 3 although it may have been adapted from an external source as Southern Command correspondence refers to the type as 'Stento'.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/26) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) — A square pillbox with walls up to 48in thick, designed to emplace a 2 pounder anti-tank gun. A large opening in the back allowed the gun to be wheeled into position at the large embrasure in the front wall. Designed by DFW branch 3.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) — A large, rectangular pillbox based on the FW3/28 with the addition of a small infantry chamber to one side of the main gun chamber.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) - PILLBOX (VARIANT) — A pillbox which varies from standard designs.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (VARIANT) - PILLORY — A wooden frame with holes, through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust, in which state they would be exposed to public ridicule and assault.
Search the NHLE for: PILLORY - PILLOW MOUND — A pillow-shaped, flat topped rectangular mound often surrounded by a shallow ditch used to farm rabbits.
Search the NHLE for: PILLOW MOUND - PILOT OFFICE — An office used by a qualified pilot, expert in ship-handling and with local knowledge, who assists the captain or master to take a vessel in or out of a harbour or through narrow waters.
Search the NHLE for: PILOT OFFICE - PIN FACTORY — A building where pins are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: PIN FACTORY - PIN MILL — A building or site used for the manufacture of pins.
Search the NHLE for: PIN MILL - PINERY — A glasshouse used for growing pineapples.
Search the NHLE for: PINERY - PINETUM — An arboretum devoted mainly to the growing of conifers.
Search the NHLE for: PINETUM - PINNACLE — A vertical, pointed structure usually resembling a pyramid or cone. Use for component of a larger building type where it is now used as a freestanding ornament.
Search the NHLE for: PINNACLE - PIPE WORKSHOP — A workshop used for the manufacture of clay tobacco pipes.
Search the NHLE for: PIPE WORKSHOP - PIPELINE — A conduit or pipes, used primarily for conveying petroleum from oil wells to a refinery, or for supplying water to a town or district, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PIPELINE - PISCINA — A perforated stone basin usually built into the wall of a church on the south side of the altar. Used for carrying away the ablutions (wine and water used to rinse the chalice, and wash the priests hands after communion).
Search the NHLE for: PISCINA - PIT — A hole or cavity in the ground, either natural or the result of excavation. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PIT - PIT ALIGNMENT — A single line, or pair of roughly parallel lines, of pits set at intervals along a common axis or series of axes. The pits are not thought to have held posts.
Search the NHLE for: PIT ALIGNMENT - PIT CIRCLE — An enclosure of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date, related to henges, defined by a circular arrangement of pits, probably none of which originally held posts. More than one circle, concentrically arranged, may be present.
Search the NHLE for: PIT CIRCLE - PITCHBACK WHEEL — A type of waterwheel where the incoming supply of water leaves a launder near the top of the wheel, and drops onto the paddles or buckets of the wheel which rotates in the reverse direction to that of the incoming flow.
Search the NHLE for: PITCHBACK WHEEL - PITHEAD BATHS — A building containing the colliery showers. Also often containing first aid and mine rescue facilities.
Search the NHLE for: PITHEAD BATHS - PLACE OF WORSHIP — A place where appropriate acts, rites and ceremonies are performed to honour or revere a supernatural being, power or holy entity. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PLACE OF WORSHIP - PLAGUE CEMETERY — A burial ground for victims of the plague.
Search the NHLE for: PLAGUE CEMETERY - PLAGUE MEMORIAL — A commemorative monument to victims of the plague.
Search the NHLE for: PLAGUE MEMORIAL - PLAGUE STONE — A stone on which plague victims placed vinegar-disinfected money to pay for food left for them by the townspeople.
Search the NHLE for: PLAGUE STONE - PLAIN AN GWARRY — A Cornish Medieval amphitheatre used for the performance of mystery plays and sports.
Search the NHLE for: PLAIN AN GWARRY - PLANETARIUM — A building incorporating a model representation of the planetary system projected onto the ceiling.
Search the NHLE for: PLANETARIUM - PLANT BED — A plot of earth used for the raising of plants.
Search the NHLE for: PLANT BED - PLANTATION — A group of planted trees or shrubs, generally of uniform age and of a single species.
Search the NHLE for: PLANTATION - PLANTATION BANK — An earthen bank indicating the limit of a plantation.
Search the NHLE for: PLANTATION BANK - PLAQUE — An ornamental, commemorative tablet. Use with materials field when indexing.
Search the NHLE for: PLAQUE - PLASTER MILL — A factory where rock gypsum is ground into a powder used in the production of plaster.
Search the NHLE for: PLASTER MILL - PLASTER WORKS — A site incorporating all of the production processes for the manufacture of plaster.
Search the NHLE for: PLASTER WORKS - PLASTIC SURGERY DEPARTMENT — A hospital department concerned with the reconstruction or repair of parts of the human body using transferred tissue, either in the treatment of injury or for cosmetic reasons.
Search the NHLE for: PLASTIC SURGERY DEPARTMENT - PLASTICS FACTORY — A factory for the production of plastics by chemical processes.
Search the NHLE for: PLASTICS FACTORY - PLATE GLASS WORKS — A factory used for the production of thick, flat glass used for shop window panes, etc. Plate glass is produced by rolling and casting rather than traditional blowing.
Search the NHLE for: PLATE GLASS WORKS - PLATERS SHOP — Large covered spaces where the steel plate used for ship construction was cut and marked out, prior to being craned onto the hull, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PLATERS SHOP - PLATEWAY — A track consisting of flanged strips used in early colliery railways.
Search the NHLE for: PLATEWAY - PLATFORM — Unspecified. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PLATFORM - PLATFORM BARROW — The rarest of the recognized types of round barrow, consisting of a flat, wide circular mound, which may be surrounded by a ditch. They occur widely across southern England with a marked concentration in East and West Sussex.
Search the NHLE for: PLATFORM BARROW - PLATFORM CAIRN — A roughly circular monument featuring a low, more or less level platform of stones surrounded or retained by a low stone kerb. Some may feature a small central open area, thus resembling a ring cairn.
Search the NHLE for: PLATFORM CAIRN - PLATFORM SHELTER — A structure providing protection against the weather, situated on railway platforms.
Search the NHLE for: PLATFORM SHELTER - PLATING WORKS — A factory or group of buildings used for the production of plated goods. Plating is the process whereby one metal object is coated with a thin layer of another metal.
Search the NHLE for: PLATING WORKS - PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT — Fixed equipment, such as slides, swings and climbing frames for children to play on. Often found in playgrounds, parks and school grounds.
Search the NHLE for: PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT - PLAYGROUND SHELTER — A rudimentary roofed building found in school playgrounds, open at the side. Used as a shelter from bad weather.
Search the NHLE for: PLAYGROUND SHELTER - PLAYING FIELD — A field or piece of ground used for the playing of games and other activities.
Search the NHLE for: PLAYING FIELD - PLEASANCE — An area attached to a house, or part of an estate used for pleasure and recreation.
Search the NHLE for: PLEASANCE - PLEASURE GARDEN — A type of 18th century public park, with refreshment houses, concert rooms, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PLEASURE GARDEN - PLEASURE PIER — A seaside pier used as a promenade and amusement park.
Search the NHLE for: PLEASURE PIER - POINT BLOCK — A tall multi-storey block of flats, slender with a square plan.
Search the NHLE for: POINT BLOCK - POLICE BOX — A metal, wooden or concrete box containing a telephone for use by the public, limited accommodation for use as a temporary cell, and a lamp on top that could be used to attract the attention of a passing patrol.
Search the NHLE for: POLICE BOX - POLICE HOUSE — A building providing lodgings for police constables.
Search the NHLE for: POLICE HOUSE - POLICE STATION — The office or headquarters of a local police force, or of a police district.
Search the NHLE for: POLICE STATION - POLICE TELEPHONE PILLAR — A metal pillar with a flashable lamp on top containing an emergency telephone for use by members of the public and by officers of the local police force.
Search the NHLE for: POLICE TELEPHONE PILLAR - POLICE TRAINING COLLEGE — An educational establishment for the training of police cadets.
Search the NHLE for: POLICE TRAINING COLLEGE - POLISHING SHOP — A building in which engineered metal products are finished and polished.
Search the NHLE for: POLISHING SHOP - POLITICAL CLUB — A building owned by a constituency political party which provides a meeting place for local political activities and also provides entertainment facilities for its members and guests.
Search the NHLE for: POLITICAL CLUB - POLYTECHNIC — An educational institution, introduced in the 1960s. Distinguished from universities by traditionally training technicians in business, industry and commerce for an immediate local area, and offering more part-time classes, etc.
Search the NHLE for: POLYTECHNIC - POND — A body of still water often artificially formed for a specific purpose. Use specifc type where known.
Search the NHLE for: POND - POND BARROW — A monument featuring an artificial circular shallow depression surrounded by a bank which runs around the rim of the depression.
Search the NHLE for: POND BARROW - POND BAY — Form of dam, usually associated with ponds supplying water for blast furnaces.
Search the NHLE for: POND BAY - PONTOON PIER — A form of floating, moveable pier designed for use in open water.
Search the NHLE for: PONTOON PIER - POOL — A small body of water, either natural or artificial.
Search the NHLE for: POOL - POOR SOULS LIGHT — A small, ornate structure in which candles were placed either during masses for the dead or to indicate the position of the cemetery at night .
Search the NHLE for: POOR SOULS LIGHT - PORT — A settlement area that combines a harbour and terminal facilities at the interface between land and water transportation systems.
Search the NHLE for: PORT - PORT AUTHORITY OFFICE — The office of the body controlling a harbour and docks.
Search the NHLE for: PORT AUTHORITY OFFICE - PORTAL — A door, gate, doorway or gateway of grand or elaborate construction. Use specific type where possible.
Search the NHLE for: PORTAL - PORTAL DOLMEN — A megalithic tomb of Neolithic date comprising a chamber bounded by large upright orthostats, often only three or four in number, which support a large capstone.
Search the NHLE for: PORTAL DOLMEN - PORTERS LODGE — A small building used by the keeper of a castle, park, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PORTERS LODGE - PORTERS REST — A small structure comprising of a 'shelf' of wood or metal sitting on pillars and erected for the benefit of porters to allow them to rest their burdens.
Search the NHLE for: PORTERS REST - POST ALIGNMENT — An alignment of posts or postholes of unknown function
Search the NHLE for: POST ALIGNMENT - POST BOX — A box in which letters are posted or deposited for dispatch.
Search the NHLE for: POST BOX - POST MILL — A type of windmill, mainly timber-framed, whose body, containing machinery and carrying the sail, rotates about an upright post.
Search the NHLE for: POST MILL - POST MILL ROUNDHOUSE — A circular or octagonal building at the base of a post mill to provide storage space and to give protection to the superstructure. The roundhouse is not attached to the mill itself. Some roundhouses were later converted for domestic purposes.
Search the NHLE for: POST MILL ROUNDHOUSE - POST OFFICE — A building, department or shop where postal business is carried on.
Search the NHLE for: POST OFFICE - POSTAL SYSTEM STRUCTURE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the collection, distribution, sending and reception of mail.
Search the NHLE for: POSTAL SYSTEM STRUCTURE - POSTERN — A small gateway cut through the curtain wall or its flanking towers. Used primarily as an outlet for counter-attacking forces.
Search the NHLE for: POSTERN - POTASH KILN — A kiln used for the slow burning of vegetable matter to produce potassium carbonate.
Search the NHLE for: POTASH KILN - POTTERY KILN — A structure, composed of oven and hovel, used for the firing of pottery ware.
Search the NHLE for: POTTERY KILN - POTTERY MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production of pottery. Use only for sites where there is evidence of pottery manufacture but no specific monument, otherwise use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: POTTERY MANUFACTURING SITE - POTTERY WORKS — A complex of buildings used for the manufacture of pottery.
Search the NHLE for: POTTERY WORKS - POTTERY WORKSHOP — A building or room where items of pottery are manufactured. Includes handcrafted and machine made pottery.
Search the NHLE for: POTTERY WORKSHOP - POTTING SHED — A shed in which delicate plants are reared from seedlings for planting out later.
Search the NHLE for: POTTING SHED - POULTIGGERY — A building combining a pigsty at ground level with a poultry house in a loft over.
Search the NHLE for: POULTIGGERY - POULTRY HOUSE — A structure providing accommodation for poultry.
Search the NHLE for: POULTRY HOUSE - POUND — A pen, often circular and stone-walled, for rounding up livestock.
Search the NHLE for: POUND - POUND LOCK — A common type of lock in the form of a chamber with gates on either side.
Search the NHLE for: POUND LOCK - POWDER MAGAZINE — A place in which gunpowder and other explosives are stored in large quantities.
Search the NHLE for: POWDER MAGAZINE - POWER GENERATION SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the generation and transmission of power.
Search the NHLE for: POWER GENERATION SITE - POWER HOUSE — A building housing the permanent electricity generator supply for domestic use or small scale unspecified power generation on an airfield. Unlike stand by set houses, power houses had to cope with both essential and non-essential loads.
Search the NHLE for: POWER HOUSE - POWER LOOM SHED — A building housing a number of power looms.
Search the NHLE for: POWER LOOM SHED - POWER STATION — A building or set of buildings and structures where power, especially electrical or mechanical, is generated. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: POWER STATION - PRACTICE TRENCH — A system of trenches dug by troops for practice purposes.
Search the NHLE for: PRACTICE TRENCH - PREACHING CROSS — A cross, erected on a highway or in an open place, at which monks and others used to preach.
Search the NHLE for: PREACHING CROSS - PREACHING PIT — A large, circular hollow, often with a platform and seating built into the sides, used for preaching.
Search the NHLE for: PREACHING PIT - PRECEPTORY — A manor or estate owned and run by an order of knights and governed by a preceptor.
Search the NHLE for: PRECEPTORY - PRECINCT — The ground immediately surrounding a place, particularly a religious building.
Search the NHLE for: PRECINCT - PRECINCT WALL — A wall enclosing a precinct.
Search the NHLE for: PRECINCT WALL - PREFABRICATED BRIDGE — A bridge manufactured from prefabricated sections.
Search the NHLE for: PREFABRICATED BRIDGE - PREFABRICATED BUILDING — A building constructed from prefabricated sections. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PREFABRICATED BUILDING - PREFABRICATED HOUSE — A type of prefabricated house erected, to 11 approved designs, as part of the Temporary Housing Programme, between 1944 and 1948. This scheme was devised to relieve the post-war housing shortage at a time when conventional materials were unavailable.
Search the NHLE for: PREFABRICATED HOUSE - PREMONSTRATENSIAN CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Premonstratensian order dependent on an English mother house.
Search the NHLE for: PREMONSTRATENSIAN CELL - PREMONSTRATENSIAN GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Premonstratensian order.
Search the NHLE for: PREMONSTRATENSIAN GRANGE - PREMONSTRATENSIAN MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Premonstratensian canons.
Search the NHLE for: PREMONSTRATENSIAN MONASTERY - PREMONSTRATENSIAN NUNNERY — A priory of Premonstratensian canonesses.
Search the NHLE for: PREMONSTRATENSIAN NUNNERY - PREPARATORY SCHOOL — An independent school for children up to the age of 11 or 13 in which pupils are prepared for entry into a public school.
Search the NHLE for: PREPARATORY SCHOOL - PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for Presbyterians, a movement who started off attempting to reform Anglicanism before breaking away in 1660. Sometimes referred to as moderate puritans, they joined with the Congregationalists to form the United Reformed church in 1972.
Search the NHLE for: PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL - PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WALES CHAPEL — A place of worship for Welsh Presbyterians. Formerly known as Calvinistic Methodists, the Presbyterian Church of Wales separated from the established church in 1811.
Search the NHLE for: PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WALES CHAPEL - PRESS HOUSE — A building containing presses for the compaction of mill cake gunpowder as part of the gunpowder manufacturing process.
Search the NHLE for: PRESS HOUSE - PRESS SHOP — A workshop containing machinery used to press textiles.
Search the NHLE for: PRESS SHOP - PRIEST HOLE — A hiding place for a (Roman Catholic) priest.
Search the NHLE for: PRIEST HOLE - PRIESTS HOUSE — The residence of a priest.
Search the NHLE for: PRIESTS HOUSE - PRIMARY SCHOOL — A school which combines the functions of both Infant and Junior Schools, teaching children up to the age of eleven. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PRIMARY SCHOOL - PRIMATE HOUSE — A building used to house apes and monkeys.
Search the NHLE for: PRIMATE HOUSE - PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Primitive Methodists, a group who were formed in Staffordshire and influenced by American evangelical ideas and who left the Methodists in 1811.
Search the NHLE for: PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL - PRINT SHOP — A printer's workshop in the newspaper/publishing industries.
Search the NHLE for: PRINT SHOP - PRINTING AND PUBLISHING SITE — Buildings and sites associated with the printing and publishing industry.
Search the NHLE for: PRINTING AND PUBLISHING SITE - PRINTING SHOP — A workshop for printing textiles in a CALICO PRINTING WORKS.
Search the NHLE for: PRINTING SHOP - PRINTING WORKS — A factory or complex containing machinery for the manufacture of printed materials.
Search the NHLE for: PRINTING WORKS - PRIORY — A monastery governed by a prior or prioress. Use with narrow terms of DOUBLE HOUSE, FRIARY, MONASTERY or NUNNERY.
Search the NHLE for: PRIORY - PRISON — An establishment where offenders are confined. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PRISON - PRISON CHAPEL — A chapel for a prison, either attached or in a separate building.
Search the NHLE for: PRISON CHAPEL - PRISON GOVERNORS HOUSE — The residence of a prison governor.
Search the NHLE for: PRISON GOVERNORS HOUSE - PRISON TREADMILL — An appliance for producing motion by the stepping of men on movable steps on a revolving cylinder. Used as a form of punishment in prisons.
Search the NHLE for: PRISON TREADMILL - PRISONER OF WAR CAMP — A prison site for the containment of servicemen captured in war.
Search the NHLE for: PRISONER OF WAR CAMP - PRIVATE CHAPEL — A small private chapel in a church or house, either attached or in a separate building.
Search the NHLE for: PRIVATE CHAPEL - PRIVATE SCHOOL — A school that is established, run and supported by a private, non-governmental body.
Search the NHLE for: PRIVATE SCHOOL - PRIVATE SQUARE — An open area, often paved or cobbled, surrounded by privately owned buildings and inaccessible to the public.
Search the NHLE for: PRIVATE SQUARE - PRIVY HOUSE — A small building housing a lavatory.
Search the NHLE for: PRIVY HOUSE - PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE — A building used by organizations or societies for the promotion of a particular profession through lectures, research, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE - PROMENADE — A place for strolling, public walks, etc. Usually associated with coastal resorts.
Search the NHLE for: PROMENADE - PROMONTORY FORT — A defensive enclosure created by constructing one or more lines of ramparts across a neck of land, in order to defend, or restrict access to, a spur or promontory, either inland or on the coast.
Search the NHLE for: PROMONTORY FORT - PROOF RANGE — A site where weapons and/or explosives are tested experimentally, or are routinely tested as part of a manufacturing quality control process.
Search the NHLE for: PROOF RANGE - PROPRIETARY SCHOOL — A school in which the funds were raised through a system of shareholding whereby parents bought shares in the school and thus paid for their children's education.
Search the NHLE for: PROPRIETARY SCHOOL - PROSPECT MOUND — An artificial mound, generally conical, placed within a garden or park to provide a viewing point to overlook the garden or park. It may also serve as a visual focus in the garden or park layout.
Search the NHLE for: PROSPECT MOUND - PROSPECT TOWER — A tower built on a prominent part of an estate to provide panoramic views of the surrounding countryside.
Search the NHLE for: PROSPECT TOWER - PROSPECTING PIT — A pit dug in the prospect of finding valuable minerals, coal, metal ores, etc, beneath the ground surface.
Search the NHLE for: PROSPECTING PIT - PROVING HOUSE — A building used for the testing of weapons for quality, accuracy and explosive power.
Search the NHLE for: PROVING HOUSE - PROVOSTS HOUSE — The residence of the head or president of a chapter, or community of religious persons.
Search the NHLE for: PROVOSTS HOUSE - PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL — Nowadays a hospital where patients suffering from psychiatric disorders receive medical care and treatment. Traditionally they were often places where psychiatric patients were kept confined away from society receiving minimal medical care or attention.
Search the NHLE for: PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL - PUBLIC BUILDING — A building or group of buildings owned and operated by a governing body and often occupied by a government agency. Use specific type of building where known.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC BUILDING - PUBLIC CONVENIENCE — A toilet or toilets for public use.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC CONVENIENCE - PUBLIC HALL — A purpose-built hall (usually 19th century) which was available for public hire and could be used for a variety of activities, eg. lectures, meetings, balls and concerts.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC HALL - PUBLIC HOUSE — The public house was a 19th century development, distinctive from the earlier BEER HOUSE by its decorative treatment and fittings.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC HOUSE - PUBLIC LIBRARY — A library for use of the public.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC LIBRARY - PUBLIC PARK — A park for the use of the public for entertainment and relaxation.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC PARK - PUBLIC SCHOOL — An endowed school providing a liberal education for such as can afford it.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC SCHOOL - PUBLIC SQUARE — An open area, often paved or cobbled, surrounded by buildings and accessible to the public.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC SQUARE - PUBLIC WASH HOUSE — A laundry built in conjunction with a PUBLIC BATHS.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC WASH HOUSE - PUBLISHING HOUSE — An establishment where books, periodicals, music, etc, are produced from original manuscripts and distributed to booksellers, dealers and the public.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLISHING HOUSE - PUG MILL — Machine, frequently horse powered, for mixing raw clay into brick earth.
Search the NHLE for: PUG MILL - PULP MILL — Building housing the machinery for the shredding and grinding of wood in running water and pressing of the resulting fibres into a pulp.
Search the NHLE for: PULP MILL - PULPIT — Use as an external architectural feature only.
Search the NHLE for: PULPIT - PUMP — A machine used to raise and move water and other liquids, compress gases, etc. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PUMP - PUMP HOUSE — A small pumping station.
Search the NHLE for: PUMP HOUSE - PUMP ROOM — A room or building where a pump is worked.
Search the NHLE for: PUMP ROOM - PUMP ROOMS — A spa building to which water was pumped from springs or wells; usually also serving a social function as an ASSEMBLY ROOM, eg. as at Bath.
Search the NHLE for: PUMP ROOMS - PUMPING STATION — A waterworks pumping station.
Search the NHLE for: PUMPING STATION - PUT ON STONE — A stone used to instruct a coachman to take an extra trace horse to assist on roads of a steep gradient.
Search the NHLE for: PUT ON STONE - PUTTING GREEN — An open area of prepared ground used for practising putting with golf clubs.
Search the NHLE for: PUTTING GREEN - PUTTY MILL — A factory where putty, used as a means of securing windows and for setting plumbing fixtures, is produced from a combination of whiting and oil.
Search the NHLE for: PUTTY MILL - PYROTECHNIC STORE (2647/37) — A protected building used for the storage of explosives and other pyrotechnic equipment and designed to Air Ministry drawing number 2647/37.
Search the NHLE for: PYROTECHNIC STORE (2647/37)
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- QUADRANGULAR CASTLE — A castle built on a simple, rectangular plan, usually with a tower at each corner. This design became common in England after 1300.
Search the NHLE for: QUADRANGULAR CASTLE - QUARRY — An excavation from which stone for building and other functions, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
Search the NHLE for: QUARRY - QUARTERMASTERS STORE — A building or group of buildings used for the storage and issuing of rations and equipment to an army unit.
Search the NHLE for: QUARTERMASTERS STORE - QUASI AISLED HOUSE — A house with no row of posts between the central space and the aisles.
Search the NHLE for: QUASI AISLED HOUSE - QUAY — An artificial paved bank or solid landing place built parallel to, or projecting out from, the shoreline to serve in the loading and unloading of vessels.
Search the NHLE for: QUAY - QUAY CRANE — A crane located on a quayside used for the loading and unloading of goods and materials to and from vessels.
Search the NHLE for: QUAY CRANE - QUERN WORKING SITE — A site used for the manufacture and finishing of querns.
Search the NHLE for: QUERN WORKING SITE - QUINTAIN — An object supported by a crosspiece on a post, used by knights as a target in tilting.
Search the NHLE for: QUINTAIN - QUOITS GROUND — An area of ground used for the game of quoits.
Search the NHLE for: QUOITS GROUND
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- RABBIT TRAP — Term applied to both the pit trap itself, and the walled enclosure containing pit trap(s).
Search the NHLE for: RABBIT TRAP - RABBIT TYPE — Term applied to a pit trap itself and also a walled enclosure containing one or more pit traps.
Search the NHLE for: RABBIT TYPE - RABBIT WARREN — An area used for the breeding and rearing of rabbits.
Search the NHLE for: RABBIT WARREN - RACECOURSE — An area or route marked out for the site of a race.
Search the NHLE for: RACECOURSE - RACECOURSE PAVILION — A building situated next to a horse racing course with facilities for participants and spectators.
Search the NHLE for: RACECOURSE PAVILION - RACING CIRCUIT — A piece of ground used for motor racing.
Search the NHLE for: RACING CIRCUIT - RACING STABLE — A building or range of buildings used to accommodate race horses.
Search the NHLE for: RACING STABLE - RACKET SPORTS SITE — A building, site or structure associated with the playing of racket sports.
Search the NHLE for: RACKET SPORTS SITE - RACQUETS COURT — A plain four walled court used to play the game of racquets on.
Search the NHLE for: RACQUETS COURT - RADAR STATION — A building or site incorporating equipment used for detecting the presence of enemy aircraft or ships. Radar Stations can also be used to aid aircraft navigation in dark or poor conditions.
Search the NHLE for: RADAR STATION - RADIO BROADCASTING STUDIO — A place where radio programmes are produced and broadcast.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO BROADCASTING STUDIO - RADIO STATION — A building or group of buildings containing equipment capable of transmitting and receiving radio signals. Use BROADCASTING RADIO STATION for broadcasting establishments e.g. BBC Radio stations.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO STATION - RADIO STUDIO — A room or building used for recording and broadcasting radio programmes.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO STUDIO - RADIO TELEGRAPHY STATION — A building or group of buildings, incorporating radio masts, built to intercept radio transmissions from enemy vessels and aircraft during WWI and WWII.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO TELEGRAPHY STATION - RADIO TELESCOPE — A large dish-like structure designed to observe the invisible outerspace phenomena detected by radio waves, eg. Jodrell Bank.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO TELESCOPE - RADIO VALVE WORKS — A complex of buildings used for the manufacture of radio valves or similar electronic components.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO VALVE WORKS - RADIOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT — A place where patients have X-Rays taken to highlight an illness or irregularity.
Search the NHLE for: RADIOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT - RAG SORTING HOUSE — A building in which textile rags are sorted according to fibre types.
Search the NHLE for: RAG SORTING HOUSE - RAGGED SCHOOL — A free school for poor children.
Search the NHLE for: RAGGED SCHOOL - RAIL DEPOT — A railway yard with associated buildings used for the maintenance and storage of locomotive engines and rolling stock.
Search the NHLE for: RAIL DEPOT - RAILBLOCK — Obstacles, often semi permanent, which are placed on railway lines to prevent the enemy from using them. Set up during the defence of Britain.
Search the NHLE for: RAILBLOCK - RAILINGS — A fence or barrier made of metal or wooden rails.
Search the NHLE for: RAILINGS - RAILWAY — A line or track consisting of iron or steel rails, on which passenger carriages or goods wagons are moved, usually by a locomotive engine.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY - RAILWAY BRIDGE — A bridge carrying a railway track across a river, valley, road etc.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY BRIDGE - RAILWAY BUFFET — A small eating and drinking establishment or refreshment bar at a railway station for the use of passengers.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY BUFFET - RAILWAY BUILDING — A building or structure of unknown function found on a railway. Use more specific type where known
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY BUILDING - RAILWAY CARRIAGE — Use for stationary railway carriage being used for a purpose it wasn't originally intended for - office, shelter, etc.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY CARRIAGE - RAILWAY CARRIAGE SHED — A building used to house railway carriages.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY CARRIAGE SHED - RAILWAY CARRIAGE WORKS — An engineering site where railway carriages are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY CARRIAGE WORKS - RAILWAY CUTTING — A man-made trough or valley through a hill, carrying at its base a railway.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY CUTTING - RAILWAY EMBANKMENT — A man-made ridge to carry a railway across a declivity or area subject to flooding.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY EMBANKMENT - RAILWAY ENGINEERING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the construction and maintenance of railways and rolling stock.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY ENGINEERING SITE - RAILWAY ENGINEERING WORKS — A large site specializing in the manufacture of locomotives.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY ENGINEERING WORKS - RAILWAY ENGINEERING WORKSHOP — An engineering workshop, often attached to an engine shed, for the running repairs of operational parts, etc.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY ENGINEERING WORKSHOP - RAILWAY HOTEL — A hotel adjacent to a railway terminus. Railway hotels were often owned by a railway company.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY HOTEL - RAILWAY INCLINED PLANE — An embankment or cutting on a railway system, surfaced at a uniform gradient, up or down which materials were hauled by rope.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY INCLINED PLANE - RAILWAY JUNCTION — A place where two or more railway lines meet.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY JUNCTION - RAILWAY LIFT — A mechanically operated lift used to transfer rolling stock from one level of track to another.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY LIFT - RAILWAY OFFICE — A building or room where railway tickets may be bought and administrative duties associated with a railway are conducted.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY OFFICE - RAILWAY PLATFORM — A raised floor along the side of a line at a railway station, for convenience in entering and alighting from a train.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY PLATFORM - RAILWAY SIDING — A short piece of track lying parallel to the main railway line enabling trains and trucks to pass one another. Sidings can also be used to park trains which are not in use.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY SIDING - RAILWAY SIGNAL — A structure with semaphore arms and/or coloured lights used as a means of warning on railway systems.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY SIGNAL - RAILWAY STABLE — A stable located at a railway station or goods yard. Horses were necessary both for freight and passengers to continue their journey beyond the railway.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY STABLE - RAILWAY STATION — A place where railway trains regularly stop for taking up and setting down passengers or for receiving goods for transport.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY STATION - RAILWAY STOREHOUSE — A small store building at a railway station for the storage of equipment and other stores associated with the railway.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY STOREHOUSE - RAILWAY TRANSPORT SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with railway transport.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY TRANSPORT SITE - RAILWAY TUNNEL — A tunnel running under a river or a hillside through which a railway line runs.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY TUNNEL - RAILWAY TUNNEL PORTAL — An often stately or ornate entrance to a railway tunnel.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY TUNNEL PORTAL - RAILWAY TURNTABLE — A piece of machinery on which a railway engine, carriage or wagon can be rotated at a railway terminal.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY TURNTABLE - RAILWAY VIADUCT — A bridge, usually resting on raised arches, carrying a railway across low-lying land or water.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY VIADUCT - RAILWAY WAGON WORKS — Engineering works specializing in the production and maintenance of non-passenger carrying railway rolling stock.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY WAGON WORKS - RAILWAY WAREHOUSE — A large building, situated at a railway terminus, used for the temporary storage of goods or merchandise awaiting transportation to or from a railway.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY WAREHOUSE - RAILWAY WORKERS COTTAGE — Purpose-built housing for railway workers.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY WORKERS COTTAGE - RAILWAY WORKERS TEMPORARY SETTLEMENT — A temporary settlement or shanty-town erected by railway construction workers or "navvys".
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY WORKERS TEMPORARY SETTLEMENT - RAILWAY WORKS — An engineering works producing items for the railway other than rolling stock, such as signals, tracks, points, etc.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY WORKS - RAILWAY WORKSHOP — An ancilliary workshop used for repairs, etc.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY WORKSHOP - RAINWATER HEAD — The receptacle at the top of a rain-water pipe which gathers the water from one or more outlets or gutters on the roof.
Search the NHLE for: RAINWATER HEAD - RAISED BED — A bed raised above the level of the surrounding walks. A common feature of medieval and Renaissance gardens.
Search the NHLE for: RAISED BED - RAISED PAVEMENT — A pavement walkway for pedestrian use, often raised above the level of a road or path.
Search the NHLE for: RAISED PAVEMENT - RAKE — A vertical vein of metallic ore, usually lead, occuring between walls of rock and cutting through the bedding. Often rakes have been worked from early times leaving deep trenches several km long, with adits leading off and shafts sunk at the side.
Search the NHLE for: RAKE - RAMP — An inclined plane connecting two different levels, used to accomodate the movement of vehicles, wheeled apparatus,livestock etc.
Search the NHLE for: RAMP - RAMPART — A protective earthen mound, often the main defence of a fortification.
Search the NHLE for: RAMPART - RANGERS HOUSE — The residence of a keeper of a royal park etc.
Search the NHLE for: RANGERS HOUSE - READING ROOM — A room in a library or institution providing periodicals, newspapers, etc.
Search the NHLE for: READING ROOM - REAL TENNIS COURT — An indoor court where the ancient and complex sport of real tennis is played, eg. the court at Hampton Court Palace.
Search the NHLE for: REAL TENNIS COURT - REAVE — A stone wall, often of considerable length, built to divide an area of land. Most occur as part of extensive walled field systems. This is a regional term specific to Dartmoor and should not be used in other parts of the country.
Search the NHLE for: REAVE - RECEIVING BLOCK — A building as part of a workhouse, prison or hospital, often including porter's lodge, baths, clothes store, washrooms, casual cells, rooms etc, for receiving inmates/patients. Use term from Components thesaurus if it is part of a building complex.
Search the NHLE for: RECEIVING BLOCK - RECEPTION HOUSE — A building, usually associated with, or found within the grounds of, a cemetery and used for the storage of coffins prior to burial. Reception houses were introduced as a result of concerns around the implcations for public health of C19 burial practices.
Search the NHLE for: RECEPTION HOUSE - RECORD OFFICE — A building where official archives are kept for public inspection.
Search the NHLE for: RECORD OFFICE - RECORDING STUDIO — A room or building used for the making of films, television or radio programmes and musical recordings (CDs, LPs, etc).
Search the NHLE for: RECORDING STUDIO - RECREATION CENTRE — A site available to the public for the pursuit of leisure and recreational activities.
Search the NHLE for: RECREATION CENTRE - RECREATION GROUND — A public ground with facilities for games and other activities.
Search the NHLE for: RECREATION GROUND - RECREATIONAL — Sites, buildings, structures, features & areas of land associated with sport, leisure & entertainment. Includes sports grounds, hunting forests, cinemas, theatres etc.
Search the NHLE for: RECREATIONAL - RECREATIONAL HALL — A hall built as part of a complex and used for the recreation of the workers or inhabitants. Usually associated with model estates, factories, flats etc.
Search the NHLE for: RECREATIONAL HALL - RECRUITING STATION — A building where civilians are enlisted to join the military forces.
Search the NHLE for: RECRUITING STATION - RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE — A rectangular shaped area of land enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier.
Search the NHLE for: RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE - RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE — A monument consisting of an area of land enclosed by a ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier, where the barrier consists of several straight or near straight sections.
Search the NHLE for: RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE - RECUMBENT STONE — A stone or boulder which lies lengthways on the ground and may be used as a table, altar etc. Use only for isolated stones.
Search the NHLE for: RECUMBENT STONE - REDOUBT — A defence work, either a detached fieldwork or an outwork built as part of a fortification as a last defensive position.
Search the NHLE for: REDOUBT - REEL DRYING STOVE — A structure or building used in the manufacture of the explosive cordite. After the cordite had been pressed to extract moisture it was placed on racks within the stove prior to being taken to the reeling house for winding.
Search the NHLE for: REEL DRYING STOVE - REFECTORY — A communal dining room, especially in schools, colleges and monasteries.
Search the NHLE for: REFECTORY - REFERENCE LIBRARY — A library where books may be consulted but not taken away.
Search the NHLE for: REFERENCE LIBRARY - REFINERY — An industrial building, plant or site where crude substances, such as sugar, metal, oil etc., are purified or refined.
Search the NHLE for: REFINERY - REFRESHMENT PAVILION — A type of pavilion sometimes found in public parks or country house estates.
Search the NHLE for: REFRESHMENT PAVILION - REFRESHMENT ROOMS — An area within a building open to the public where light meals and drinks can be purchased and consumed.
Search the NHLE for: REFRESHMENT ROOMS - REFUGEE HOUSING — Housing provided for refugees. Similar to refugee camp but with the reuse of existing buildings rather than a temporary camp.
Search the NHLE for: REFUGEE HOUSING - REFUSE DEPOT — A place where domestic refuse is collected for disposal.
Search the NHLE for: REFUSE DEPOT - REFUSE DISPOSAL SITE — A site where household rubbish and other waste products can be disposed of. May take the form of a pit, rubbish tip, landfill site or incineration plant.
Search the NHLE for: REFUSE DISPOSAL SITE - REFUSE TRANSFER DEPOT — A depot for the transfer of town refuse to river barges before transportation to the REFUSE DEPOT.
Search the NHLE for: REFUSE TRANSFER DEPOT - REGIMENTAL DEPOT — Any military base where the depot battalion of a regiment is based. Depot battalions maintain the stores and records of a regiment and train new recruits.
Search the NHLE for: REGIMENTAL DEPOT - REGIMENTAL INSTITUTE — An institute provided by a regiment for the improvement of the soldiers and to reduce excessive drinking.
Search the NHLE for: REGIMENTAL INSTITUTE - REGIONAL GOVERNMENT HEADQUARTERS — A reinforced concrete structure, usually sited underground, from where it was intended to conduct the business of government in the event of nuclear war. Date specific from mid 1980's to early 1990's.
Search the NHLE for: REGIONAL GOVERNMENT HEADQUARTERS - REGIONAL SEAT OF GOVERNMENT — A reinforced concrete structure, usually sited underground, from where it was intended to conduct the business of government in the event of nuclear war. Date specific late 1950's to early 1970's.
Search the NHLE for: REGIONAL SEAT OF GOVERNMENT - REGISTER OFFICE — An office at which the registration of marriages, births and deaths are recorded, and in which marriage ceremonies may take place.
Search the NHLE for: REGISTER OFFICE - REGISTRARS HOUSE — A house, the inhabitant of which keeps an official register e.g. a registrar's house near a cemetery would keep an official record of deaths and burials.
Search the NHLE for: REGISTRARS HOUSE - REHABILITATION CENTRE — A place where people recovering from illnesses or accidents are helped to recover their physical and/or mental capabilities.
Search the NHLE for: REHABILITATION CENTRE - RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CENTRE — A building or part of a building, sometimes attached to a religious community, where religious activities such as worshipping, meetings, teaching about the faith and conferences take place. It can also provide accommodation.
Search the NHLE for: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CENTRE - RELIGIOUS HOUSE — Use only for a monastic house of unknown status, religious order and uncertain authenticity.
Search the NHLE for: RELIGIOUS HOUSE - REPOSITORY — A room or building used as a store, usually for documents, works of art, books etc.
Search the NHLE for: REPOSITORY - REPTILE HOUSE — A building where reptiles are accommodated at a zoo or wildlife park.
Search the NHLE for: REPTILE HOUSE - RESCUE CENTRE — A place from where rescue missions are co-ordinated and casualties treated after an accident, offensive action or disaster.
Search the NHLE for: RESCUE CENTRE - RESEARCH INSTITUTE — A building used by an organization or society instituted to promote research.
Search the NHLE for: RESEARCH INSTITUTE - RESEARCH STATION — A building, group of buildings or installation in which scientific experiments are carried out.
Search the NHLE for: RESEARCH STATION - RESERVOIR — A large natural or artificial body of water, sometimes covered, used to collect and store water for a particular function, eg. industrial or public use.
Search the NHLE for: RESERVOIR - RESERVOIR INSPECTION CHAMBER — A chamber built into the side of a covered reservoir to enable the water level to be inspected.
Search the NHLE for: RESERVOIR INSPECTION CHAMBER - RESIDENTIAL BUILDING — Buildings used as non-permanent homes.
Search the NHLE for: RESIDENTIAL BUILDING - RESORT VILLAGE — Model village built as a holiday resort.
Search the NHLE for: RESORT VILLAGE - RESTAURANT — A place where refreshments or meals may be obtained.
Search the NHLE for: RESTAURANT - RETAINING WALL — A wall constructed for the purpose of confining or supporting a mass of earth or water.
Search the NHLE for: RETAINING WALL - RETIREMENT HOME — Residence for retired people, often in the form of an apartment complex, differing from a nursing home as the residents live independently.
Search the NHLE for: RETIREMENT HOME - RETORT HOUSE — Central functional building of a gas works. Coal is roasted in retorts producing gas and coke.
Search the NHLE for: RETORT HOUSE - RETREAT — A house or centre used for meditation, contemplation and/or prayer.
Search the NHLE for: RETREAT - REVERBERATORY CALCINER — A calciner dating from the early 17th to early 20th centuries, usually made of brick and without moving parts, consisting of a reverberatory furnace, and used for the extraction of arsenic.
Search the NHLE for: REVERBERATORY CALCINER - REVERBERATORY FURNACE — A furnace in which the flame is turned back over the substance to be heated.
Search the NHLE for: REVERBERATORY FURNACE - REVETMENT — A wall or masonry construction built for the purpose of retaining or supporting a bank of earth, wall, rampart etc.
Search the NHLE for: REVETMENT - RIBBON FACTORY — A factory where ribbons are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: RIBBON FACTORY - RIDE — A road or way for riding on horseback within a park or estate.
Search the NHLE for: RIDE - RIDGE AND FURROW — A series of long, raised ridges separated by ditches used to prepare the ground for arable cultivation. This was a technique, characteristic of the medieval period.
Search the NHLE for: RIDGE AND FURROW - RIDING SCHOOL — A school for instruction in the art of horsemanship.
Search the NHLE for: RIDING SCHOOL - RIFLE BUTTS — A target range used for rifle and small arms practice and recreational purposes.
Search the NHLE for: RIFLE BUTTS - RIGGING HOUSE — A workshop with equipment for the making and repair of ships' rigging.
Search the NHLE for: RIGGING HOUSE - RING BANK — Circular enclosure featuring an enclosing bank with no accompanying ditch. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: RING BANK - RING BARROW — A circular bank surrounding an area where burials were placed.
Search the NHLE for: RING BARROW - RING CAIRN — A low, wide, circular ring or bank of stones surrounding an open, roughly circular area which is (or was initially) free of cairn material. The inner and outer faces of the bank may be kerbed.
Search the NHLE for: RING CAIRN - RING DITCH — Circular or near circular ditches, usually seen as cropmarks. Use the term where the function is unknown. Ring ditches may be the remains of ploughed out round barrows, round houses, or of modern features such as searchlight emplacements.
Search the NHLE for: RING DITCH - RING ENCLOSURE — A small circular enclosure defined by a turf or earthern bank.
Search the NHLE for: RING ENCLOSURE - RINGWORK — A defensive bank and ditch, circular or oval in plan, surrounding one or more buildings.
Search the NHLE for: RINGWORK - RINGWORK AND BAILEY — An enclosure within a bailey which contained a keep and sometimes took the place of a motte.
Search the NHLE for: RINGWORK AND BAILEY - RITUAL PIT — A pit which appears to have been dug for, or which contains, objects apparently deposited for reasons other than storage, disposal or extraction. Index with principal object types.
Search the NHLE for: RITUAL PIT - RIVER DOCK — An artificial area of open water, situated on a river, enclosed by masonry and fitted with dock gates in which ships can be repaired, loaded/unloaded or berthed.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER DOCK - RIVER INTAKE — A dam and sluice combination, associated with an aqueduct, for the extraction of water from a river to feed a reservoir or water treatment plant.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER INTAKE - RIVER INTAKE GAUGE — A balance engine used to replenish the water levels of a river by transferring water from a reservoir or other supply.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER INTAKE GAUGE - RIVER LOCK — A section of the water channel of a river, shut off above and below by lock gates provided with sluices to let water in and out and thus raise or lower boats from one level to another. Often found situated next to a weir.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER LOCK - RIVER NAVIGATION — A river canalized for shipping.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER NAVIGATION - RIVER PORT — A port situated on a river, often associated with a town or overland goods transport facilities.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER PORT - RIVER WHARF — A large wooden structure built alongside the edge of a river where boats may lie for the loading and unloading of goods and passengers.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER WHARF - ROAD — A way between different places, used by horses, travellers on foot and vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD - ROAD BRIDGE — A bridge carrying a road over land or water.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD BRIDGE - ROAD SIGN — A sign, often mounted on a post next to a roadside, giving directions or other instructions.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD SIGN - ROAD TRANSPORT DEPOT — A place where goods and merchandise are temporarily stored before being transported to or from somewhere by road.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD TRANSPORT DEPOT - ROAD TUNNEL — A tunnel running under a river or through a hill along which vehicles may travel.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD TUNNEL - ROAD TUNNEL PORTAL — The entrance to a road tunnel, sometimes of a grand construction.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD TUNNEL PORTAL - ROAD VIADUCT — A bridge, usually resting on raised arches, carrying a road across low-lying land or water.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD VIADUCT - ROADSIDE LIGHTHOUSE — A lighted pillar or LIGHTHOUSE, eg. Dunston Pillar, Lincs., erected in 1751 to guide travellers over the heath.
Search the NHLE for: ROADSIDE LIGHTHOUSE - ROASTING HEARTH — A hearth for roasting metallic ore, usually non ferrous, before smelting.
Search the NHLE for: ROASTING HEARTH - ROCK ART — Refers to art, whether carving or painting, applied to free -standing stones or cave walls.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK ART - ROCK CARVING — A decorative design or illustration, often an anthropomorphic or geometrical image, carved into a stone surface, such as a cave wall or free-standing stone. Usually, though not always, of Prehistoric date.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK CARVING - ROCK CUT CHAMBER — A manmade chamber cut into a rockface.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK CUT CHAMBER - ROCK CUT DWELLING — A dwelling cut into the rockface of a cliff or hillside, often with a built frontage. Many date from the Medieval period and are still in use in some areas of the country.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK CUT DWELLING - ROCK CUT GRAVE — A grave which has been formed by cutting into the bedrock of a site.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK CUT GRAVE - ROCK GARDEN — A garden consisting primarily of rocks and rock plants.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK GARDEN - ROCK SHELTER — The area beneath a natural overhang at the base of a cliff or crag. This may have been used for occupation, burial, etc. Index with site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK SHELTER - ROCKERY — A pile of rough stones and soil used for the growing of ferns and other plants.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKERY - ROCKET — A missile or aircraft that obtain its thrust from a rocket engine. Some rockets will exist as monuments for example, in the form of gate guardians. Double index with the monument type where appropriate.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKET - ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY — Unspecified Second World War anti-aircraft battery. There were three types of battery. The U2P and U20P had different arrangements of DFW55373 projector sites for the 20-barrelled 3" projectors. The U9P mounted 12-barrelled projectors.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY - ROCKET TEST FACILITY — An area for the testing of rockets and guided missiles. Includes all structures associated with both the firing and testing of rockets and missiles.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKET TEST FACILITY - ROCKWORK — An area of either natural or artificial stone arranged to resemble a rocky outcrop or cliff face within animal cages/enclosures of a Zoo.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKWORK - ROCOCO GARDEN — Garden comprising rockwork features including grottoes, cascades and arches, often in different architectural styles ie. Gothic, Chinese and rustic. In use from the mid C18.
Search the NHLE for: ROCOCO GARDEN - ROLLER COASTER — A type of fairground or seaside amusement, often a permanent structure, where carriages travel at high speeds on an undulating track raised some distance from the ground.
Search the NHLE for: ROLLER COASTER - ROLLING MILL — A mill in which sets of rollers were used to roll metal to set thicknesses or shapes such as rails, beams or rods.
Search the NHLE for: ROLLING MILL - ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL — The principal Roman Catholic church in a diocese in which the cathedra or bishop's throne is to be found.
Search the NHLE for: ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL - ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY — A burial ground for Roman Catholics.
Search the NHLE for: ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY - ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL — A chapel where Roman Catholics worship.
Search the NHLE for: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL - ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH — A place of worship for Roman Catholics.
Search the NHLE for: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH - ROMAN CATHOLIC NUNNERY — A house of Roman Catholic nuns or canonesses.
Search the NHLE for: ROMAN CATHOLIC NUNNERY - ROND POINT — An open circular area where avenues converge.
Search the NHLE for: ROND POINT - ROOF GARDEN — A garden or collection of potted plants on the flat roof of a house or other building.
Search the NHLE for: ROOF GARDEN - ROOT HOUSE — A picturesque garden building decorated with tree roots, often serving as a HERMITAGE or ARBOUR.
Search the NHLE for: ROOT HOUSE - ROPE MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings and structures associated with the manufacture of rope.
Search the NHLE for: ROPE MANUFACTURING SITE - ROPERY — A place where ropes are made.
Search the NHLE for: ROPERY - ROPEWALK — A very long, narrow, roofed building, often two-storeyed, used for the manufacture of rope. Often attached to warehousing, an engine house or offices. Can be included within the complex of a textile mill.
Search the NHLE for: ROPEWALK - ROSE GARDEN — A garden, often geometrical in layout, or area for the cultivation of roses.
Search the NHLE for: ROSE GARDEN - ROSTRAL COLUMN — A column set on a pedestal and decorated with the bows of warships to celebrate naval victories. Originally a Roman form, it was revived in 17th and 18th century decoration.
Search the NHLE for: ROSTRAL COLUMN - ROTARY KILN — A kiln in which stone is burnt as it falls through a heated and slightly inclined steel tube.
Search the NHLE for: ROTARY KILN - ROTUNDA — An isolated building, circular in plan, generally consisting of one apartment with a domed roof, eg. Mausoleum at Castle Howard, Yorkshire.
Search the NHLE for: ROTUNDA - ROUND — A small, Iron Age/Romano-British enclosed settlement found in South West England.
Search the NHLE for: ROUND - ROUND BARROW — Hemispherical mound surrounded by a ditch (or occasionally two or more concentric ditches), often accompanied by an external (or occasionally internal) bank. Mound and ditch may sometimes be separated by a berm. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: ROUND BARROW - ROUND CAIRN — A roughly hemispherical mound constructed primarily of stones, normally containing or covering one or more human burials. The mound may be surrounded and partly retained by a low stone kerb.
Search the NHLE for: ROUND CAIRN - ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC) — Circular structure, normally indicated by one or more rings of post holes and/or a circular gulley, and usually interpreted as being of domestic function.
Search the NHLE for: ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC) - ROUND TOWERED CHURCH — A church, usually found in East Anglia, of early Medieval and/or Medieval date with attached or detached round tower.
Search the NHLE for: ROUND TOWERED CHURCH - ROVING BRIDGE — A bridge which takes the towpath across the canal.
Search the NHLE for: ROVING BRIDGE - ROW — A row of buildings built during different periods, as opposed to a TERRACE.
Search the NHLE for: ROW - ROW HOUSE — A terrace house sharing a common wall with its neighbours.
Search the NHLE for: ROW HOUSE - ROWING CLUB — A building used as a social venue by people interested in, and involved with, the sport of rowing. An area of the building may be used for the storage of canoes, sculls etc. Often situated by a river.
Search the NHLE for: ROWING CLUB - ROYAL CHAPEL — A private chapel for a royal court.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL CHAPEL - ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL — A hospital where Royal Naval personnel and their families receive medical and surgical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL - ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS SITE — A site or structure associated with the activities of the Royal Observer Corps. The Corps was reformed on 1 January 1947 and disbanded in 1991.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS SITE - ROYAL PALACE — A large, luxuriously appointed building used as an official residence by a member of royalty.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL PALACE - ROYAL PARK — Originally a large tract of wooded country, owned by the Monarchy, for the purpose of hunting. The royal parks of London, eg. Greenwich, are all open to the public and have been for centuries.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL PARK - RUBBER WORKS — A factory for processing rubber or manufacturing rubber goods, such as tyres.
Search the NHLE for: RUBBER WORKS - RUBBING STONE — A large stone used by cattle to rub up against and so scratch themselves.
Search the NHLE for: RUBBING STONE - RUBBISH PIT — A pit where domestic waste material is deposited.
Search the NHLE for: RUBBISH PIT - RUGBY PITCH — A prepared area of grass on which the game of rugby is played.
Search the NHLE for: RUGBY PITCH - RUNE STONE — A stone on which Runes have been inscribed. Often used as memorials though not always associated with a burial.
Search the NHLE for: RUNE STONE - RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH — A place of worship for members of the Russian Orthodox Church, the national church of Russia.
Search the NHLE for: RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
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- SACRISTY — A place for keeping vestments and sacred vessels.
Search the NHLE for: SACRISTY - SADDLERY — A house for storing or drying saddles.
Search the NHLE for: SADDLERY - SAFETY RAMP — Emergency deceleration lane.
Search the NHLE for: SAFETY RAMP - SAIL LOFT — A place where sails are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SAIL LOFT - SAILING CLUB — A building used as a social venue by people interested in, and involved with, the sport of sailing. Often situated by a MARINA.
Search the NHLE for: SAILING CLUB - SAILMAKING WORKS — A building or site where boat sails are manufactured from processed cloth.
Search the NHLE for: SAILMAKING WORKS - SALT BATHS — A building where people could bathe in salt water. Salt water was believed to have medicinal properties.
Search the NHLE for: SALT BATHS - SALT STORE — Buildings incorporating a high degree of protection against damp for the bulk storage of salt.
Search the NHLE for: SALT STORE - SALT WORKS — A site, building or factory used for the production of salt.
Search the NHLE for: SALT WORKS - SALTERN — A site, in which salt is obtained by boiling and evaporating salt brine or seawater in large pans. Often the only surviving evidence are the mounds formed from the waste produced by the process.
Search the NHLE for: SALTERN - SALTING HOUSE — A room or building used for curing fish or meat.
Search the NHLE for: SALTING HOUSE - SALTPETRE STORE — A place where saltpetre, the chief component of gunpowder, is kept.
Search the NHLE for: SALTPETRE STORE - SALTPETRE WORKS — A building, factory or works which was engaged in the manufacture of refining saltpetre. Often part of a gunpowder works.
Search the NHLE for: SALTPETRE WORKS - SALUTING BATTERY — A battery equipped and ready to fire salutes
Search the NHLE for: SALUTING BATTERY - SALVATION ARMY HALL — A place of worship and meeting hall for members of the Salvation Army, an evangelical sect founded by William Booth in Nottingham in 1865 and derived from Wesleyan Methodism. They rejected the sacraments and adopted a quasi-military rhetoric and style.
Search the NHLE for: SALVATION ARMY HALL - SANATORIUM — A hospital for convalescents or consumptives.
Search the NHLE for: SANATORIUM - SANCTUARY — A sacred area of a building or a consecrated piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: SANCTUARY - SANDEMANIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for Sandemanians, a movement founded by John Glass after his expulsion from the Church of Scotland in 1728. It was spread to England by his son-in-law, Robert Sandeman.
Search the NHLE for: SANDEMANIAN CHAPEL - SANDSTONE QUARRY — A place where sandstone is excavated.
Search the NHLE for: SANDSTONE QUARRY - SARCOPHAGUS — A stone coffin embellished with sculpture.
Search the NHLE for: SARCOPHAGUS - SATELLITE DISH — A structure consisting of a large, metal framework holding a skyward facing dish. Used for transmitting and receiving signals which are relayed by satellite.
Search the NHLE for: SATELLITE DISH - SATELLITE EARTH STATION — A group of buildings and satellite dishes used to transmit and receive signals relayed by satellites.
Search the NHLE for: SATELLITE EARTH STATION - SAUCER BARROW — A round barrow featuring a low, wide mound surrounded by a ditch which may be accompanied by an external bank.
Search the NHLE for: SAUCER BARROW - SAUNA — A building housing a Finnish-style steam bath.
Search the NHLE for: SAUNA - SAVIGNIAC MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Savigniac monks. Order merged with Cistercians c1147.
Search the NHLE for: SAVIGNIAC MONASTERY - SAVINGS BANK — A bank which specializes in accepting savings deposits. Originally established to help the poor.
Search the NHLE for: SAVINGS BANK - SAW MILL — A factory in which logs are converted to timber by running them through a series of saws.
Search the NHLE for: SAW MILL - SAW PIT — A place where tree trunks were sawn into planks by hand.
Search the NHLE for: SAW PIT - SAXON SHORE FORT — Roman coastal forts fortified with large walls and a ditch, introduced to cope with raids from across the English Channel and North Sea.
Search the NHLE for: SAXON SHORE FORT - SCARP — A steep bank or slope. In fortifications, the bank or wall immediately in front of and below the rampart.
Search the NHLE for: SCARP - SCHOOL — An establishment in which people, usually children, are taught.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL - SCHOOL BOARDING HOUSE — A building, usually within the grounds of a school and often containing dormitories, used by pupils who board.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL BOARDING HOUSE - SCHOOL CLINIC — A place at a school where children receive medical advice, health checks and treatment.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL CLINIC - SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — A specialist school for the teaching of blind people.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND - SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF — A specialist school for the teaching of deaf people.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF - SCHOOL HALL — A large room or building at a school used for assembly and other activities.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL HALL - SCHOOL HOUSE — A building appropriated by a school for the purpose of teaching pupils.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL HOUSE - SCHOOLROOM — A room in a school devoted to the formal instruction of pupils.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOLROOM - SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE — A building used by an organization or society instituted to promote science through lectures, research, etc.
Search the NHLE for: SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE - SCONCE — A small protective fortification, such as an earthwork.
Search the NHLE for: SCONCE - SCOOP WHEEL — A wheel driven by wind or steam for the lifting of water.
Search the NHLE for: SCOOP WHEEL - SCOOPED SETTLEMENT — A settlement, usually enclosed, on a sloping hillside containing a number of oval or circular scopped house floors separated by walls or unexcavated ridges.
Search the NHLE for: SCOOPED SETTLEMENT - SCOREBOARD — A large board found at sporting events, erected so as to be seen by the spectators, on which the score of a game is kept.
Search the NHLE for: SCOREBOARD - SCOTCH KILN — A type of updraught intermittent kiln of rectangular plan and battered sides, but with an open top.
Search the NHLE for: SCOTCH KILN - SCOTTISH PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of the Church of Scotland which has been Presbyterian since 1690. It is the national Church of Scotland and is free and endowed.
Search the NHLE for: SCOTTISH PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL - SCOUT HUT — A building used for meetings and other events by Scouts Associations.
Search the NHLE for: SCOUT HUT - SCOWLE — An old opencast iron ore site, which has been abandoned.
Search the NHLE for: SCOWLE - SCRAP YARD — A place where scrap metal is collected.
Search the NHLE for: SCRAP YARD - SCRATCH DIAL — A set of marks found on the wall of a building, thought to be a form of sundial.
Search the NHLE for: SCRATCH DIAL - SCREENS HOUSE — A building housing filters for sewage. Usually associated with a sewage pumping station.
Search the NHLE for: SCREENS HOUSE - SCREW MILL — A factory used for the manufacture of screws.
Search the NHLE for: SCREW MILL - SCRIBBLING MILL — A mill used for the preparation of raw fleece etc, for spinning by a coarse form of carding.
Search the NHLE for: SCRIBBLING MILL - SCULPTURE — A figurative or abstract design in the round or in relief, made by chiselling stone, carving wood, modelling clay, casting metal, or similar processes.
Search the NHLE for: SCULPTURE - SCULPTURE GARDEN — A garden designed to display sculpture, publicly or privately.
Search the NHLE for: SCULPTURE GARDEN - SCUTCHING MILL — A mill for the removal by mechanical means of the dried wood and seeds of the flax and cotton plants after retting. The resulting 'tow' is then spun into linen and cotton respectively.
Search the NHLE for: SCUTCHING MILL - SCYTHE MILL — A factory used for the manufacture of scythes.
Search the NHLE for: SCYTHE MILL - SEA BATHING HOSPITAL — A hospital where patients would bathe daily in the sea or in indoor salt-water swimming baths.
Search the NHLE for: SEA BATHING HOSPITAL - SEA DEFENCES — Non-military maritime flood and erosion defences.
Search the NHLE for: SEA DEFENCES - SEA FORT — A defensive construction situated in the sea, designed to protect the land from seabourne attack. The term applies mainly to those monuments built from around 1860 onwards.
Search the NHLE for: SEA FORT - SEA LION POOL — A pool of water and associated ancillary buildings designed to accommodate sea lions.
Search the NHLE for: SEA LION POOL - SEA LOCK — An entrance chamber from tide water to basin, with gates at each end and means of pumping up or lowering the level of water to suit.
Search the NHLE for: SEA LOCK - SEA MARK — A conspicuous object, such as a beacon, used by mariners to aid navigation at sea.
Search the NHLE for: SEA MARK - SEA TERMINAL — A port, dock or harbour where ferries, hovercraft, ocean liners and cargo vessels can load and unload. May include road and/or rail terminals for transportation to the port.
Search the NHLE for: SEA TERMINAL - SEAGULL TRENCH — A trench in the form of a flattened 'W' with a flat concrete roof covered in turf, supported on concrete pillars. The name derives from the resemblance to a child's drawing of a seagull in flight.
Search the NHLE for: SEAGULL TRENCH - SEAMENS CHURCH — A place of worship specifically for mariners and their families.
Search the NHLE for: SEAMENS CHURCH - SEAMENS HOSPITAL — A hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of sailors and/or their families. For Royal Naval seamen use ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL.
Search the NHLE for: SEAMENS HOSPITAL - SEAMENS MISSION — A building, usually associated with a port or dock, where seamen could get a meal and a cheap room. Often established by religious groups for the moral betterment of seamen.
Search the NHLE for: SEAMENS MISSION - SEAPLANE FACTORY — A factory where seaplanes are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SEAPLANE FACTORY - SEAPLANE SHED — An aircraft hangar designed to house seaplanes.
Search the NHLE for: SEAPLANE SHED - SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE F) — A military side-opening aircraft hangar originally designed for seaplanes and used RNAS bases from 1916. Steel framed with asbestos or corrugated iron cladding.
Search the NHLE for: SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE F) - SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE G) — A side-opening steel framed shed. A smaller version of the SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE F) they were built from 1916 on RNAS seaplane bases
Search the NHLE for: SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE G) - SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE J) — A steel framed seaplane hangar designed for Royal Navy Air Stations by the admiralty in 1917-1918.
Search the NHLE for: SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE J) - SEARCHLIGHT BATTERY — A site in which one or more searchlights were positioned to locate enemy aircraft or surface vessels for the benefit of batteries and night fighter aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: SEARCHLIGHT BATTERY - SEARCHLIGHT EMPLACEMENT — A site in which one or more searchlights and their accompanying structures were positioned to locate enemy aircraft or surface vessels for the benefit of batteries and night fighter aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: SEARCHLIGHT EMPLACEMENT - SEASIDE PAVILION — A light, ornamental building or structure situated close to the sea.
Search the NHLE for: SEASIDE PAVILION - SEAT — An external structure used to sit on.
Search the NHLE for: SEAT - SECONDARY MODERN SCHOOL — A school attended by children between the ages of eleven and sixteen offering a vocationally orientated curriculum.
Search the NHLE for: SECONDARY MODERN SCHOOL - SECONDARY SCHOOL — A school attended by children between the ages of eleven and sixteen.
Search the NHLE for: SECONDARY SCHOOL - SECTION HOUSE — A building providing lodgings for members of the police force.
Search the NHLE for: SECTION HOUSE - SECULAR HALL — The meeting hall of a secular or ethical society.
Search the NHLE for: SECULAR HALL - SEDILIA BUILDING — A building containing a series of seats for use by the clergy during services. The seats are usually placed in the church and as such this is a very rare monument type, being purpose-built. An example being St. Germoe's Chair in Germoe, Cornwall.
Search the NHLE for: SEDILIA BUILDING - SEMAPHORE STATION — A signal station incorporating equipment for visually conveying coded communications.
Search the NHLE for: SEMAPHORE STATION - SEMI DETACHED BUNGALOW — A bungalow joined to another to form one building.
Search the NHLE for: SEMI DETACHED BUNGALOW - SEMI DETACHED HOUSE — A house joined to another to form one building.
Search the NHLE for: SEMI DETACHED HOUSE - SENTRY BOX — A small structure providing cover and protected accommodation for a sentry.
Search the NHLE for: SENTRY BOX - SEPHARDI MATZEVAH — A matzevah from the Sephardi group of Jews descended from medieval Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsular and Northern Africa. Characterised by flat slabs with Hebrew Inscriptions
Search the NHLE for: SEPHARDI MATZEVAH - SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH — A place of worship for members of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the national church of Serbia.
Search the NHLE for: SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH - SERGE FACTORY — A factory used for the manufacture of serge, a heavy woollen cloth.
Search the NHLE for: SERGE FACTORY - SERGEANTS MESS — A building providing accommodation, dining facilities and recreation for non commissioned officers.
Search the NHLE for: SERGEANTS MESS - SERPENTINE WALL — A wall for growing fruit, dating in England from the mid-18th century, whose curving lines gave added strength, thus doing away with the need for buttressing.
Search the NHLE for: SERPENTINE WALL - SERVANTS HALL — Usually a servants' dining room.
Search the NHLE for: SERVANTS HALL - SERVICE STATION — Use for complexes where services (eg. restaurants, shops) are provided in addition to facilities for buying petrol.
Search the NHLE for: SERVICE STATION - SERVICE WING — A building or wing of a large house in which the servants would live and carry out some of their duties.
Search the NHLE for: SERVICE WING - SERVICES CLUB — A place where current and former members of the armed services meet for social and recreational activities.
Search the NHLE for: SERVICES CLUB - SERVICES HOME — A residential establishment for retired armed servicemen and women.
Search the NHLE for: SERVICES HOME - SERVITE FRIARY — A friary of the Order of the Friar servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary or Servites. The Servite Fathers came to England in 1864.
Search the NHLE for: SERVITE FRIARY - SERVITE NUNNERY — A nunnery of nuns belonging to the Order of the Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary or Servites.
Search the NHLE for: SERVITE NUNNERY - SESSIONS HOUSE — A building housing court rooms and associated offices and cells, in which the Quarter Sessions were held.
Search the NHLE for: SESSIONS HOUSE - SETTLEMENT — A small concentration of dwellings.
Search the NHLE for: SETTLEMENT - SETTLING PIT — Pit for the depostion of ore sediment from waste water collected from ore washing.
Search the NHLE for: SETTLING PIT - SETTLING TANK — A large tank where particles suspended in water, or other liquids, are allowed to sink to the bottom forming a sediment.
Search the NHLE for: SETTLING TANK - SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of the Seventh Day Adventists Church. This was formed in 1843 by followers believing in the imminent second coming of Christ.
Search the NHLE for: SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS CHAPEL - SEWAGE PUMPING STATION — A building used to pump sewage from the sewers to the filter beds of a sewage works.
Search the NHLE for: SEWAGE PUMPING STATION - SEWAGE WORKS — A group of buildings in which local sewage is filtered and purified in large rectangular or circular tanks.
Search the NHLE for: SEWAGE WORKS - SEWER — A large drain or conduit for carrying away wastes.
Search the NHLE for: SEWER - SEWER VENTILATION PIPE — A tall, hollow pipe, usually cast-iron, resembling a lamp-post. Used to ventilate sewer systems.
Search the NHLE for: SEWER VENTILATION PIPE - SHAFT — Use only if function unknown, otherwise use specific type.
Search the NHLE for: SHAFT - SHAFT MOUND — Circular spoil heap surrounding a wide central depression, the entrance to a mine shaft.
Search the NHLE for: SHAFT MOUND - SHAMBLES — Traditionally a place where meat and fish were sold.
Search the NHLE for: SHAMBLES - SHED — A slight structure built for shelter or storage, or for use as a workshop, either attached as a lean-to to a permanent building or separate. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: SHED - SHEEP DIP — A place where sheep are washed in a chemical bath to control the parasites of sheep. To conserve the poisonous chemicals the bath is usually small and are not allowed to enter any watercourse.
Search the NHLE for: SHEEP DIP - SHEEP FOLD — A pen or enclosure used for containing sheep.
Search the NHLE for: SHEEP FOLD - SHEEP HOUSE — A building providing shelter for sheep and storage for fodder and shepherding equipment.
Search the NHLE for: SHEEP HOUSE - SHEEP SHEARING SHED — A building in which sheep are sheared.
Search the NHLE for: SHEEP SHEARING SHED - SHEET METAL WORKS — A site where large sheets of thin metal are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SHEET METAL WORKS - SHEILA NA GIG — A small carved figure, usually female in appearance, probably representing fertility charms, found on Romanesque churches in the West of England, eg. Kilpeck.
Search the NHLE for: SHEILA NA GIG - SHELL FACTORY — A works or factory where shells or projectiles were machined before they were dispatched to a filling factory to be filled with explosives.
Search the NHLE for: SHELL FACTORY - SHELL FOUNTAIN — A fountain decorated with shells forming an ornamental feature.
Search the NHLE for: SHELL FOUNTAIN - SHELL GROTTO — A grotto decorated with shells, sometimes a room in a house, sometimes a detached building.
Search the NHLE for: SHELL GROTTO - SHELL HOUSE — An ornamental building, usually decorated with or displaying shells.
Search the NHLE for: SHELL HOUSE - SHELL KEEP — A Norman keep, in the form of a circular or polygonal enclosure surrounded by a wall.
Search the NHLE for: SHELL KEEP - SHELTER — A structure which protects an area of ground from the weather.
Search the NHLE for: SHELTER - SHELTER SHED — An open-sided building known to have been used for sheltering animals other than cattle.
Search the NHLE for: SHELTER SHED - SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION — Accommodation designed for the elderly, disabled, etc, as individual units.
Search the NHLE for: SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION - SHEPHERDS HUT — A small building used as a shelter by a shepherd.
Search the NHLE for: SHEPHERDS HUT - SHIELING — Pasture to which animals were driven for grazing, with associated temporary huts for domestic or agricultural use.
Search the NHLE for: SHIELING - SHIFTED VILLAGE — An extant settlement which shows evidence of a shift in focus, eg. towards a new road, generally in the form of abandoned buildings or earthworks on the margin furthest from the new focus.
Search the NHLE for: SHIFTED VILLAGE - SHIFTING HOUSE — A building in a military complex (eg. naval dockyard, castle, etc.) for preparing gunpowder.
Search the NHLE for: SHIFTING HOUSE - SHIP BURIAL — A burial in which the body is placed in, or covered by a boat, which is then covered with earth. Use with barrow type where relevant.
Search the NHLE for: SHIP BURIAL - SHIP CHANDLERY — A commercial premises supplying ships with provisions.
Search the NHLE for: SHIP CHANDLERY - SHIP REPAIR WORKS — A site containing slipways and associated buildings used specifically for the repair of ships and larger ocean-going craft.
Search the NHLE for: SHIP REPAIR WORKS - SHIPPING WAREHOUSE — A large store for the temporary accommodation of goods awaiting transportation to or from the sea.
Search the NHLE for: SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - SHIPWRECK GRAVE — Graves known to be of shipwreck victims buried close to their site of discovery, as was customary until the 19th century, rather than in consecrated ground.
Search the NHLE for: SHIPWRECK GRAVE - SHIPWRIGHTS WORKSHOP — A place where dockyard craftsmen both design and build ships.
Search the NHLE for: SHIPWRIGHTS WORKSHOP - SHIPYARD — A place where boats or ships are built or repaired.
Search the NHLE for: SHIPYARD - SHIRE HALL — A county judicial building where the Quarter Session and the Assizes for the County were held.
Search the NHLE for: SHIRE HALL - SHIRT FACTORY — A factory where shirts are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SHIRT FACTORY - SHODDY MILL — A mill in which poor quality woollen cloth was made from fibres produced by grinding light woollen rags.
Search the NHLE for: SHODDY MILL - SHOE FACTORY — A factory where boots and shoes are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SHOE FACTORY - SHOE WAREHOUSE — A building or part of a building used for the storage of shoes or boots.
Search the NHLE for: SHOE WAREHOUSE - SHOOTING STAND — Position often screened by earth, stone or wood from which game is shot.
Search the NHLE for: SHOOTING STAND - SHOP — A house or building where goods are made or prepared and displayed for sale and sold. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: SHOP - SHOPPING ARCADE — A covered shopping street, sometimes with galleries, dating from the late 18th/early 19th century.
Search the NHLE for: SHOPPING ARCADE - SHOPPING CENTRE — A shopping complex, usually indoors, comprised of a number of separate retail outlets surrounding an open space. Often on more than one level.
Search the NHLE for: SHOPPING CENTRE - SHOPPING PARADE — A purpose-built terrace of shops.
Search the NHLE for: SHOPPING PARADE - SHOPPING PRECINCT — A pedestrianized shopping street, or a more complex arrangement of shopping 'squares' and walkways.
Search the NHLE for: SHOPPING PRECINCT - SHOT TOWER — A tower in which shot is made from molten lead poured through sieves at top and falling into water at bottom.
Search the NHLE for: SHOT TOWER - SHOWROOM — A room used for the display of merchandise for sale.
Search the NHLE for: SHOWROOM - SHRINE — A place where worship is offered or devotions are paid to a deity or saint.
Search the NHLE for: SHRINE - SHRUBBERY — A plantation of shrubs.
Search the NHLE for: SHRUBBERY - SHRUNKEN VILLAGE — A settlement where previous house sites are now unoccupied, but often visible as earthworks, crop or soil marks.
Search the NHLE for: SHRUNKEN VILLAGE - SIEGE — In the glass industry this is bench-like structure within the melting-furnace on which crucibles are placed.
Search the NHLE for: SIEGE - SIEGE CASTLE — A temporary castle built to house and protect troops beseiging another castle or town.
Search the NHLE for: SIEGE CASTLE - SIEGEWORK — A temporary earthwork or fortification constructed by forces laying siege to a castle or town, etc.
Search the NHLE for: SIEGEWORK - SIGN — A board, wall painting or other structure displaying advice, giving information or directions
Search the NHLE for: SIGN - SIGNAL BOX — A building on a railway system housing levers used to regulate trains on the tracks using signals and to change the points to enable a train to transfer from one track to another.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNAL BOX - SIGNAL POST — A cast iron post similar to a lamp post, with revolving top to carry either coloured plates, or an oil lamp with coloured glass at night. Associated with canal or river navigation locks.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNAL POST - SIGNAL STATION — A building or tower used to communicate information to shipping or other stations using signals such as flags, fires or lights. Roman signal stations took the form of a stone tower surrounded by a ditched enclosure and were used to warn of Saxon raids.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNAL STATION - SIGNAL TOWER — A tower in a semaphore communication system. Often a three-storey building on a hill in line-of-sight, signal towers provided working and living space, usually for two crewmen with their families.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNAL TOWER - SIGNALLING BATTERY — A gun battery used to signal warnings to ships during bad weather.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNALLING BATTERY - SIGNALLING STRUCTURE — Buildings and structures associated with signal communication.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNALLING STRUCTURE - SIGNALMANS COTTAGE — The residence of a signalman.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNALMANS COTTAGE - SIGNALS GATHERING STATION — Buildings and structures associated with the acquisition of electronic signals for the purpose of intelligence gathering.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNALS GATHERING STATION - SIGNPOST — A post bearing one or more signs indicating the direction, and often the distance, to specified locations or routes.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNPOST - SIKH TEMPLE — A place of worship for followers of Sikhism.
Search the NHLE for: SIKH TEMPLE - SILAGE CLAMP — A three-sided structure for the production and storage of silage.
Search the NHLE for: SILAGE CLAMP - SILK DRYING SHED — A building in which silk was dried.
Search the NHLE for: SILK DRYING SHED - SILK MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the manufacture of silk.
Search the NHLE for: SILK MANUFACTURING SITE - SILK MILL — A mill used for the mechanized processing of silk.
Search the NHLE for: SILK MILL - SILO — A building or structure for the storage of processed minerals, chemicals or agricultural products, etc. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: SILO - SILVER HEARTH — Ore hearth specifically for the refining of silver.
Search the NHLE for: SILVER HEARTH - SILVER MINE — Use with other minerals extracted and MINE where relevant, eg. ZINC MINE.
Search the NHLE for: SILVER MINE - SILVER WORKING SITE — A site or building where silver was processed and/or worked and fashioned into objects.
Search the NHLE for: SILVER WORKING SITE - SILVERSMITHS WORKSHOP — A place where silverware is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SILVERSMITHS WORKSHOP - SINGLE AISLED BARN — A barn in which a central space is separated from a side aisle by posts and braces.
Search the NHLE for: SINGLE AISLED BARN - SINGLE AISLED HOUSE — A house with an aisle on one side only.
Search the NHLE for: SINGLE AISLED HOUSE - SINGLE ENDED HALL HOUSE — A house consisting of a single storey open hall with a two storey domestic range attached at one end, forming a T shape.
Search the NHLE for: SINGLE ENDED HALL HOUSE - SINGLE ENDED WEALDEN HOUSE — A wealden house with only one end being jettied.
Search the NHLE for: SINGLE ENDED WEALDEN HOUSE - SIROCCO FAN HOUSE — An electric fan used for the ventilation of mines.
Search the NHLE for: SIROCCO FAN HOUSE - SITE — Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible.
Search the NHLE for: SITE - SKATEPARK — A purpose-built facility providing an area for wheeled sports, such as skateboarding, skating and BMX cycling, equipped with ramps and other structures and obstacles for the performance of tricks and manoeuvres.
Search the NHLE for: SKATEPARK - SKATING RINK — A piece of ice or a floor, often within a building, used for skating.
Search the NHLE for: SKATING RINK - SKIN DISEASE HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical treatment of skin diseases.
Search the NHLE for: SKIN DISEASE HOSPITAL - SKITTLE ALLEY — A place where the game of skittles is played.
Search the NHLE for: SKITTLE ALLEY - SLAB BLOCK — A rectangular multi-storey block of flats, greater in width than height.
Search the NHLE for: SLAB BLOCK - SLAG HEAP — A spoil heap consisting mainly of slag, pieces of refuse material separated from a metal during the smelting process.
Search the NHLE for: SLAG HEAP - SLAG HEARTH — A hearth used for the reheating of metal slag to extract further metal.
Search the NHLE for: SLAG HEARTH - SLATE QUARRY — A site where slate is quarried from the ground.
Search the NHLE for: SLATE QUARRY - SLIP SHED — A wooden or metal structure covering a shipbuilding slip way.
Search the NHLE for: SLIP SHED - SLIPPER BATHS — Originally partially covered baths shaped somewhat like a slipper, now usually a number of single baths of the modern domestic style installed for hire at public baths.
Search the NHLE for: SLIPPER BATHS - SLIPWAY — A structure inclined towards the water on which a ship may be built or lowered into the water.
Search the NHLE for: SLIPWAY - SLIT TRENCH — A short trench used to protect troops or to provide defensive fire from, often dug for practice purposes.
Search the NHLE for: SLIT TRENCH - SLUICE — A dam which can be raised or lowered to regulate the flow of water.
Search the NHLE for: SLUICE - SLUICE GATE — The gate of a sluice which can be opened or shut to let out or retain the water.
Search the NHLE for: SLUICE GATE - SLUICE HOUSE — A building containing machinery for operating sluices.
Search the NHLE for: SLUICE HOUSE - SLYPE — A covered way or passage especially in a cathedral or monastic church, leading east from the cloisters between transept and chapter house.
Search the NHLE for: SLYPE - SMALLHOLDING — A holding on a smaller-scale than an ordinary farm.
Search the NHLE for: SMALLHOLDING - SMELT MILL — A manufacturing complex incorporating furnaces, calciner and condenser flues. Use SMELTERY for more modern type of plant.
Search the NHLE for: SMELT MILL - SMELTERY — A site where ores are smelted. Use more specific site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: SMELTERY - SMELTING HOUSE — An ancilliary building within a larger works, as distinct from a SMELT MILL.
Search the NHLE for: SMELTING HOUSE - SMITHS COTTAGE — The dwelling of a blacksmith, nailer, sword cutler, etc, often adjacent to, or containing, a BLACKSMITHS WORKSHOP.
Search the NHLE for: SMITHS COTTAGE - SMOCK MILL — A windmill with a stationary timber body which contains the grinding machinery, and which supports a rotating cap in which the sails rotate.
Search the NHLE for: SMOCK MILL - SMOKE HOUSE — A building used to smoke fish or meat.
Search the NHLE for: SMOKE HOUSE - SMUGGLERS CACHE — A hiding place for stores, often underground, used by smugglers.
Search the NHLE for: SMUGGLERS CACHE - SNOOKER HALL — A building with facilities for playing snooker.
Search the NHLE for: SNOOKER HALL - SNUFF MILL — A factory where tobacco was ground to form snuff.
Search the NHLE for: SNUFF MILL - SOAKING PIT — A furnace for holding hot steel ingots to equalize their temperature before they are hot-rolled in a steel-making or rolling mill complex.
Search the NHLE for: SOAKING PIT - SOAP FACTORY — A building or buildings where soap is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SOAP FACTORY - SOCIAL CLUB — A building used by a group of people who meet socially to participate in activities, usually related to a particular interest or occupation.
Search the NHLE for: SOCIAL CLUB - SODA WORKS — A site used for the production of sodium bicarbonate, soda ash or caustic soda.
Search the NHLE for: SODA WORKS - SOFT DRINKS FACTORY — A commercial building, or buildings, used for the production of soft drinks.
Search the NHLE for: SOFT DRINKS FACTORY - SOLARIUM — A terrace, balcony or room exposed to the rays of the sun which were thought to be beneficial to recovering from an illness.
Search the NHLE for: SOLARIUM - SORTING OFFICE — A place where letters and parcels are sorted before being distributed. Usually found at a large general post office.
Search the NHLE for: SORTING OFFICE - SOUND LOCATOR EMPLACEMENT — An emplacement housing mobile sound locating acoustic dishes/horns for the detection of incoming enemy aircraft and the triangulation of their positions so that they could be targeted by Anti aircraft guns.
Search the NHLE for: SOUND LOCATOR EMPLACEMENT - SOUND MIRROR — An early warning structure built during and after WWI along the south and east coasts of England. Sound detecting acoustic dishes and walls could detect the sound of approaching enemy aircraft at a distance of 8 to 15 miles.
Search the NHLE for: SOUND MIRROR - SOUP KITCHEN — A place where soup and food is available to the homeless.
Search the NHLE for: SOUP KITCHEN - SOUTERRAIN — An underground chamber, store room or passage.
Search the NHLE for: SOUTERRAIN - SPA — A medicinal or mineral spring often with an associated building.
Search the NHLE for: SPA - SPA HOTEL — A building offering accommodation to people who are visiting a town or locality renowned for its mineral springs.
Search the NHLE for: SPA HOTEL - SPA PAVILION — A light, ornamental building or structure built to incorporate, or in association with, a mineral spring.
Search the NHLE for: SPA PAVILION - SPECIAL SCHOOL — A school for pupils with physical or learning difficulties.
Search the NHLE for: SPECIAL SCHOOL - SPECIALIST HOSPITAL — A hospital providing medical, surgical or psychiatric testing and treatment for patients with specific illnesses or injuries.
Search the NHLE for: SPECIALIST HOSPITAL - SPHINX — A sculptured, carved or moulded representation of an imaginary creature with a human head and breast combined with the body of a lion.
Search the NHLE for: SPHINX - SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT — A pit or emplacement surrounding a concrete pedestal, or 'thimble', which was used to mount a spigot mortar. Deployed by the Home Guard during WWII as an anti invasion measure.
Search the NHLE for: SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT - SPILLWAY — A channel carrying overflow water past a dam. Early 19th century onwards.
Search the NHLE for: SPILLWAY - SPINNING MILL — A mill or factory in which raw cotton, wool, nylon or other material is spun into yarn or thread.
Search the NHLE for: SPINNING MILL - SPINNING SHED — A building associated with a spinning mill in which raw material is mechanically spun into yarn or thread.
Search the NHLE for: SPINNING SHED - SPINNING SHOP — A workshop in which textile fibres were spun into yarn by hand.
Search the NHLE for: SPINNING SHOP - SPIRITUALIST CHURCH — A place of worship for the believers of spiritualism: The belief that the spirits of the dead can somehow manifest themselves and speak with the living.
Search the NHLE for: SPIRITUALIST CHURCH - SPOIL HEAP — A conical or flat-topped tip of waste discarded from a mine or similar site.
Search the NHLE for: SPOIL HEAP - SPORTS BUILDING — A building in which a sport is played. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: SPORTS BUILDING - SPORTS CENTRE — A specially built building where facilities exist for the playing of a variety of sports.
Search the NHLE for: SPORTS CENTRE - SPORTS GROUND — An area of prepared ground on which a sport is played. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: SPORTS GROUND - SPORTS PAVILION — A building, usually at a sports ground, with facilities for players and spectators.
Search the NHLE for: SPORTS PAVILION - SPORTS SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with sporting activities.
Search the NHLE for: SPORTS SITE - SPRING — A point where water issues naturally from the rock or soil onto the ground or into a body of surface water.
Search the NHLE for: SPRING - SPRING WORKS — A site where metal springs are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SPRING WORKS - SQUARE — An open space or area, usually square in plan, in a town or city, enclosed by residential and/or commercial buildings, frequently containing a garden or laid out with trees.
Search the NHLE for: SQUARE - SQUARE BARROW — A burial monument, usually of Iron age date, comprising a small square ditched enclosure surrounding a central interment, which may also have been covered by a mound.
Search the NHLE for: SQUARE BARROW - SQUARE CAIRN — A roughly square mound of stones which may also contain or conceal a burial.
Search the NHLE for: SQUARE CAIRN - SQUARE ENCLOSURE — A square shaped area of land enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier. Small square enclosures (with sides of less than c.20m) have been interpreted as the remains of square barrows of Iron Age date.
Search the NHLE for: SQUARE ENCLOSURE - SQUASH COURT — A place where the game of squash is played.
Search the NHLE for: SQUASH COURT - SQUATTER SETTLEMENT — A site occupied by people who have no legal right to the land or buildings on it.
Search the NHLE for: SQUATTER SETTLEMENT - SQUATTERS COTTAGE — A cottage erected over a short period of time, by people who had no legal right to the land. Squatters were often tolerated by the landlord as they provided cheap labour.
Search the NHLE for: SQUATTERS COTTAGE - STABLE — A building in which horses are accommodated.
Search the NHLE for: STABLE - STABLEHANDS LODGINGS — A place of accommodation for a stablehand.
Search the NHLE for: STABLEHANDS LODGINGS - STACK STAND — A platform for storing winter fodder.
Search the NHLE for: STACK STAND - STACK YARD — A farmyard or enclosure containing regularly built stacks of hay, corn, peas etc.
Search the NHLE for: STACK YARD - STADDLE STONE — Mushroom-shaped stones used to raise the floor of barns, granaries etc. above ground level, to prevent vermin gaining access to stored grain and fodder.
Search the NHLE for: STADDLE STONE - STAINED GLASS WORKSHOP — A place where stained glass is manufactured, traditionally for church windows.
Search the NHLE for: STAINED GLASS WORKSHOP - STAKE HOLE — A hole in the ground which has been created by driving or hammering an upright stake into the ground. As a feature of some archaeological sites they may often represent the only surviving evidence for the former presence of an above-ground structure.
Search the NHLE for: STAKE HOLE - STALLION HOUSE — A building where a stallion is kept.
Search the NHLE for: STALLION HOUSE - STAMPING MILL — Building or structure housing a form of ore crushing device associated with tin mines.
Search the NHLE for: STAMPING MILL - STAMPS — Form of ore crushing machinery associated with tin mines often wooden and water-powered.
Search the NHLE for: STAMPS - STANDING STONE — A stone or boulder which has been deliberately set upright in the ground. Use only for isolated stones. Otherwise use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: STANDING STONE - STAR FORT — A fort with a star trace plan, designed to increase the angles of fire.
Search the NHLE for: STAR FORT - STARCH MILL — A mill used for the extraction and processing of starch.
Search the NHLE for: STARCH MILL - STARFISH SITE — A decoy site designed to simulate a burning urban area during a bombing raid in order to lure enemy bombers away from legitimate targets.
Search the NHLE for: STARFISH SITE - STATION HEADQUARTERS — Headquarters buildings on military airfields for administrative purposes housing offices, lecture rooms and in some cases a library and a meteorological office. On smaller airfields it is called Station Offices. Abbreviation SQH.
Search the NHLE for: STATION HEADQUARTERS - STATION MASTERS HOUSE — The residence of a station master.
Search the NHLE for: STATION MASTERS HOUSE - STATION SIGN — A board indicating the name of the railway station.
Search the NHLE for: STATION SIGN - STATIONERY WAREHOUSE — A building or part of a building used for the storage of stationery materials.
Search the NHLE for: STATIONERY WAREHOUSE - STATUE — A representation in the round of a living being, allegorical personage, eminent person or animal, etc, sculptured, moulded or cast in marble, metal, plaster, etc.
Search the NHLE for: STATUE - STEAM CRANE — A crane powered by a steam engine.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM CRANE - STEAM ENGINE — An engine in which the mechanical force of steam is made available as a motive power for driving machinery.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM ENGINE - STEAM ENGINE HOUSE — A building housing a steam engine.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM ENGINE HOUSE - STEAM MILL — A steam-powered factory.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM MILL - STEAM PUMP — A machine used to raise and move water and other liquids, compress gases etc. and powered by a steam engine.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM PUMP - STEAM TURBINE — A motor in which rotary motion is produced by steam power.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM TURBINE - STEAM WHIM — A steam-powered machine used for raising ore or water from a mine.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM WHIM - STEEL TEST HOUSE — A building used for the testing of steel.
Search the NHLE for: STEEL TEST HOUSE - STEEL WORKS — A site containing plant and machinery for the manufacture of steel.
Search the NHLE for: STEEL WORKS - STEELYARD — Traditionally, dating from the medieval period, this was an area on the north bank of the Thames where the Merchants of the Hanse conducted their business. Now includes a similar establishment in a provincial town.
Search the NHLE for: STEELYARD - STEEPING PIT — Pit for soaking animal hides as part of the tanning process.
Search the NHLE for: STEEPING PIT - STEEPING TANK — A large tank used for soaking alumina-bearing shale in water and chemicals, the initial stage in the alum-making process.
Search the NHLE for: STEEPING TANK - STEPPED TERRACE — A terrace of houses built on a slope giving the roofline a stepped appearance.
Search the NHLE for: STEPPED TERRACE - STEPPING STONES — Stones placed in the bed of a stream or on wet ground, to enable crossing on foot.
Search the NHLE for: STEPPING STONES - STEPS — A series of flat-topped structures, usually made of stone or wood, used to facilitate a person's movement from one level to another.
Search the NHLE for: STEPS - STEWARDS HOUSE — The residence of a person entrusted with the management of a great house or castle.
Search the NHLE for: STEWARDS HOUSE - STILE — A set of steps or a framework of bars and steps for crossing over a fence or wall.
Search the NHLE for: STILE - STILL HOUSE — A building housing equipment for the process of distillation.
Search the NHLE for: STILL HOUSE - STOCK ENCLOSURE — A pound for the accommodation of livestock.
Search the NHLE for: STOCK ENCLOSURE - STOCK EXCHANGE — A building which provides the centralized market for trading in stocks and shares and for raising capital for industry.
Search the NHLE for: STOCK EXCHANGE - STOCKS — An instrument of punishment, in which the offender was placed in a sitting position in a timber frame, with holes to confine the ankles and wrists between two planks.
Search the NHLE for: STOCKS - STONE — Use only where stone is natural or where there is no indication of function.
Search the NHLE for: STONE - STONE ALIGNMENT — A single line, or two or more roughly parallel lines, of standing stones set at intervals along a common axis or series of axes.
Search the NHLE for: STONE ALIGNMENT - STONE AVENUE — A monument consisting of parallel lines of standing stones, which appears to mark out an approach to another monument or monuments.
Search the NHLE for: STONE AVENUE - STONE BLOCK — A piece of stone, usually shaped, of uncertain origin or use.
Search the NHLE for: STONE BLOCK - STONE CIRCLE — An approximately circular or oval setting of spaced, usually freestanding, upright stones. More than one circle may be present, arranged concentrically.
Search the NHLE for: STONE CIRCLE - STONE COVE — A group of, usually three, standing stones forming a square with an open side and often found with a stone circle.
Search the NHLE for: STONE COVE - STONE DISPATCH BUILDING — A building in a quarry consisting of a series of loading bays in which stone is loaded onto wagons.
Search the NHLE for: STONE DISPATCH BUILDING - STONE GRUBBING SITE — A site used for the small scale extraction and working of surface boulders.
Search the NHLE for: STONE GRUBBING SITE - STONE MILL — A flour mill which uses one or more pairs of horizontal millstones to grind wheat into flour which millers call a ‘sudden death’ process; within not more than 90 seconds complete wheat grain becomes wholemeal flour.
Search the NHLE for: STONE MILL - STONE QUARRY — An excavation from which stone for building is obtained by cutting, blasting etc.
Search the NHLE for: STONE QUARRY - STONE SETTING — An arrangement of one or more standing stones. Use particularly for isolated recumbent stones, or where original form of monument unclear. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: STONE SETTING - STONE TABLE — A table made of stone, found in streets, parks, etc.
Search the NHLE for: STONE TABLE - STONE WORKING SITE — A site where rough stone is processed, shaped, worked or formed into finished products.
Search the NHLE for: STONE WORKING SITE - STONEMASONS YARD — A complex, comprising a workshop and a storage yard, used by a stonemason.
Search the NHLE for: STONEMASONS YARD - STOP LOCK — A lock at the end of one company's canal where it joins another company's canal.
Search the NHLE for: STOP LOCK - STORAGE DEPOT — A building or site used for the storage of goods or equipment.
Search the NHLE for: STORAGE DEPOT - STORAGE PIT — A pit dug in the ground used to store meat, grain and other foodstuffs. A common feature of Iron Age farms.
Search the NHLE for: STORAGE PIT - STORAGE TANK — Container for the storage of unspecified materials.
Search the NHLE for: STORAGE TANK - STOREHOUSE — A building in which goods or items are stored. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: STOREHOUSE - STOUP — A vessel to contain holy water located near the entrance of a church.
Search the NHLE for: STOUP - STOWE — A type of windlass for drawing up ore.
Search the NHLE for: STOWE - STREAM — A natural flow or current of water issuing from a source.
Search the NHLE for: STREAM - STREAMWORKS — A place where tin ore is washed using a stream as the water source.
Search the NHLE for: STREAMWORKS - STREET FURNITURE — Structures erected on or near a public highway.
Search the NHLE for: STREET FURNITURE - STREET LAMP — A light, often suspended from a lamp-post, to illuminate a street or road.
Search the NHLE for: STREET LAMP - STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Strict Baptists, a sect who broke away from the Particular Baptists and kept up the practice of denying communion to non members after the union of General and Particular Baptists was formed in 1891.
Search the NHLE for: STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL - STRIP FIELD — An area of agriculturally used land, which is divided into small, elongated, rectangular fields running parallel to each other.
Search the NHLE for: STRIP FIELD - STRIP LYNCHET — A terraced field usually found on hillsides. Comprising a flat strip of land, called the tread, and a steep, scarped lynchet or edge, called the riser.
Search the NHLE for: STRIP LYNCHET - STRUCTURE — A construction of unknown function, either extant or implied by archaeological evidence. If known, use more specific type.
Search the NHLE for: STRUCTURE - STUD FARM — A farm where stallions and mares are kept for breeding.
Search the NHLE for: STUD FARM - STUDENTS UNION — A building used, as a meeting place and administration block, by an organization run for the benefit of students at a school, college or university.
Search the NHLE for: STUDENTS UNION - STUDIO HOUSE — A purpose-built residence for an artist, containing a studio.
Search the NHLE for: STUDIO HOUSE - STUDY CENTRE — A building that houses material that can be used to facilitate the study of a site, landscape or an historical event/period. Such centres are often found in close proximity to the sites and/or landscapes that they seek to encourage the study of.
Search the NHLE for: STUDY CENTRE - SUBMARINE MINE DEPOT — A complex of purpose-built or adapted buildings used for the maintenance, storage, assembly and control of sea mines and minefields.
Search the NHLE for: SUBMARINE MINE DEPOT - SUBRECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE — A monument consisting of an area enclosed by a ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier, where the barrier follows an almost rectangular course.
Search the NHLE for: SUBRECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE - SUBURB — A largely residential area on the outskirts of a town or city.
Search the NHLE for: SUBURB - SUBWAY — An underground passageway for cables, pipes and pedestrians to allow passage beneath an over ground obstacle.
Search the NHLE for: SUBWAY - SUCCAH — An ancillary building to a synagogue, used as a place of worship at the feast of the tabernacle.
Search the NHLE for: SUCCAH - SUGAR HOUSE — A sugar factory.
Search the NHLE for: SUGAR HOUSE - SUGAR REFINERY — A site where sugar beet was processed before being washed and dried to form granulated sugar.
Search the NHLE for: SUGAR REFINERY - SUGAR SILO — A building or structure used for the storage of sugar.
Search the NHLE for: SUGAR SILO - SUMMERHOUSE — A building in a garden or park designed to provide a shady retreat from the heat of the sun.
Search the NHLE for: SUMMERHOUSE - SUNDAY SCHOOL — A school in which instruction is given on a Sunday, especially such a school for children connected with a parish or congregation.
Search the NHLE for: SUNDAY SCHOOL - SUNDIAL — A structure used to show the time of day by means of the sun shining on a 'gnomon', the shadow of which falls on the surface of the dial which is marked with a diagram showing the hours. Can be freestanding, usually on a pillar, or fixed to a building.
Search the NHLE for: SUNDIAL - SUNKEN GARDEN — An often secluded garden set below the level of surrounding ground, usually surrounded with terraces.
Search the NHLE for: SUNKEN GARDEN - SUNSHINE RECORDER — A glass sphere in a metal frame standing on a small pillar. A card is placed behind the sphere which focuses any sunlight, marking the card and thus indicating how many hours of sunlight there was on that day.
Search the NHLE for: SUNSHINE RECORDER - SUPERMARKET — A large self-service store selling foods and some household goods.
Search the NHLE for: SUPERMARKET - SUPERPHOSPHATE FACTORY — A building or site where phosphorous-based fertilizers are produced by controlled chemical reactions.
Search the NHLE for: SUPERPHOSPHATE FACTORY - SURGERY — A room or office at a general practitioners' or veterinary practice, where patients or animals are seen and medicine dispensed.
Search the NHLE for: SURGERY - SURVEY TOWER — A tower used for surveying, especially in civil engineering projects such as bridges.
Search the NHLE for: SURVEY TOWER - SUSPENSION BRIDGE — A bridge whose deck is hung from above by large cables, chains or pinned iron or steel bars hanging from towers.
Search the NHLE for: SUSPENSION BRIDGE - SWANNERY — A place where swans are bred and reared.
Search the NHLE for: SWANNERY - SWANNERY POND — A pond located at or near a swannery.
Search the NHLE for: SWANNERY POND - SWEDENBORGIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for followers of Emmanuel Swedenborg who believed he was the medium through which the New Jerusalem would be founded on earth. The church was formed in 1787.
Search the NHLE for: SWEDENBORGIAN CHAPEL - SWIMMING POOL — A large, manmade pool, usually lined with tiles, rubber or similar. Can be placed in the open air, eg. a LIDO, or built as part of a covered sports centre.
Search the NHLE for: SWIMMING POOL - SWING BRIDGE — A movable bridge that swings or rotates around a central pier, or one that is pivoted only at one end, to provide a passageway for navigation.
Search the NHLE for: SWING BRIDGE - SWISS COTTAGE — A chalet designed in the Swiss style, eg. Kenwood, London.
Search the NHLE for: SWISS COTTAGE - SWISS GARDEN — A garden with real or supposed Swiss features, including buildings and plantings.
Search the NHLE for: SWISS GARDEN - SYNAGOGUE — A place of worship for Jewish people.
Search the NHLE for: SYNAGOGUE - SYNODAL HALL — A building used as a meeting place by a synod, an assembly of the clergy.
Search the NHLE for: SYNODAL HALL
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- TABLE TOMB — A type of tomb in the form of a slab raised on freestanding legs.
Search the NHLE for: TABLE TOMB - TACK ROOM — A room or building in which riding tackle is stored.
Search the NHLE for: TACK ROOM - TAIL RACE — A water channel leading from a water wheel.
Search the NHLE for: TAIL RACE - TAKE OFF STONE — A stone used to instruct a coachman to unhitch a horse, previously taken on to help pull the coach up a steep gradient.
Search the NHLE for: TAKE OFF STONE - TAKE-AWAY — An establishment for the preparation and selling of food to be consumed off the premises.
Search the NHLE for: TAKE-AWAY - TANK — Armoured military vehicle with its own firepower, which operates on tracks for troop mobility over rough terrain. Some may be adapted, or purpose-built, to be amphibious, and may then be double-indexed as AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE.
Search the NHLE for: TANK - TANK FURNACE — An enclosed furnace used for the continuous casting of plate glass.
Search the NHLE for: TANK FURNACE - TANK RAMP — An inclined plane built to allow tanks to be loaded and unloaded between rolling stock on the railway network and vehicular low loaders.
Search the NHLE for: TANK RAMP - TANK TRAP — Reinforced concrete blocks, walls or ditches designed to obstruct the progress of a tank or armoured vehicle.
Search the NHLE for: TANK TRAP - TANNERY — A manufacturing complex where the hides of animals are turned into leather, consisting of buildings for fleecing and drying, as well as treatment pits.
Search the NHLE for: TANNERY - TANNING PIT — A pit or tank containing chemicals for the preserving of animal hide.
Search the NHLE for: TANNING PIT - TAPE MILL — A mill used for the manufacture of narrow strips of woven fabric used in the closing or fixing of garments, or for binding the edges of fabric goods.
Search the NHLE for: TAPE MILL - TAPESTRY WEAVING WORKSHOP — A workshop where tapestries were made.
Search the NHLE for: TAPESTRY WEAVING WORKSHOP - TAR HOUSE — A storehouse associated with rope manufacture (eg. in naval dockyards).
Search the NHLE for: TAR HOUSE - TAR WORKS — A site where tar is manufactured or combined with other substances to produce bitumen, for example.
Search the NHLE for: TAR WORKS - TARGET — Any structure or object, used for the purpose of practice shooting by aerial, seaborne or land mounted weapons.
Search the NHLE for: TARGET - TARGET RAILWAY — A miniature railway on which targets can be placed to provide moving targets on a firing range.
Search the NHLE for: TARGET RAILWAY - TEA HOUSE — A refreshment house in a public park or country house garden.
Search the NHLE for: TEA HOUSE - TEA ROOM — An establishment where tea and other non-alcoholic refreshments and light meals are served.
Search the NHLE for: TEA ROOM - TEA WAREHOUSE — A large building used to store tea.
Search the NHLE for: TEA WAREHOUSE - TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE — An educational institution for the training of teachers.
Search the NHLE for: TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE - TEACHERS CENTRE — A building used by teachers for in-service training.
Search the NHLE for: TEACHERS CENTRE - TEACHERS HOUSE — The residence of a teacher, often on the site of a school.
Search the NHLE for: TEACHERS HOUSE - TEACHING HOSPITAL — A working hospital, often near or associated with a university, where doctors and nurses are trained.
Search the NHLE for: TEACHING HOSPITAL - TEAZLE DRYING HOUSE — A building used to dry teazle heads in. Teazles were used to raise the nap on cloth in teazle shops.
Search the NHLE for: TEAZLE DRYING HOUSE - TEAZLE SHOP — A building in which the fibres of new woollen cloth were raised by brushing with teazle heads.
Search the NHLE for: TEAZLE SHOP - TECHNICAL COLLEGE — A college where the applied sciences and the mechanical arts are taught.
Search the NHLE for: TECHNICAL COLLEGE - TECHNICAL SCHOOL — A school where the applied sciences and the mechanical arts are taught.
Search the NHLE for: TECHNICAL SCHOOL - TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE — A building used by an organization or society instituted to promote technology through lectures, research, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE - TELECOMMUNICATION BUILDING — A building housing electrical or electronic equipment used for communicating over long distances. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TELECOMMUNICATION BUILDING - TELECOMMUNICATION STRUCTURE — Structures associated with telecommunications.
Search the NHLE for: TELECOMMUNICATION STRUCTURE - TELEGRAPH OFFICE — The main office of a telegraph company containing rows of tables set with Morse sounders, keys, relays and pigeon holes from where MORSE coded messages were transmitted and received and telegrams dispatched.
Search the NHLE for: TELEGRAPH OFFICE - TELEGRAPH STATION — One in a chain of stations with semaphore shutters and telescopes which could relay messages according to a planned code. Used from the 1790s by the British Admiralty to speed up communications from London to the ports of Deal, Portsmouth and Plymouth.
Search the NHLE for: TELEGRAPH STATION - TELEPHONE BOX — A freestanding public call box, containing a telephone and usually operated by inserting coins.
Search the NHLE for: TELEPHONE BOX - TELEPHONE EXCHANGE — An office or central station of a local telephone system where the various lines are brought to a central switchboard and communication between subscribers is achieved.
Search the NHLE for: TELEPHONE EXCHANGE - TELEPHONE REPEATER STATION — A building, similar in style to a telephone exchange but smaller. They were used to compensate for the inadequacies of 1920's and 30's equipment over long distances, by repeating the signal every 200 miles.
Search the NHLE for: TELEPHONE REPEATER STATION - TELESCOPE (CELESTIAL) — An optical instrument for making distant objects appear nearer and larger, usually found at an observatory, through which astronomical or meteorological phenomena may be observed.
Search the NHLE for: TELESCOPE (CELESTIAL) - TELESCOPE DOME — A dome shaped structure, with an aperture open to the sky, used to house a telescope.
Search the NHLE for: TELESCOPE DOME - TELESCOPIC BRIDGE — A bridge in which one leaf may be retracted in a horizontal plane, passing on rollers over or under the adjacent fixed leaf.
Search the NHLE for: TELESCOPIC BRIDGE - TELEVISION STUDIO — A building or series of rooms specially designed for the recording and transmission of live or taped television programmes.
Search the NHLE for: TELEVISION STUDIO - TEMPERANCE HALL — A meeting hall of the Temperance Society.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPERANCE HALL - TEMPERANCE HOTEL — A hotel where no alcohol is available.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPERANCE HOTEL - TEMPERANCE PUBLIC HOUSE — A public house where no alcohol is sold.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPERANCE PUBLIC HOUSE - TEMPERATE HOUSE — A building with a regulated moderate temperature for the cultivation of plants.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPERATE HOUSE - TEMPLARS CAMERA — A residence used during short visits by an official and attendants of the Knights Templars for administrative purposes on their estates.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPLARS CAMERA - TEMPLARS CHURCH — A church, sometimes circular in plan, founded by the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, commonly known as the Knights Templar.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPLARS CHURCH - TEMPLARS GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, commonly known as the Knights Templars
Search the NHLE for: TEMPLARS GRANGE - TEMPLARS PRECEPTORY — The residence of a preceptor, officials and servants, etc, supervising the estates of the Knights Templars military order. Includes the mother house styled the Temple, London. The Order was suppressed in 1312.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPLARS PRECEPTORY - TEMPLE — Use for places of worship. For later landscape features use, eg. GARDEN TEMPLE.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPLE - TEMPORARY CAMP — A temporary overnight camp enclosed by a shallow ditch and palisade, constructed by Roman troops on campaigns or manoeuvres.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPORARY CAMP - TENANTS HALL — A communal room or building attached to flats.
Search the NHLE for: TENANTS HALL - TENEMENT — A parcel of land.
Search the NHLE for: TENEMENT - TENEMENT BLOCK — Use for speculatively built 19th century "model dwellings", rather than those built by a philanthropic society.
Search the NHLE for: TENEMENT BLOCK - TENEMENT FACTORY — A purpose-built factory for more than one occupier (eg. for several different workshops).
Search the NHLE for: TENEMENT FACTORY - TENEMENT HOUSE — Originally built as a family house. Converted into flats during the 19th or 20th century.
Search the NHLE for: TENEMENT HOUSE - TENNIS CLUB — A site containing a tennis court, changing facilities and a club house.
Search the NHLE for: TENNIS CLUB - TENNIS COURT — A prepared area, traditionally grass, where tennis is played.
Search the NHLE for: TENNIS COURT - TENTER GROUND — Field or area of ground where washed new cloth is stretched out to dry.
Search the NHLE for: TENTER GROUND - TENTER POST — Posts with hooks attached to allow drying new cloth to be stretched out between them.
Search the NHLE for: TENTER POST - TERMINAL BUILDING — A building within a transport terminal, often associated with the registration and clearing of incoming and outgoing passengers or freight.
Search the NHLE for: TERMINAL BUILDING - TERMINUS STONE — To mark the end of a turnpike road.
Search the NHLE for: TERMINUS STONE - TERRACE — A row of houses attached to and adjoining one another and planned and built as one unit.
Search the NHLE for: TERRACE - TERRACED GARDEN — A garden with one or more platforms with walks, often on different levels, usually close to the house.
Search the NHLE for: TERRACED GARDEN - TERRACED GROUND — An artificially raised level of ground.
Search the NHLE for: TERRACED GROUND - TERRACED HOUSE — A house in a line of houses attached to and adjoining one another and planned and built as one unit.
Search the NHLE for: TERRACED HOUSE - TERRACED LAWN — A raised lawn in a garden or park.
Search the NHLE for: TERRACED LAWN - TERRACED WALK — A walk, common in 18th century gardens, providing a view across the surrounding countryside.
Search the NHLE for: TERRACED WALK - TERRITORIAL ARMY CENTRE — A centre used by the Territorial Army, the volunteer reserve of the British army.
Search the NHLE for: TERRITORIAL ARMY CENTRE - TESSELLATED FLOOR — Floor cover in Roman time, where small cubes (tesserea) of one or more colours were laid in a geometric pattern.
Search the NHLE for: TESSELLATED FLOOR - TEST HOUSE — A building used for the testing of aircraft and aircraft engines.
Search the NHLE for: TEST HOUSE - TESTING RANGE — A site, containing installations and machinery, used for measuring the power of explosives.
Search the NHLE for: TESTING RANGE - TESTING TANK — A water-filled structure for experimental research.
Search the NHLE for: TESTING TANK - TETHERING POST — a wooden, metal or stone post used to tether a horse, or other animals.
Search the NHLE for: TETHERING POST - TETT TURRET — A small concrete turret placed on top of a standard 4 ft. diameter concrete pipe sunk into the ground. Intended for use in defending road junctions, airfields and beach exits.
Search the NHLE for: TETT TURRET - TEXTILE CONDITIONING HOUSE — Building for testing the condition and strength of textiles.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE CONDITIONING HOUSE - TEXTILE FINISHING SITE — Includes bleaching, dressing, dyeing and printing.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE FINISHING SITE - TEXTILE INDUSTRY SITE — Includes all stages of production process of textiles, eg. wool, cotton, linen, etc, and textile products. Use only for sites where there is evidence of textile manufacture but no specific monument type, otherwise use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE INDUSTRY SITE - TEXTILE MILL — Any factory used for the manufacture of textiles.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE MILL - TEXTILE WAREHOUSE — A large store for textiles.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE WAREHOUSE - TEXTILE WORKERS COTTAGE — The residence of a person employed in the textile industry.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE WORKERS COTTAGE - TEXTILE WORKSHOP — A workshop used in the manufacture and preparation of textiles.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE WORKSHOP - THEATRE — A building used primarily for the performing of plays.
Search the NHLE for: THEATRE - THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE — An establishment dedicated to the study of theology and religious training.
Search the NHLE for: THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE - THERMAL BATHS — A building containing a number of areas for bathing, some of which are naturally heated by thermal springs.
Search the NHLE for: THERMAL BATHS - THOR MISSILE SITE — A missile base armed with the Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile. Thor Missiles were deployed in Britain under joint British/US control between 1959 and 1964.
Search the NHLE for: THOR MISSILE SITE - THRESHING BARN — A barn usually containing a single, central threshing floor.
Search the NHLE for: THRESHING BARN - THRESHING FLOOR — An area of a barn, paved or boarded, on which corn was threshed by hand flailing. Use broader site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: THRESHING FLOOR - THRESHING MILL — A mill which contains machinery for separating grain from the chaff.
Search the NHLE for: THRESHING MILL - THROUGH BY LIGHT — A 'through' BACK TO BACK HOUSE - an interlocking L-shaped plan gave each house two street frontages, thus providing better lighting/ventilation.
Search the NHLE for: THROUGH BY LIGHT - THROWING MILL — A textile mill where thread undergoes the processes of twisting and doubling to provide material strong enough to be spun and woven.
Search the NHLE for: THROWING MILL - TIDAL BASIN — A basin or harbour, which is open to the tides. Vessels can only enter and leave at high tide and are stranded at low tide.
Search the NHLE for: TIDAL BASIN - TIDAL DOOR — A gate which allows water to pass into a dock, etc, at flood tide, and by which it is retained during the ebb tide.
Search the NHLE for: TIDAL DOOR - TIDAL LOCK — A double lock placed between tidal water and a canal, etc..
Search the NHLE for: TIDAL LOCK - TIDAL SWIMMING POOL — Manmade structure for bathing or swimming that is located on the beachfront and filled by tidal waters. Similar to a LIDO, with the main difference being the extent of the built up complex around the pool.
Search the NHLE for: TIDAL SWIMMING POOL - TIDE GAUGE — An instrument for measuring and indicating the height of tide.
Search the NHLE for: TIDE GAUGE - TIDE MILL — A type of WATERMILL, powered by retaining seawater at high tide and then releasing it at low tide via the water wheel.
Search the NHLE for: TIDE MILL - TILE KILN — A structure in which pottery tiles were baked.
Search the NHLE for: TILE KILN - TILE WORKS — A site used for all the processes associated with the manufacture of roof, floor or decorative tiles.
Search the NHLE for: TILE WORKS - TILEMAKING WORKSHOP — A place where ceramic tiles are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: TILEMAKING WORKSHOP - TILTYARD — A long, narrow yard used for jousting.
Search the NHLE for: TILTYARD - TILTYARD TOWER — A 16th century tower for observing tournaments, eg. at royal palaces.
Search the NHLE for: TILTYARD TOWER - TIMBER CIRCLE — Approximately circular or oval setting of spaced post holes indicating the former presence of a free-standing arrangement of upright timber posts. Often regarded as a wooden equivalent of the better known stone circles.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER CIRCLE - TIMBER FRAMED BARN — A barn which is constructed with a timber framework; between the members are panels which are infilled with timber, wattle and daub, plaster, brickwork, stone or other materials.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER FRAMED BARN - TIMBER FRAMED BUILDING — A building constructed with a basic timber framework; between the members are panels which can be infilled with timber, wattle and daub, plaster, brick or other materials.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER FRAMED BUILDING - TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE — A house constructed with a basic timber framework; between the members are panels which can be infilled with timber, wattle and daub, plaster, brick or other materials.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE - TIMBER MILL — A mill used to process raw timber.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER MILL - TIMBER PROCESSING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the processing of timber.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER PROCESSING SITE - TIMBER SEASONING SHED — A building where timber was allowed to dry and harden, to render it fit for use as a working material.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER SEASONING SHED - TIMBER YARD — An open yard or place where timber is stacked or stored.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER YARD - TIMEBALL TOWER — A structure for visually communicating the exact time to ships in anchorage. A ball slides down a mast at the top of the tower, usually at noon or one o'clock exactly.
Search the NHLE for: TIMEBALL TOWER - TIMEKEEPERS OFFICE — A room or building occupied by a person employed to keep accounts of workers' hours of labour.
Search the NHLE for: TIMEKEEPERS OFFICE - TIN MILL — A mill used for the processing of tin ore by crazing, stamping or smelting.
Search the NHLE for: TIN MILL - TIN MINE — A mine used for the extraction on tin bearing ore.
Search the NHLE for: TIN MINE - TIN WORKS — A site where tin ore is extracted from suspended fire waste in tin mine spoil heaps.
Search the NHLE for: TIN WORKS - TINNERS CACHE — A crude, stone built structure, often roofless, used by tin miners to store equipment.
Search the NHLE for: TINNERS CACHE - TINNERS HUT — A small dwelling providing living accommodation for a tin miner.
Search the NHLE for: TINNERS HUT - TIRONIAN MONASTERY — An abbey or priory belonging to the Tironian order.
Search the NHLE for: TIRONIAN MONASTERY - TITHE BARN — A large barn used to store the tithe (a tenth part of the annual produce of agriculture etc.) which was paid by the tenants of ecclesiastical lands.
Search the NHLE for: TITHE BARN - TOBACCO FACTORY — A place where tobacco is made into cigarettes, cigars, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TOBACCO FACTORY - TOBACCO WAREHOUSE — A building designed specifically for handling tobacco. This may be a bonded warehouse containing facilities for removing tobacco leaves from the hogsheads in which they were imported, and pressing them.
Search the NHLE for: TOBACCO WAREHOUSE - TOFT — The place where a house stood or had once stood, often adjoining a garth or croft.
Search the NHLE for: TOFT - TOILET — A small room or building containing a lavatory and, in more recent times, washing facilities.
Search the NHLE for: TOILET - TOLL BOARD — A sign, situated near a road or bridge, indicating a toll.
Search the NHLE for: TOLL BOARD - TOLL BOUNDARY MARKER — A marker, of stone, wood or metal, used to delineate the limits of a stretch of highway, river or canal subject to a toll charge.
Search the NHLE for: TOLL BOUNDARY MARKER - TOLL BRIDGE — A bridge whose upkeep and repair was financed by the exaction of a toll.
Search the NHLE for: TOLL BRIDGE - TOLL GATE — A gate on a toll road where travellers had to pay a toll to the toll-keeper.
Search the NHLE for: TOLL GATE - TOLL HOUSE — A house by a toll gate or toll bridge where tolls are collected.
Search the NHLE for: TOLL HOUSE - TOLL ROAD — A road whose upkeep and repair was financed by the exaction of a toll.
Search the NHLE for: TOLL ROAD - TOLLBOOTH — A booth, shed or stall erected at the side of a road, canal, bridge or gate where a toll must be paid.
Search the NHLE for: TOLLBOOTH - TOMB — A grave or sepulchre including a monument. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TOMB - TOMBSTONE — A horizontal stone placed across a grave.
Search the NHLE for: TOMBSTONE - TOPIARY GARDEN — A garden containing trees or shrubs pruned and trained into various geometric, zoomorphic or fantastic shapes.
Search the NHLE for: TOPIARY GARDEN - TOPSHOP — An attic workshop for textile manufacture, usually weaving.
Search the NHLE for: TOPSHOP - TOR CAIRN — A circular bank of stones and turf, sometimes accompanied by a ditch, surrounding a natural outcrop of rock, usually a tor, or an earthfast boulder.
Search the NHLE for: TOR CAIRN - TORPEDO STATION — A land based establishment armed with torpedoes and used to defend the coast from enemy shipping.
Search the NHLE for: TORPEDO STATION - TOW PATH — A path running by the side of a canal or navigable river for use in towing vessels.
Search the NHLE for: TOW PATH - TOWER — A tall building, either round, square or polygonal in plan, used for a variety of purposes, including defence, as a landmark, for the hanging of bells, industrial functions, etc. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TOWER - TOWER BLOCK — A tall, multi storeyed building either used as business premises or, more usually, as residential accomodation.
Search the NHLE for: TOWER BLOCK - TOWER HOUSE — A multi-storey, fortified hall house with one of the crosswings being raised in the form of a crenellated tower. Permanently occupied, they date from the mid 14th to the 17th century and are found mainly in the border counties of the North of England.
Search the NHLE for: TOWER HOUSE - TOWER KEEP — A fortified keep in the form of a tower, used as a last refuge or defence. If a component of a larger site, use KEEP.
Search the NHLE for: TOWER KEEP - TOWER MILL — A windmill with a rotating cap containing the windshaft, and a stationary body in the form of a tower.
Search the NHLE for: TOWER MILL - TOWING PATH BRIDGE — A bridge which takes a towing path over a branch canal, basin, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TOWING PATH BRIDGE - TOWN — An assemblage of public and private buildings, larger than a village and having more complete and independent local government.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN - TOWN CROSS — A cross erected within a town, usually funded by the inhabitants.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN CROSS - TOWN DEFENCES — Defensive fortifications such as ramparts, ditches and stone walls, built to defend a town or city.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN DEFENCES - TOWN DITCH — A ditch constructed to surround a town for defensive purposes.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN DITCH - TOWN GATE — A highly defensible gateway, usually of stone with two or more storeys, built into the defensive walls of a town or city.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN GATE - TOWN HALL — A large building used for the transaction of the public business of a town, the holding of courts of justice, entertainments and other activities.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN HALL - TOWN HOUSE — A gentry house in a town or city, either detached or in a terrace.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN HOUSE - TOWN WALL — A fortified wall surrounding a town or city.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN WALL - TOWNSHIP — Cluster of dwellings of medieval or later date (Scots)
Search the NHLE for: TOWNSHIP - TRACKWAY — A pathway, not necessarily designed as such, beaten down by the feet of travellers.
Search the NHLE for: TRACKWAY - TRACTION STEAM ENGINE — Small mobile steam engine.
Search the NHLE for: TRACTION STEAM ENGINE - TRADE HALL — A meeting hall, or sale room in a town, for manufacturers and traders.
Search the NHLE for: TRADE HALL - TRADE SCHOOL — A school where handicrafts are taught.
Search the NHLE for: TRADE SCHOOL - TRADES UNION BUILDING — A building where the administrative functions of a Trade Union are carried on.
Search the NHLE for: TRADES UNION BUILDING - TRADES UNION HALL — A hall used by the members of a trade union for meetings and social functions.
Search the NHLE for: TRADES UNION HALL - TRAIN SHED — A canopy or building to cover the platforms in a railway station.
Search the NHLE for: TRAIN SHED - TRAINING CENTRE — A place where specific skills are taught on short courses.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING CENTRE - TRAINING COLLEGE — A college where specialist skills, relating to a particular subject, are taught. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING COLLEGE - TRAINING SCHOOL — A school where specialist skills, relating to a particular subject, are taught. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING SCHOOL - TRAINING STRUCTURE — An undefined structure used in the training of people in a certain skill.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING STRUCTURE - TRAM DEPOT — A place where trams are maintained and refitted, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TRAM DEPOT - TRAM SHED — A building for the housing of trams.
Search the NHLE for: TRAM SHED - TRAM SHELTER — A structure providing protection against the weather at tram stops.
Search the NHLE for: TRAM SHELTER - TRAM TRANSFORMER STATION — A building housing transformers to convert AC electricity supply to DC supply for use by tramcars.
Search the NHLE for: TRAM TRANSFORMER STATION - TRAMWAY — A track inlaid into a surface, on which tram cars run for the conveyance of passengers and/or goods or raw materials.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY - TRAMWAY BRIDGE — A bridge carrying a tramway.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY BRIDGE - TRAMWAY EMBANKMENT — An embankment of earth alongside a tramway.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY EMBANKMENT - TRAMWAY STABLE — A stable associated with a horse-drawn tramway system.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY STABLE - TRAMWAY TUNNEL — A tunnel through which a tramway runs.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY TUNNEL - TRAMWAY TUNNEL PORTAL — The entrance to a tramway tunnel.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY TUNNEL PORTAL - TRANSFORMER BOX — A device for converting one voltage of alternating current to another voltage.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSFORMER BOX - TRANSFORMER PILLAR — A pillar housing a transformer to convert AC electricity supply, for use by electrified transport systems or for domestic purposes.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSFORMER PILLAR - TRANSFORMER STATION — A building housing transformers to convert AC electricity supply for domestic use.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSFORMER STATION - TRANSHUMANCE DWELLING — A house or shelter used by drovers, herders or shepherds during the seasonal moving of livestock from the highlands to the lowlands. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSHUMANCE DWELLING - TRANSIT SHED — A type of warehouse, usually one-storeyed.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSIT SHED - TRANSMISSION RODS — The line of a flat rod system transmitting power from an engine or waterwheel.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSMISSION RODS - TRANSMITTER SITE — A site, including buildings and structures, from which communication signals are transmitted.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSMITTER SITE - TRANSPORT — Sites, buildings, structures & features related to the conveyance of goods &/or passengers. Includes man-made routeways, mechanical structures & some vehicle types where it is deemed necessary to record such as monuments.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSPORT - TRANSPORT OFFICE — The administrative office of a transport company who provide a service for the conveyance and transportation of either goods or people.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSPORT OFFICE - TRANSPORT WAREHOUSE — A large building, situated by or near a dock, canal, road or railway and used for the temporary storage of goods or merchandise awaiting transportation.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSPORT WAREHOUSE - TRANSPORTER BRIDGE — A bridge consisting of a lattice girder spanning the distance between the tops of two towers. Designed to transport vehicles across the gap in a container suspended at road level by ropes under a travelling crane on the girder.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSPORTER BRIDGE - TRAP HOUSE — A building, similar to a cart shed, but used to house traps, gigs and coaches.
Search the NHLE for: TRAP HOUSE - TRAPEZOIDAL ENCLOSURE — An area of land, roughly shaped like a trapezoid and enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier.
Search the NHLE for: TRAPEZOIDAL ENCLOSURE - TRAVEL AGENTS — A commercial premises offering advice on destinations and other travel arrangements, and where travellers may purchase flights,make hotel reservations or book package holidays and tours.
Search the NHLE for: TRAVEL AGENTS - TRAVELLING CRANE — A crane, located in an engineering workshop or similar establishment, which can be moved on rails and thus used anywhere within the workshop.
Search the NHLE for: TRAVELLING CRANE - TRAVERSER — A platform which moves laterally on wheels, by which boats, railway carriages and engines may be moved from one place to another, eg. from one slipway to another parallel to it.
Search the NHLE for: TRAVERSER - TREADMILL — A structure for producing power through a rotary motion achieved by the weight of men or animals treading on a succession of moving steps or a belt that forms a kind of continuous path.
Search the NHLE for: TREADMILL - TREADWHEEL — A wheel rotated by the treading of persons or animals to power machinery to raise water, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TREADWHEEL - TREADWHEEL CRANE — A crane powered by a treadwheel and used for lifting and lowering, dating from the Roman period. Also used in later periods to assist on building sites, at mines and in ports.
Search the NHLE for: TREADWHEEL CRANE - TREASURERS HOUSE — A house provided for the treasurer of a cathedral, palace or similar.
Search the NHLE for: TREASURERS HOUSE - TREASURY — A free-standing building or a room used as a storage place for valuable objects.
Search the NHLE for: TREASURY - TREE AVENUE — A straight road lined with trees along either side, also straight lines of trees found in parkland usually leading to a landscape feature.
Search the NHLE for: TREE AVENUE - TREE BELT — An alignment of trees planted as part of a designed landscape. For a belt lining a road use TREE AVENUE.
Search the NHLE for: TREE BELT - TREE CLUMP — A group of trees planted as part of a designed landscape.
Search the NHLE for: TREE CLUMP - TREE ENCLOSURE RING — A circular bank in which trees have been planted for ornamental purposes or to create an enclosure. May exist purely as a bank which has been formed over the stumps of the trees which had been planted to form the enclosure.
Search the NHLE for: TREE ENCLOSURE RING - TREE HOUSE — Ornamental garden building constructed within the branches of trees.
Search the NHLE for: TREE HOUSE - TREE MOUND — An earthen mound, usually within an ornamental garden, on which a tree was planted.
Search the NHLE for: TREE MOUND - TREE THROW — A bowl-shaped cavity or depression created in the subsoil by the long term presence and growth of tree roots or when a large tree is blown over or has its stump pulled out.
Search the NHLE for: TREE THROW - TRELLIS — A framework used as a support upon which fruit-trees or climbing plants are trained.
Search the NHLE for: TRELLIS - TRENCH — An excavation used as a means of concealment, protection or both.
Search the NHLE for: TRENCH - TRIANGULATION PILLAR — A purpose-built triangulation pillar used for the metrical survey of Britain carried out by the Ordnance Survey.
Search the NHLE for: TRIANGULATION PILLAR - TRIANGULATION POINT — A purpose-built triangulation point used for the metrical survey of Britain carried out by the Ordnance Survey.
Search the NHLE for: TRIANGULATION POINT - TRINITARIAN MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of the Trinitarian brethren also named Maturins.
Search the NHLE for: TRINITARIAN MONASTERY - TRIUMPHAL ARCH — A large free-standing arch erected to commemorate a triumph or victory.
Search the NHLE for: TRIUMPHAL ARCH - TROLLEYBUS TURNTABLE — A mechanism used to turn a trolleybus around.
Search the NHLE for: TROLLEYBUS TURNTABLE - TROUGH — A narrow, open container, usually where food or water for animals is put. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TROUGH - TUBERCULOSIS CHALET — A small detached building used to accommodate patients with tuberculosis.
Search the NHLE for: TUBERCULOSIS CHALET - TUMBLING WEIR — An outfall from a canal, river or reservoir.
Search the NHLE for: TUMBLING WEIR - TUNGSTEN MINE — A mine used for the extraction of tungsten bearing ore. Use with other mineral ores extracted and MINE, eg. TIN MINE.
Search the NHLE for: TUNGSTEN MINE - TUNNEL — An underground channel with a vaulted roof. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TUNNEL - TUNNEL CHAMBER — A large space in an underground tunnel, usually wider than the tunnel itself, used for storage, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TUNNEL CHAMBER - TUNNEL PORTAL — The entrance to a tunnel. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TUNNEL PORTAL - TURBINE — A rotary prime mover. Turbines may be steam, water or gas operated.
Search the NHLE for: TURBINE - TURBINE HOUSE — A building housing a turbine.
Search the NHLE for: TURBINE HOUSE - TURBINE MILL — A mill which is powered by a turbine.
Search the NHLE for: TURBINE MILL - TURF MAZE — A labyrinthine garden feature, common during the 16th and 17th centuries, created by cutting shallow pathways into deep lawns.
Search the NHLE for: TURF MAZE - TURFED STEPS — Garden steps covered in turf.
Search the NHLE for: TURFED STEPS - TURKISH BATHS — A hot steam bath introduced from the East, in which heavy perspiration is followed by soaping, washing, massage and cooling.
Search the NHLE for: TURKISH BATHS - TURNING CIRCLE — Mechanism for turning around vehicles in a confined space.
Search the NHLE for: TURNING CIRCLE - TURNING SHOP — A workshop used for completing the shape of a product or part by turning on a lathe or wheel.
Search the NHLE for: TURNING SHOP - TURNSTILE — A barrier which rotates on an axis and is usually so arranged as to allow a person to pass through an opening only in one direction.
Search the NHLE for: TURNSTILE - TURRET — A small tower or bartizan, which was often placed at the angles of a castle, to increase the flanking ability, some only serving as corner buttresses. Also used to describe the small rectangular towers situated between the milecastles along Hadrians Wall.
Search the NHLE for: TURRET - TURRET INSTRUCTIONAL BUILDING — An airfield building housing a turret gunnery trainer used to teach air gunners how to report the correct position of enemy aircraft by practising shooting against projected moving images of enemy aircraft displayed on a target screen (WWII).
Search the NHLE for: TURRET INSTRUCTIONAL BUILDING - TWEED MILL — A factory where tweed, a twilled woollen fabric with an unfinished surface, is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: TWEED MILL - TWIST MILL — A mill in which strands of yarn are twisted together to produce a strong thread with a uniform thickness.
Search the NHLE for: TWIST MILL
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- UNDERCROFT — A vault or crypt under a church or chapel. Use wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERCROFT - UNDERGROUND CAR PARK — A car park situated beneath the surface of the ground.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND CAR PARK - UNDERGROUND GOVERNMENT HEADQUARTERS — A secure, bomb-proof, undergound complex designed to be used by the government in the event of a national emergency such as nuclear war. Usually equipped with communications equipment, emergency rations and water and air filtering plants.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND GOVERNMENT HEADQUARTERS - UNDERGROUND MILITARY HEADQUARTERS — An underground bomb-proof structure used as a command centre for military operations.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND MILITARY HEADQUARTERS - UNDERGROUND MONITORING POST — A small underground chamber from where it was intended to monitor radioactive fallout in the event of nuclear attack. The majority were built between 1956 and 1964, although construction continued into the early 1970s.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND MONITORING POST - UNDERGROUND RAILWAY — A railway which runs beneath the surface of the ground, eg. the London Underground Railway.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND RAILWAY - UNDERGROUND RAILWAY STATION — A stopping place on an underground railway system where passengers can board and disembark from a train.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND RAILWAY STATION - UNDERGROUND RAILWAY TUNNEL — A tunnel carrying a railway beneath the surface of the ground.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND RAILWAY TUNNEL - UNDERGROUND STRUCTURE — A constructed space beneath the surface of the ground.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND STRUCTURE - UNDERPASS — A section of road that provides a passage beneath another road or railway.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERPASS - UNDERSHOT WHEEL — A waterwheel where the inflow of water strikes the paddles or floatboards well below the axis of the wheel, ie. the water more or less passes under it.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERSHOT WHEEL - UNENCLOSED HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT — A settlement with evidence for several hut circles but clearly lacking an obvious boundary. Where it is not certain whether a boundary existed or not, use HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT. Characteristic of the later prehistoric period.
Search the NHLE for: UNENCLOSED HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT - UNENCLOSED SETTLEMENT — A settlement without any obvious evidence for a boundary. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: UNENCLOSED SETTLEMENT - UNION ROOM — Area in a brewery used for the production of beer by the Burton Union method.
Search the NHLE for: UNION ROOM - UNITARIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for Unitarians, a movement which does not believe in the Trinity but only in the Unity of Christ. Christ was to them just an exalted human teacher.
Search the NHLE for: UNITARIAN CHAPEL - UNITED METHODIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of the United Methodists Church, a group formed in 1907 by the amalgamation of the United Methodist Free Church, the Methodist New Connection and the Bible Christians.
Search the NHLE for: UNITED METHODIST CHAPEL - UNITED METHODIST FREE CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of the United Methodist Free Church. Formed in 1857 by the amalgamation of the Methodist Reform Church and the Wesleyan Association they later became part of the United Methodist Church in 1907.
Search the NHLE for: UNITED METHODIST FREE CHAPEL - UNITED REFORMED CHURCH — A place of worship for members of the United Reformed Church, a group formed in 1972 by the amalgamation of most of the Congregational Churches in England and Wales with the Presbyterian Church in England.
Search the NHLE for: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH - UNIVALLATE HILLFORT — A hilltop enclosure bounded by a single rampart, usually accompanied by a ditch.
Search the NHLE for: UNIVALLATE HILLFORT - UNIVERSITY — A group of colleges and associated buildings belonging to a university.
Search the NHLE for: UNIVERSITY - UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION OFFICE — An office where the administrative duties of a university are performed.
Search the NHLE for: UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION OFFICE - UNIVERSITY COLLEGE — A college associated with, or forming part of, a university.
Search the NHLE for: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE - UPDRAUGHT KILN — A type of pottery oven in which the air passes from the base of the kiln out through the top.
Search the NHLE for: UPDRAUGHT KILN - UPHOLSTERY WORKS — A factory or building where furniture is upholstered.
Search the NHLE for: UPHOLSTERY WORKS - URN — A garden ornament, usually of stone or metal, designed in the the form of a vase used to receive the ashes of the dead.
Search the NHLE for: URN - URNFIELD — A village cemetery where cinerary urns were buried in large numbers during the Bronze Age.
Search the NHLE for: URNFIELD
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- VACCARY — A monastic cattle ranch with associated buildings, paddocks and pastures.
Search the NHLE for: VACCARY - VALLUM — A flat bottomed ditch flanked by mounds running to the south of Hadrian's Wall for much of its length, marking the boundary of the military zone.
Search the NHLE for: VALLUM - VALVE HOUSE — A small building housing a valve which controls the flow within a water regulation system.
Search the NHLE for: VALVE HOUSE - VALVE TOWER — An iron, stone or concrete tower built up from the bed of a reservoir. From it the control valves of the pipes which draw off water at different levels are operated.
Search the NHLE for: VALVE TOWER - VASE — A large, decorative garden ornament resembling a vase.
Search the NHLE for: VASE - VAT HALL — A building, or room within a brewery, where beer or cider undergoes fermentation in vats or tuns.
Search the NHLE for: VAT HALL - VAULT — An underground room or building with an arched roof, often used as a burial chamber. Use wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: VAULT - VEGETABLE GARDEN — A garden devoted to the growth of vegetables.
Search the NHLE for: VEGETABLE GARDEN - VEGETABLE STORE — A building or room for the storage of vegetables, particularly root vegetables, for human consumption.
Search the NHLE for: VEGETABLE STORE - VEHICLE DEPOT — A storage facility used for the accommodation and dispersal of vehicles. Often used by the military and emergency services.
Search the NHLE for: VEHICLE DEPOT - VEHICLE ENGINEERING SITE — Sites associated with the manufacture and engineering of vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: VEHICLE ENGINEERING SITE - VEHICLE TESTING STATION — A building or site used to assess the mechanical state of a vehicle.
Search the NHLE for: VEHICLE TESTING STATION - VENEREAL DISEASE UNIT — A centre where patients suffering from venereal and associated diseases receive treatment.
Search the NHLE for: VENEREAL DISEASE UNIT - VENTILATION CHIMNEY — A tall stack used to disperse foul air from the bottom of a mine.
Search the NHLE for: VENTILATION CHIMNEY - VENTILATION FURNACE — Small furnace, used to create an upward draught of air in mine workings.
Search the NHLE for: VENTILATION FURNACE - VENTILATION SHAFT — A shaft designed to allow for the adequate circulation of air through a transport tunnel, for example.
Search the NHLE for: VENTILATION SHAFT - VERDERERS COTTAGE — A forester's cottage.
Search the NHLE for: VERDERERS COTTAGE - VERDERERS HALL — A meeting hall of the verderers, who were the officers appointed to maintain the King's forests.
Search the NHLE for: VERDERERS HALL - VERGERS COTTAGE — The residence of a verger, typically a layperson who assists in the ordering of religious services within the Anglican church.
Search the NHLE for: VERGERS COTTAGE - VERMIN TRAP — A device used to trap or kill animals considered to be pests, eg. rats.
Search the NHLE for: VERMIN TRAP - VESTRY — A room or part of a church where the vestments, vessels and records are kept.
Search the NHLE for: VESTRY - VETERINARY HOSPITAL — A hospital for the medical or surgical treatment of domestic or wild animals.
Search the NHLE for: VETERINARY HOSPITAL - VEXILLATION FORT — A military base normally between 20 and 30 acres in size, containing legionary and auxiliary battle units, which served as stores depots and winter quarters during campaigns.
Search the NHLE for: VEXILLATION FORT - VIADUCT — A bridge, usually resting on a series of arches, carrying roadways or railways over low-lying areas.
Search the NHLE for: VIADUCT - VICARAGE — The residence of a vicar, parson or rector.
Search the NHLE for: VICARAGE - VICTUALLING YARD — A complex of buildings with the purpose of providing and storing food and drink supplies (esp. for the navy).
Search the NHLE for: VICTUALLING YARD - VICUS — A district, suburb or quarter of a town or village adjacent to a fort, with the lowest legal status accorded to a built up area.
Search the NHLE for: VICUS - VIERECKSCHANZEN — A rectilinear ritual enclosure of Iron Age date
Search the NHLE for: VIERECKSCHANZEN - VIEWING TERRACE — A man made terrace, often constructed in concrete, built to allow spectators a view of organized outdoor events or activities.
Search the NHLE for: VIEWING TERRACE - VILL — Small discreet rural settlements which do not provide the commercial, legal or ecclesiastical services typically found within medieval urban areas.
Search the NHLE for: VILL - VILLA — A term for a type of house, with varying definitions according to period. Roman villas were high-status and usually associated with a rural estate, whereas Georgian and later period villas were often semi-detached, town houses.
Search the NHLE for: VILLA - VILLAGE — A collection of dwelling-houses and other buildings, usually larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a simpler organisation and administration than the latter.
Search the NHLE for: VILLAGE - VILLAGE COLLEGE — A rural school serving a number of villages, built in Cambridgeshire in the 1930s.
Search the NHLE for: VILLAGE COLLEGE - VILLAGE CROSS — A cross erected in a village.
Search the NHLE for: VILLAGE CROSS - VILLAGE GREEN — An area of common grassland in a village used for grazing cattle, recreational purposes, etc.
Search the NHLE for: VILLAGE GREEN - VILLAGE HALL — A hall in a village used for meetings and other functions.
Search the NHLE for: VILLAGE HALL - VILLAGE TAP — A point in a village providing water for drinking and washing.
Search the NHLE for: VILLAGE TAP - VINEGAR BREWERY — A site where vinegar is manufactured from soured beer, wine or cider.
Search the NHLE for: VINEGAR BREWERY - VINERY — A glass-house or hot-house constructed for the cultivation of a grapevine.
Search the NHLE for: VINERY - VINEYARD — An area of land and associated buildings where vines are cultivated. The grapes produced are then used to make wine.
Search the NHLE for: VINEYARD - VISITORS CENTRE (LEISURE) — A building or complex, often associated with a historic site or place of interest, containing interpretation panels and information for visitors to the site or area.
Search the NHLE for: VISITORS CENTRE (LEISURE) - VOLUNTARY SCHOOL — A school built and/or supported by voluntary contributions.
Search the NHLE for: VOLUNTARY SCHOOL
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- WAGON SHED — A building or structure to house railway wagons.
Search the NHLE for: WAGON SHED - WAGONWAY — An early form of railway for the transportation of freight by wagons on rails on a road.
Search the NHLE for: WAGONWAY - WAITING ROOM — A room used by those who have to wait at railway or bus stations, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WAITING ROOM - WALK — A place or path for walking in a park or garden. Use more specific type where possible.
Search the NHLE for: WALK - WALL — An enclosing structure composed of bricks, stones or similar materials, laid in courses. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WALL - WALL CRANE — A small crane fixed to the wall of a warehouse or similar building.
Search the NHLE for: WALL CRANE - WALL MONUMENT — A substantial monument attached to a wall and often standing on the floor.
Search the NHLE for: WALL MONUMENT - WALL PAINTING — A painting executed directly onto a wall.
Search the NHLE for: WALL PAINTING - WALLED GARDEN — A garden surrounded by a substantial wall.
Search the NHLE for: WALLED GARDEN - WALLPAPER FACTORY — A place where paper, frequently printed in ornamental designs, used for covering the interior walls of buildings, is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: WALLPAPER FACTORY - WAR MEMORIAL — A structure, building or site commemorating soldiers and civilians killed in war.
Search the NHLE for: WAR MEMORIAL - WAR MEMORIAL (FREESTANDING) — A freestanding structure commemorating nations, actions, soldiers and/or civilians that served or died as a result of conflict.
Search the NHLE for: WAR MEMORIAL (FREESTANDING) - WAR MEMORIAL (TRIBUTE) — An attached plaque, inscription, mural or display commemorating nations, actions, soldiers and/or civilians that served or died as a result of conflict.
Search the NHLE for: WAR MEMORIAL (TRIBUTE) - WAR PRODUCTION FACTORY — A factory or works which has been temporarily turned over to the manufacture of goods for the war effort.
Search the NHLE for: WAR PRODUCTION FACTORY - WAR ROOM — A reinforced concrete structure, which may be sited above ground or semi-sunken, from where it was intended to conduct the business of government from, in the event of nuclear war. Date specific to the early-mid 1950's.
Search the NHLE for: WAR ROOM - WARD BLOCK — Non-pavilion type of attached ward block.
Search the NHLE for: WARD BLOCK - WAREHOUSE — A building or part of a building used for the storage of goods or merchandise. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WAREHOUSE - WARMING HOUSE — A building or room within a monastery in which the monks were allowed to warm themselves. The warming house was often the only place where a fire was allowed.
Search the NHLE for: WARMING HOUSE - WARNING SIREN — An instrument used for making a loud sound for information or warning.
Search the NHLE for: WARNING SIREN - WARRENERS LODGE — Accommodation for the warrener(s) usually located within the boundary of the Rabbit Warren. They also provided a place to store nets, traps and other necessary equipment.
Search the NHLE for: WARRENERS LODGE - WASH HOUSE — A building where clothes are washed.
Search the NHLE for: WASH HOUSE - WASHING FLOOR — Open-air area often terraced on which a range of ore processing operations are carried out.
Search the NHLE for: WASHING FLOOR - WASHING PIT — A pit or tank where the chemicals used in tanning are washed from the animal hides.
Search the NHLE for: WASHING PIT - WASHING PLACE — Outdoor site for domestic washing, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WASHING PLACE - WASHING SHOP — A building containing a range of processes for cleaning and processing metallic ores.
Search the NHLE for: WASHING SHOP - WASTER TIP — A dump for wasters; pieces of pottery spoiled in the manufacturing process.
Search the NHLE for: WASTER TIP - WATCH FACTORY — A factory that manufactures watches.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH FACTORY - WATCH HOUSE — A house or hut for a nightwatchman; including parish watch houses in churchyards and private watch houses, eg. in dockyards, factories, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH HOUSE - WATCH OFFICE — A building, originally used as a shelter for the duty pilot or officer on watch on an airfield, and later used to direct air traffic. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE - WATCH OFFICE (207/36) — A two-storey watch office similar in design to drawing number 1959/34 but constructed completely from concrete. A large, almost square, ground plan with a central observation tower.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (207/36) - WATCH OFFICE (3156/41) — A fighter satellite station watch office built to Air Ministry design drawing number 3156/41.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (3156/41) - WATCH TOWER — A building or structure from which observation is kept of the approach of danger.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH TOWER - WATCHMAKERS WORKSHOP — A place where watches and timepieces are manufactured and mended.
Search the NHLE for: WATCHMAKERS WORKSHOP - WATCHMANS BOX — A small building used as a shelter by a constable of the watch responsible for patrolling the streets at night to safeguard life and property.
Search the NHLE for: WATCHMANS BOX - WATER CHANNEL — An artificial watercourse for the conveyance of water.
Search the NHLE for: WATER CHANNEL - WATER CHUTE — A structure consisting of a large plastic pipe attached to a high tower and sloping down to a swimming pool. Water flows down the inside allowing people to slide down into the pool below.
Search the NHLE for: WATER CHUTE - WATER FEATURE — A body of water, building or structure found in a park or garden used as a water supply or ornament. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WATER FEATURE - WATER GARDEN — A garden incorporating fountains and pools in which aquatic and other water-loving plants are grown.
Search the NHLE for: WATER GARDEN - WATER GATE — A gate leading to water, either a river or the sea. Used as a means of supplying castles, for example, with goods brought by water transport.
Search the NHLE for: WATER GATE - WATER LILY HOUSE — A garden building or greenhouse, containing pools in which Water Lilies are grown.
Search the NHLE for: WATER LILY HOUSE - WATER MEADOW — Grassland fertilized by allowing floodwater to cover it in winter.
Search the NHLE for: WATER MEADOW - WATER METER HOUSE — A building in which apparatus measuring the amount of water supplied/used is housed.
Search the NHLE for: WATER METER HOUSE - WATER PAVILION — A type of GARDEN HOUSE situated on an island in a garden lake or canal or, more generally, by any waterside.
Search the NHLE for: WATER PAVILION - WATER PIPE — A pipe through which water is conducted.
Search the NHLE for: WATER PIPE - WATER POINT — A water tank, often raised on stilts, used to supply water to steam trains.
Search the NHLE for: WATER POINT - WATER PUMP — A point of public water supply, including conduits, fountains, wells, pumps and standpipes.
Search the NHLE for: WATER PUMP - WATER PUMPING STATION — A pumping station used as part of a clean water supply system.
Search the NHLE for: WATER PUMPING STATION - WATER REGULATION INSTALLATION — Buildings, structures and sites for regulating the flow of water.
Search the NHLE for: WATER REGULATION INSTALLATION - WATER STORAGE SITE — Sites and structures associated with the storage of water and waste water. Use only where the exact form or function is unknown otherwise use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: WATER STORAGE SITE - WATER SUPPLY AND DRAINAGE — Sites, building, structures & features associated with the supply & drainage of water & the disposal of sewage and waste water. Includes bodies of water, waterways & associated ancillary structures.
Search the NHLE for: WATER SUPPLY AND DRAINAGE - WATER SUPPLY SITE — Site and structures associated with the supply of clean water.
Search the NHLE for: WATER SUPPLY SITE - WATER TANK — A receptacle for the storage of water.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TANK - WATER TAP — A water point with a device to regulate the flow of water.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TAP - WATER TOWER — A tower serving as a reservoir to deliver water at a required point.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TOWER - WATER TUNNEL — A large, undergound watercourse.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TUNNEL - WATER TURBINE — A prime mover in which a central wheel with curved vanes, enclosed in a chamber, receives water directed onto the curved vanes by a ring of fixed guide vanes, causing the wheel to rotate about its axis.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TURBINE - WATER WHEEL — A structure associated with forges, watermills, water-powered factories, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WATER WHEEL - WATERCOURSE — A channel used for or formed by the conveyance of water. Can be natural, eg. a river or artificial eg. an aqueduct. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WATERCOURSE - WATERCRAFT — A boat, ship or other vessel either whole or in part. Watercraft often survive as commemorative monuments or have been reused as floating restaurants, museums, hotels etc.
Search the NHLE for: WATERCRAFT - WATERCRESS BED — A cultivated plantation of watercress, usually situated near springs or small running streams.
Search the NHLE for: WATERCRESS BED - WATERFALL — A fall of water. Use for artificial waterfalls if naturalistic in form, otherwise use CASCADE.
Search the NHLE for: WATERFALL - WATERFRONT — The area of a town or city, such as a harbour or dockyard, alongside a body of water.
Search the NHLE for: WATERFRONT - WATERHOLE — An artificial pond or pool constructed for the purpose of watering livestock, particularly in prehistory.
Search the NHLE for: WATERHOLE - WATERMILL — A mill whose machinery is driven by water.
Search the NHLE for: WATERMILL - WATERWORKS — Buildings, engineering constructions and machinery, used for the purpose of supplying a town, etc, with water distributed through pipes.
Search the NHLE for: WATERWORKS - WATERWORKS COTTAGE — A house occupied by an employee of a waterworks. Usually found in association with a pumping station or waterworks.
Search the NHLE for: WATERWORKS COTTAGE - WAX FACTORY — A building or buildings used for the manufacture of all types of wax.
Search the NHLE for: WAX FACTORY - WAYMARKER CROSS — A rural cross erected to show the way.
Search the NHLE for: WAYMARKER CROSS - WAYSIDE CHAPEL — A chapel for the use of travellers and pilgrims.
Search the NHLE for: WAYSIDE CHAPEL - WAYSIDE CROSS — A cross erected by the side of the road.
Search the NHLE for: WAYSIDE CROSS - WAYSIDE PUMP — A water pump situated at the side of a road or track for use by travellers and their animals.
Search the NHLE for: WAYSIDE PUMP - WEALDEN HOUSE — A medieval house with central open hall and two storey bays, jettied at first floor level, on either side.
Search the NHLE for: WEALDEN HOUSE - WEAPONS TESTING SITE — A building, site or structure associated with the demonstration and testing of weapons and military equipment.
Search the NHLE for: WEAPONS TESTING SITE - WEATHER STATION — A building, group of buildings or installation in which experiments and observations are undertaken to gather and record information about the weather.
Search the NHLE for: WEATHER STATION - WEATHER VANE — A vane usually combined with crossed rods to show the four compass points. Used to indicate the direction of the wind.
Search the NHLE for: WEATHER VANE - WEAVERS COTTAGE — A type of clothier's house, consisting of TOPSHOP and dwelling, used for hand-weaving of textiles.
Search the NHLE for: WEAVERS COTTAGE - WEAVERS WORKSHOP — A handloom weavers workshop where the weaver received yarn from a clothier and manufactured a woven piece of cloth from it.
Search the NHLE for: WEAVERS WORKSHOP - WEAVING MILL — A factory, incorporating power driven machinery from the late 18th century, where cloth was manufactured from threads interlaced at right angles to each other in a loom.
Search the NHLE for: WEAVING MILL - WEAVING SHED — A textile-weaving factory housing powerlooms; commonly a one-storeyed shed with wide, north-light roof carried on iron columns.
Search the NHLE for: WEAVING SHED - WEIGH HOUSE — A building containing a weighing machine for weighing goods; sometimes found in markets, ports, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WEIGH HOUSE - WEIGHBRIDGE — A platform scale, flush with the road, for weighing vehicles, cattle, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WEIGHBRIDGE - WEIGHING MACHINE — An apparatus for weighing people, animals or things.
Search the NHLE for: WEIGHING MACHINE - WEIR — A dam constructed on the reaches of a canal or river designed to retain the water and to regulate its flow.
Search the NHLE for: WEIR - WELFARE CENTRE — A building where advice and aid appertaining to physical and economic wellbeing of disadvantaged members of a community are made available.
Search the NHLE for: WELFARE CENTRE - WELL — A shaft or pit dug in the ground over a supply of spring-water.
Search the NHLE for: WELL - WELL CHAPEL — A chapel adjacent to, associated with or containing a well.
Search the NHLE for: WELL CHAPEL - WELL COVER — A lid for a well. Well covers are often ornate and can be made of various materials.
Search the NHLE for: WELL COVER - WELL HEAD — The structure at the top of a draw well.
Search the NHLE for: WELL HEAD - WELL HOUSE — A building over a well housing machinery for raising the water. Often consisting of a DONKEY WHEEL or HORSE GIN.
Search the NHLE for: WELL HOUSE - WELL KEEPERS COTTAGE — The residence of a well keeper.
Search the NHLE for: WELL KEEPERS COTTAGE - WESLEYAN ASSOCIATION CHAPEL — A place of worship for followers of the Wesleyan Association. This group split from the Methodists in 1836 and were separate until joining the Methodist Reform Church in 1857.
Search the NHLE for: WESLEYAN ASSOCIATION CHAPEL - WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. This was the original Methodist church from which the other denominations seceded. In 1932 they joined the United Methodists and the Primitive Methodists to form the Methodist church.
Search the NHLE for: WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL - WESLEYAN REFORM UNION CHAPEL — A place of worship for followers of the Wesleyan Reform Union, a movement formed in 1859 by those members of the Methodist Reform Church who did not join the Wesleyan Association.
Search the NHLE for: WESLEYAN REFORM UNION CHAPEL - WET DOCK — A large, watertight enclosure in which the water is maintained at the high-tide level so that vessels remain constantly afloat in them.
Search the NHLE for: WET DOCK - WHALING STATION — A building or site where the carcasses of whales were butchered and rendered into by products such as oil, fenk and whalebone.
Search the NHLE for: WHALING STATION - WHARF — A large wooden structure built alongside the water's edge where ships may lie for unloading.
Search the NHLE for: WHARF - WHARFINGERS COTTAGE — A dwelling for the keeper of a canal wharf.
Search the NHLE for: WHARFINGERS COTTAGE - WHEEL HOUSE — A building to house waterwheels, attached to a WATERMILL or water-powered factory.
Search the NHLE for: WHEEL HOUSE - WHEEL MOULD — A circle made out of stones, which is used for making wheels.
Search the NHLE for: WHEEL MOULD - WHEEL PIT — The rectangular pit in which the lower part of a waterwheel revolves.
Search the NHLE for: WHEEL PIT - WHEELWRIGHTS WORKSHOP — A place where wheels and wheeled vehicles were manufactured, originally from wood.
Search the NHLE for: WHEELWRIGHTS WORKSHOP - WHIM HOUSE — A building housing a whim, a machine worked by a horse, used for raising ores, etc, from a mine.
Search the NHLE for: WHIM HOUSE - WHIPPING POST — A post set up, to which offenders were tied to be whipped.
Search the NHLE for: WHIPPING POST - WHITESMITHS WORKSHOP — A workshop with a forge for the melting and working of white metal, ie. low-melting alloys. Also used for a smith specializing in decorative or finely finished wrought iron work.
Search the NHLE for: WHITESMITHS WORKSHOP - WHITING MILL — A building housing machinery for crushing chalk for whiting. Whiting was used in toothpaste, paint, tablets, putty and other products.
Search the NHLE for: WHITING MILL - WHITING WORKS — A building or site used for the manufacture of whiting either from crushed chalk, limestone, marble or through chemical preparation.
Search the NHLE for: WHITING WORKS - WHOLESALE MARKET — A market where goods are bought and sold in bulk, rather than by retail.
Search the NHLE for: WHOLESALE MARKET - WHOLESALE SHOP — A place where goods are sold in bulk, rather than by retail.
Search the NHLE for: WHOLESALE SHOP - WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE — A large storehouse where wholesale goods are stored.
Search the NHLE for: WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE - WIGMAKERS SHOP — A place where wigs, hair-pieces and hair extensions are made and sold.
Search the NHLE for: WIGMAKERS SHOP - WILD CAT ENCLOSURE — An enclosure for wild cats such as Lions and Tigers
Search the NHLE for: WILD CAT ENCLOSURE - WILD GARDEN — A garden where woodland and meadow flowers grow in an apparently natural way.
Search the NHLE for: WILD GARDEN - WILLEY SHED — A building in which wool or cotton were beaten to clean and separate the fibres.
Search the NHLE for: WILLEY SHED - WINCH — A stationary hoisting machine consisting of a rotating drum around which a cable, rope or chain is attached.
Search the NHLE for: WINCH - WINCH HOUSE — A building housing a winching mechanism.
Search the NHLE for: WINCH HOUSE - WIND PUMP — A wind-powered pump for land drainage.
Search the NHLE for: WIND PUMP - WIND TUNNEL — A structure used to test the aerodynamics of aircraft or vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: WIND TUNNEL - WINDER HOUSE — A building housing an engine, usually with an attendant boiler house and chimney. Used for winding from a pit.
Search the NHLE for: WINDER HOUSE - WINDING CIRCLE — An area of ground indicating the site of a horse or man-powered winding mechanism.
Search the NHLE for: WINDING CIRCLE - WINDING ENGINE — An engine used for directly winding up coal from deep mines, first used in the 18th century.
Search the NHLE for: WINDING ENGINE - WINDING GEAR — Machinery for raising and lowering men and materials to and from the surface of a mine.
Search the NHLE for: WINDING GEAR - WINDLASS — A mechanical structure, consisting of a roller or beam on supports, round which a rope or chain is wound, and used for various purposes, eg. raising a bucket from a well, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WINDLASS - WINDMILL — A tower-like structure of wood or brick with a wooden cap and sails which are driven around by the wind producing power to work the internal machinery. Use with product type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WINDMILL - WINDMILL MOUND — An artificial mound of earth indicating either the former site of a windmill or built as the base of a post windmill.
Search the NHLE for: WINDMILL MOUND - WINE BAR — A licenced establishment where wine and other alcoholic drinks are sold for drinking on the premises.
Search the NHLE for: WINE BAR - WINE CELLAR — A building or subterranean structure used for the storage of wine.
Search the NHLE for: WINE CELLAR - WINE LODGE — A public house licensed for the sale of wine and other alcoholic drinks.
Search the NHLE for: WINE LODGE - WINE PRESS — A press in which the juice is extracted from grapes in the manufacture of wine.
Search the NHLE for: WINE PRESS - WINERY — An establishment where wine is produced.
Search the NHLE for: WINERY - WINTER GARDEN — Originally an area planted with evergreens or winter-flowering plants for winter display, they can also be large glasshouses built for public entertainment where the original purpose of displaying plants has either disappeared or been minimalised.
Search the NHLE for: WINTER GARDEN - WIRE MILL — A factory where metal wire is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: WIRE MILL - WITHY BOILER — Used for boiling sections of willow for basket making, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WITHY BOILER - WOMENS HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital where women receive medical and surgical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: WOMENS HOSPITAL - WOMENS INSTITUTE — A building used by members of the Womens Institute, an organization which meets regularly and engages in various social and cultural activities.
Search the NHLE for: WOMENS INSTITUTE - WOOD — A tract of land with trees, sometimes acting as a boundary or barrier, usually smaller and less wild than a forest.
Search the NHLE for: WOOD - WOOD BANK — An earthen bank indicating the limit of a wood or coppice
Search the NHLE for: WOOD BANK - WOOD DRYING KILN — A kiln used for the drying of wood.
Search the NHLE for: WOOD DRYING KILN - WOOD PROCESSING SITE — Includes processing and manufacturing of all forms of wood.
Search the NHLE for: WOOD PROCESSING SITE - WOOD SHED — A building or room in which wood is stored.
Search the NHLE for: WOOD SHED - WOOD WORKERS WORKSHOP — A workshop in which products are made using wood and timber.
Search the NHLE for: WOOD WORKERS WORKSHOP - WOODLAND GARDEN — A garden created within woodland where imported species such as camellias, magnolias and rhododendrons are grown.
Search the NHLE for: WOODLAND GARDEN - WOODWORKERS HUT — A hut used by a person who makes items from wood. Often found in a woodland setting.
Search the NHLE for: WOODWORKERS HUT - WOODWORKING SITE — A site where unprocessed wood is used to manufacture goods.
Search the NHLE for: WOODWORKING SITE - WOOL BARN — A barn used for the storage and drying of wool.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL BARN - WOOL DRY HOUSE — A building used to dry wool in.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL DRY HOUSE - WOOL EXCHANGE — A commercial building used primarily as a trading place for wool merchants.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL EXCHANGE - WOOL LOFT — A room or building used for the storage of fleeces.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL LOFT - WOOL MANUFACTURING SITE — Includes worsted and other wool-related textiles.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL MANUFACTURING SITE - WOOL STAPLE — A market appointed for the sale of wool.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL STAPLE - WOOL STOVE — A house for drying wool after fulling and dying.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL STOVE - WOOL WALL — A structure used for drying yarn in open fields.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL WALL - WOOL WAREHOUSE — A large store where wool is stored.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL WAREHOUSE - WOOLCOMBERS SHOP — A workshop in which carded wool was passed through heated combs to straighten and separate the long and short fibres prior to spinning. Associated with the worsted branch of the textile industry.
Search the NHLE for: WOOLCOMBERS SHOP - WOOLLEN MILL — A factory where short wool was spun into woollen yarn to produce cloth.
Search the NHLE for: WOOLLEN MILL - WORKERS COTTAGE — Industrial worker's house which has been purpose built by an employer, as opposed to the workshop houses used by artisans.
Search the NHLE for: WORKERS COTTAGE - WORKERS HOSTEL — A temporary hostel built for industrial or transport workers; for example, railway workers' hostels were provided for engine drivers.
Search the NHLE for: WORKERS HOSTEL - WORKERS TEMPORARY SETTLEMENT — A temporary settlement or encampment erected by construction workers (eg for reservoir construction).
Search the NHLE for: WORKERS TEMPORARY SETTLEMENT - WORKERS VILLAGE — A model village built in association with a factory, mill, railway, or any other industrial complex; usually built by the employer.
Search the NHLE for: WORKERS VILLAGE - WORKHOUSE — A 19th century establishment for the provision of work for the unemployed poor of a parish; later an institution administered by Guardians of the Poor, in which paupers are lodged and the able-bodied set to work.
Search the NHLE for: WORKHOUSE - WORKING MENS CLUB — A club founded to provide education, relaxation, and recreation for working men.
Search the NHLE for: WORKING MENS CLUB - WORKING MENS COLLEGE — A college founded for the education and betterment of the working classes. Lectures usually being held after the end of the working day.
Search the NHLE for: WORKING MENS COLLEGE - WORKING MENS INSTITUTE — A place where working men could educate themselves through lectures and the use of a reading room with newspapers, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WORKING MENS INSTITUTE - WORKS — Usually a complex of buildings for the processing of raw materials. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WORKS - WORKSHOP — A building or room used for small scale manufacture. Use more specific term where possible.
Search the NHLE for: WORKSHOP - WORSTED MILL — A factory where worsted, a well-twisted woollen yarn made from long staple wool and used in the manufacture of suits and other garments, was produced.
Search the NHLE for: WORSTED MILL - WRECK — The remains of a vessel which has either sunk or suffered structural damage to the extent where it can no longer function.
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Y
- YARD — A paved area, generally found at the back of a house.
Search the NHLE for: YARD - YARN DRY HOUSE — A heated room or building used to dry yarn after it has been washed.
Search the NHLE for: YARN DRY HOUSE - YARN HOUSE — A building associated with rope manufacture, especially in naval dockyards.
Search the NHLE for: YARN HOUSE - YARN MILL — A building containing machinery for the spinning of yarn.
Search the NHLE for: YARN MILL - YEW WALK — A garden walk lined with yew trees and hedges.
Search the NHLE for: YEW WALK - YOUTH CLUB — A place provided for leisure-time activities of young people.
Search the NHLE for: YOUTH CLUB - YOUTH HOSTEL — A place where (young) holiday-makers and hikers can be put up cheaply for the night.
Search the NHLE for: YOUTH HOSTEL
Z
- ZEBRA CROSSING — A path across a road marked with black and white stripes where pedestrians may cross.
Search the NHLE for: ZEBRA CROSSING - ZINC MINE — A mine used for the extraction of zinc bearing ore. Use with other metal ores extracted and MINE where necessary, eg. LEAD MINE.
Search the NHLE for: ZINC MINE - ZINC WORKS — A site used for the extraction of metallic zinc by a variety of processes.
Search the NHLE for: ZINC WORKS - ZOO — A garden or park, with ancilliary buildings, in which wild animals are kept and reared for public exhibition.
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