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Architectural Portraits from Jaunty Lemon Press, a Design & Illustration Studio based in Cheltenham, England Please do get in touch if you have any queries.

Hi and welcome to Jaunty Lemon Press, a Design & Illustration Studio based in Cheltenham, England. This range is prompted primarily by my lifelong passion for architecture. Celebrating the most cherished places in our lives, I create beautiful bespoke pieces for you from my studio in the heart of The Cotswolds, ably assisted by a handlebar moustache and two overly inquisitive cats. Your personalis

ed work will be professionally produced for you as a fine giclee print on fade resistant museum-quality art paper ready for you to frame. Perfect if you love your house or if you know anyone who loves theirs...

You can find me at my Etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/jauntylemonpress where you can see more examples of my work. Thank you for stopping by. Adrian
Chief Scribbler at Jaunty Lemon Press

05/06/2026

Cosy Cotswold Cottage Core...
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📍The Cotswolds
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Here are some of my favourite little cottages just oozing idyllic charm found hither and thither around The Cotswolds. Aren’t they gorgeous? Favourites, anyone...?
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1️⃣ Mill Cottage, Lower Slaughter - built mid C19th
2️⃣ Canal Round House, Chalford - built 1790
3️⃣ The Lodge, Ampney Crucis - built mid C17th
4️⃣ Pineapple Spa, Lower Swell - built 1807
5️⃣ High Street, Broadway - built C18th
6️⃣ Coachman’s Cottage, Adlestrop - built 1721, altered C19th
7️⃣ The Avenue, Great Tew - built c.1830
8️⃣ Milestone Cottage, Broadway - built late C17th
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03/06/2026

Blocked columns and pilasters...
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📍England (mainly The Cotswolds)
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This little selection features some rustication of the type that punctuates columns and pilasters with large cubic blocks, emphasising the weight and importance of such Neoclassical structures. Some of these punctuating blocks are also vermiculated (‘worm-eaten’) and as you can see in 7️⃣ facetted. Some of these blocks on round columns are square 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣, but some are round standing proud of the round column they seek to punctuate 8️⃣ & 9️⃣. I have noticed some of the type in 1️⃣, 4️⃣ & 6️⃣ called ‘Gibbs surrounds’, named after the Scottish architect, James Gibbs (1682 - 1754), who popularised this architectural device drawing on the influences of Serlio and Palladio exploring the architectural themes of Ancient Rome...
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1️⃣ No.3, Kingston Street, Bradford-on-Avon - built C18th
2️⃣ Former Fish Market, Newcastle upon Tyne - built 1880
3️⃣ The Former Rural District Council Offices - built c.1910
4️⃣ Beacon House, Painswick - built 1766
5️⃣ Old Rectory, Elkstone - early C18th
6️⃣ Cirencester Park, Cirencester - early C18th
7️⃣ The Central, Newcastle upon Tyne - built in 1856
8️⃣ Loggia at Kingston Lacy - part of alterations c.1835
9️⃣ Lodge Park, Sherborne - built c.1634
🔟 Former Gate Pier - built early/mid C18th
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01/06/2026

Getting all ‘hobbity’ in Puzzlewood…
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📍Puzzlewood, Forest of Dean
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What better on such a hot sunny heatwave day than a wander in a patch of welcome shade in the remarkable Temperate Forest of Puzzlewood in the Forest of Dean?! This wonderfully evocative place (with this enchanting little cabin within it!) was once an underground cave system that over time was eroded away to reveal a unique geological landscape known as “Scowles”. Open cast iron ore mining in the Iron Age and Roman periods has also left it’s mark leaving it for Nature to take hold and do its thing for a few hundred years since, covering verdant mossy ravines in lush ferns and lichen with twisted treeroots seemingly magically growing from the rock. In the C19th this 14-acre woodland was laid out with paths as a tourist attraction following the fashion for the ‘picturesque’, and in more modern times has been used often as a filming location for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Merlin’, and ‘The Secret Garden’ and was apparently the inspiration for Middle Earth for a certain JRR Tolkein’s ‘Lord of the Rings’, and the Forbidden Forest for JKRowling’s Harry Potter books. I don’t know the origin of this little shack, but I’d have to assume by the fixings that it’s a modern ‘folly’ to catch the eye and stir the imagination...
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22/05/2026

Utterly charming…(2 of 2)
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📍Gardener’s Cottage, The Newt, Somerset
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Absolutely wonderful! More pictures on from my last post from last week’s Great Garden Show down at The Newt in Somerset showing Gardener’s Cottage, the charming little brick and thatch delight, at the centre of the Cottage Garden inspired by the plantings of Gertrude Jekyll. Its use these days seems to be for drying flowers (hence the sign by the door), I dare say for the stunning displays they often have at the entrance barn...
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18/05/2026

Well for those of a horticultural bent, tomorrow marks the first day of this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. So by way of celebration here’s a little selection of floral architectural decoration found here and there...
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📍England & Wales
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1️⃣ Metal floral capital at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History - started in 1855
2️⃣ & 5️⃣ Flower motifs on brick & terracotta tiles on Compton Buildings, Worcester - dated 1881
3️⃣ Flower decorated spandrels above doors and windows at the former bank, Frogmore St, Abergavenny - built 1892
4️⃣ Floral relief panel on Westonbirt House in The Cotswolds - built 1863-70 by Lewis Vulliamy in an Elizabethan style with ‘Renaissance classical ornament’.
6️⃣ Wooden floral porch bracket at The George Inn, Winchcombe - built as a pilgrim’s hostel C15th & C16th.
7️⃣ Stone floral relief panel on Cheltenham Ladies College, Cheltenham - added in the 1890s
8️⃣ Floral terracotta keystone on house/shopfront in Lymington - built C18th, altered C19th
9️⃣ Stone floral capitals to pilaster on Town Hall, Abergavenny - built 1869-71 in ‘rural Early French Gothic, but with some Italian touches’.
🔟 Stone flower relief on The Circus, Bath - built 1754-1769
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15/05/2026

Victorian Bristol...
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📍Broad St, Bristol
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Here’s a little selection of pictures of this fine polychromatic Victorian building in Bristol. Dated 1868, it was built by Ponton & Gough in ‘Venetian Gothic Revival style’ (so says the Listing) in ashlar with sandstone dressings, I assume as an insurance company’s offices. Three plaques, labelled ‘Fire’, ‘Accident Marine’ and ‘Life’, feature on the first floor’s tympana within an arcade with polychromatic voussoirs, Gothic arches on columns, and carved dragons in the spandrels. Notice the patches of diagonal lines (or ‘broaching’) cut into the ashlar surface 1️⃣, 2️⃣, 4️⃣ & 7️⃣, a way of stonemasons adding texture and rhythm to a flat ashlar facade...
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13/05/2026

More Arts & Crafts gorgeousness...
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📍Wyke Manor, Wick, Worcestershire
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Whilst there have been a number of incarnations of a manor house here since Norman times, it was actually remodelled to what one sees today in 1923-4 by architect and designer Cecil Greenwood Hare, and it contains it’s original Tudor self, and a Georgian one deep within its C20th Arts & Crafts exterior.
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11/05/2026

Arts & Crafts gem in a horticultural paradise...
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📍Hergest Croft Gardens, Kington, Herefordshire
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Some pictures from the glorious Hergest Croft with its wonderful gardens on the May Bank Holiday at it’s Annual Spring Plant Fair. Built in 1895-6 for the Banks family, the house was designed in the Arts & Crafts style by Richard William Drew (with later alterations by Hampden Pratt) in red brick with terracotta pantiles 9️⃣, and egg and dart cornice with suitably floral terracotta relief panels 3️⃣. The gardens were laid out in the same year with superb views towards the Black Mountains, and when we visited the garden was awash with bluebells, camassias 🔟, apple blossom 5️⃣ and forget-me-nots - simply stunning!
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09/05/2026

Grade I Listed Gorgeousness...
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📍Highnam Court, Highnam, Gloucestershire
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This is Highnam Court, a fine C17th Grade I listed country house in English bond brick with ashlar dressings and a slate roof built in the ‘Artisan Mannerist’ style c.1658 for William Cooke to replace a previous building burnt down in a 1643 battle in the Civil War. It was renovated in the C18th under the ownership of the Guise family and again later in the C19th by the Gambier-Parry family. Gambier-Parry turned the house around, adding a portico to the north elevation so that what had been the back became the entrance, and the former south front became the back opening onto the wonderful garden and the lake...
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06/05/2026

Hay Castle...(2 of 2)
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📍Hay-on-Wye, Powys
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This glorious door is the entrance on the town side to Hay Castle. As a veteran of the Norman invasion, the Barons’ Wars, the wars with the Welsh princes, Owain Glyndŵr’s rebellion and the Wars of the Roses, the castle has had a few knocks over the years, but it was wonderful to see this historic gateway recently restored. Apparently, the gates are believed to be among the oldest in the country still hanging in their original gateway, one door from the C14th and the other, with the wicket gate within, from the C17th. The criss-cross strengthening on the C14th gate is really quite fabulous...
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