The land the home sits on was originally purchased by John Ladd, who was employed by William Penn to survey and layout the city of Philadelphia. Penn offered Ladd one city block for a job well done, ...
A Grade II listed 17th-century farmhouse in south Shropshire that is believed to be one of the first brick-built houses in the area has his the market.
The Independent’s editor-in-chief Geordie Greig has urged readers to ‘be a brick, buy a brick’ (Leon Neal/Getty Images) “For £300,000 pounds, we can build a house. We’ve got a builder ...