Durham riverside

Looking across the river, I half expected to see Maggie Tulliver emerge from the house, tossing her bonnet aside.

Hallgarth House, Durham (Department of English Studies Building)

Sitting right beside Durham Cathedral, this handsome Georgian houses is one of the three buildings of the Department of English Studies at Durham University. Can you imagine studying the novels of Jane Austen in this setting? The sky was rather washed out by the time we were coming to the end of our walk, consequently it had all but “disappeared” when I took this photo, leaving Hallgarth House looking like a rather upmarket Dolls House.