brickwork

Anti-social behaviour at Caerleon's Amphitheatre and Barracks has seen graffiti, the heat from barbecues damaging Roman brickwork and even a burnt-out motorbike left at the site.

"The observatory is astronomy, it is also meteorology, and after many years I feel like I'm part of the brickwork."

Before choosing to build at the former brickworks, the company had considered other locations across Europe.

There are dark stains on the outer walls of Dean Carpenter's new-build home and when it rains, he says, sheets of water cascade down the brickwork.

The finale of the novel is set in ruined brickworks on the Humber foreshore – a location transplanted to Hartlepool in the film.