Architects Shaw and Jagger has recently gained approval for a striking modern house that will sit on tree-like stilts in Green Belt in Bispham Green, as well as a huge new neo-classical country ...

Traditionally built to protect properties against the devastating effects of flooding and to stabilise houses on tricky sloping sites, stilt homes offer a wealth of unconventional design ...

People only lived in the ‘UK’s Pompeii’ for a year before ... The village was made up of 10 circular wooden houses on stilts above a river, and could potentially have had 50 to 60 people ...

Flats on stilts have been installed over a car park ... people further and further out because they can't afford city house prices." ...

Sometimes, people build wooden houses beside lakes, rivers, or coastal areas on stilts. This helps protect them from floods and high tides. They can also catch fish from their front porch!

Large circular wooden houses built on stilts collapsed in a dramatic fire 3,000 years ago and plunged into a river, preserving their contents in astonishing detail. Archaeologists say the excavations ...

It will stand on stilts, meaning the ground floor space is left open-sided, so that vehicles can park beneath it. All 11 parking spaces will be retained as a result. The supporting steel stilts ...