Annabelle Hughes obituary

My sister, Annabelle Hughes, who has died aged 79, was an architectural historian and expert on timber-framed buildings in West Sussex. She delighted in asking the owners of suitable properties if she could crawl through their timbered roof spaces, exploring the bat dropping-infested crevices and cobweb-covered corners. Annabelle was born in Penang, Malaysia, to Lionel Earl, a civil servant, and his wife, Joan (nee Tubb), a stenographer. During the second world war she was evacuated with her mot