Since I've had Lightroom, I've been re-visiting some of the shots from my recent trip to York. The program certainly has great control features that I'm sure have enabled me to obtain better images with less work. The recovery and fill controls are almost miraculous (that's Mark's Auntie Mira).
In this shot, the shadow detail under the eaves was just not there in the original, and the fill feature brought it out with little or no effect on the rest of the image.