A medieval timber-framed building sitting on the church green at Clare, an unspoilt Suffolk market town. This welcoming and comfortable house exudes history.

Deep in the woods sits this octagonal folly – with a real surprise inside. The ceiling and walls of the main room are festooned with shells, while in the basement is a cold plunge pool.

We think the Music Room was built in around 1730 as a garden pavilion. The streets of Lancaster grew around it. The Baroque interior alone took 6,000 hours of craft skills to repair.

This beautiful little pavilion has two distinct faces and has a breath-taking panorama. Approached from the wood, this rustic cottage with a thatched roof houses an elegant interior.

Originally a geological shop and museum, the Egyptian House in Penzance is a rare survivor of Egyptian-style architecture. This first floor apartment is one of three.

Built for John Lanvin in about 1835, the colourful front elevation is heavily decorated with flamboyant lotus-bud capitals. This second floor apartment is one of three.

The building now known as Fox Hall was built in 1730 for the 2nd Duke of Richmond.  Its magnificent room upstairs has been described as “a sequin in an ordinary world”.

The 18th-century Temple was one of the last additions to Stowe, one of the world’s most famous landscape gardens. The rooms are all circular, with moulded stone pilasters and plaster vaults.

This is an exceptionally fine Georgian folly with a grandstand view of all the passing maritime activity on the Solent, with Cowes and the Isle of Wight beyond.

St Edward’s Presbytery was built by Augustus Welby Pugin in 1850, part of this great architect’s original concept for this  important Gothic revival site on the West Cliffs.

Croscombe Old Hall was built in about 1420, originally as the main hall of a grand manor house. Its survival today is thanks to its revised purpose as a Baptist chapel from around 1720.

Shute Gatehouse was probably built for William Poole, who purchased the estate in about 1560. Enjoy fine views of the deer park and live under a ceiling of exceptional Jacobean plasterwork.

Once home to a prominent Florentine family, this apartment is better known for being the home of poets Elizabeth and Robert Browning. It is located on a quiet street close to central Florence.

Cawsey's House, an elegant late-Stuart townhouse, once belonged to a wealthy merchant who commissioned one of Devon’s most accomplished plasterers to embellish its main rooms.

Recently restored, Belmont is a fine 18C villa in Lyme Regis which has been owned by pioneering business woman, Eleanor Coade, and author, John Fowles.