Built in 1830, Clavell Tower stands high on the cliffs overlooking one of the most striking bays on the Dorset coast. Its location has captivated many including Thomas Hardy and PD James.

Our restoration of Danescombe Mine was one of the earliest conversions of an industrial building into a house. The result is a wonderful exotic hybrid in a wooded valley leading to the Tamar.

A Georgian folly within an outstanding Picturesque garden, the Ruin was built in about 1766. On the edge of a steep wooded gorge, it was one of several buildings scattered across the gardens.

William Beckford designed Beckford’s Tower in the 1820s as his museum and treasure house. Today the Tower recreates the flavour of Beckford’s extravagant and sumptuous interiors.

Situated in the rolling landscape behind Hadrian’s Wall, Causeway House was built in 1770 as a farmhouse. Causeway remains the only house in Northumberland still thatched in heather.

Coed y Bleiddiau is a small railway cottage at a remote private halt on the restored Ffestiniog & West Highland Railway.

This substantial house, formerly a grocer’s home and shop, overlooks the Severn gorge right at the point where it is spanned by the world’s first bridge to be built entirely of iron.

Marshal Wade’s House stands in the centre of Bath, neighbouring the Roman Baths and Bath Abbey. It offers exceptional views of Jacob’s ladder, the famous carving on the Abbey’s west front.

North Street is the earliest planned industrial housing in the world and now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The terrace was built in 1771 to house workers from the new cotton mill.

Margells sits in Branscombe, a village that stretches down a picturesque valley towards the sea. The cottage, which we restored in 1976, is a fine example of a thatched 16th-century house.

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.

Morpeth Castle was originally a gatehouse, added in about 1350, at the entrance to the castle proper. Over the years, its guests have included Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII.

This unaltered house shares the same views across Grasmere as Dove Cottage, the poet William Wordsworth’s home in the Lake District where he was inspired to write some of his finest poetry.

You stay in the only remaining side of a quadrangular castle completed in about 1370. The lodgings were likely commissioned by Sir Guy de Bryan, a close friend of Edward III.

Elton House is in the very centre of Bath, close to the abbey. It is a handsome and spacious Georgian building, one that you can imagine characters from Jane Austen novels emerging from.