Listed Grade II*, the dairy was conceived to represent a tiny Italianate chapel topped with a bell tower, and with four corner pavilions.

The tower was built as a folly in 1821 with a pretty sitting room on the first floor. The third floor was added in 1943 by the Germans as an observation point, with views in every direction.

A tiny, circular tower standing on the boundary of a cricket pitch, Prospect Tower was built around 1808. Approached along an avenue of walnut trees, Lord Harris called it his “whim.”

This eighteenth-century Gothic summerhouse sits beside the River Esk near Carlisle. Remote and peaceful, the three large windows in the main room give striking views over the river.

45a Cloth Fair is a fine Georgian house close to Smithfield Market.  It is an oasis of relative calm in central London.

This gatehouse is all that is left of Cawood Castle, once a stronghold of the Archbishops of York. It was here that Cardinal Wolsey was arrested for treason on King Henry VIII’s orders in 1530.

There can be no more romantic, remote or secluded cottage in Cornwall than this one, named after the creek on the Helford River near which it stands down a track in deep woodland.

Villa dei Vescovi is a Renaissance villa nestled in the vineyards and orchards of the Euganean Hills. One of two rooftop apartments, with views of the elegant orchards.

This charming little house is situated in the Leighton model estate. The Cottage was lived in by the poultry-keeper, who looked after the poultry housed in an ornamental Fowl House next door.

From the time the Priest’s House was built around 1500, it played a central part in community life as both a village hall and local inn, hosting visitors and village feasts on saints’ days.

One of the first Landmarks to be opened by the Trust in 1967, Paxton’s Tower Lodge is a fine example of an early 19th century Welsh cottage.

A medieval timber-framed gatehouse near the medieval town Ludlow, Bromfield Priory Gatehouse once guarded the entrance to a small Benedictine Priory.

The Grammatica Britannica was written in this 16th-century manor house in 1593, making it the possible birthplace of the modern Welsh language.

This spacious building is typical of the speculative housing for French silk weavers and wealthy merchants that sprang up in Spitalfields in the eighteenth century.

At the dawn of the Railway Age in 1830, Liverpool Road Station opened as the world’s first purpose-built, inter-city passenger railway terminus. After a careful and sensitive restoration, the ... Read more