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

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

A fine, two-storey Jacobean porch salvaged from a great house once beloved of the poet and playwright John Dryden but now lost.

This simple and evocative cottage, from around 1840, was built to serve one of the monumental pumping engines that sprang up as the Steam Age took on the challenge of draining the Fenland.

Whiteford Temple is an ornamental granite folly with views towards the Tamar Estuary. It was built in the 18th century for Sir John Call, a military engineer who had made a fortune in India.

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.

A cosy timber building in the atmospheric hamlet of Coombe, Chapel Cottage arrived in Coombe in about 1860 on wheels. Enjoy fine views over idyllic orchards that lead down to a stream.

This third floor apartment has amazing views, through the chimney pots of the town, of Mounts Bay and St. Michael’s Mount.

The surviving cross-wing of a late-medieval timber-framed hall-house in a peaceful woodland clearing in the Kent Weald.

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.

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.

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.

Overlooking the North Cornwall coast and close to the bustling working harbour of St Ives, Arra Venton is made up of both the smithy and former chapel of the tiny hamlet of Lower Porthmeor.

Ferryman's Cottage is filled with coastal light. Its sheltered position on Saddell Bay means that you can enjoy the sea views whilst being protected from the weather.

Obriss Farm, surrounded by traditional byres, a stable and a smokehouse looks south over the Weald. It is a very convenient distance from London but feels unexpectedly peaceful.