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

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 is a self-contained flat in the former residence of the Union’s Steward, an important figure in the famous debating society, the Oxford Union, formed in 1823 to encourage free speech.

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.

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

This Tudor tower was built in 1534 as part of a moated larger house. A brick spiral staircase leads to the roof where views of the Sussex Downs can be fully appreciated.

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.

Deep in the Surrey countryside stands a gatehouse built in the 19th century by one of this country’s most influential and talented architects, A W N Pugin.

A unique remnant from the Napoleonic era, the Grade II* listed brick structure is the only surviving semaphore tower in Britain.

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.

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.

The Old Parsonage sits in a tranquil location next to the Thames, just two miles downstream from the bustling centre of Oxford. The atmospheric rooms you stay in today date back to 1500.

Wilmington Priory is part of a mostly ruinous monastic site in the South Downs, once a cell of the Benedictine Abbey in Grestain, Normandy. It has been added to and altered in every age.

This Grade 1 listed building was built between 1843 and 1844, it was the family home of Augustus Pugin, who is regarded as one of Britain’s most influential architects and designers.