The Chapel is a tiny grey granite building in the rural hamlet of Lettaford, a settlement on the edge of Dartmoor that has been lived in since at least 1300.

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.

The College was possibly the first school in the country to be founded by a woman in 1506. With thick stone walls and an open fire, there are views across the fields and Dartmoor beyond.

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.

Kingswear Castle was completed in 1502 and was one of the most advanced military designs of its day. From the roof, you can look across to Dartmouth or down the rocky coast out to sea.

Perched on the edge of one of the most important Picturesque gardens in Britain, Endsleigh, Jeffrey Wyatville's eccentric chalet commands magnificent views of the River Tamar.

Ty Coch, which means red house, is a miner’s cottage built in the late-18th century which we saved and restored in 1969. The cottage looks across the head of a wooded valley above Betws-y-Coed.

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.

A near perfect Dartmoor longhouse built in about 1500 in the peaceful farming settlement of Lettaford, Sanders offers an antidote to the noise and bustle of the modern world.

This inn on the Rosslyn estate sits next to the world-famous Chapel, which can be viewed from the sitting room. Its previous guests have included Queen Victoria and William Wordsworth.

This early 19th-century watermill still holds all its hoisting and grinding machinery, on the bank of a fast flowing burn near the west coast of the Mull of Kintyre.

Goddards was designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1898, with a garden by Gertrude Jekyll. It is considered to be one of Lutyens' most important early houses.