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.

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.

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.

Fort Clonque was built in the 1850s as a defensive outpost against an expanding French navy. Today, you reach your dramatic holiday setting by causeway and a drawbridge, surrounded by waves.