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 very clever scale model of a French chateau sits on a hill above the River Trent in the middle of the Lincolnshire countryside.

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.

Canons Ashby is a 16th century house, hardly touched since 1710. Our Landmark is at the top of a tower, and its light and pretty rooms have views of the beautifully restored gardens.

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.

At the top of the hamlet of Coombe, Mill House overlooks the bubbling stream.

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.

Brinkburn Mill sits next to the River Coquet at the bottom of a thickly-wooded valley. A mill has been on this site since medieval times, with the present building dating to about 1800.

Coed y Bleiddiau is a small railway cottage at a remote private halt on the restored Ffestiniog & West Highland Railway.

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

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 House of Correction, built in 1611, sits on the site of a medieval castle. A small prison such as this was intended to house minor offenders, today, only the grand entrance survives.

This substantial house, formerly a grocer’s home and shop, overlooks the Severn gorge right at the point where it is spanned by the world’s first bridge to be built entirely of iron.

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.

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.