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.

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.

This beautiful little pavilion has two distinct faces and has a breath-taking panorama. Approached from the wood, this rustic cottage with a thatched roof houses an elegant interior.

A Georgian folly within an outstanding Picturesque garden, the Ruin was built in about 1766. On the edge of a steep wooded gorge, it was one of several buildings scattered across the gardens.

This Gothic folly sits on the edge of the Gibside estate. It stands in the highest part of the park in a grassy clearing, looking down on an octagonal pool with views over the Derwent Valley.

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.

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.

Here you can live in the centre of Rome overlooking the Spanish Steps in spacious rooms with tiled floors and high, beamed ceilings painted in soft colours.

A fisherman’s cottage, on an exceptional medieval abbey site in a tiny and exclusive sandy cove between Portofino and Camogli. 

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.