Standing guard over Tewkesbury Abbey, this grand building of about 1500 provides a captivating base from which to explore the interesting town of Tewkesbury, the Cotswolds and Cheltenham.

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

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

This 18th-century cottage was attached to one of Wales's shrines of Nonconformity, the Maesyronnen Chapel. It sits on a high shelf above the Wye looking out across the Black Mountains.

North Street is the earliest planned industrial housing in the world and now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The terrace was built in 1771 to house workers from the new cotton mill.

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.

From the time the Priest’s House was built around 1500, it played a central part in community life as both a village hall and local inn, hosting visitors and village feasts on saints’ days.

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

All cathedral closes have a special quality, but this is one of the very best. The Wardrobe is one of a succession of beautiful houses ranged around the delightful Salisbury Cathedral.

A banqueting house for Old Campden House built in 1613 by wealthy merchant Sir Baptist Hicks. The house burned during the Civil War, but its Banqueting Houses survive.

Beamsley Hospital is a circular almshouse encircling a chapel. Queen Elizabeth I gave consent for the foundation of Beamsley and it provided shelter for women until the late twentieth century.

Shute Gatehouse was probably built for William Poole, who purchased the estate in about 1560. Enjoy fine views of the deer park and live under a ceiling of exceptional Jacobean plasterwork.

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.

Cawsey's House, an elegant late-Stuart townhouse, once belonged to a wealthy merchant who commissioned one of Devon’s most accomplished plasterers to embellish its main rooms.