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.

A medieval timber-framed building sitting on the church green at Clare, an unspoilt Suffolk market town. This welcoming and comfortable house exudes history.

Deep in the woods sits this octagonal folly – with a real surprise inside. The ceiling and walls of the main room are festooned with shells, while in the basement is a cold plunge pool.

The Birdhouse was designed in 1783 by the architect James Wyatt in a spectacular natural setting that could serve to define the Picturesque movement. Today, it is a romantic hideaway for two.

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.

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

Our restoration of Danescombe Mine was one of the earliest conversions of an industrial building into a house. The result is a wonderful exotic hybrid in a wooded valley leading to the Tamar.

A fairytale cottage in a wild and beautiful glen, this diminutive former schoolroom makes a perfect hideaway or writing retreat for two, or even one.

A fine, two-storey Jacobean porch salvaged from a great house once beloved of the poet and playwright John Dryden but now lost.

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.

The Pigsty’s classical design was supposedly inspired by Squire Barry’s travels around the Mediterranean in the 1880s and offers striking views of Robin Hood’s Bay.

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.

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