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.

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.

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 simple and evocative cottage, from around 1840, was built to serve one of the monumental pumping engines that sprang up as the Steam Age took on the challenge of draining the Fenland.

Designed and constructed by James Mansergh and Robert Rawlinson, work began on Appleton Water Tower in 1877 to provide a clean water supply to the Sandringham Estate.

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 Railway.

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

Nestled in beautiful Highland landscape, Fairburn Tower is a rare survival from the Scottish Renaissance amid wide and beautiful views in the Muir of Ord.

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.

This snug cottage on the towpath of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal was built for the man who maintained not just the lock but also the stretch of canal up to the next lock.

Situated on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, Lock Cottage was built between 1790 and 1815. Many lock cottages were ruthlessly demolished during the 1950s, making this a rare survivor.

Nearly a million bricks were used in the construction of this Martello Tower; the largest and most northerly of a chain of towers put up to counter the threat of Napoleon.