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 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.

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.

Houghton West Lodge is one of four houses that guard the approaches to Houghton Hall,  one of England’s finest Palladian houses and once home to Britain's first Prime Minister.

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.

A clock tower overlooking the Exe estuary, ‘like a sleek racing yacht turned through 90 degrees and planted in the beach.’

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.

This tiny pavilion was a majestic grandstand for the enclosure in front. It is a mature expression in miniature of all that was best in Tudor and Jacobean architecture.

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.

This eighteenth-century Gothic summerhouse sits beside the River Esk near Carlisle. Remote and peaceful, the three large windows in the main room give striking views over the river.

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.