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

Canons Ashby is a 16th century house, hardly touched since 1710. Our Landmark is at the top of a tower, and its light and pretty rooms have views of the beautifully restored gardens.

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.

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.

The 18th-century Temple was one of the last additions to Stowe, one of the world’s most famous landscape gardens. The rooms are all circular, with moulded stone pilasters and plaster vaults.

Villa dei Vescovi is a Renaissance villa nestled in the vineyards and orchards of the Euganean Hills. One of two rooftop apartments, with views of the elegant orchards.

Villa dei Vescovi is a Renaissance villa nestled in the vineyards and orchards of the Euganean Hills. One of two rooftop apartments, with views of the elegant orchards.

This charming little house is situated in the Leighton model estate. The Cottage was lived in by the poultry-keeper, who looked after the poultry housed in an ornamental Fowl House next door.

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

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.

A woodland retreat with a pretty Gothick summerhouse, in an early Picturesque landscape of great distinction.

A rustic dwelling designed by Jeffrey Wyatville, Pond Cottage is nestled in the heart the Endsleigh Estate and of one of the most important Picturesque gardens in Britain.

An elegant pavilion at the end of a long vista, Ingestre Pavilion sits in parkland designed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown for the second Viscount Chetwynd of Ingestre Hall.

The Old Parsonage sits in a tranquil location next to the Thames, just two miles downstream from the bustling centre of Oxford. The atmospheric rooms you stay in today date back to 1500.

Castle of Park is a Scottish tower house built in 1590. Whilst the exterior looks deceptively modest, the inside is surprisingly spacious and gives a glimpse into life as a Jacobean laird.