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.

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.

This tiny building is a miraculous survival, a medieval well chapel. It is built above an ancient and venerated spring that feeds three linked pools and that is still flowing today.

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.

At the top of the hamlet of Coombe, Mill House overlooks the bubbling stream.

Bridge Cottage is an idyllic thatched cottage situated in Peppercombe, a steep and wooded valley through which a stream runs down to a meadow before tumbling to a beach in a fine waterfall.

Mill House dates from 1700 and is mainly built of stone with a thatched and slated roof. No. 1 is the slightly larger of two cottages and has a wide fireplace in the sitting room.

Bush Cottage is a quintessential English cottage sat alone in amongst verdant rolling hills. With a front door framed in roses, it was built of timber felled in 1548.

This simple granite house shares its spectacular Cornish clifftop setting with The Farmhouse. Lower Porthmeor is typical of the farm hamlets that dot this green coastal shelf west of St Ives.

Situated in the rolling landscape behind Hadrian’s Wall, Causeway House was built in 1770 as a farmhouse. Causeway remains the only house in Northumberland still thatched in heather.

A cosy timber building in the atmospheric hamlet of Coombe, Chapel Cottage arrived in Coombe in about 1860 on wheels. Enjoy fine views over idyllic orchards that lead down to a stream.

Church Cottage was the very first Landmark acquired by Sir John Smith in 1965. A Victorian cottage,it is cosy accommodation in a beautiful part of Wales.

This special haven of tranquillity gives uninterrupted views of the sea toward the Isle of Arran. Fittingly, 'Cul na Shee' translates to "nook of peace" in Gaelic.

In the middle of a hamlet, Ford Cottage overlooks the bubbling stream as it winds its way towards the sea half a mile away at Duckpool.

There can be no more romantic, remote or secluded cottage in Cornwall than this one, named after the creek on the Helford River near which it stands down a track in deep woodland.