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

Coed y Bleiddiau is a small railway cottage at a remote private halt on the restored Ffestiniog Railway.

This 18th-century tower gives striking views of the historic market town of Richmond. Inside, three single octagonal rooms are decorated in an elaborate cocktail of classical and Gothic styles.

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.

From the time the Priest’s House was built around 1500, it played a central part in community life as both a village hall and local inn, hosting visitors and village feasts on saints’ days.

No. 2 is the slightly larger of a pair of stone, cob and thatched cottages, named after the Vicar of Morwenstow, who lived here in the 1820s.

Built into the hillside above the village in the 1930s, Coombe Corner is one of eight Landmarks at Coombe. The Cornish coast is only half a mile away.

This early 19th-century watermill still holds all its hoisting and grinding machinery, on the bank of a fast flowing burn near the west coast of the Mull of Kintyre.

Winsford Cottage Hospital, designed by Arts & Crafts architect C.F.A. Voysey, is full of the clarity of design and craftsmanship found in his country houses.

Cawsey's House, an elegant late-Stuart townhouse, once belonged to a wealthy merchant who commissioned one of Devon’s most accomplished plasterers to embellish its main rooms.

Crownhill Fort was built in the 1860s to protect Plymouth. It's situated at one of the highest points in Plymouth, with half a mile of tunnels below. Today you stay in the Officers’ Quarters.

The Georgian House is an imposing and elegant 18th-century building on the alley leading to Henry VIII’s Real Tennis Court at Hampton Court Palace.

This Grade 1 listed building was built between 1843 and 1844, it was the family home of Augustus Pugin, who is regarded as one of Britain’s most influential architects and designers.

Llwyn Celyn is an exceptionally important medieval house that sits in the beautiful Llanthony Valley in the Black Mountains.