Standing guard over Tewkesbury Abbey, this grand building of about 1500 provides a captivating base from which to explore the interesting town of Tewkesbury, the Cotswolds and Cheltenham.

Listed Grade II*, the dairy was conceived to represent a tiny Italianate chapel topped with a bell tower, and with four corner pavilions.

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.

Freston Tower is a six-storey Tudor folly that looks out over the River Orwell. There is a single room on each floor with the sitting room at the top to take advantage of the unrivalled views.

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.

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.

Marshal Wade’s House stands in the centre of Bath, neighbouring the Roman Baths and Bath Abbey. It offers exceptional views of Jacob’s ladder, the famous carving on the Abbey’s west front.

Here you can live in the centre of Rome overlooking the Spanish Steps in spacious rooms with tiled floors and high, beamed ceilings painted in soft colours.

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.

A medieval timber-framed gatehouse near the medieval town Ludlow, Bromfield Priory Gatehouse once guarded the entrance to a small Benedictine Priory.

A castellated and most romantic Gothick retreat overlooking the Usk Valley, cradle of that branch of landscape aesthetics so justly called the Picturesque.

The Grammatica Britannica was written in this 16th-century manor house in 1593, making it the possible birthplace of the modern Welsh language.

Langley Gatehouse was built in 1610. Nearing collapse when we began work on it, the north-east corner post was supported solely by a wine bottle wedged beneath its decayed foot.

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.

Wolveton Gatehouse was completed during the reign of Henry VIII and was the gatehouse of probably one of Dorset’s finest medieval houses, the Elizabethan part of which is still a family home.