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.

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.

One of three Landmarks in the remote upland hamlet Rhiwddion, Ty Capel was built in 1860 for the slate quarrying community that once lived and worked here.

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.

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.

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

The building now known as Fox Hall was built in 1730 for the 2nd Duke of Richmond.  Its magnificent room upstairs has been described as “a sequin in an ordinary world”.

This substantial house, formerly a grocer’s home and shop, overlooks the Severn gorge right at the point where it is spanned by the world’s first bridge to be built entirely of iron.

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.

Deep in the Surrey countryside stands a gatehouse built in the 19th century by one of this country’s most influential and talented architects, A W N Pugin.

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.