Built in 1830, Clavell Tower stands high on the cliffs overlooking one of the most striking bays on the Dorset coast. Its location has captivated many including Thomas Hardy and PD James.

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.

Recently restored, Belmont is a fine 18C villa in Lyme Regis which has been owned by pioneering business woman, Eleanor Coade, and author, John Fowles.

You stay in the only remaining side of a quadrangular castle completed in about 1370. The lodgings were likely commissioned by Sir Guy de Bryan, a close friend of Edward III.

Lying hidden in its own hollow a couple of miles from the Dorset coast, this ancient house with an Arts & Crafts refurbishment in the 1900s, sees Corfe Castle across the fields.