The tower was built as a folly in 1821 with a pretty sitting room on the first floor. The third floor was added in 1943 by the Germans as an observation point, with views in every direction.

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.

Built for John Lanvin in about 1835, the colourful front elevation is heavily decorated with flamboyant lotus-bud capitals. This second floor apartment is one of three.

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.

Kingswear Castle was completed in 1502 and was one of the most advanced military designs of its day. From the roof, you can look across to Dartmouth or down the rocky coast out to sea.

St Edward’s Presbytery was built by Augustus Welby Pugin in 1850, part of this great architect’s original concept for this  important Gothic revival site on the West Cliffs.

Hawkers Cottages are a pair of stone, cob and thatched cottages, named after the famous Vicar of Morwenstow, who lived here in the 1820s.

Bath Tower is one of eight towers built in Caernarfon’s fortified walls in the late 13th century by King Edward I. Guests enjoy views of the Menai Strait and Caernarfon Castle.

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 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.

The first fort on the West Blockhouse site was commissioned by Henry VIII.  The current impressive Victorian structure, completed in 1857, housed six guns, 34 men and one officer.

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.