Church Cottage was the very first Landmark acquired by Sir John Smith in 1965. A Victorian cottage,it is cosy accommodation in a beautiful part of Wales.

Plas Uchaf is a substantial hall-house built in about 1400 and situated in the Dee valley, an area filled with scenery, wildlife and history. Few houses of this age survive in Wales.

This tiny pavilion was a majestic grandstand for the enclosure in front. It is a mature expression in miniature of all that was best in Tudor and Jacobean architecture.

The College was possibly the first school in the country to be founded by a woman in 1506. With thick stone walls and an open fire, there are views across the fields and Dartmoor beyond.

Brinkburn Mill sits next to the River Coquet at the bottom of a thickly-wooded valley. A mill has been on this site since medieval times, with the present building dating to about 1800.

This octagonal castellated Gothic tower was built in 1839 by Lady Rolle as a birthday present for her husband. It sits atop a pocket of countryside, surrounded by heathland and pretty villages.

This 18th-century cottage was attached to one of Wales's shrines of Nonconformity, the Maesyronnen Chapel. It sits on a high shelf above the Wye looking out across the Black Mountains.

This Gothic folly sits on the edge of the Gibside estate. It stands in the highest part of the park in a grassy clearing, looking down on an octagonal pool with views over the Derwent Valley.

A unique remnant from the Napoleonic era, the Grade II* listed brick structure is the only surviving semaphore tower in Britain.

Castle of Park is a Scottish tower house built in 1590. Whilst the exterior looks deceptively modest, the inside is surprisingly spacious and gives a glimpse into life as a Jacobean laird.

Margells sits in Branscombe, a village that stretches down a picturesque valley towards the sea. The cottage, which we restored in 1976, is a fine example of a thatched 16th-century house.

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.

This small thatched cottage is formed from the gatehouse of a medieval castle, which has seen 1000 years of dwelling. A thirteenth-century bridge takes you over a moat to the cottage.

The striking Old Place of Monreith was built in 1600 as a traditional fortified tower house for defence. It sits on the site of an earlier medieval house.

Nearly a million bricks were used in the construction of this Martello Tower; the largest and most northerly of a chain of towers put up to counter the threat of Napoleon.