This beautiful little pavilion has two distinct faces and has a breath-taking panorama. Approached from the wood, this rustic cottage with a thatched roof houses an elegant interior.

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.

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.

The Carpenter's Shop sits in Coombe, a hamlet at the forgotten junction of two wooded valleys in North Cornwall and just half a mile from the sea at Duckpool.

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.

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.

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.

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.

All cathedral closes have a special quality, but this is one of the very best. The Wardrobe is one of a succession of beautiful houses ranged around the delightful Salisbury Cathedral.

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

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.

Croscombe Old Hall was built in about 1420, originally as the main hall of a grand manor house. Its survival today is thanks to its revised purpose as a Baptist chapel from around 1720.

A near perfect Dartmoor longhouse built in about 1500 in the peaceful farming settlement of Lettaford, Sanders offers an antidote to the noise and bustle of the modern world.

Warden Abbey is the last fragment of a once great abbey, founded in 1135, now stranded in quiet fields, of which the landscape speaks of past Cistercian wealth.