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The oldest cottages are based on what is known as a 'cross passage' design, whereby a passage runs straight from front to back door, dividing the house.

Madford House (left, behind the trees) stood on the site now occupied by the tax office.

Madford House (left, behind the trees) stood on the site now occupied by the tax office.

Certainly, many of the houses in the village are thatched, and are constructed in the same way as the house in the foreground.

Demolished in 1939, this house is thought to be the third dwelling on the site – the first was possibly a Norman tower.

The pavilion roofs on the right were once Lindsey House of 1684, subsequently owned by the Moravian Sect, who added the French mansard roofs. In 1774 it was subdivided into five houses.

This view is from beside the Ice House, its balcony covered in creeper, looking back down Castle Hill.

Pevsner described The Hall as 'the one nationally major mansion in Bradford, not a town house but a country house in character'.

The terraced houses and cobbled street of Long Row at Belper is one of the many legacies left by Jedediah Strutt who, with Richard Arkwright, brought industry to the town in the late 18th century.

From the sands it is possible to appreciate fully the outstanding position of the houses and hotels high on the Esplanade.

These attractive 18th-century houses are good examples of houses which abound in this small town. A village sign by Harry Carter dominates the green.

Hansom cabs line up on Senate House Hill, alongside the elegant classically styled Senate House, the 'Parliament' building for the University.

John Eveleigh, the architect, used columns for the pedimented centrepiece and end 'pavilions', with flat pilasters to the houses in between.

The south façade of the house is built in the 17th-century English Renaissance style, with pedimented bays overlooking a terrace and lawn to a lake below.

Cothelstone House was built as a country residence in 1820 to replace an earlier manorial hall, but whilst the old manor still stands, the 'new' house was demolished in 1968.

The present Pendley Manor replaced a complex medieval and later house which burnt down in 1835.

This photograph shows a vastly different prospect from that we can see today: the rows of fields on the opposite shore are gone, and the houses of Newton Ferrers extend two-thirds of the way up the hill

The well spring and the house date from the early 1700s.

On the opposite side we may identify the corner building and the Friends Meeting House; between them is one of the oldest houses in Whitby, certainly Tudor, possibly much older.

The brick round house and wooden mill date from 1796, with Victorian alterations. The mill ceased working in 1947, but the machinery is complete and in working order.

The house with its walled garden on the left is Culverton House. Built in about 1827 by Henry Blanckley Rogers, it was described as a 'most delightful residence' when he sold it in 1841.

The house at the top of this view was that of the Sergeant Major from the Staff College.

When the photograph was taken, this attractive 17th-century house was the headquarters of Wiffen`s Coaches Ltd: note the cavernous garages at the rear, and the petrol pump (left).

Left of centre is the sprawling old house called Stagbury, a late 18th-century house demolished in the 1970s.