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The house is a typical Georgian square house with a fine ashlar frontage and hipped roof. The doorway is square-headed with Ionic pilasters and two detached Ionic columns.

Continuing the development of houses along the main Dunmow to Colchester Road, these fine houses, dating from the turn of the 20th century, were also built for the growing middle class.

The quiet village of Hillam lies just to the south of Monk Fryston, with its old Manor House, now a popular hotel and restaurant.

The church and Clergy House lie closer to the river, while the village, completely unspoilt, runs north-south along higher ground.

Kingswinford has become a place of characterless roads, estate houses and shopping precincts, but it retains a scattering of the elegant houses built by 18th-century ironmasters and glassworks owners

Beyond the pier is Upper Mall where William Morris lived from 1878 to 1896, naming his Georgian terrace house, number 26, Kelmscott House after his country house in Oxfordshire.

Here we can see the red brick church of Flemish design, and beyond it the attractive black and white timbered Priests House.

Moving south from Grantham, out into the oolitic limestone country towards the Leicestershire border, we reach Skillington; it has a good range of stone houses, and a parish church with some Anglo-Saxon

The village of Coolham is probably best known for a lovely old house known as the 'Blue Idol'. The house dates from the time of the Armada in 1588, and was originally a Friends' Meeting House.

Broad and leafy, it retains a handful of older houses like the mock-Tudor one we can just see on the left in this photograph.

Moving south from Grantham, out into the oolitic limestone country towards the Leicestershire border, we reach Skillington; it has a good range of stone houses, and a parish church with some Anglo-Saxon

The lych gate was built in 1905 and paid for by Edward Huth in memory of his parents, who moved to Wykehurst House in the 1860s.

Broughton Castle was built as a fortified manor house by Sir John de Broughton in the 14th century. It was later acquired by William of Wykeham who converted the house into a castle.

The Georgian house on the right is interesting. It is probably the last of the dwelling houses here, as most of them are now shops.

Buildings facing seawards from above the beach include the Victorian Custom House, the Coastguard Watch House, the Old Bonded Store - built as a boarding house in 1832 - and clapper-boarded Wings.

This lane leads from the main through road to the church and Manor House. The house on the left has been demolished, and the lane now has modern houses on both sides.

In the centre of the picture, by the shelter, is the site of the late 15th-century Torbay House, which was built over an ale house of ancient origin.

Built in the 1750s, Martock's Market House originally held a row of shambles or butchers' shops.

After the Great War, Housing Acts provided local authorities with government funding to build houses, which opened up areas such as the Sea Mills Estate to residential development.

Brooke House, the town centre's only housing unit, opened on 7 July 1962. A 14-storey block of 84 flats, it was named after Henry Brooke, the former Housing Minister.

These cottages are just a few of around forty built around a triangular village green for the Wroughton Estate; some are known to have housed the workers at Wilcot Manor House.

The partly Tudor Manor House is at the crossroads in the centre of the village, but at the east end is an equally fine house, Missenden House.

Now a hotel, the Old Court House was built by Sir Robert Brooke - he had bought the estate for £946 (an enormous sum of money for the times) following the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII

The whole of the shop extension has been removed, the chimney has gone from the house behind the shop, and it has all been redeveloped.