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The adjoining building, resembling a gabled manor house, incorporates the original monastic buildings that housed a small Benedictine nunnery.

Next door to the Porch House in Potterne (see next pages) is another - newer - building. Although this is Wiltshire, the design is very much Cheshire in style.

This view of the church, which was taken away from the town centre, also shows a pretty ironstone thatched house and numerous houses roofed with the local slates.

The present God Begot House is Tudor, though it stands on the site of an ancient manor originally bequeathed by Emma, widow of King Canute, to the Priory of St Swithun in 1052.

Between 1900 and 1905 Vickers built Vickerstown on Walney Island, an estate to house shipyard workers.

The blank site behind is now occupied by Thorngate House, a nasty 1960s office block: not a very attractive backdrop to this old merchant’s house.

The stone-faced houses are well in keeping with the rest of Bakewell.

Without doubt the best known building in Ipswich, the Ancient House (or Sparrowe's House) with its incredible plasterwork.

The High Street sports a branch of F W Woolworth, and the local branch of the National Provincial Bank is housed in half-timbered style premises.

Another derivation may be 'Dye Chy', a reference to a dyeing house, which was once located in the area; the Cornish 'chy' means house.

The Bear and Billet public house in Lower Bridge Street was built in 1664; until 1867 it was the town house of the earls of Shrewsbury.

The small medieval church with its double bellcote form a centrepiece to a few houses of interest, including the Rectory of 1827 and the old Manor House of 1700.

Beyond the industrial area are some of the most beautiful houses in Frome, which date from about 1700. Willow Vale House still retains its ivy.

This pair of houses on the eastern edge of Dartmoor is utterly typical of its time, with its water (the well in front of the left-hand door) and firewood all to hand.

The cabin at the top of Clare House pier still occupies its site; however, it was demolished when the promenade was constructed.

Behind the corner of the Boat Float, and distinguished by a white awning, is Parade House (centre), built in 1880 to replace the Assembly Rooms.

This is a very fine 16th-century house which appears to have had non-domestic use, perhaps as a manorial court-house, before its conversion to a dwelling.

There are more stones on the beach now, and the house in the background, Mere Bank, which is now part of an exclusive housing development, is obscured by mature trees.

Standing out proudly in this photograph of Horsham's most interesting street is Causeway House, a picturesque half-timbered building dating back to the late Tudor period.

Originally called the House of Lords, this public house was enlarged by the Bridge Company when the ferry closed. It was renamed the Clayhithe Ferry in the 1880s, and by 1916 had become a hotel.

The large size of this Charnwood commuter village is hardly reflected in such an idyllic scene as this, a curving roadway with modest houses leading directly to the west door of the 13th-century church

To the left of the chapel is 'Glan Dyfi' house: formerly a school for young ladies and now known as Astral House, a branch of the RAF Association.

Branston, around its church, has delightful winding lanes; by the church stands Hainton House of 1765, a Georgian house of some dignity.

The house with the fine Venetian windows is Argyll House (1766); next is Oriel Lodge (1800).