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This view from the church tower shows part of the C E School playground, with Manor House next to it. Note that some of the cottages in this row appear to be thatched only on the street side.

Aynho, on the Oxfordshire border south of Banbury, is a beautiful ironstone village dominated by its great mansion, Aynho Park House.

Hill House, on the left, was built for the Reverend Arthur Field in 1899. In 1978 the grounds were used for building and the development known as Hill House Close was born.

Further east, the thatched shop on the left is nowadays a private house, The Old House. Beyond is another thatched cottage, The White House.

Looking west away from the town centre, with West Bank, a school boarding house on the left and opposite houses built around 1900 (a date on the nearest house is 1901).

In 2004 the Friends of Turner's House group was set up to support the owner of the house, Professor Harold Livermore, in his wish to leave the house to the nation.

Many of the delightful houses in this photograph of the north side of St Paul's Street originated in the 13th century, but their fronts were rebuilt later.

In this view the sandstone and brick- dressed mill house is seen across the header pond that stored the water needed to power the waterwheel.

In the late 18th century, owners often had to attract workers to what were then quite remote parts of the countryside, and decent housing was one way to do it.

Around the charming green we can see the old school (centre), later a billiard hall, now restored as a private house. Behind are High Hall and the Temperance Hall (1910).

Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

A little north of Horam, on the Heathfield road and up Steelyards Hill, stands Stillyans, an oasthouse converted into a house.

The Pest House was built c1622 by the churchwardens and overseers as a cottage for the poor on land given by Julian Smith, a linen draper.

One of Ilkley's many smaller hydros, the Marlborough House on Clifton Road opened in 1878. It survived almost a century before being replaced by modern town houses in Marlborough Square.

The White Swan public house, first mentioned in 1722, stands on raised ground just beyond the beached punts to the left of centre.

The church spire appears to be behind the houses on the right, but in fact it is well south of them. The Shell garage on the right has given way to a close of 1980s houses.

Straight ahead is the clock tower; this was a water tower supplying Warsash House, which King Edward VII used to visit when he was Prince of Wales.

Heawood Hall was a small gentry house in Nether Alderley, once the home of the Hollinsheds, a family that included the 16th-century chronicler who was Shakespeare`s source for many of his

The house to the left is an 1850s villa named Charlwood House, not to be confused with the 15th-century timber-framed one south of Gatwick Airport's perimeter fence.

The 16th-century house on the left still has its original brackets supporting the exposed joists of the first floor.

Moving down the lane away from the green there is a row of architecturally more mixed houses, some 1840s Estate houses, others older before the Estate went into picturesque Tudor mode.

Featured here is the adjoining Chapter House built in the late 13th century; it follows the classic Early English style for monastic chapter houses and vestibules by being rectangular in shape.

This typical 1930s house possibly replaced a house that restricted the road. The white lines on the road are a new feature controlling the increasing traffic.

Although called a terrace, the houses are by numerous builders and unified by broad style alone.