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The style here is mock-Tudor, but unlike elsewhere around London, these houses were built in about 1938 with a degree of individuality. The houses overlook the fields.

Just off Hardwick Road is Girnhill Infants' School, which opened on 30 April 1960 to accommodate youngsters from the huge housing estate which partly replaced the earlier Coal Board houses seen in the

Hailed by architects, planners and sociologists as being one of the country's most significant housing schemes, Park Hill won the Department of Environment Design in Housing Award in 1967.

This lovely half-timbered house is typical of many houses in this quiet neighbourhood, not far from the banks of the River Severn.

A country lane, a straggle of houses and open countryside is all we see as we look down Collier Row Road with the Church of the Ascension on the right.

His father was steward to Sir James Lowther, and moved to the house in 1766.The house overlooks the River Derwent and has a delightful garden and terrace.

The house dates from 1591, and stands on the site of a pre-Norman manor held by Dodo, a royal forester under Edward the Confessor and from whom the village takes its name.

This is without doubt the best-known building in Ipswich: the Ancient House (or Sparrowe's House) and its incredible plasterwork.

The vicar of St George's envisaged a need for a hospital, and so in 1866 he set up a hospital in a house on the corner of Cross Street and Albert Street - it became known as St George's Hospital.

To the left of the pub is the site of the house where Abbot John Reeve lived from the closure of the abbey in November 1539 until his death in April 1540.

Most of the terraced houses in this view are 18th-century, including the one behind the tree with the pedimented doorway (far right).

Rye House 1904 The front aspect of the mid-15th-century red brick gatehouse of Rye House, the scene of the ill-fated 1683 Whig conspiracy to ambush Charles II as he returned to London from Newmarket

This fully licensed house later featured exotic food from the Far East. Note the weatherboarded houses, so typical of Kent.

Fowey's straggling main street runs parallel with the river between the Custom House and Town Quay. On the right is the historic house called Noah's Ark, with its twin gables and jettied front.

The houses on the right have long gone, and have been replaced by a wide modern road whose only virtue is the exposure of the Roman wall formerly concealed behind the houses.

Some of the best houses in Feckenham are clustered around the village green, or the Square, though only glimpses are revealed here.

The early 17th-century house with the timber facade belonged to Sir Paul Pindar, who was visited here by both James I and Charles I.

It was in 1789 that it was first given the name of Mary Arden's House, reflecting a local tradition that it had been the home of Shakespeare's mother before her marriage.

Originally owned by the Percy family, Earls of Northumberland, the Petworth estate passed by marriage to the 6th Duke of Somerset, who built the present house, designed by the French architect Daniel

The medieval manor house, Gawthorp Hall, was bought by the family, and John Carr was asked to design the new stables block.

This magnificent house is situated in grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. Its avenues were planted following a visit by William III.

Godred Crovan created the 'House of Keys', and in his day it included representatives from the Hebrides, but since 1266 it has been comprised solely of Manxmen.

Looking across from within the churchyard is the post office, which occupies an 18th-century stone house.

This ruinous Jacobean manor house, about half a mile north-west of Forest Row, was built in 1631 for Sir Henry Crompton, MP for East Grinstead.