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The stone-fronted houses match the shops with their sturdiness and `built to last` qualities.

The house on the left, occupied by R W Fayers & Son, builders, was the home of Sir John Turner, who built The Custom House.

Waterloo House (centre) was a popular refreshment house for many years, but has now been converted into a private house.

Castrol House, on the corner of Balcombe Street and Marylebone Road, was completed in 1960, when it caused much comment for being London's first American-style curtain-walled office building.

Under the Mendips, the Old Post House (by the phone box) and Weare House (to its left), now private houses, and the Lamb Inn (behind the photographer) offered refreshment and accommodation to travellers

A range of 16th-century houses and cottages descends the hill towards a central crossroads, notably Old Forge, Bowries and Ricksteddle.

The Jew’s House is another of Lincoln’s surviving early medieval stone houses: the city has more than most.

The High Street runs parallel to Market Place and Market Street; it is terminated to the east by Aveland House, a dignified three-storey late Georgian town house.

The house to the right of the arched entrance at the far end of the street is where the poet Chaucer once lived.

The Vyne C1960 One of Hampshire's finest houses, The Vyne was built between 1518 and 1527 by William Sandys who became Lord Chamberlain in 1526.

The local public house, Point House, once claimed that the best anchorage to be had was so close to Point House that the clock in the hall could be read through the front door.

The post office and stores, seen here, closed in the early 1980s when it was converted into a dwelling house. An earlier post office had been located in the row of houses on the left.

This substantial hotel and public house takes its name from the Berkeley family, who lived nearby at Cranford House.

It carries the plaque: 'Ye Olde Tolle House 1758'. Across the road, the first house no longer offers bed and breakfast, but the second one has become a guest house and tea shop.

Houghton House sits on a hill facing towards Ampthill. Lady Pembroke, Sir Philip Sidney's sister, built the house between 1615 and 1621.

One of Hampshire's finest houses, The Vyne was built between 1518 and 1527 by William Sandys who became Lord Chamberlain in 1526.

The Red Lion public house, the Water Works and Coulsdon Library on the east side of Brighton Road contrast in style and date with the Victorian terraced houses and shops opposite.

Number 36 Westgate, known since the mid 19th century as Sunnyfield House, was built in around 1780 as the residence of John Harrison, agent to the Chaloner estate.

Adjoining Clarence Park is the slightly smaller (14- acre) park surrounding Holmefield House.

In 1924, Richmond House, a large house with extensive grounds on the river-front by the Embankment, came into council ownership, following an unsuccessful bid at auction, a fumbled attempt at compulsory

Miss Hill was a tireless housing and social reformer and was a co-founder of the National Trust.

This village near Midhurst was built mainly to house employees of the Cowdray Estate, famed for the landscaped park and polo playing.

Overlooking the river Bure stands a large, thatched house in the Arts and Crafts style, typical of many built between the wars. Well-tended gardens lead down to a private mooring and boat houses.

The battlemented building opposite the North Porch, No 9 Cathedral Green, currently the Cathedral Music School, was originally a canonical house re-built , an Italian scholar.