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The red brick village, which has expanded to become interesting rather than beautiful, has excellent examples of Leicestershire vernacular, from the 17th-century Stuart House in Station Street to the

This Tudor country house is now a museum, and its adjoining art gallery houses a fine collection of paintings by Constable and Gainsborough.

The Poor House (left) was built at the direction of Sir Robert Hitcham (d1636) who owned the castle. The gable wing dates from 1637, and the remainder from 1729.

This attractive cul-de-sac running north to the gates of Merstham House, where rampant lion statues guard the way, acquired its name as a joke.

It became a parish in 1880, but before the local vicar gave it a name and an identity of its own, it was little more than a scattered collection of houses and cottages.

The house itself is no longer the residence of the heirs to the extinct earldom; it has recently been bought and fully restored as one of Warner Holidays Ltd's Historic Hotels.

Here we have a closer look at the four-gabled house in picture 42179 (pages 16-17) – it originally comprised two houses.

Compare this view with No O45043, and note the cottage on the right with the broad light-coloured band above the front door running across the house front. This building appears in both pictures.

The brick house on the left belonged to the blacksmith, with the forge behind. A house has since been built in the yard. To the right is the Grape Vine of c1520, with 20th-century pargetting.

The rendered house on the right, with its 16th-century gabled wing, fell into decline and was subsequently demolished.

On the right with the railings are two fine examples of clothiers' houses from the mid 17th century, re-fronted and altered in the late 18th century.

Seine fishing boats are drawn up on Porthminster Beach (right), and an old engine house stands on Pedn Olva Point.

The picture shows the headmaster's house and garden. Since the garden is on two different levels, it provided an excellent venue for open-air theatrical productions by school pupils.

At the centre of the town is the old Market House with its shallow arched openings and weather-vaned bellcote.

Not seen in this photograph are cottages and houses off to the right that overlook the pond - their gardens front directly onto it.

This view, looking west from the green, has lost its two community facilities: The Bell is now a house, while the shop on the right is now a house called The Old Post Office.

Just above the left-hand end of the bridge in S177036 (page 70) and here in 72297 we can see buildings which in the 1920s housed Cooper & Hall, the engineers.

Moses Glover's map of 1635 shows a building in the vicinity of today's York House, covered in scaffolding and surrounded by a number of smaller structures, some of which line the roads.

Nowadays the old core is surrounded by 20th-century housing, some small and the rest 'Metroland' detached houses in spacious well-treed gardens, between it and Seer Green and Jordans railway station on

At its southern extremity and the junction with Cheam Road was the site of East Cheam Manor and a dozen or so houses.

There is a pleasing lack of uniformity about the facades and rooflines of the buildings in the High Street, some of which are small cottages, and others grand town houses.

The assemblage of 19th-century houses on the left is almost picturesque, looking out over open fields until the arrival of the houses on the right in the 1930s.

Frith's photographer was looking west away from the Council House, with Long Row on the right.

The school (right), now converted into two houses, was built in 1858. The house with the shop front facing the camera is now named the Old Post Office.