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The three-storey elegant town house buildings help to make Yarm a very attractive place in which to live.

The Ancient House next door is 16th-century, but was re-fronted in c1670. The arms of Charles II are in the centre of four elaborate oriel windows, with pargetting representing four continents.

Such a dramatic combination of sea, cliffs and ruined engine houses is instantly recognised as part of the Cornish landscape. Low tide reveals a large expanse of golden sand here at Chapel Porth.

Chutes descend from Quay Road in front of the terraced houses for loading china clay. On the extreme right is a disused limekiln with two arches.

There are no kiosks on the beach, but plenty of guest houses on the hill behind.

suggested that the remains of Herstmonceux Castle form part of the oldest brick mansion in Britain; it was built in 1441, following a grant from the king to Roger de Fiennes to ‘embattle’ his manor-house

The buildings on the right are a splendid mix: the jettied timber-framed Tudor building of about 1543, with its three gables, contrasts with the early Georgian warm red brick houses beyond,

The centrepiece of the town is undoubtedly the great 15th-century mansion of the de Burghs, the Old Hall, set in a grassed square surrounded by Victorian housing.

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.

It is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eyebrowed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings – the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, influenced by

One of Dublin's most famous buildings is the Custom House. It was designed by Gandon and built between 1781-1791.

Leeds was the industrial power house of the old West Riding.

Sir Walter Raleigh was found guilty of treason in the old Market House at Staines, which has since been demolished. A plague had prevented the Court from holding the trial in London.

All on the left has been rebuilt; the Boulevard, part of the new town's shopping streets, took out most of the right-hand houses.

The houses along this stretch of the esplanade were all to be destroyed during World War Two, and then replaced by modern flats.

The houses on the right of the square remain, and are now whitewashed.

The Market House was built for Sir Thomas Tresham of Rushton Hall.

North of Grantham, set in its seven hundred acre landscaped deer park, Belton House was begun in 1685; it is architecturally conservative for that date with its cupola and balustraded flat roof.

The houses do not appear to have changed, and even the grass verge is still in good condition.

Parts of the original castle were incorporated into the 17th-century manor house. The castle appears to have been rebuilt in the 18th century and repaired during the 19th century.

They have acquired plastic shopfronts at ground level, and now house a tile shop, a dental practice and an Indian restaurant.

Designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, (who, obviously, also worked on London's St Pancras station) and built in 1864, this was the third house on the site and at the time of the photograph was owned by the

A market house once stood in this square, close to a water pump. Built in 1707 it was demolished in 1861.

The pinnacled tower of Oakley church has a sturdy staircase turret, a fine Tudor doorway, and a memorial window to William Warham, a local boy, reputedly born at nearby Malshanger House, who