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The Girls' High School was founded in 1918 in Brueton House at Mount Pleasant, but moved to this purpose-built accommodation in Green Lanes in 1930.

James Gandon's masterpiece, the Custom House, completed in 1791. The Custom House was gutted by fire during the Civil War.

This closer view shows the steps under the gateway, with the Roman wall incorporated in the house.

Parkfield House became Middleton`s second Town Hall in 1925.

Whirlow Brook House was formerly the home of Sir Walter Benton Jones.

Trees have begun to grow up on the slope beyond Porthpean House since 1884 (see No 16778, above), although the coast path is still prominent.

Souvenirs (including model lighthouses carved from serpentine stone) and postcards (perhaps Frith's) are displayed outside the most westerly house in England.

The house with the two dormer windows in the roof on the left used to be The Stanley Arms, one of two hostelries that once refreshed the village.

The Falcon Inn at the corner of Grosvenor Street was once the town house of the Grosvenor family.

Before Bullenshaw House was built, the area was wooded and provided a natural playground for youngsters. During the war two air-raid shelters were built into the hill.

The house to the right was originally a maltings - the structure with the lantern was the oast-house. It belonged to the Writtle Brewery Company until they were taken over by Truman's.

These are two courtyard houses side by side; their fine porches lead into passages to small courtyards with halls across the rear - one is a first floor hall, once used as a court house.

Three of the terraced houses on the right were once shops. On the opposite corner, Skoulding's grocer's and draper's had traded since the 1850s.

In fact it is a dual-purpose structure, for the lower storey, below the pigeon house, is a well house with a water- wheel pump.

The timber-framed house dates from the late 16th century. Opposite is Eastgate House of 1590, now part of the Charles Dickens Centre.

We are looking west over the village pond into Manor Road; the house on the left is The Beeches.

The three houses each contain three dwellings and are numbered 40 to 56 from right to left. The modern development of Merrymeet has been built behind the houses.

The designer, John Carr, later went on to be the architect of the magnificent Harewood House.

The post-enclosure brick cottages on the left have now been replaced with modern housing. In the distance is the Manor House, once home of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the famous landscape gardener.

Whirlow Brook House was formerly the home of Sir Walter Benton Jones. In 1946 a joint effort by the Town Trust and the J G Graves Charitable Trust secured the grounds for use as a public park.

Birmingham House, an early 17th century timber-framed double-fronted building, was once the home of the grandfather of Izaak Walton, author of 'The Compleat Angler', published in 1653.

St Mary's House is a medieval timber-framed house open to visitors.

These detached houses are part of the Finches development, with no trace of the original house remaining.

Behind Jackson's the ironmonger's (left) was once Bernard's the baker's, now a private house. The house before the Bell Inn, at the end of the street, is now a garage.