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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.

Houghton House sits on a hill facing towards Ampthill.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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

Back inthe Chess Valley we reach Latimer, a very pretty village with a triangular green and, uphill to the west, Latimer House.

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

The post office and stores, seen here, closed in the early 1980s when it was converted into a dwelling house.

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

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

Beyond the pier is Upper Mall where William Morris lived from 1878 to 1896, naming his Georgian terrace house, number 26, Kelmscott House after his country house in Oxfordshire.

Kingswinford has become a place of characterless roads, estate houses and shopping precincts, but it retains a scattering of the elegant houses built by 18th-century ironmasters and glassworks owners

The church and Clergy House lie closer to the river, while the village, completely unspoilt, runs north-south along higher ground.

The quiet village of Hillam lies just to the south of Monk Fryston, with its old Manor House, now a popular hotel and restaurant.

Moving south from Grantham, out into the oolitic limestone country towards the Leicestershire border, we reach Skillington; it has a good range of stone houses, and a parish church with some Anglo-Saxon

Broad and leafy, it retains a handful of older houses like the mock-Tudor one we can just see on the left in this photograph.

The village of Coolham is probably best known for a lovely old house known as the 'Blue Idol'.