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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

Broughton Castle was built as a fortified manor house by Sir John de Broughton in the 14th century.

The lych gate was built in 1905 and paid for by Edward Huth in memory of his parents, who moved to Wykehurst House in the 1860s.

Overlooking the river Bure stands a large, thatched house in the Arts and Crafts style, typical of many built between the wars.

The house is a typical Georgian square house with a fine ashlar frontage and hipped roof.

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

Though called the Count's House, this building is in fact a former summer house dating from about 1820.

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

Originally Loakes Manor, a 17th-century manor house in grounds laid out by Capability Brown, the house was remodelled by James Wyatt in 1803 for the then Lord Carrington, acquiring the romantic

The former toll house was demolished as part of a road-widening scheme, and access to and from West Street was blocked to traffic in the interest of safety.

The whole of the shop extension has been removed, the chimney has gone from the house behind the shop, and it has all been redeveloped.

In its heyday the parkland also contained a boating lake with boat house and summer houses and tea houses, all strategically placed for guests and members of the family to pause and take rest and

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

The partly Tudor Manor House is at the crossroads in the centre of the village, but at the east end is an equally fine house, Missenden House.

Now a hotel, the Old Court House was built by Sir Robert Brooke - he had bought the estate for £946 (an enormous sum of money for the times) following the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII

New housing included the model homes of the Highbury Estate in Cosham, Wymering Garden City and the neat bungalows and semi-detached properties in Drayton, as well as handsome, detached properties

Sheffield in the Victorian period also saw a very large expansion of its housing stock not only to house the rapidly growing number of workers in the light and heavy steel industries but also to

The houses on the left have been altered and added to in a reasonably complimentary manner, but to the right the mature trees have gone, and the 18th-century garden wall has mostly been demolished

In front of the church is the County Museum; nearer the camera, behind the 'No Waiting' sign, is one of Aylesbury's best town houses, with arched sash windows to the ground floor.

Here we see a view of the splendid Court House.

The Georgian house on the right is interesting.

In the centre of the picture, by the shelter, is the site of the late 15th-century Torbay House, which was built over an ale house of ancient origin.

Buildings facing seawards from above the beach include the Victorian Custom House, the Coastguard Watch House, the Old Bonded Store - built as a boarding house in 1832 - and clapper-boarded Wings.

This lane leads from the main through road to the church and Manor House.