A Tudor house of granite and slate above the River Tamar, kept almost unchanged for centuries, with tapestries, armour and old furniture in dim, atmospheric rooms. There's no electric light in the main house.
Walk down through the gardens to Cotehele Quay, with its sailing barge and small museum, and on to the working watermill. The garland of flowers hung in the great hall each Christmas is famous.
A 13th-century Cistercian abbey turned into a house, later bought by Sir Francis Drake after his voyage around the world.
A grand late Victorian country house rebuilt after a fire in 1881, with a gatehouse and gallery from the 17th century.
The last castle built in England, designed by Edwin Lutyens for the grocery millionaire Julius Drewe and finished in 1930.
Huge geodesic domes, built in a former clay pit in Cornwall, contain two of the world's largest greenhouses.
A Regency house in a wooded valley on the edge of Exmoor, filled with the collections of Rosalie Chichester, who lived here until 1949: model ships, …
A subtropical garden in a valley running down to the Helford River, planted by the Fox family in the 1820s.
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