Renovated houses formerly the docks in Braye, Alderney, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, Europe

Matello defence tower, Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, Europe

Traditional Cotswold stone wysteria-clad cottage in the quaint village of Eastleach Turville in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK

Traditional Cotswold stone wysteria-clad cottage in the quaint village of Eastleach Turville in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK

Oak door at Chateau du Rivau, 15th and 16th Century Renaissance architecture, near Chinon in the Loire Valley, France

Traditional Cotswold vine-clad pub in the picturesque village of Southrop in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK

Traditional French Gite chambres d'hote in idyllic setting near Azay le Rideau, Loire Valley, France

Traditional French cottage at Rivarennes, Loire Valley, France

Old colonial architecture period house at Sarnath near Varanasi, Benares, Northern India

Chateau de Bourdeilles popular tourist destination near Brantome in Northern Dordogne, France

Town of Coudray with typical Norman church in Normandy, France

Town Hall, La Mairie, at Les Rosiers Sur Loire in the Loire Valley region, France

Empty room, penthouse

Colourful pitched roof of a bay window, Hotel La Table de Mittelwihr, 19 Route Vin, Mittelwihr, Alsace, France, Europe

Historic, thatched half-timbered farm house, pitched roof, Altes Land, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Pitched roof and Cathedral tower, Ueberlingen am Bodensee, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

A traditional wooden church with turf roof, earth and grass material on the steep pitched roof, Iceland

Hungarian art nouveau architecture by vñdv?n Lechner ‚Äì the colourful pyrogranite roof of the former post office bank, Budapest, Hungary (detail)