This home offers the best of both worlds: a rustic, 17^th-century stone cottage that cleverly transitions into an awe-inspiring, single-storey addition. Influenced by Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, the wood and glass extension was originally designed by architect Ray Moxley in the 1960s and later adapted by Robert and Tim Organ. The current owners have painstakingly restored the interiors whilst carefully preserving the building’s mid-century spirit. Warm, wood-panelled ceilings and glass walls soak up the sloping, woodland plot, whilst courtyard gardens bring the sights and sounds of the surrounding landscape right up to the doorstep. The single-storey space ends in a spectacular tetradecagon-shaped room – a unique pavilion from which you can peer out over Somerset’s Mendip Hills.

Designed by a RIBA-award winning architectural practice, this three-bedroom home is a lesson in luxurious, lateral living. It is set within the Grade II-listed Wallet’s Court and cleverly concealed behind a textured flint wall that divides the plot in two, with grassy meadows and a young orchard in one direction, and a sunken garden in the other. Under its dynamic roofline (a zinc-covered hyperbolic paraboloid) is a deftly defined footprint that offers both capacious communal living spaces and more private, cabin-like corners. The double-height entrance ushers you into to a vast, open plan kitchen, dining and living area. From here, explorative corridors lead to more cellular spaces. Follow the cantilevered glass hallway from the living room to the secluded study or take the polished concrete corridor to the cocooning, wood-panelled library. And did we mention the main bedroom has its own hidden outdoor bath and shower? It’s these hidden spaces that make this single-storey home so eminently covetable.

Designed in the late 1960s by the renowned architect and erstwhile president of RIBA, Michael Manser, this steel-framed home is a minimal modernist masterpiece in rural Surrey. The geometric, rectangular design spans 3,000 sq ft and optimises the southerly aspect of the house. Large, glass-fronted walls encourage natural light to fill the internal space, which – with timber-lined walls and ceilings – retain all the characteristics of Manser’s mid-century vision. An arterial glass corridor connects the main living space to an easterly wing for guests (or grown-ups) to retreat to. Integral to Manser’s cornered design are the mature gardens, which are visually connected to the house from every angle and accessible via sliding glass doors, creating a seamless transition between inside and outside.

Hunkered into an acre of mature gardens, this four-bedroom, single-storey house was built for a friend in the mid-1950s by the architect, Giles Gilbert Scott – the grandson of the great gothic revivalist, George Gilbert Scott. There are no spires to be found here. Instead, Giles paid homage to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian houses, devising a simple grid pattern layout that unfurls in all directions from a central, convivial living space. Geometric detailing and a distinctive mix of materials have endured creating a tactile backdrop that has been designed for ease of living. Picture friends and family gathered here for an early evening aperitif in the sunny, sunken lounge …

A ten-minute skip to the silky sands of Carbis Bay, this diminutive, two-bedroom coastal bungalow is perfectly positioned for those seeking a light-filled home beside the sea. The bright interiors have been recently renovated with practicality in mind. The L-shaped living room incorporates a dining area that is connected to a soporific sunroom with views across the garden to the calm waters of the bay – a gathering spot for sea swimmers and paddleboarders. If you fall into the latter category, there’s a garage for board storage. If culture is more your bag, St Ives is only a 45-minute walk away.