Tixall Hall in Staffordshire. The large building on the left is a gatehouse built in 1557, during the reign of Elizabeth I. The lighter lines in the centre are where the dying grass has revealed the buried foundations of the hall, which was built in 1555. The foundations of a new hall that was begun during the first world war but demolished in 1926 can also be seen

Photograph: Emma Trevarthen/Historic England