The town centre, around Liebefrau church, was a cobbled triangle of seventeenth-century houses.

It commanded a view across Liebefrauplatz of the church itself and the seventeenth-century houses beyond it.

It was a big, old seventeenth-century house.

Sailors' Walk, at 443-449 High Street; consists of two seventeenth-century houses, resting on foundations dating back to around 1460.

Two miles south west are the fragmentary remains of Penyard Castle, a fourteenth-century castle on the site of which was built a seventeenth-century house.

It was, without doubt, Clare's most magnificent seventeenth-century house.

The original early seventeenth-century house was added to in the 1780s by John Carr, who also designed Harewood House.

The north face of this early seventeenth-century house has a picturesque Dutch gable, rare in this part of the country at that time.

The seventeenth-century houses in the village are traditional two-storeyed Dorset cottages, and some retain their thatched roofs.

There are still several old seventeenth-century houses, among which the 'oliemolen' (oilmill).