Moving home can be an expensive, complicated and stressful process, so imagine the organisation and work it takes to physically move a house from one plot to another.

From the restless former country estate of Alexander Hamilton to a rustic stone cottage that travelled almost 11,000 miles (17,702km) from England to Australia, all of these amazing abodes have been packed up and transported somewhere new.

Click or scroll on to discover how – and why – these historic properties were given new homes...