A former telephone exchange, handsomely converted into apartments, is peacefully secreted 150 yards from the town centre. This portion is a two-bedroom maisonette over two floors with a private leaf-screened terrace and views over the church. You and your guests will have to trek through the main bedroom to reach the terrace and, should you be dining alfresco, that’s a commute downstairs from the kitchen. Asking price: £169,950.
Gibbins Richards, 01823 332 828 Photograph: Gibbins Richards
A vintage farmhouse, packed with quaint character, aloft on a hillside with spreading views over the countryside. It’s set well back from the hamlet up a shared drive behind a third of an acre of garden. The three bedrooms are all doubles. It’s a shame that the interior could do with a modernising hand and you might not wish to live with a downstairs bathroom. Guide price: £325,000.
Fisher German, 01905 726 220 Photograph: Fisher German
Three stalls, a tack room, hayloft and cart shed. Condition? As the horses left it. Plans have been sanctioned for a four-bedroom wood- and stone-clad house linked to the original stable by a curved stone corridor. It comes with 1.22 acres of the former farm and long green views. However, it’s not as remote as it looks: the farm buildings are being converted into homes. Offers over £225,000.
Strutt & Parker, 0131 226 2500 Photograph: Strutt & Parker
If the property bubble makes you wish you lived in a bunker, this luxury renovation in Oxfordshire may be the answer. The former decontamination bunker, built in 1939 by the Air Ministry, is now two two-bedroom homes, complete with roof terraces. They are each on the market for £440,000.
City & Country, 01869 253 999 Photograph: City & Country
