Cosy homes with fireplaces

Now that's what we call a fireplace: open, stone and Inglenook – plenty of room for Santa to crawl down, and plenty of space for everyone else to gather round with Christmas drinks and mince pies. This beautiful five-bedroom period home near Honiton in Devon has a hefty price tag (£1.15m) but is seriously impressive. Originally dating back to the seventeenth-century it's been expanded and modernised yet retains its most precious original features including exposed beams, stone flagged floors and vaulted ceilings. Fulfords, 01404 44744 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

This is the kind of home that you can just imagine being used as the setting for an idyllic Christmas rom-com - a cute stone cottage in a pretty little Warwickshire village. The shaker-style kitchen in this four-bedroom property is the real clincher, full of wintery charm with whitewashed beams to drape fairy lights along, a bright red Aga and flag stoned floors – perfect for serving up a hearty Christmas roast. Move along into the snug and there's a log burner in an Inglenook fireplace, perfect for hanging Christmas stockings from. Your's for a not-bad £415,000. R A Bennett & Partners, 01386 840 094 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

So this isn't a roaring open fire, but despite being non-working, this fireplace has all manner of Christmas decoration potential (see the lights curled inside, and the reindeers trotting up above on the ledge.) This is a pretty little one-bed flat to see your first Christmas through in a starter London home – part of the £320,000 price tag pays for the garden which you have full and private access to. John D Wood, 020 7228 0174 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

If you're having yourself a city Christmas, with your other half or a few friends, you could do far worse than this stylish two-bed £1.95 Chelsea pad which looks like it's come straight out of an interiors magazine with its hip grey colour scheme. Sip your wine oh so elegantly while leaning against this mantlepiece and making all manner of high-brow Christmas conversation. The kitchen and open plan dining room are perfect for entertaining in, and once you've had enough of the guests, you can easily escape and retire to one of the two studies. Douglas & Gordon, 020 7225 1225 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

You'd have no problems fitting the family into this top-of-the-range, £1.175m five-bedroom Oxfordshire home over the Christmas holidays. There's a huge open plan and stylishly decorated kitchen-breakfast room (big enough for a massive squashy sofa) right at the heart of the house, for everyone to gather in for food , and this spacious double-doored sitting room with an imposing but contemporary looking fireplace to drape lights and cards and Christmassy things over. John D Wood & Co, 01865 311522 Photograph: guardian.co.uk