Old and new homes – in pictures

Historic home: Cambridgeshire. This house was already 200 years old when it was a poor house for the dispossessed and someone scratched the year 1717 on one of the timbers, but now you have to be half way to your first million to lodge beneath its roof. Your £500,000 only runs to two bedrooms (plus a third in an annexe), but you’re paying for the beams, inglenook, bread oven, panelling and all the other venerable vintage legacies, plus a large garden. The surrounding village of Dullingham is similarly quaint and it’s handy for shopping and horses in Newmarket.
Abbotts, 01284 753486
Photograph: Abbotts

Historic home: North Yorkshire. This 16th-century house in the market place of Kirkbymoorside is where George Villiers, the 2nd Duke of Buckingham, breathed his last after catching a chill while hunting. The guests who will inevitably descend upon you to sample the surrounding moorlands can be distributed among the five bedrooms and two sitting rooms. Despite its central position, it’s well endowed with garden and there’s a garage with a dark room/study, but if you find your neighbour wandering across your rear plot, contain yourself – they have a right of way. Yours for £350,000.
Peter Illingworth, 01751 431107
Photograph: Peter Illingworth

Historic home: Berkshire. The glory of this £325,000 thatched confection in the Thicket, a hamlet near Leckhamstead, is that it’s not listed, so the planners should be accommodating of your ambitions. And a little ambition is needed, for it is dated: the current tenants have put up with the elderly kitchen and shower room, but you really wouldn’t want to, and it’s small – only two bedrooms and one reception – but there’s plenty of room to expand. Beams, a large fireplace, quaint eaves and a large garden with garage and outbuildings make the investment worthwhile.
Winkworth, 01635 552552
Photograph: Winkworth

New-build home: London. Get in quickly and you could watch the Jubilee water pageant from the 685 sq ft roof terrace. The block is part of the Oyster Wharf development on Battersea Embankment. There’s a bathroom for both rather small bedrooms and an open-plan reception, all elegantly fitted – but the interior is dwarfed by the L-shaped terrace. On the market for £550,000.
John D Wood, 020 7228 0171
Photograph: John D Wood

New-build home: Hampshire. Once you’ve trained a Rambling Rector up these wood-clad walls this home will convincingly merge with its more vintage neighbours in the village of South Wonston near Winchester. An air source heat pump supplies cheap hot water and heating beneath the solid wood floors, and the lighting is low energy – although any eco smugness is undermined by a driveway which can accommodate four cars. Built-in wardrobes ease congestion in three of the bedrooms and the master chamber has an en suite. Cost: £399,950.
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Photograph: Connells