Property gallery: Variations on a Victorian theme

Cambridge: The rooms are a little on the dainty side in this effort about a mile outside the city centre, but they are smartly turned out. For £325,000 you get stripped wooden floors, cast iron fireplaces and french doors opening on to a 58ft stretch of garden.
Redmayne Arnold & Harris, 01223 323130 Photograph: Redmayne Arnold & Harris/Redmayne Arnold & Harris

Sheffield: This slice of Victoriana is in a fetching city suburb and is yours for £164.950. An original open fireplace presides over the bay-windowed sitting room, the bedrooms are all generous doubles, most of the floors are stripped wood and there's a handsome Victorian-style bathroom. There is also a cellar.
Reeds Rains, 0114 267 0150 Photograph: Reeds Rains/Reeds Rains

London: This being Fulham, one of west London's most desirable suburbs, you need £525,000 to fund this modest three-bedder near the District line. The ground floor has been hollowed out into a 23.6ft living room with a kitchen area, all elegantly trimmed with wood laminate floor, halogen spotlights and granite worktops. There are two bathrooms and a courtyard garden.
Foxtons, 0800 369 8667 Photograph: Foxtons/Foxtons

Oxford: An extension on this house in the east of the city has produced a luxuriously-sized, elegantly fitted kitchen/breakfast room opening on to a long stretch of garden. The loft has been converted into a third double bedroom and the original two receptions have been merged into a hospitably sized room with an open fire. It's an unchallenging walk into the city centre. Cost: £389,950.
Scott Fraser, 01865 759500 Photograph: Scott Fraser/Scott Fraser

Lincolnshire: There are three bedrooms, two receptions and the extra delight of a study in this mid-terrace near the centre of Louth. Unusually, there is off-street parking to the rear beyond the prettily landscaped garden, the kitchen is large enough to eat in, a shower room relieves pressure on the family bathroom, and a front garden offers a grassy buffer between you and the road. Yours for £154,995.
Face2Face, 01507 610711 Photograph: Face2Face/Face2Face

York: Less than a mile from the city centre and the station is this newly renovated terrace. Period fancies such as original floor tiles in the hall, cornicing and a living room fireplace meld with modern style – wood laminate flooring in the dining room, a glamour kitchen lit by halogen spotlights and a newly fitted bathroom. Yours for £215,000.
Hudson Moody, 01904 650650 Photograph: Hudson Moody/Hudson Moody