Snooping around: Glass homes

Property of the week: Aston-on-Clun, Shropshire. This £225,000 grade II-listed toadstool, with segment-shaped rooms circling a central chimney, was built as a bakery two centuries ago. It has beams, a stone inglenook, and pastoral views from casement windows. It’s on a no-through road in a village that has retained its pub and shop, while Ludlow is nine miles away. Ravishing scenery is all around, but the roof needs attention and the decor updating.
Samuel Wood & Co, 01588 672728 Photograph: Samuel Wood & Co/Samuel Wood & Co

Wreck of the week: Kinrossie, Perthshire. This three-bedroomed cottage with an attached byre is on the market for £220,000. The main house is merely weary - the challenge is to expand into the cow shed (subject to consent) and extend the kitchen. A further £60,000 so should cover it. The cottage is on the edge of the conservation village of Kinrossie, while the rooms and south-facing garden are generous, and there are gentle rural views to enjoy.
Bell Ingram, 01738 621121 Photograph: Bell Ingram/Bell Ingram

Take three: glass homes. A local builder created this for himself in Bideford, north Devon, four years ago, and for £750,000 it can now be yours. The double-height living area is glass-walled on one side, with a stone chimney breast, and there’s a galleried reception room, a kitchen/breakfast room, a utility room, a study, five bedrooms and four bathrooms. From the hot tub in the two-acre garden you can gaze to the coast. It is two miles to a sandy beach.
Stags, 01237 425030 Photograph: Stags/Stags

Take three: glass homes. You enter through the sedate Victorian suburbia of Twickenham, Middlesex, and exit via a dazzling glass cube attached to the back. The garden feeds into 16 acres of parkland shared by residents. Inside there are two reception rooms, an open-plan kitchen/dining/family room, a second kitchen/laundry room, six bedrooms, three bathrooms and cellar. All of which costs, of course. Some £1.795m to be precise.
Jackson-Stops & Staff, 020 8940 6789 Photograph: Jackson-Stops & Staff/Jackson-Stops & Staff

Take three: glass homes. This was once the kitchen garden and greenhouses of an estate near Chichester, West Sussex. It has three receptions, a kitchen/dining room, conservatory, four/five beds, four bathrooms and a pavilion with kitchen. Glass doors lead into the amply windowed rooms with a mixture of Tuscan limestone and polished hardwood floors. Outside there is 55 acres, a tennis court, water gardens and cherry orchard. But no garage. Cost: £3.5m. Jackson-Stops & Staff, 01243 786316 Photograph: Jackson-Stops & Staff/Jackson-Stops & Staff