Snooping around: Homes beside golf courses

Property of the week: Wirral, Cheshire. This 17th-century former hostelry has views across the Dee estuary to the Welsh hills. The barrel-vaulted beer cellar is now the scullery, a huge inglenook that once warmed drinkers expands the living room, there are ceiling beams, and the light fittings are original Victorian lamps converted to electricity. There are three receptions, four bedrooms, a study, a conservatory and walled garden. Cost: £460,000.
Jackson Stops & Staff, 01244 328361 Photograph: Jackson Stops & Staff/Jackson Stops & Staff

Wreck of the week: Narberth, Pembrokeshire. This spacious, two-bed cottage needs replastering, possibly a new roof and certainly new fixtures and fittings. You might also want to expand into the two stone outbuildings. It’s yours for £265,000, but the repairs alone will cost over £80,000. It comes with five-and-a-half acres of prime Welsh pasture land and is close to the Pembrokeshire coast national park, but it’s a long way from a town.
West Wales Properties, 01834 860900 Photograph: West Wales Properties/West Wales Properties

Take three: homes beside golf courses. A gate in the back garden of this four-bedder leads on to the first fairway of the Exeter Golf & Country Club, and you can survey members’ prowess from the roof terrace off the fourth bedroom. For £430,000 you get three reception rooms, a kitchen, larder, cloakroom, bathroom, garage and carport. There’s also a two-room annexe, which was originally a doctor’s surgery, though it’s unheated.
Fulfords Country & Waterside, 01392 252666 Photograph: Fulfords Country & Waterside/Fulfords Country & Waterside

Take three: homes beside golf courses. Dale Hill golf club is the view from the rear windows of this five-bedder near Wadhurst, East Sussex. You get two reception rooms, a kitchen/breakfast room, a utility room, two bathrooms and a double garage. It’s a leafy stroll to the village shops and an hour into London from the nearby station. French doors open on to a decent-sized garden. It’s just a shame about the nearby busy road. Yours for £540,000.
Freeman Forman, 01580 201588 Photograph: Freeman Foreman/Freeman Foreman

Take three: homes beside golf courses. A golf course was built around this 17th-century manor at Barnetts Lane, Worcestershire, a century ago. It’s now Kidderminster golf club and the house sits in the middle of it, reached by a track. For £695,000 you get four receptions, a conservatory, a kitchen/breakfast room, four beds, two bathrooms and a four-car garage. The inside is dated, and you wouldn’t guess its ancient pedigree from the modernised facade.
Nock Deighton, 01562 861491 Photograph: Nock Deighton/Nock Deighton