Snooping around: Homes overlooking cricket pitches

Property of the week: Castle Lane, Warwick. With its black-and-white work and gabled double bays, this three-bedder is 1930s Tudorism at its most fervent, and the original wooden doors, fireplaces, picture rails and leaded windows live on. It is just 50 yards from Warwick’s magnificent medieval castle, which can be surveyed from the living room. From this elevated site in a highly regarded road it’s a short walk to the town centre. Cost: £410,000.
Knight Frank, 01789 297735 Photograph: Knight Frank/Knight Frank

Wreck of the week: Middlehill, Box. This £265,000 two-bedroom semi-detached cottage is structurally sound but cosmetically spent. A further £50,000 should glamorise the decor, wiring, kitchen and bathroom. It’s a potentially pretty retreat with grand views in an area of outstanding natural beauty, just seven miles from Bath. A stream divides your garden, and strangely you have to cross next door’s garden to reach your own door.
Pritchard & Partners, 01225 466225 Photograph: Pritchard & Partners/Pritchard & Partners

Take three: homes overlooking cricket pitches. This frenchified, top-floor fancy in Hove, East Sussex, is handy for sea and station. For £375,000 you get a reception room, kitchen/breakfast room, two bedrooms and a bathroom. Two fireplaces survive, while full-height windows create a glassed dining alcove. The kitchen window surveys the county cricket ground, but there’s no outdoor area of your own - the ground-floor flats have appropriated the garden.
Strutt & Parker, 01273 779649 Photograph: Strutt & Parker/Strutt & Parker

Take three: homes overlooking cricket pitches. This five-bedder near Thaxted, Essex, is a gaiety of exposed beams. The kitchen and sitting room are vaulted and trussed in ancient timbers, and a bathroom is ribbed from floor to ceiling. Large gardens back on to the village cricket pitch. For £675,000 you get four receptions, a utility room, a kitchen/breakfast room and three bathrooms in a plot under the Stansted flight path.
Mullocks Wells, 01799 520520 Photograph: Mullocks Wells/Mullocks Wells

Take three: homes overlooking cricket pitches. You can umpire the town team from the bottom of the garden of this three-bedder in Newton Abbot, Devon. It’s laced with 1920s touches from the panelled oak-floored hall with its faux fireplace to the bow windows and hand-forged door handles, although some of the decor and fittings need to be coaxed into the 21st century. The £424,995 price gets you four receptions, two kitchens and three bathrooms.
Richard Copus Estates, 01626 335344 Photograph: Richard Copus Estates/Richard Copus Estates