Snooping around – in pictures

In town: Worcester. For £460,000 you get Georgian elegance just steps away from the cathedral and shopping centre. It has its own garage and inside there are three receptions and four double bedrooms. It’s a shame a pokey yard stands in for a garden.
Knight Frank, 01905 723438 Photograph: Knight Frank

In the country: Renfrewshire. The surprise is the size: four bedrooms, three receptions and a conservatory, all stylishly renovated. It overlooks the marina at Inverkip, near Greenock, with gardens rising to woodland. It’s just a shame there’s no off-street parking. Yours for £325,000.
Strutt & Parker, 0141 225 3888 Photograph: Strutt & Parker

Wreck of the week: Kent. This is a derelict oast and cottage on a farmstead in Burham, near Maidstone. About £300,000 is probably the least you’ll get away with to repair and convert it, as well as the £275,000 asking price. Planners, meanwhile, envisage a 3,400 sq ft house with five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a decent chunk of land and rustic views. Beware that a busy road passes fairly close behind.
Cluttons, 01622 607406 Photograph: Cluttons

Bargain of the week: London. A quirky lay-out reduces the asking price from the £600,000 that is usual for 1,200 sq ft in Newington Green, N5, to £465,000. The place was hewn out of a commercial premises so the curiously tapering kitchen, reception and one of the bedrooms are on the ground floor, with the rest plus the garden down below. But it’s smart, bright and on good bus routes into the city.
Cluttons, 020 7354 6666 Photograph: Cluttons

Dream home: Hertfordshire. If you dream of life in a country pile, this two-bed apartment is one way of making it happen. It is part of the coach house of the Balls Park estate near Hertford, believed to have inspired some of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and a backdrop for TV shows including Foyle's War and Bleak House. At £400,000 it is pricey for a flat, but inside modern kitchen appliances, en suite bathrooms and 100% wool carpets sits alongside an original fireplace and restored sash windows, while outside are private gardens and 63 acres of historic parkland.
City & Country Group, 01992 551777
Photograph: City & Country Group