Snooping around – in pictures

In town: London. Residents of this hospital conversion, the Royal Herbert Pavilions in SE18, share tennis courts, gardens, swimming pool, sauna and gym. For £279,000 you also get a 29ft reception room and two bedrooms with their own bathrooms. The decor, however, is a little dated.
Roy Brooks
Photograph: Roy Brooks

In the country: Kent. The garden backs on to farmland, yet cosmopolitan, continental chic approaches – the Eurostar is nearby this two-bedder in Kingsnorth, Ashford. It has beams and an inglenook, both bedrooms are doubles, and there’s also a garage. It’s a shame the village straggles along a busy main road. Cost: £295,000.
Chesterton Humberts
Photograph: Chesterton Humberts

Wreck of the week: County Durham. This cottage and outbuildings in South Hetton are ruinous. For £350,000 you get a three-bed farmhouse, a three-bed cottage, brick outbuildings and 12 acres, though there’s no electricity and only coal fires. If you take it on, however, you could establish a smallholding or equestrian centre. But beware: the vendors get 50% of the uplift value if you achieve permission for more than two homes on the site.
H&H
Photograph: H&H

New build: Kent. The old has been used as inspiration for the Dene Terrace development of new homes in Chislehurst – specifically Georgian townhouses. The grand looking houses (voted the UK’s best, no less, by What House magazine) are set over five floors, starting with a kitchen and dining room at garden level, and culminating in an en suite master bedroom complete with its own terrace on top. Four more bedrooms are tucked into the next two floors – one of which, slightly weirdly, is the level at which you enter the property. You’ll need to stump up £1.25m for one of these, but that does include underground parking and ample mod cons.
Savills, 01732 789 700
Photograph: Savills