Snooping around – in pictures

In town: Liverpool. This is tucked down a no-through lane of Georgian houses near Sefton Park and is yours for £369,950. Its lavish space, including six bedrooms, is well garnished with period graces. It’s just a shame the modest garden is all to the front.
Move Residential
Photograph: Move Residential

In the country: Essex. Terling, near Chelmsford, is just 3.5 miles from a commuter line into London. Recent renovations to this four-bedder have polished up its period graces and there’s permission for a conservatory. The fourth bedroom is downstairs.
John D Wood
Photograph: John D Wood

Wreck of the week: Norfolk. This is an antiques shop and cottage with permission to convert into a three- or four-bed house. The shop is in good order but the cottage is derelict – put aside at least £100,000 to patch it up and fit it out. It’s in the pretty Broads riverside village of Coltishall, but sits hard by a main road. Yours for £175,000.
Jackson-Stops & Staff
Photograph: Jackson-Stops & Staff

Dream home: Devon. Once a mill, the workings of which are displayed behind a screen, this 17th-century building is now a lavish six-bed home with potential for an annexe in its 3.75 acres. The centuries peel back inside where ceiling beams, plank and muntin screens and inglenook fireplaces frame the rooms, but the millennium has added modern comforts such as a bespoke kitchen and three bathrooms, two with roll top, claw foot baths. It’s in the village of Lurley near Tiverton, and its grounds, which include a woodland plantation, are bordered by a stream. Cost: £685,000.
Winkworth, 01392 422 320
Photograph: Winkworth