Snooping around – in pictures

In town: Devon. It’s a petite retreat – two bedrooms and a patio – in the centre of Modbury just four miles from the sea. It’s a shame you have to leave the car in a car park and mount steep steps to the front door. Cost: £185,000.
Marchand Petit
Photograph: Marchand Petit

In the country: Suffolk. Stradishall is the setting, £395,000 is the price. And for that you get three reception rooms, a breakfast/kitchen, a garden room and three double bedrooms, many of which enjoy beams and inglenooks. There’s also a half-acre of garden. Beware the eaves bedrooms with restricted head height along the sides.
Jackson, Stops & Staff
Photograph: Jackson, Stops & Staff

Wreck of the week: Wiltshire. Kington Langley, near Chippenham, is the location of this two-bed end-of-terrace. It is completely unmodernised and you’ll need in excess of £80,000 to gut and refit it, but it has a huge garden and is in a pretty village near good schools. But there are drawbacks: it’s hindered by a Grade II-listing and is small for the £295,000 asking price.
Chesterton Humberts
Photograph: Chesterton Humberts

Dream home: West Sussex. Sprawling is definitely the word for this sizeable barn conversion, which was turned into a house about 20 years ago and extended in 2001. Flint Barn is less than a mile from Goodwood in the newly designated South Downs national park. Inside, the four-bed property is lavishly beamed and offers lots of living space – from a family room at one end of the L-shaped conversion to sizeable rooms for family or visitors at the other end, including an en suite ‘principal bedroom’. Outside you can luxuriate in your 1.02 acres of landscaped gardens or stroll off over the Downs. On the market for £1,395,000.
Chesterton Humberts, 01243 531010 Photograph: Chesterton Humberts