Snooping around – in pictures

Wreck of the week: Somerset. There’s a £100,000 guide price (and an auction on 21 May) for this pair of 16th-century cottages with planning permission to become one four-bed house. Years of dereliction mean this is a gut-and-start-again job, but you’ll be left with a pretty, spacious house in 3.33 acres on the edge of Taunton. Beware: the M5 is a few yards from the house.
Chesterton Humberts Photograph: Chesterton Humberts

In town: Devon. Bridgetown near Totnes is the setting for this £295,000 three-bed house. The maple-wood floor in the large living room is a legacy of its past as a hotel ballroom, and it’s a five-star view from tall windows over the river, although not from the bedrooms. Residents share the gardens.
Marchand Petit Photograph: Marchand Petit

In the country: West Yorkshire. This mill house overlooks a river scene painted by Turner in Addingham, near Ikley, and has spectacular hill views. Yours for £375,000, it’s been luxuriously restored with glamorous bathrooms and oak floors. It’s just a shame that for the price, there are only three bedrooms.
Hunters Photograph: Hunters

Dream home: East Sussex. It may only have three bedrooms, although one can be redivided into two, but the outdoor swimming pool is testament to the £500,000 price tag. The house, in Northiam, near Rye, is more youthful than it wants you to realise. Built a century ago, the thatch was added in the 1970s. The balcony from the master bedroom overlooks cottage gardens and open countryside, and there’s a studio above the garage. Brace yourself for an odd layout: the front door opens on to the first floor where the bedrooms are, while the living quarters are below with a galley kitchen off the dining room.
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