Snooping around – in pictures

In town: Bath. Set just off New King Street, this is a £350,000 three-bed duplex in a Georgian building. The bedrooms are all on the lower ground floor, which may be off-putting, and there’s no garden. But it is set in a mews courtyard with parking.
Hamptons
Photograph: Hamptons

In the country: Cornwall. This is in 0.25 acres of valley gardens with a spring running through it in Nambol, near St Keverne. Yours for £550,000, the enormous living room is softened by beams and an inglenook. If you want a fourth bedroom you must sacrifice the second reception and sleep off the kitchen/breakfast room.
Jackson Stops and Staff
Photograph: Jackson Stops and Staff

Wreck of the week: Kent. A six-bed detached 1930s house near Dover for £300,000? That's because it needs new electrics, windows and heating, which will cost about £75,000. But it also comes with planning permission for a detached house alongside it, although it’s location on a private road means you have to share the cost of upkeep.
Tersons
Photograph: Tersons

Dream home: Devon. Some time in the 1500s Alice and John Bonville were licensed to found a perpetual chantry in the village of Combe Raleigh, near Honiton. A priest was installed and required to sing masses for the souls of the founders. Here it still stands, protected by a Grade I-listing and a £765,000 price tag which will keep all but the well-heeled minority at bay. The rest of us can only dream of the hall with its ornate, painted beams and stone hearth, ancient stair turret, original plank and muntin screen, and the remains of a garderobe in one of the five bedrooms. There’s a stream and thatched summer house in the 0.83 acre gardens. The Jurassic Coast is close by.
Chesterton Humberts, 01404 42456
Photograph: Chesterton Humberts