Snooping around: Newly renovated period homes

Property of the week: The Millfields, Plymouth. This city-centre monument was a water tower in an 18th-century naval hospital. The huge octagonal kitchen, with its black lacquered units, meets the double-height drawing room beneath a suspended staircase and ceiling timbers. The bedrooms have curved, rough-stone walls punctured by porthole windows, and mezzanine levels for the beds. There are city views from the balcony. Cost: £500,000.
Marchand Petit, 01752 675880 Photograph: Marchand Petit/Marchand Petit

Wreck of the week: Woolston, Southampton. This three-bedroom, four-reception, mid-Victorian villa, mostly in an original condition, is in a conservation area. The rear extension houses two receptions and either needs eliminating or replacing - as well as re-roofing, re-rendering and damp proofing. Budget for £50,000-£100,000 in addition to the £350,000 price tag. It’s large and handsome with gardens on two sides, and is close to the regenerated docks.
Morris Dibben, 023 8043 8744 Photograph: Morris Dibben/Morris Dibben

Take three: newly renovated period homes. The Georgians provided the window shutters, seven fireplaces and coach house for this six-bedder near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland. You also get five receptions, a kitchen/breakfast room, a utility room, cloakroom, three bath/shower rooms and a garage. The restoration hasn’t reached the gardens, however, which need landscaping. Yours for £650,000.
George F White, 01665 603581 Photograph: George F White/George F White

Take three: newly renovated period homes. No resident has yet trod the new cream carpets or slammed the newly varnished pine doors of this £395,000 three-bedder near Bideford, Devon. Outside is stone and cob quaintness; inside it’s all virginal glamour in the two receptions, kitchen, utility room and bathroom. It also boasts new central heating, double-glazing and Bosch appliances. Beware the undersized third bedroom.
Jackson-Stops & Staff, 01271 377833 Photograph: Jackson-Stops & Staff/Jackson-Stops & Staff

Take three: newly renovated period homes. Technology has whisked this 150-year-old building near Rye, Kent, light years away from its schoolhouse days. Remote controls operate preset mood lighting and an integrated Bang & Olufsen hi-fi system, which includes a 400-disc DVD carousel, Sky HD and Xbox. More traditionally you also get a reception, kitchen, two bedrooms and a bathroom. And the A268 running past your front door. Cost: £295,000.
Freeman Forman, 01580 755320 Photograph: Freeman Forman/Freeman Forman