Snooping around: Rural, urban and renovation

In town: Suffolk. Inside this two-bed Georgian house in Saxmundham, near Aldeburgh, you’ll enjoy archways and cornicing, fireplaces, wooden floors and alcoves with fitted library shelving. It’s a shame that a shallow front plot is the only garden. Yours for £265,000.
Bedfords, 01728 454505 Photograph: Bedfords

In the country: Shropshire. This is a large, three-bed cottage in an area of outstanding natural beauty near Clee St Margaret, Ludlow. Yours for £385,000, renovations have bequeathed it a stylish roominess. For an extra £30,000 you can snap up the paddocks and outbuildings. It’s a few miles to the nearest provisions.
Strutt & Parker, 01584 873711
Photograph: Strutt & Parker

Wreck of the week: Devon. Mouldy walls, original coloured bathroom suite, scantily equipped kitchen: £80,000-£100,000 should resurrect this three-bed bungalow in Harbertonford, near Totnes. There’s plenty of space for expansion in the large garden, but no matter what you spend it will remain an ugly duckling in a lovely village. Cost: £249,500.
Marchand Petit, 01803 847979 Photograph: Marchand Petit

Dream home: Cornwall. The sensation on the curving white roof terrace is like being on a ship’s deck. Laid out before you is the English Channel with St Michael’s Mount dramatically below. The £750,000 five-bed house was built in 2004 at Wheal an Wens in the Cornish village of Marazion in tribute to art deco. A beech staircase winds up a semi-circular turret at the back to the three reception rooms and the roof space; many of the principal rooms have wrap-around bay windows to absorb the vista; and the lower ground floor could be used as a separate one-bed apartment.
Waterfront and Country Homes, 01872 273474 Photograph: Waterfront and Country Homes