Snooping around: Wheelchair-friendly homes

Property of the week: London W11. Hugh Grant found love here when Julia Roberts walked into the travel bookshop below this two-bed flat in Notting Hill. Like Grant’s onscreen home, this has a blue front door on to the street. A skylight in the wooden-floored kitchen/breakfast room looks down into the shop, giving you advance warning should Julia return. There is an open-plan living room and two south-facing roof terraces. Cost: £899,950.
Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, 020 7724 1222 Photograph: Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward/Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward

Wreck of the week: Oswestry, Powys. This three-bedroom farmhouse sits in 1.75 acres and is derelict. It’s been empty for years and needs a total refit. You should be able to rescue the interior and expand into the attached barn (subject to planning) for £150,000, on top of the £240,000 asking price. Inside, an original kitchen, ceiling beams and quarry-tiled floors survive, with sweeping country views outside. Tarted up it could fetch £550,000.
James & Co, 01691 657077 Photograph: James & Co/James & Co

Take three: wheelchair-friendly homes. This two-bedder in Otley, West Yorkshire, has a miniature lift that can carry an occupied wheelchair from the sitting room to the main bedroom. The toilet is in a wet room, while an elegantly flagstoned kitchen has been designed with plenty of floor space and an eye-level oven. You also get a reception and a utility lobby, while outside there’s a pretty, easy-maintenance garden. Yours for £120,000.
Dale Eddison, 01943 465465 Photograph: Dale Eddison/Dale Eddison

Take three: wheelchair-friendly homes. Mulbarton near Norwich is the location of this one-level four-bedder. For £249,750 you also get a reception, a kitchen, a wet room and a garage. Patio doors open from the triple-aspect living room on to the garden, there’s room for three cars on the driveway, and level access into the house and garden. But the highly textured ceilings won’t please trendy tastes.
Warners, 01953 604431 Photograph: Warners/Warners

Take three: wheelchair-friendly homes. This chic, open-plan house in Beeston, Nottingham, could be yours for £375,000. It is wooden-floored, has four bedrooms, two receptions, a kitchen, a conservatory and three bath/shower rooms. Two of the bathrooms have a roll-in shower and the kitchen surfaces are low-level. There’s also a garage, but it’s so narrow that wheelchair users can’t alight from a car inside it.
Robert Ellis, 0115 922 0888 Photograph: Robert Ellis/Robert Ellis