Trading places: Open house weekend

Monkton Combe, near Bath, Somerset. Fancy a home you can take with you if the neighbours get annoying? This widebeam narrowboat has mooring with a car park space costing £120 a month, but the contract is on a monthly basis so can be cancelled at short notice. The boat has two bedrooms, a three-piece bathroom suite, a kitchen and a living area, with walls and ceiling made from American cherry wood. The engine is an Isuzu 55Hp with only 800 hours of running. Yours for £88,000.
Palmer Snell, 0843 318 1754
Photograph: Palmer Snell

Bangor, Gwynedd. This chapel was built around 1860 and converted in 1980 to make the most of its fabulous Gothic features. The main house has five bedrooms and a massive kitchen, but for £650,000 you also get a two-bed annex with its own lounge, kitchen and bathroom, which could be used for holiday letting or as a granny flat.
Beresford Adams, 0843 3178407
Photograph: Beresford Adams

Woolavington, Somerset. This former village school has been sensitively converted to include many of the original Victorian features: the dining room in particular may leave you feeling like you are eating at the headmaster’s table. The five-bed property also has lovely walled gardens to the front and rear, and a working school bell pull. Offers of £585,000 will be considered.
Palmer Snell, 0843 318 1760
Photograph: Palmer Snell

Hordle, Hampshire. This grade II-listed Cob cottage, built in the early-18th century, comes with a surprise in the back garden: a very modern heated swimming pool with screening to keep off chilly breezes. Upstairs it has three double bedrooms, while downstairs there is a guest suite including kitchenette and shower room which has definite B&B potential. Cost: £489,950.
Austin & Wyatt, 01425 615204
Photograph: Austin & Wyatt

Attleborough, Norfolk. This £600,000 four-bed period farmhouse comes with plenty of extras that will appeal to horsey, outdoors people: stables, paddocks, a barn with detailed planning permission, and a woodland area with a pond stocked with carp, tench, roach and rudd, all set in four-and-a-half acres. Inside should appeal to aspiring country types: cast iron woodburners, a Redfyre stove and a plethora of beams.
Abbotts, 01603 616898
Photograph: Abbotts

Cottingham, Leicestershire. Whoever buys this intriguing three-bed mill conversion will end up fighting for the circular master bedroom – it has four windows with fabulous views over the surrounding countryside. The house also enjoys a big garden with fields beyond. The owners are looking for offers in excess of £335,000.
Spencers, 01858 462238
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Martham, Norfolk. The Jasmines, believed to have been built in the 1700s, has been extended and updated over the years to include five bedrooms and four receptions. It also comes with a detached and thatched barn with planning potential. Martham is a lively and traditional broadland village, so this home has huge potential for anyone wanting to set up a B&B. No chain. On the market for £575,000.
Abbotts, 01603 616 898
Photograph: Abbotts

Trebarwith, Cornwall. Located about a mile from the beautiful beach of Trebarwith Strand, Lavender Cottage was formerly a row of choirmans cottages. It has been converted to provide four double bedrooms, two of which have en suite wet rooms, while the master bedroom has an en suite bathroom with roll top bath. It is quite secluded, accessed only off a private lane and backing on to open fields. Yours for £459,000.
Miller Countrywide, 01208 812117
Photograph: Miller Countrywide

Ponteland, Northumberland. This unusual mixture of Gothic, Roman and Georgian external features was completed in February last year, and the inside is pure noughties. Situated on the Darras Hall Estate near Newcastle it has five bedrooms, all en suite, and five generously proportioned receptions – one of which showcases a 50in wall-fitted plasma screen with surround sound. Outside is a heated swimming pool. It is very big and locked away behind electronic gates. Cost: £2.57m.
Bairstow Eves, 01661 860300
Photograph: Bairstow Eves