Trading up, trading down

Trading up: Gloucestershire. Here's an opportunity to buy six bedrooms on the outskirts of the famously exquisite Cotswold village of Bourton-on-the-Water for £595,000. It has overcome its 1970s origins with a stylishly updated interior: two conservatories, a stone fireplace in the sitting room and bespoke slate floor kitchen. The garden is large and the country views glorious. If your expansion is large scale you could sleep extras in the study.
Tayler & Fletcher, 01451 820 913
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Trading up: South London. This £595,000 home is tucked safely in a conservation area in Camberwell, a short distance from London’s South Bank and the West End. The breakfast table will fit sunnily into the bay window in the Shaker-style kitchen, there is another bay in the dining room, and original fireplaces in both receptions and two of the three double bedrooms. The floors are glossy wood and there is a walled courtyard garden at the back.
Wooster & Stock, 020 7708 6700
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Trading down: Devon. This mansion used to house the vicar of Combe St Nicholas near Chard. Now it has been divided into apartments and this elegant £295,000 segment retains the original cornicing, panelling and shuttered windows. A handcrafted kitchen opens into a dining area, the sitting room swells grandly into a triple bay, and there are two bedrooms, one with a window seat overlooking the communal gardens.
Jackson-Stops & Staff, 01823 325 144
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Trading down: Hertfordshire. Here is a dainty slice of the south-east in the village of Litlington for £185,000. The chief glee is the third top-floor bedroom with a huge dormer overlooking the church and fields, with slanting, beamed walls. Beyond the courtyard garden is your own packed orchard. You can fit a couple of cars on to the gravelled driveway. It is a 17-mile commute to Cambridge and three to mainline rail services to London at Royston.
Carter Jonas, 01223 368 771
Photograph: Carter Jonas

Dream Home: Devon. Lustleigh’s collection of thatched stone cottages makes it one of the county’s prettiest villages. This £450,000 beauty has spent most of the past 400 years as a hay loft and was converted into a two-bed cottage 35 years ago. Edible grapes wreathe on two vines round the conservatory, the large sitting room is warmed by a stone hearth, a bright dining room opens off the kitchen and utility room, and there is a walled garden backing on to Dartmoor national park.
Strutt & Parker 01392 215 631
Photograph: Strutt & Parker