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Anna Tims

Trading up, trading down

Humberts
Trading up: Lincolnshire. Got a growing family? Obviously it is time for a manor house. And here it is, presiding over 2.6 acres of paddock in the village of Withern. Your circumstances will enhance your appeal to friends and family, so it's as well the detached barn has permission to be a holiday home. You should be able to squeeze overspill among the three huge receptions and five double bedrooms in the main house. Equine guests have separate stables. Cost: £499,950.
Humberts, 01522 546444
Photograph: Humberts
Quick & Clarke
Trading up: Yorkshire. This £375,000, regally-sized residence backs on to a huge park in the middle of Hornsea. Not that you need other people's green space when you have gardens like these. The rooms are equally huge, several of them swelled by bay windows, and lavishly panelled. Six beds and three receptions, most with fireplaces and oak strip flooring, should house you and any extras. It is a pretty walk into town and five minutes to the beach.
Quick & Clarke, 01964 537123
Photograph: Quick & Clarke/Quick & Clarke
Humberts
Trading down: Nottinghamshire. You can contract prettily into this former post office in the village of Besthorpe. The large sitting room is intensively beamed with exposed stone walls and an inglenook fireplace, the kitchen is bespoke glamour with slate floors, the oak-floored dining room is vaulted, and there is room for a study on the landing outside the two bedrooms. A garage is attached. Yours for £189,950.
Humberts, 01636 701401
Photograph: Humberts/Humberts
Fenn Wright
Trading down: Essex. Five homes have been hewn out of this medieval building in the centre of Colchester. This £215,000 three-bed segment, cunningly concealed from the main drag, is the briefest shamble from the shops and station, yet you could tan in tranquil privacy in the walled garden. A 33ft oak-floored, open-plan living and kitchen area opens on to this. The large master bedroom has an en suite and a bay window.
Fenn Wright, 01206 763388
Photograph: Fenn Wright/Fenn Wright
Townends
Bargain of the week: Windsor. This labels itself the cheapest three-bed semi in Old Windsor, having been reduced by £20,000 to £279,950 for a quick sale. Although this Saxon settlement has been swamped by the 20th century, there are still rustic moments – the Thames towpath will lead you two miles to the main town of Windsor, while more green and leafy pleasures are a mile away from this cul de sac at Windsor Great Park. There are two receptions and two of the bedrooms are doubles.
Townends, 01784 434 304
Photograph: Townends/Townends
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