Trading up, trading down – in pictures

Trading up: Anglesey. This six-bed stone house in Llanddeusant, near Holyhead, was built to accommodate the miller who tended the neighbouring windmill, the only working specimen in Wales. Its lawned gardens merge into rolling farmland and sandy beaches are close by. On the market for £350,000, there are fireplaces in both receptions and the oak-fitted, granite-trimmed kitchen/breakfast room. That two of the bedrooms are reached by a separate spiral staircase is an inconvenience or an opportunity depending on whether you cherish the intimacy of family life or would prefer to hive the teenagers/grandparent/lodger off into a separate annexe, for the house could be divided, although a Grade II-listing might interfere with your plans.
Jackson-Stops & Staff Photograph: Jackson-Stops & Staff

Trading up: West Yorkshire. This is what the Victorians would have called a gentleman’s residence – a capacious, elegant solidity in the village of Baildon. Although Bradford has joined itself to the village fringes, there is countryside on the doorstep and a well-heeled village centre with train services to Leeds and Bradford. Swirly carpets may not delight fashion followers, but the older period features are timeless – ornate fireplaces, a walk-in silver safe and butlers pantry, high ceilings and stone mullioned windows. Modernity has added a whirlpool bath in the master suite and a fitted dressing room. Cost: £499,950.
Dacres, 01244 328361 Photograph: Dacres

Trading down: Herefordshire. A £210,000 two-bed cottage in Leintwardine, it’s as fetching inside as it is out. A wood-burning stove warms the sitting room, which overlooks a row of similarly good-looking cottages. The rustic-style kitchen is large enough for a family meal, with a pantry off it, and both bedrooms are doubles – one of them fairly large. The bathroom is a trek through the kitchen, but a shower room upstairs will spare you a morning commute. The 70ft garden has been landscaped and floriferously planted.
Nock Deighton, 01584 875555 Photograph: Nock Deighton

Trading down: Devon. Help stop the onward march of holiday bolt-holes across the West Country by making this two-bed sliver of Kingsbridge in Dartmouth your permanent home. It’s snug with exposed stonework, part-panelled walls, beams and sanded floors, and there are fireplaces in the two receptions and one of the bedrooms. The glamour of the roll-top bath will make up for the fact the bathroom opens off the sitting room. French doors, meanwhile, open on to a garden with views over the town. Parking is the downside: you have to fight for a slot over the road or fork out for a permit for a nearby car park. But you could do away with a car altogether, for the shops and the estuary are a wander away.
Marchand Petit, 01548 857588 Photograph: Marchand Petit

Bargain of the week: Wiltshire. Rarely will you achieve a Home Counties farm for less than £1m, but this 83-acre smallholding in Braydon, near Swindon, is future living for anyone with access to £985,000. The fact it’s an unbeguiling council-owned farmhouse in need of renovation and on a busy main road has shrunk the price. But it’s been run as a stock farm until lately and comes with a full rang of outbuildings which could be put to other uses if the planners agree.
Smiths Gore, 01285 888000 Photograph: Smiths Gore