Trading up, trading down – in pictures

Trading Up: Suffolk. This is the cross wing of a 15th-century merchant’s house in Sudbury. Sadly, for £395,000 you must share the magnificence with two other households and the division leaves you with a mere courtyard as a garden, but your portion is four bedrooms, two receptions, an elongated kitchen breakfast room opening on to the patio and a quantity of attic and cellar space. Ancient carved timbers, unscarred by the building’s later career as two pubs, flaunt its antiquity.
John D Wood 01245 344222 Photograph: johndwood.co.uk

Trading Up: Wiltshire. Over the last two centuries this house in the village of Lockeridge has absorbed the two flanking neighbours to become one spectacular über-cottage with three reception rooms, a study and three bedrooms and a lavish complement of ceiling beams, inglenooks and exposed stone walls. The humble origins are visible in the size of the rooms, none of which are as large as the glorious exterior would lead you to expect. The front door opens into the sitting room and the tiny kitchen doubles as a passageway through to the rest of the ground floor rooms. But, at £595,000, the aesthetics inside and out compensate for physical inconveniences – all around you is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Knight Frank 01488 682726 Photograph: Knightfrank.co.uk

Trading Down: London NW1. A solitary small bedroom is serious shrinkage if you’re selling a decent house to fund the £329,000 asking price, but the point of this place is the setting in Gloucester Avenue. From your south-facing juliette balcony you can gaze across Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill is a few bijoux streets away. Your fragment of this Georgian terrace has beams and a period fireplace in the open-plan living area. Since the Georgians failed to allow for cars you have to buy a permit and take your chances. There’s potential to create a roof terrace if you’ve purchased the space from the freeholder and persuaded the local planners.
Faron Sutaria 020 7267 7074 Photograph: Faronsutaria.co.uk

Trading Down: West Sussex. Holidays come to your door here in Bognor Regis. Its glamour may have faded since its days as a royal frolicking ground, but this elegant £299,950 Victorian villa, a mile from the centre, is testament to what used to be. The ground-floor flat which gets to keep the verandah and front garden for itself is separated from the beach by a wide walled lawn and the coast road and there are unimpeded sea views from the sitting room bay and the master bedroom. All the rooms, bar a thin wiggle of a second bedroom, are stately in size and decor with high ceilings and two period fireplaces. The car can live safely on a private road.
Jackson-Stops & Staff 01243 786316 Photograph: Jackson-stops.co.uk

Dream Home: Warwickshire. This is a dream that needs a little grooming – the decor and fittings are dated – but a few thousand pounds of renovations would accomplish most people’s idea of rustic bliss. It sits opposite the green in the village of Lower Brailes with a thatched carport. That graceful bow window belongs to the vaulted sitting room from where french doors lead on to the garden where a formal parterre is in want only of a pair of clippers. Both receptions have fireplaces, and a dressing room and bathroom lead off the master bedroom. A sloping setting makes this a higgledy-piggeldy place selling for £335,000. The sitting room is an upstairs mezzanine and the long sliver of kitchen and the third bedroom are off the dining room.
Strutt & Parker.com 01295 273592 Photograph: struttandparker.com