Trading up, trading down – in pictures

Trading up: Cumbria. If you’re happy to adapt the box room you get five bedrooms in this 18th-century farmhouse in the village of Bolton for £399,995. But your horizons stretch further than that, for the planners have agreed the attached barn can become a three-bed house, and there’s a plot alongside with the necessary permissions for another three-bed terrace. Good local roads whizz you around the area’s wild glories.
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Photograph: Smiths Gore

Trading up: Suffolk. Since Willoughby Rd is not in the most coveted area of Ipswich, £245,000 goes a long way. The entirety of this elegant Victorian house becomes yours, containing five bedrooms, three receptions and a multitude of period features. The downside is that the enormity of space could do with general updating. But there’s off-street parking for two cars, a garden, and it’s close to the station.
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Photograph: Fenn Wright

Trading down: London. Once a local pub, the building has been converted into flats and the last one-bedder remains for £279,950, including fitted kitchen appliances. Parking is a free-for-all on the street with the other residents, and there’s no outside space to perch a deckchair – but it’s handily sited half-a-mile from Peckham Rye and East Dulwich railway stations.
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Photograph: KFH

Trading down: Hampshire. If you’ll forgive its situation beside a main road into Basingstoke, half-a-mile from the village of Oakley, you’ll find bliss on a budget. It’s beamed, thatched and surrounded by fields with a driveway and a 250ft garden stretching on both sides. The £225,000 price tag reflects the fact this two-bedder needs about £50,000 spent on updating it.
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Photograph: Smiths Gore

Dream home: Northumberland. The high Elizabethan walls girdling Berwick-upon-Tweed have shielded the living quarters of this Georgian riverside house from the flooding, although you’d want to be careful what you kept in the cellar, which occasionally becomes aquatic. It was built as two mirror houses and each half is still self-contained, but unless you have a tenant/teenager/grandparent you’ll want to erase the second kitchen and reconfigure it as a stately six-bed, three-reception mansion with views of the estuary, various store rooms off the Italiante courtyard and a garage. The dream ends at the garden door, however, for this courtyard – large and handsome as it is – is all you get by way of a garden. Yours for £450,000.
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Photograph: Smiths Gore