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Anna Tims

Trading up, trading down – in pictures

Trading up, Trading down: Trading up Lincolnshire
Trading up: Lincolnshire. You need seldom stray from the pretty village of Ewerby, near Sleaford. This £550,000 house and the old forge buildings it has absorbed can accommodate a desk-based career in its vaulted, shelf-lined library and fitted office. Domestic life is conducted in three reception rooms, a large designer kitchen and a snug and garden room. The second sitting room could serve as a fourth bedroom. There’s an acre of garden.
Chesterton Humberts, 01476 514514
Photograph: Chesterton Humberts
Trading up, Trading down: Trading up Cumbria
Trading up: Cumbria. Outwardly it’s a 400-year-old manor house bearing a coat of arms linked to James I; inwardly it’s a wreck bypassed by the 20th century. But if you budget for £200,000 of renovations on top of the £250,000 asking price, you could end up with an aristocratic three-acre estate. Dandra Garth sits in a remote valley in the Yorkshire Dales. The two-storey outbuildings could be absorbed into the main house so you could introduce a couple of bathrooms and a second reception without losing any of the four bedrooms. There are servants attics on top and the possibility of a coach house and barn by separate negotiation.
George F. White, 01677 425301
Photograph: George F. White
Trading up, Trading down: Trading down Devon
Trading down: Devon. It’s a beach hut (which you're not allowed to use as your main residence) but not as most of us would know it. Most don’t have a wet room, a kitchen living area with underfloor heating, electronic roof lights and glass doors on to a stone-walled sun terrace. Designated beachside parking places aren’t usual either, but then neither is the £200,000 price tag. But one characteristic this does share with its humbler relatives is an unimpeded view of beach and sea – Shaldon Quay – and a ladder will deliver you from the terrace to the sands. Closing offers by 25 June.
Bradleys, 01626 873757
Photograph: Bradleys
Trading up, Trading down: Trading down Bath
Trading down: Bath. This is the basement section of a grade I-listed Georgian townhouse above the city, just a short walk from the centre. A bathroom and a snug have been created out of two vaults, the bedroom overlooks a courtyard garden, and three original fireplaces survive. On the market for £345,000.
Knight Frank, 01225 325 999
Photograph: Knight Frank
Trading places 150611: Bargain of the week in Finsbury, London
Bargain of the week: London. With a little internal sprucing this three-double bed flat near Finsbury Park ought to fetch about £340,000. But it’s empty and the owners need to shed their mortgage, so it’s been reduced to £285,000 for a quick sale. If you don’t mind living on a busy main road, you can rejoice in more than 1,000 sq ft close to Harringay station, from where it is 15 minutes into the City. The management company is set to renovate the exterior of this Victorian conversion and the vendor is willing to pay any extra costs involved.
Greene & Co, 020 8348 7666
Photograph: Greene & Co
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