Trading up, trading down – in pictures

Trading up: south London. The prices on the luxurious four- and five-bed houses in St Anne’s Mews may make you wince, ranging as they do from £1.7m to £2.25m, but you can always recoup some of that outlay by renting your home out to tennis players and their teams over Wimbledon fortnight. The development is well positioned near Wimbledon common and within easy walking distance of the chee-chee shops of the village, a favourite hangout for the likes of Maria Sharapova. All the homes boast underfloor heating throughout, contemporary kitchens with stone worktops, and off-street parking or garaging.
Shanly Homes, 01372 225007
Photograph: Shanly Homes

Trading up: Norfolk. Some of the contemporary decoration in Oak Villa in Tatterford might jar a bit, particularly given the classic Victorian exterior. But this can always be changed, and you are getting a lot of house for £795,000. It has space in bucketloads, offering seven generous bedrooms and three receptions over three floors, set in 1.5 acres. Tatterford is a village close to Fakenham, voted seventh best place to live in Britain by Country magazine.
Sowerbys, 01328 730340
Photograph: Sowerbys

Trading up: Staffordshire. The conversion of this 18th-century corn mill in Sheen, near Buxton, has produced a substantial family home retaining many of the mill’s original features. On the ground floor the kitchen and stone-flagged dining room nestle cheek by jowel with the water wheel. The first floor includes a large living area, study, master bedroom with ensuite and the old grinding stones, while the second contains another three bedrooms and a studio-cum-bedroom. Outside the large, lawned garden includes the former mill race and leads down to the river Manifold. Cost: £650,000.
Bridgfords, 01298 359175
Photograph: Bridgfords

Trading down: West Yorkshire. Armley might not be the trendiest part of Leeds, but this two-bed back-to-back terrace is nicely thought out with wooden floors and an exposed fireplace and stove in the lounge, a fitted kitchen and a lovely, light top-floor bedroom. Cost: £74,995.
Manning Stainton, 0113 887 6991
Photograph: Manning Stainton

Trading down: Bristol. This terraced house needs a hefty amount of work doing to it, and is up for auction on 8 February – so you need to get your skates on if you want it to have a highly advisable survey beforehand. But who could resist an untampered with two-bedder with stone frontage and bathroom that still has the original fireplace? Offers in the region of £80,000 will be considered.
Besley Hill, 0117 244 0389
Photograph: Besley Hill

Trading down: Cumbria. It’s a surprise the estate agent hasn’t mentioned ‘good communications’ in the advert for this detached brick building near Dalston. On the market with a guide price of £45,000, this is a former telephone relay station. Don’t get hung up on the decor – there is planning permission for conversion into an eco holiday home – but holidaymakers wishing to exchange their normal life for something a bit more peaceful will be allowed to spend just 21 nights a year in it. The agent says there has been ‘a peppering of interest mainly for those looking for a bolt hole close to the northern Lake District’. You will have to engage a builder – currently there are no facilities in the building – but an electricity supply is close by.
H&H King, 01228 810 799
Photograph: H&H King