Trading up, trading down – in pictures

Trading up: Nottingham. There’s more space behind these old walls than you’d imagine. A 20ft dining kitchen and pantry leaves you with two spare reception rooms and a cellar, there’s an en suite off the master bedroom, and a garage at the end of the garden. Spatial compromises will have to be made, however, in the two remaining bedrooms, which are in the eaves. The cottage is in a conservation area in the village of Calverton, and is well-groomed and garnished with beams, an ornate fireplace and a roll-top bath. Yours for £325,000.
Chesterton Humberts Photograph: Chesterton Humberts

Trading up: Devon. All four bedrooms in this £335,000 18th-century Devonshire semi are doubles, and share two chic bathrooms. There’s also a slate-floored sun room to supplement the three receptions. The house in the village of Alvington, near Kingsbridge, has been elegantly renovated with neutral colours, but its ancient origins live on in the form of a huge stone inglenook, beams and alcoves. Stone steps lead from the master bedroom to the garden from where there are views over farmland.
Marchand Petit Photograph: Marchand Petit

Trading down: London. Forgotten for four decades, the river Wandle has been re-exposed as part of the regeneration of Croydon in south London, and many of the flats in this New South Quarter development will have water views from their balconies and green vistas across Wandle Park. A nearby tram line shoots you into the town centre, from where it is a 15-minute ride into central London. The blocks of studio, one-, two- and three-bed flats are built around two central crescents with the river and bordering greenery running through it. One bedders start at £173,000.
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Trading down: Northumberland. You’ll achieve a most graceful shrinkage in this upper floor Regency flat on the old town walls in Berwick-on-Tweed. The shuttered walls look out over this Elizabethan fortification and the internal features reflect its antique vintage: a cast iron cooking range in the kitchen, an inglenook, a freestanding cast-iron bath tub and original fireplaces in two of the three double bedrooms. The flat has its own private access from the street and a garden shared with the neighbour.
Smiths Gore Photograph: Smiths Gore

Bargain of the week: Bradford. When it was built in 1638 this would have stood alone in the Yorkshire wilderness. Now the tentacles of Bradford have ensnared it and, although pockets of green still buffer it, it’s close to a large industrial estate. Hence the fact you can acquire five double bedrooms, three receptions and a driveway sweeping aristocratically through capacious gardens for offers in excess of £265,000. You may wish to modernise the decor and there’s the potential to do something inventive with the garage block.
Hunters Photograph: Hunters