Trading up, trading down – in pictures

Trading up: Cornwall. The Rame Peninsula is a fist of land across the creek from Plymouth, and its secluded, scenic glories have earned it area of outstanding natural beauty status. This four-bed Georgian house in the village of Millbrook has been groomed sufficiently to please fashionable tastes, but clings to its original servants’ bell pulls, stained glass, window shutters and fireplaces. From the orangery and stately knot garden are views across the neighbouring lake. There’s potential to build in the grounds on a plot worth about £100,000. The downside is that the strip of garden to the rear is overlooked by a couple of near-neighbours. Yours for £499,999.
Marchand Petit, 01752 815222
Photograph: Marchand Petit

Trading up: Norfolk. You can upsize remoter relatives along with you since this £450,000 five-bed house in Docking comes with an attached one-bed cottage and a row of outbuildings with conversion potential. There are fireplaces in the two receptions and the breakfast kitchen, exposed floorboards, two claw-foot baths and large, intricately landscaped gardens.
John D Wood, 01328 738111
Photograph: John D Wood

Trading down: London. The downside is that this two-bed London flat is over an internet cafe; the upside is that it used to be a minicab office. Inside, though, you can overlook the commercial nethers, for this perch in the glamorous SW6 postcode of Fulham is elegantly sized and presented. It’s a walk away from the tube network at Parsons Green and handy for the shops and bars of what estate agents like to call Munster Village. Cost: £345,000.
Douglas & Gordon, 020 7731 4391
Photograph: Douglas & Gordon

Trading down: Essex. Although mainline services into London depart 0.3 miles away, this £219,995 cottage near the centre of Billericay provides a rustic homecoming. There’s a bressummer beam over the lage brick fireplace and exposed timbers striping the ceilings. But is only for the petite, since the ceilings of the two bedrooms are only 6ft high. The giveaway is the distinctly urban-sized courtyard garden, and that parking space you can see is owned by a neighbour – your transport will have to be left in a nearby side street.
John D Wood, 01245 344222
Photograph: John D Wood

Dream home: Anglesey. Long term you’d have to be a particular sort of fantasist to cope with this idyll. It was built two centuries ago as a fog warning station to alert vessels, first by cannon fire and later by a row of still-existing horns, to the landmass. Donkeys conveyed supplies over Holyhead mountain until the 1950s, but now an unmade track will accommodate 4x4s as far as the renovated three-bed house. The glory, of course, is the views – unstinting marine panoramas on three sides – and the isolation. In the half acre of grounds are two stone outbuildings that could be converted. On the market for £595,000.
Jackson Stops & Staff, 01244 328361
Photograph: Jackson Stops & Staff