13 stunning character properties for sale at under £400,000
A breathtaking Scottish coastal home and several delightful cottages feature in our latest round-up of genuinely affordable country houses with character.
A breathtaking Scottish coastal home and several delightful cottages feature in our latest round-up of genuinely affordable country houses with character.
With its attractive period features and impeccable styling, this chocolate box home has already caught plenty of media attention. It’s set in rolling Wiltshire countryside yet still commutable from London.
Our pick of the best thatched cottages and houses for sale today across England.
The term ‘chocolate box cottage’ is much overused, often in a context involving neither chocolate nor boxes. Not this time, though: Weavers was one of 12 ‘official’ chocolate box properties featured on the Cadbury’s chocolate boxes in the late 1800s, and has therefore rightly earned its title.
A total renovation needn’t mean that a property loses its heart and soul, as The Old Hall, in Worcestershire, demonstrates. James Fisher takes a look.
Two-up two-down has never looked sweeter than at Mundy’s Cottage, in the sought-after village of Stour Provost.
A superb quality refurbishment has turned Willowbrook House into a stylish, modern home which still retains a huge amount of character.
Briar Cottage offers a taste of both worlds: city convenience with cottage charm.
Dormers is a fine Surrey home that ticks all sorts of boxes — tennis court, stables, swimming pool, commutable to London — at just £1.6m
A gorgeous house has come to the market close to popular Cotswolds spots such as Daylesford Farm Shop and Soho Farmhouse. Penny Churchill tells more.
It's not everyday that we come across a house quite as delightful as Little Cottage, but today is one of those lucky days.
Quirky, delightfully higgeldy-piggeldy and completely charming, this Grade ll-listed thatched cottage from the early 16th century is everything you could hope a cottage in Somerset to be.
More is certainly more in the case of exposed timbers at this cottage in Widdington, as Annunciata Elwes discovers.
'Elegant and unassuming' Lancotta House in the hamlet of Brighthampton in Oxfordshire is everything you could hope a country house to be.
Gold Hill in Shaftesbury is world famous for its extraordinary beauty, charm and views — and if you'd like to live there, a house is about to go under the hammer for an absolute song. But let's just say you need to take a look at the pictures before you start bidding...
There are chocolate box cottages — and then there's The Cabin, an idyllic place in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire. Lydia Stangroom takes a look.
A characterful property meets a setting so charming that it was used for years by the makers of one of the most popular detective shows on television.
Great claims are made of Lockey House, but it does its best to live up to them with its impeccable interiors, beautiful 18th century features and a summer house that looks like it's straight out of a fairytale.
James Fisher takes a look at a cottage in Long Compton that ticks every box.
Moving to the country and opening a tea shop has never looked more appealing than at Rose Cottage Tea Gardens in a lovely village just outside Torquay.