This week: properties for around £800,000 – from a thatched cottage with a garden fronted by a stream in hilton, cambridgeshire, to a converted coach house with a turret in monmouthshire, wales

Whitney Court, Whitney-on-Wye, Hereford, Herefordshire. A manor built in 1897 with what was then state-of-the-art technology, including an electric bell system and ducted air central heating. It has a

Barnbarroch House, Barnbarroch, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. A country house with views towards Urr Water estuary with two two-bedroom cottages in the grounds. It has period fireplaces and a kitchen

Fairy-tale dwellings

In this frenetic working-from-home era, busy gentlemen and ladies often require an office on site and, if the home that accompanies such a study is characterful, too, then so much the better

Despite their clichéd ‘chocolate-box’ description, thatched cottages are generally showstoppers. They tend not to remain on the market for long, so, for this quintet, it may be a case of he (or she) who hesitates is lost

High Bands, Gayle, Hawes, North Yorkshire. A renovated stone-built farm cottage with attached barn dating from 1850 and extended to create a spacious family home. It has beamed ceilings, exposed stone