This week: houses for around £2m – from a grade ii-listed tudor gatehouse in an area of outstanding natural beauty in east sussex, to an award-winning minimalist house in birmingham

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

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

Fairy-tale dwellings

Cushnie House, Cushnie, Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This B-listed former Laird’s house comes with grounds that include five ponds and a vegetable garden. An additional 28 acres of land is availab

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

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