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In the pretty village of Burnham Market is this Victorian period cottage. The ground floor, which was once the village bike shop, is now a 22ft x 14ft family room complete with a fireplace and links to a study. Across from the family room is the kitchen and WC. There are three bedrooms on the first floor, one of which has two toilets, and a separate bathroom. There is also one outbuilding, which is presently used as a workshop. Burnham Market has art galleries, boutiques, delis and a farm shop. EPC E (potential B) — on a scale of A (best) to G (worst)Upside Surrounded by activities and entertainment. Downside Terraced houses can be £625,000Contact Walking distance from the centre of Stroud, this handsome four-storey semi offers 2,329 sq ft of living space and is full of period charm: think thick oak floorboards and an original stone fireplace. The ground floor comprises two reception rooms and a kitchen/dining room that flows into an oak-framed conservatory. There's a 279 sq ft cellar plus six bedrooms arranged over the first and second floors. There's no garage but there is space to park at the front of the property as well as a low-maintenance lawned garden, which backs on to playing fields. It's on the market chain-free. EPC D (potential C)Upside In the catchment for two Parent Power ranked It's on an £625,000Contact Oakholme is a grade II listed semi-detached cottage described in its Historic England entry as having a 'timber-frame exposed on north gable and front … where projecting wall suggests former jetty'. The three-bedroom house is in North Warnborough, a small village on the northern fringes of Hampshire's chalk downs, about eight miles east of Basingstoke (from where trains to London Waterloo take about 40 minutes). The hallway leads to a living room with built-in storage, a kitchen/diner with French doors opening on to the garden and a shower room. Upstairs are three bedrooms, one of which has an en suite bathroom complete with a roll-top bath. EPC N/AUpside There's a separate garage to the The upstairs bathroom situation is not ideal. Price £625,000Contact Tucked away on a back lane in the tiny city of St Davids, this five-bedroom home looks out over the cathedral and miles of greenery. Through the wooden front doors is a corridor with beamed ceilings and the lounge and reception area on either side. The kitchen has an archway leading to a dining room, plus useful storage areas and a utility room. French doors open on to a rear garden set over two levels with panoramic views of the city. One of the bedrooms has an en suite bathroom and there is a separate shower room. EPC D (potential B)Upside A stunning location. Downside Interiors could do with some £625,000Contact The Highland town of Strathpeffer exploded into life in the Victorian era, when sulphurous springs made it a popular spa resort, and a new railway station connected it to the national network. Eaglestone, a B listed five-bedroom house, built in the mid-1800s, was one of the results. With its symmetrical three-bay frontage and continuous open-fronted veranda, supported by cast-iron columns, it has a striking design. The symmetrical reception rooms on the ground floor, and two large bedrooms above them, all have one elegantly curving wall with original cornicing. Inverness is about 40 minutes away by car. EPC E (potential C)Upside Former coach house has conversion Local railway station long since out of Offers over £625,000Contact An example of Scottish Arts and Crafts architecture at its finest, this six-bedroom villa is tucked away in a quiet leafy corner of the Craigie residential area of Dundee. Built in 1911 its three-storey design, rising to a sharply pitched roof, is one of a kind. A cleverly configured porch and bay-windowed living room gaze down the long south-facing lawn. The house retains much of its original painted decorative woodwork — a key feature of many Arts and Crafts homes. The one-acre plot is shrouded from view from the street and neighbouring properties by tall mature trees and has a large timber garage. EPC E (potential C)Upside Dundee and Broughty Ferry are less than a ten-minute drive The neighbourhood is not the Offers over £619,000Contact Here are 36 glorious acres of potential — minus the house, fences, neighbours and, conveniently, that pesky mortgage. This mixed mature woodland between Handcross and Lower Beeding, near Horsham, offers sweeping skies, an array of trees ranging from oaks, beech, larch, pine and horse chestnut, and is flooded with bluebells in the spring. One notable feature is a Second World War bunker on its northern border. EPC N/AUpside Great view of the Roof a little leakyPrice £625,000Contact