What you get for £595,000 in the UK and France

Haroldston House is a four-storey Georgian townhouse on Solva’s high street, a short walk from the River Solva. There are four bedrooms in the main house and a one-bedroom studio in what used to be the stable. Solva, a popular sailing spot, is three miles east of St Davids on the Pembrokeshire coast. The house is in a good state although some of the decor might not be too everyone’s taste — bright pink hallway, anyone? EPC E (potential B) — on a scale of A (best) to G (worst)Upside Great location.Downside A disappointing garden.Price £585,000Contact savills.com
A detached house with gardens overlooking the harbour in Port Isaac on the north coast. It needs some work — the avocado bathroom suite, for instance — but no-one can fault the quality of the plot or the views. There are three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs, while the ground floor has a kitchen, dining room, sitting room, utility room and guest loo. And all within walking distance of the South West Coast Path, Nathan Outlaw’s excellent restaurants and a pretty fishing harbour that has featured in many TV shows and films, including Doc Martin. EPC F (potential B)Upside Gorgeous location.Downside Needs renovation.Price £595,000Contact johnbrayestates.co.uk
This grade II listed Georgian property in Deal is in the town’s Middle Street conservation area and a stone’s throw from the seafront. On the ground floor is a sitting room, dining room, kitchen and shower room, while an extension with French doors leads out to a courtyard and rear garden with established flower and shrub borders. Upstairs are two bedrooms with built-in wardrobes and a family bathroom. Deal has a good mix of independent shops, restaurants and cafés.EPC D (potential B) Upside Perfect for coastal walks.Downside Not a lot of kitchen space.Price £595,000Contact brightandbright.co.uk
About 20 minutes’ walk from Salisbury city centre and less than a mile from the cathedral, is this red-brick townhouse — built in 2007 but in a period style — with 1,751 sq ft of space. On the ground floor there is a kitchen/dining room, study, sun room and WC. On the first floor is a drawing room with balcony, as well as a bedroom and bathroom. The second floor has three further bedrooms and two bathrooms. It has a small paved back garden and two parking spaces. EPC C (potential B)Upside The balcony adds a hint of Jane Austen.Downside A service charge of £350 a year.Price £585,000Contact myddeltonmajor.co.uk
The Old Bakery is a four-bedroom grade II listed house in the village of Yoxford, about ten miles from the seaside town of Southwold. Beamed ceilings and a brick hearth lend a period cosiness to the ground floor, which has a drawing room, dining room, sitting room, kitchen, conservatory and utility room. Upstairs, one of the four bedrooms has an en suite shower room. There are also two large attic rooms, but no stairs to reach them. Outside there’s a beautiful walled garden with lawn, patio and shrubs, as well as a double garage. Yoxford is known for its antiques centre, and is close to the Minsmere RSPB reserve. EPC ExemptUpside The Suffolk pan-tiled roof is charming.Downside One of the bedrooms is accessed through the main bedroom.Price £597,000Contact bedfords.co.uk
A large four-bedroom converted brick granary in the small village of Cold Hatton, 12 miles northeast of Shrewsbury. The house has lots of period charm with beams, log fires and an Aga. There’s plenty of space (2,671 sq ft in total) with a large living room, kitchen, snug, study and utility room on the ground floor, and four bedrooms and two bathrooms upstairs. There are also ample lawns at the front and back. EPC D (potential C)Upside A lot of house for the money.Downside You’ll need a car.Price £595,000Contact knightfrank.co.uk
Channel Scandi vibes at this two-bedroom log cabin on the Harleyford gated estate near Marlow. Chain-free, the leasehold property has access to the estate’s 160 acres of grounds, parts of which were designed by Capability Brown. The 1,155 sq ft house has an upside-down layout that makes the most of beautiful views over the River Thames. There’s a private terrace, two ground-floor bedrooms (one with an en suite shower room) and a bathroom. Upstairs, an L-shaped reception room opens to the first-floor balcony.EPC E (potential C)Upside A lovely leafy setting.Downside Annual service charge of £3,930. Price £595,000Contact savills.com
A chance to own a pair of adjoining period cottages, each in excellent condition, in the pretty northeastern seaside town of Dornoch. Named after a rocky island far off the north coast, Sule Skerry is a four-bedroom home facing the town’s main thoroughfare, with four bathrooms and an open-plan kitchen/dining room opening on to a private rear courtyard. The connecting three-bedroom Honeysuckle Cottage has its own kitchen and reception rooms, and has been run successfully as a self-catering cottage, although it could easily be rearranged and reintegrated into the main home. EPC E (potential C)Upside A 15-minute walk to the beach.Downside Four hours’ drive to the Central Belt.Price Offers over £600,000Contact struttandparker.com
This property is in need of a thorough renovation, but then spacious four-bedroom homes within easy commuting distance of Edinburgh are hard to find at this price. Whitehaven comes nestled in its own mature west-facing garden with vibrant herbaceous borders, specimen trees and a patio. The house has two bathrooms, a large living room, a dining room and a separate kitchen, plus a utility room and a study in the turret. EPC E (potential B)Upside Within walking distance of Eskbank railway station, from which it’s 20 minutes to Waverley.Downside Root and branch modernisation required.Fixed price £595,000Contact rettie.co.uk
Close to the pretty village of Lauzun in the Lot-et-Garonne department (in the southwest of France), is this five-bedroom 18th-century property, formerly a hunting lodge. It has high ceilings, a beautiful wood floor in the entrance hall and a sitting room with a wood-burner and French doors. Living space extends to 3,617 sq ft, including a kitchen, dining room, reading room, ground-floor office/first bedroom plus boot and utility rooms. The four first-floor bedrooms share two shower rooms. Outdoors there are mature shrubs, a large garage, barns, a covered summer kitchen and an outdoor swimming pool. Bergerac international airport is 15 miles away. Upside Fibre-optic broadband. Downside Oil-fuelled heating.Price €695,000 (about £587,000)Contact johndwood-international.com