Best properties: Houses for modernisation

Cumbria: Lightbeck, Underbarrow, Kendal.

Devon: Bickleigh Cottage, Bickleigh, Tiverton.

Stirling: 19 Melville Terrace.

Pembrokeshire: The Master Shipwright’s House, Old Royal Dock Yard, Pembroke Dock.

Worcestershire: Pickersleigh Court, Malvern.

Norfolk: The Old Vicarage, Sustead.

East Sussex: Glaziers Forge House, Dallington, Heathfield.

Oxfordshire: Manor Cottage,Elsfield, Oxford.

Warwickshire: Knowle Hall, Kenilworth Road, Knowle.
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