House and cottage, Suffolk villages

I said I'd travel South this week and here are a couple of sweet little Suffolk gems.
First the Victorian three-bed terraced, above, in the villages (yes, it's plural) of Rickinghall.
Regular Wreck-ites will know that I don't pick a terraced property unless there's something special about it.
In this case it's the nice-sized rooms and period stuff running through the house - fireplaces, cornicing, floorboards. And a cute garden. With sheds. I like sheds. Here's a trio of pix...

It's on the market through Lacy, Scott & Knight at £125k. Details here and pdf here.
In a similar vein, and also at offers around £125k, is the end cottage below, in the village of Stowupland.

Two-bedrooms, period details that include a cast-iron inglenook fireplace in the kitchen (presumably behind all the white goods in the picture) and an enormous garden just begging to be exended into.

It's on the market through Bucks Property Agents - more details here and more pictures here.

Two wrecks: Isle of Lewis, Roxburghshire

More Scottish properties today (I promise I'll look southwards for my next post) and both of these are real toss-a-coin jobs as to whether you renovate or rebuild.
Wreck regular Kevin sent me the link to the windswept shell, above, on the Isle of Lewis. It's on the market through Western Isles Property, and the best description the agents could come up with for the property is that it makes "an attractive and level building site".
OK, I can understand the importance of "level" to developer types but 'Wreck' readers feast on challenge and revel in adversity, so here's some nicer bits worth knowing...
It's got great sea views. It's on the market at offers over £35k. It's "fully-serviced" which, if that means what it should mean ie sewage, electricity and water connected, is worth more than a flat site in my book. Sometimes the sun shines on Lewis.
The property is at Barvas, on the Isle of Lewis. Details here.
I couldn't decide whether to post this next property. On the one hand it's a wreck, and an expensive wreck at that. On the other hand, it's a castle. Was a castle.
Cavers Castle, near Denholm on the Scottish borders, comes with 11 acres and 500 years of history.
Right now it looks like this:

But back in its 100,000 acres day, when the Douglas' lived there, it looked like this:

It's been a handsome ruin for 56 years, albeit with some pretty solid eleven-feet thick walls, and is on the Buildings At Risk register.
Cavers Castle is on the market through Retties, at offers over £300k (£50k more than the 2005 asking price...)
Details and some fabulous pictures here.
Oh, and the title of 'Baron of Cavers' might be up for sale with the castle - how cool is that!

House, Castlebay, Isle of Barra

I love the islands of Scotland. I'm a big fan of Mull in particular - having had a wedding, several Christmases and a family-uniting bout of Norovirus there.
This particular house is on the island of Barra, rather more remote than Mull and all the better for that. The island's main town is Castlebay, where the ferry from Oban docks. Castlebay is named after the extraordinary Kisimul Castle, which this house, Castle View, looks towards. You can see the view (and fairly typical Hebridean weather!) in the pic below.

The house itself is large - six bedrooms, two reception rooms, a large store, big kitchen and both upstairs and downstairs bathrooms. It's be ideal for a B&B business or a family holiday home and let.
Barra itself has some very pretty beaches, including Cockle Sands where flights from Glasgow land, tides permitting. All in all an up and coming island for tourism but one remote enough to put off the Skye hoards!
The house needs renovating and modernising but it's a pretty solid-looking, traditional stone house. Personally I find something so very sad in pictures like the one below - the comfy trousers of the poor old chap that lived here, being sorted into piles while the estate agent is sorting the sale. But that's me.

Outside there's a small front garden and a sloping back garden. Castle View is on the market through the Skye Property Centre at offers over £180k. More details and pictures here.

Cottage, Snailbeach, Shrewsbury

'In a cottage in a wood, a little old man at the window stood...' My daughter so loved that nursery rhyme.
The cutest thing was watching her, aged five, lisping through the words and doing the actions.
Anyway, she's way beyond five now and I need to tell you about the house that put that song in my head.
Wreck reader Chrissie sent me the link to this one. A two-bedroom detached cottage in a wooded coppice.
The area, Snailbeach, is a heritage site linked to a large lead mine that operated in the 18th and 19th centuries. The cottage is believed to have belonged to one of the last miners to work at Snailbeach.
11 Upper Works is at the end of a track, on the edge of Snailbeach, around nine miles from Shrewsbury. It includes some original details, such as the cast iron range in the living room and fireplace in the bedroom (below), but needs refurbishing throughout.

The cottage stands in around a third of an acre of land and woodland and is on the market through Halls at offers over £130k. More details and pictures here and pdf brochure here.

Victorian villa, Dingwall, Scotland

More tired than wrecked, this six-bed detached villa near Dingwall has bags of family space.
Downstairs are three reception rooms, a large sunroom, kitchen, utility room and a shower room.
Upstairs are four good-sized bedrooms and a dated bathroom. Above that lot is the attic floor with two more decent-sized bedrooms.
The Craig is a stone-built Victorian villa sitting in a very nice garden in a street of similar big houses, off the A862. Dingwall itself is a pretty market town in the Scottish Highlands, at the top of the Cromarty Firth.
As I said, this one's more about modernising and revamping rather than rebuilding (the kitchen below gives you an idea) but it's a decent space to work with.

It's on the market through the Scottish Property Centre at £237k. More details and pictures here.