1. Fell Bank is a highly attractive semi-detached farmhouse in the Lake District National Park, completely renovated and extended by the current owners and offering spacious accommodation with a range of retained period features.

The property is set in beautiful gardens, with ample off-road parking, a range of outbuildings (development potential subject to necessary consents) and a further 8.25 acres of good grazing and a small area of woodland.

The accommodation includes a dining room/hall, a sitting room with an attractive stone floor and a multi-fuel stove, a snug, a study, a light and airy country kitchen, a four piece family bathroom, and four bedrooms, one with an en-suite shower room.

Fell Bank, Howbeck, Hesket Newmarket, is for sale at £595,000 from PFK Estate Agents.

2. This well-presented former farmhouse is in a popular area to the north west of Penrith, handy for Skelton, Greystoke and the Lake District.

The accommodation consists of a dining room, a lounge with a wood-burning stove, a kitchen/diner which includes a range cooker, a Belfast sink and a range of integrated appliances.

There is a master bedroom with an en-suite, three further bedrooms and a three-piece bathroom.

Outside is an enclosed garden to the front and side, mainly laid to lawn.

The property comes with an attached cottage, with separate services, which would make an ideal annexe or holiday investment unit.

Glen House, Unthank, Skelton, Penrith, is for sale at £425,000 from H&H King Estate Agents.

This is an interesting and unique large family house with barns and outbuildings set in grounds amounting to almost three-quarters of an acre and offering excellent potential.

On the ground floor is an entrance hallway, a sitting room with an open fire and original shutters, a living room, a living dining kitchen with a multi-fuel stove on a slate hearth with a stone surround and a pantry with fitted shelving.

Off the first-floor landing are five bedrooms and a three-piece family bathroom which includes a cast-iron bath.

The property has views from the paddocks and barns over the Solway to Scotland.

Bowness House, Bowness-on-Solway, is on the market at £375,000 from H&H King Estate Agents. More details available here .