Property: Best of three with a room with a view

Cobweb Cottage is a stone-built home situated on Stourton Hill in Warwickshire. Standing on the northern edge of the Cotswolds, it has views for miles across the valley. The property includes two outside studios as well as the three-bedroomed semi-detached cottage, and has gardens enclosed by dry-stone walls. It is for sale through Knight Frank (01865 790077) for pounds 180,000.

There must be a higher than average chance of spotting a monster from Tigh-na-Roinn, a three-bedroomed house with unimpeded views across Loch Ness to the Monadliath mountains. The renovated Forties house, sitting in five acres, comes with the right to keep and use a boat on the loch, and is 30 miles from Inverness. It is for sale through Savills at offers over pounds 150,000 (01356 622187).

Ballowfield, a Grade II-listed four-bedroomed farmhouse, plus cottage, is in Wensleydale, north Yorkshire, with views to the river Ure. There is planning permission to convert a workshop into a two-bedroom annexe. pounds 295,000, through GA Town & Country (01969 623451).