Property: Three to view at pounds 300,000

Dadlands is a refurbished period farmhouse in six acres at the end of a "no through road" in north Devon. The five-bedroom house has flagstone floors, open fireplaces with woodburning stoves, beamed ceilings and a French-style 16ft kitchen with Aga and Canton handmade floor tiles. Ten miles from Barnstaple, the farmhouse has a range of outbuildings which have planning consent for holiday cottages. pounds 300,000 through GA Town & Country (01392 427070).

Monks Barn, in an unspoilt village just outside Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire, is a Grade II listed former salt house dating from 1510. It was used by monks travelling to and from the monasteries but was converted into a house in 1860. Now with four bedrooms, the Cotswold stone house has a large reception hall, drawing room and dining room and overlooks open farmland. Guide price pounds 300,000 through Butler Sherborn (01451 830731).

Rockhead, a white-painted stone house in a part-wooded valley 14 miles from the north Devon coast, stands in 57 acres of pasture and woodlands. The four-bedroom house has a summer house and kitchen garden, with apple trees, fruit cage with raspberries, gooseberry, plum and rhubarb, and a stable range and stone barn. A mini estate, the property includes fishing rights on the River Bray. pounds 300,000 through Knight Frank (01392 423111).