Cumbria from £250,000Few country-house conversions are as grand as Stone Cross Mansion, a baronial limestone manor built in 1874 on the doorstep of the Lake District and approached via a tree-lined driveway. The developer Charles Church has meticulously restored its innards in neogothic style and divided it into 19 two- and three-bedroom flats, with the largest on the market for about £600,000. All have sleek kitchens, video entry and intruder alarms, and are wired for SkyQ and optical fibre broadband; some have views over Morecambe Bay. It’s a 10-minute walk to Ulverston, the birthplace of Stan Laurel, which has a twice-weekly market. 0161 244 7705, savills.co.ukSuffolk £600,000This bucolic cottage in the hamlet of Pin Mill has views of…

Source: The Times January 05, 2020 00:03 UTC