Boltholes for less than £400,000
Hampshire: 6 Prospect Place, Stockbridge. A modernised period cottage, set well back from the road, in a quiet gated area on the south of the high street in the heart of Stockbridge. Master bed, 1 further bed, family bath, kitchen/dining room, sitting room with wood-burning stove, porch, small enclosed front garden, unrestricted parking on the high street. OIRO £350,000; Evans & Partridge (01264-810702).
Suffolk: Moat Cottage, Cockfield, Bury St Edmunds. A charming Grade II pink thatched cottage, set just off one of the greens in this popular village, which consists of nine greens and hamlets spread around the undulating countryside north of Lavenham. Believed to date from the 1700s, with more recent, sympathetic additions, Moat Cottage offers a wealth of period features, from exposed beams…