Pretty as a picture

The proliferation of honey-coloured stone cottages is part of what makes the Cotswolds so beguiling. Here, we pick some of our favourites currently on the market

- Arabella Youens

▲ Gloucestershire, £600,000

Pool End Barn is a delightful Grade IIlisted, two-bedroom Cotswold-stone cottage that lies in the heart of the village of Willersey, a few miles north of Broadway. Its position overlooking the village duck pond is particularly picturesque. The house used to be a dairy barn, but was sympathetically converted a number of years ago.

There are two gardens: a classic cottage-style one to the front borders the duck pond and a further acre, enclosed by Cotswold-stone walling, lies across the drive. This garden is landscaped with herbaceous borders and a stone terrace. The nearest station serving London Paddington is some 10 miles away at Moreton-in-Marsh. Jackson-Stops (01386 840224)

◄ Wiltshire, £1.45 million

Turleigh is a hamlet in west Wiltshire, about 1/4 miles west of Bradfordon-Avon-which has the same pretty stone-built streets as Bath, but without the crowds-and on the southern end of the Cotswolds National Landscape (the new term for an AONB). Despite its name, Grade II-listed Rock Cottage has the appearance of a small country house, thanks to its classical Georgian façade of mellow Bath stone.