If you’re lucky enough to have a property with a bit of land and outbuildings, you can make good use of these spaces in so many ways.

Once the structure is made watertight, it can be utilised as a storage area for the overflow of stuff that we all manage to accumulate. Add in plumbing, heating and electricity it can become your art or craft studio, gym, office, games room or cinema. Recently, many homeowners have taken to converting outbuildings into self-catering accommodation.

For us, if we had any outbuildings, we’d use part of it for the storage of our shop stock. We’d erect shelving units for our scores of banana boxes filled with vintage homewares. In another area, we’d assemble a photography station with lights, camera tripod and backdrop. Elsewhere, we’d set up a packaging post with work table, scales, tape measure, cardboard boxes, packaging tape and address labels. It would make our day-to-day working life so much smoother!

If you had the good fortune of acquiring one or some outbuildings, what use would you find for them?

£100,000 – 19b Achmore, Isle Of Lewis HS2 9DU

The property further benefits from an attached spacious barn suitable for multiple uses including storage, workshop or potential to be developed further subject to relevant planning permission.

• 2-3 bedrooms
• 1 bathroom
• Detached
• Rural location

£305,000 – Hazeldene, Thrigby Road, Filby, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR29 3HJ

To the rear is a low maintenance shingled garden area with raised decked seating area, outside tap, widening into a charming further garden area laid mainly to lawn with established flower and shrub borders, feature pond, raised deck seating area, shed, wood store, open storage shed, summerhouse measuring 6′ 10″ x 5′ 3″ and workshop/studio measuring 13′ 8″ x 6′ 8″.

• Semi-detached cottage
• Sought after village location
• Two bedrooms
• Bathroom & shower room
• Ample parking
• Established gardens with outbuildings
• Character features

£895,000 – Tithe Barn, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, Llangollen LL20 7LD

• 5 bedrooms
• 5 bathrooms
• 3 reception rooms

Externally you will find an outbuilding, cleverly and stylishly converted by the current owners into a double garage on the ground floor and a delightful holiday rental on the upper floor. The holiday rental features an open bedroom with an abundance of further space for seating and a dining table. Beyond a shrewdly disguised wall you will find an attractively fitted kitchen and to the other side, a shower room. Stylishly presented throughout and in excellent order.