Homes for sale with dining rooms fit for Christmas lunch – in pictures

Barcombe, East Sussex

This converted tin-clad chapel, with a cedar-clad, box-shaped extension, is four miles from Lewes. The arched front door opens into a vast open-plan kitchen-dining-living room designed for hosting large gatherings. The space is made to seem even more voluminous because of the pitched ceiling. There are two bedrooms off this space and a further bedroom and reception room in the extension. The village has a shop, a post office, a village hall and a primary school, and is on the doorstep of the South Downs national park. £995,000. Strutt & Parker, 01273 407 028

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Slaughterford, Wiltshire

Five miles west of Chippenham, to the north of Bath, and within the Cotswolds area of outstanding natural beauty, is the village of Slaughterford. In the centre of the village – and overlooking the church of St Nicholas – is the Grade II-listed Rosewood Cottage, covered in greenery. Dating back to the 17th century, the four-bedroom property has large front and back gardens with a terrace and a vegetable patch. The panelled front door opens into the front room, used as a dining room, with a wood-burning stove in the inglenook fireplace. £1.35m. Blue Book, 07967 555 545

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Hopton, Derbyshire

Grade II-listed Townend House, a farmhouse dating back to the 17th century, is located between Ashbourne and Matlock, and south of the Peak District national park. The stone building is draped in honeysuckle and rosemary with a climbing rose around the front door. There is a separate dining room with a wood-burning stove in the inglenook flanked by alcoves, under oak beams. From one of the six bedrooms there are views of Carsington Water, while the sprawling garden has a vegetable patch, an orchard, lawns, a paddock and a stable with a hayloft. £750,000. Inigo, 020 3687 3071

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Dalston, London

Behind a pair of old shop fronts is a four-bedroom house with Georgian roots. Once a dairy and milking parlour, and latterly a recording studio, it has been hollowed out for modern living. The minimalist kitchen-dining room has a table under exposed structural beams and oak-framed glass doors out on to the garden. The rooms are built around internal courtyards and are illuminated by roof lanterns. On a road which is home to both houses and shops, it is just north of bustling Dalston and near London Fields, with its popular lido. £2.85m. The Modern House, 020 3795 5920

Photograph: The Modern House

Sketty, Glamorgan

This Edwardian house, two miles from Swansea city centre and next to Singleton Park, stands out because of its charcoal facade. The inside, over three storeys, is unusual, too. There is a big family kitchen and living room on the ground floor, three bedrooms on the first floor, and a kitchen and bedroom on the lowest level, opening out on to the garden. There are two dining areas so if Christmas Day gets a bit much, you can slope off with your turkey into another room. There is even a dining area and outdoor kitchen in the garden. £650,000. The Modern House, 020 3795 5920

Photograph: The Modern House