The Veranda House, Abbots Leigh

We will be honest. This house does not look like the rest of Abbots Leigh, and that is the entire point. The shingled elevations and the veranda that wraps three sides of it were built by an owner who had spent time in New England and wanted to bring some of it home. It is a Marmite house, and the buyer is already nodding.

Behind the front it is a sensible four-bedroom family home. Two reception rooms, a kitchen and dining room, a wood-burner for the winter and a main bedroom that opens up into the roof. The veranda is the part you will use most, a covered outdoor room that works in Bristol drizzle as well as Bristol sun.

The plot runs to around a third of an acre, mostly lawn and mature planting, with parking for several cars at the front. The village has a pub, a primary school and the woods, and Clifton is ten minutes back across the bridge. It needs a buyer who wants a house with a bit of a story, not another box.