Property: My home, as seen on television

Following the spate of houses for sale near Stamford in Lincolnshire boasting Middlemarch connections, a number of properties are advertising themselves as film and television

locations.

The property with the best list of credits is Peppard Cottage near Henley-on-Thames. Not only was it used in the film Howards End, but the author EM Forster stayed as a regular guest of Lady Ottoline Morrell in the early years of the century.

This very English-looking house, dripping with wistaria and oak-panelling, was also used in episodes of Inspector Morse and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. Such names as Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham-Carter and Prunella Scales have trodden its oak floorboards.

The more tangible benefits of Peppard Cottage are six bedrooms, three bathrooms, a grand reception hall, three more reception rooms and a self-contained flat. It sits in two acres of gardens and is being sold by Knight Frank & Rutley and Savills with an asking price of pounds 700,000.

A house that can boast fewer stars but more street cred is 31 Corsica Street, near Highbury Fields, north London. The former warehouse was converted in 1989 by the architect Richard Paxton into a stunning three-storey apartment. On the middle floor is a 40ft indoor swimming- pool next to a 50ft living-room with a dining and kitchen area.

Below are the main bedroom suite (with dressing-room and bathroom), the guest bedroom and a children's room with two galleried sleeping areas. Upstairs is a huge roof terrace.

This was the location for a Right Said Fred video and the BBC television series Love Hurts. It is being sold with a 995- year lease by Hamptons in Islington for pounds 650,000.

If you think your house has location potential, Strutt & Parker offers a rough guide to the financial rewards. For stills photography and commercials, expect between pounds 200 and pounds 500 per day; for feature films and commercials, the fee is likely to be between pounds 1,000 and pounds 2,500 a day. Expect a mini invasion for your money.

THE HOME of the late Lord Ridley of Liddesdale is for sale. The house, on the banks of Liddel Water in Cumbria, bears evidence of its famous owner, who was the grandson of the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. Lord Ridley created an elliptical hall from Cotswold stone, and worked the surrounds of the main doors himself.

Kilnholme has a drawing- room, dining-room, library, kitchen, three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Knight Frank & Rutley in Edinburgh is asking for offers over pounds 400,000.

ANNIE ELLIOT writes from Tiverton in Devon to ask if there is a specialist agency dealing with properties in which you can live and work. She and her husband have turned their home into such a place by converting outbuildings into office space and are now looking for something similar in the Bath area.

The only organisation I know which comes close is In the Sticks (0434 381404), a newspaper advertising unusual rural properties which often have the potential to be transformed for home-workers. Please let me know of other suggestions.