ONE estate agent has gone "streets" ahead with the spring marketing of character cottages in a north Hampshire village.

Dreweatt Neate has three cottages for sale in The Street in Old Basing which have a combined guide price of more than a million pounds.

Old Basing is famous locally for its old cottages - especially those that make The Street everyone's perfect picture postcard scene for a traditional English village.

The oldest of the trio being sold by Dreweatt Neate is Streamside Cottage, which dates back to 1593 and has a guide price of £325,000. The thatched cottage is listed - as are the other two featured homes - and has retained original character while being restored by its current owners during the last six years.

Streamside overlooks the village church and has two-bedroomed accommodation. One of the bedrooms has a cast-iron fireplace and both have polished floorboards. There is an upstairs cloakroom and a downstairs bathroom.

Both reception rooms are heavily-beamed, with the sitting room featuring a large fireplace inset with a wood-burning stove, while the dining room boasts woodblock flooring.

Pine units line the L-shaped kitchen and house the integrated oven and hob, dishwasher, fridge and freezer.

Twin doors in the kitchen open to a garden room, with a vaulted ceiling and exposed floorboards. French doors in the garden room open to an area of decking overlooking a stream.

Another of the cottages for sale is a 17th century semi-detached home, number 70, which is marketing at £360,000.

It has distinctive eyebrow windows and wrought-iron diamond panes and is heavily-beamed inside.

This cottage has three bedrooms and an upstairs bathroom, while the downstairs reception room has two fireplaces - one being an inglenook.

A stable door in the kitchen opens to the garden terrace, while the kitchen units are oak and inset with an oven, hob, dishwasher and fridge.

The attached Mews Cottage is next to the ruins of Basing House and the garden is enclosed by the curtain wall of the original fortifications.

Exposed beams and brickwork are part of the character of the cottage, which has two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs, with a cosy sitting room and kitchen-diner on the ground floor.

Mews Cottage is set in a large garden and its guide price is £350,000.