“Demand for annexes is growing as our population ages, and the best examples effectively become a ‘flat within a house’ suitable for children or even au pairs if the house is later bought by someone with different needs,” he says. But badly-converted annexes can have the reverse effect, he warns.Owners of some modern townhouses have converted their garages into granny annexes. There are a few practical advantages – there is normally a door leading into the main house already, and it is likely the garage will be at the front of the property where there will be most natural light – but there are disadvantages too.There is rarely heating in a garage and the main car access will have to be bricked up with a separate front door provided; in some recently-built properties, garages have a ‘lining’ to keep them fireproof and this may be difficult and expensive to cut through to create rooms in the annex.Although you seem reconciled to moving to a property where a granny annex has already been created, an alternative solution would be to have a so-called granny cabin built. A firm called Barretts Leisure ( www.house-uk.co.uk) imports these from Scandinavia and erects them for about £26,000 upwards, including furniture. Rival firms like www.thegardenhouse.ltd.uk make them in this country.The solutionProperty one: Hunter’s Lodge at SudburyPrice: £850,000Agent’s details: This is a grade II listed former Victorian coach house. It was extensively refurbished following a fire in the 1980s so the main property contains four bedrooms, drawing and sitting rooms and a study. The annex has a bedroom with exposed oak timbers, a bathroom, lounge and kitchen.

It is 12 miles from Manningtree and Southend, with services to Liverpool Street of 65 and 50 minutes respectively.Agent: Carter Jonas, 01787 882881.Property two: Brome Park, Eye, Suffolk.Price: £795,000Agent’s details: There is a two bedroom granny annex with sitting and dining rooms and a shower room. The house has four bedrooms and two large attics that may be suitable as office space. The property is six miles from Diss which has a 100-minute service to Liverpool Street.Agent: Strutt & Parker, 01473 214 841.Property three: Wellsaks at Ashbocking.Price: £675,000Agent’s details: This property dates from the 17th century. The attached annex has a bedroom on the ground floor and bathroom and living area upstairs The grounds include a pond and heated swimming pool. The property is eight miles from Ipswich, from where trains go to Liverpool Street – a one-hour journey.Agent: Strutt & Parker, 01473 214841.Fact fileGranny annexes in England and Wales are now exempt from council tax if they are occupied by over-65s or by disabled relatives of the residents in the main property (indeed, although it does not apply in your case, the main property may also be exempt if the owners are themselves over 65 and are related to the granny living in the annex).However this is not the case in Scotland, where granny annexes are counted as separate dwellings – and so are subject to separate taxes..

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In New York and Los Angeles, my condemnation of the American presidency and Israel’s continued settlement-building in the West Bank was originally treated with the disdain all great papers reserve for those who dare to question proud and democratic projects of state. But I predict they will wait until the last minute, when retailers lose their nerve and start slashing prices. Watching the pathetic, old, lie-on-its-back frightened labrador of the American media changing overnight into a vicious rottweiler is one of the enduring pleasures of society in the United States. Big business may have messed with our heads and turned Christmas into feel-bad event; but the consumer is not beyond exacting a little vengeance..