Penny Churchill
Penny Churchill is Property Correspondent for Country Life.
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A magnificent ivy-clad mansion in the Wessex Downs which comes with its own Iron Age hill fortYou probably didn't have it on your 'must have' list, but Bussockwood Estate's USP is a great talking point — and the rest of the property is full of potential.
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Four poster beds, magnificent tapestries and an endlessly beautiful setting at this £10.5m Shropshire estateExotic, exquisite and dramatic, Chyknell Hall and its surrounding estate offer life at an elevated level. Penny Churchill takes a look as Chyknell comes to the market.
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A 400-year-old fantasy house with moat, four-poster beds and a 'magic' swimming pool that converts into a ballroomThe majestic Ludstone Hall is one of Shropshire's greatest privately-owned country estates — and it's now looking for a new owner. Penny Churchill looks inside.
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A Hampshire estate with some of finest trees in the county, as well as an 11-bedroom houseThe Shroner Wood estate was once owned by Edwin Hillier, who created a grand arboretum in its grounds.
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The £30 million Dorset estate that comes with a 200-year-old mansion, a cricket ground, a nature reserve and an entire villageThe Bridehead Estate in Dorset has come up for sale — and it's quite an astonishing opportunity. Penny Churchill takes a look.
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A country house, a medieval ruin and 814 of acres of Hampshire countryside up for sale in an idyllic, rural £15 million estateThe Manor Farm estate near Rockbourne also comes with a medieval monastic ruin in its grounds, and is situated within the Cranborne Chase National Landscape.
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For sale for the first time in 46 years, a three-storey Georgian home on the edge of Dedham ValeBoxted Lodge is listed Grade II and offers 24 acres of gardens and grounds.
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An elegant family home in East Anglia's commuter sweet spotScotland Place near Stoke-by-Nayland is the commuter's dream: five bedrooms and an acre of beautiful gardens, and only an hour from London.
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A Tudor masterpiece with 10,000sq ft, 21 acres, and a thriving business that could help the place pay for itselfOnce owned by the Priory Church of Canterbury Cathedral, Priory Hall is now an awe-inspiring family home with its own wedding business.
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A 900-year-old farmhouse with higgledy piggledy beams, a suit of armour in the hall — and a very 21st century 'smart' swimming poolSet in the picturesque hamlet of Tindon End, Byeballs Farm is one of the oldest privately owned properties in the area.
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An incredibly rare chance to buy a great house within one of Britain's most storied estates... but you'll have to be ready to roll your sleeves upA rare chance has come up to buy a house on the Holkham Estate in Norfolk. Penny Churchill takes a look.
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A grand country house with a wonderful faux-medieval folly, just down the road from the King's estate at SandringhamIngoldisthorpe Hall is the sort of house that is as easy to fall in love with as it is hard to spell.
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Beautiful views? Mod cons? Close to good schools? A trio of beautiful Norfolk homes up for sale which cover all the basesPenny Churchill looks at Larkfields, the Manor House at Oulton and Gurneys Manor at Hingham.
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An exquisite Georgian country house for sale for the first time in 40 years in a village with an irresistibly quirky nameYou'd never get sick of writing 'Trudoxhill' as your address — nor of living in this beautiful country home in this pretty Somerset village.
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'One of Britain's greatest estates', complete with castle, river and 711 acres, is up for sale for the first time in a generationCorby Castle in Cumbria is a true rarity: a Grade I-listed masterpiece that is on the market for the first time in a generation. Penny Churchill takes a look.
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A £13 million Wiltshire mansion where Nancy Mitford and Siegfried Sassoon once partied with 'the brightest of the Bright Young Things'After Wilford Manor's glory days in the 1920s it became a near-wreck with a tree was growing out of one of the bedrooms; today, it's as wonderful as it has ever been in its history, and is seeking a new owner.
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A Cotswolds home is up for sale that ticks every box... so long as you have £12 million to spendLittle Barrow, in a picturesque hamlet in the North Cotswolds, is a real dream home. Penny Churchill takes a closer look.
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A wonderfully secluded old rectory in Dorset with spectacular gardens, dedicated wine room, and it's walking distance from the stationNo house ticks every single box for buyers... but it must be said that Old Came Rectory, just outside Dorchester, comes awfully close.
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A gorgeous Victorian farmhouse that comes with almost 900 acres of Exmoor all to yourselfEmmetts Grange is the highest farmhouse on Exmoor — and one of the most enticing. Penny Churchill takes a look.
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A gorgeous farmhouse next door to Stonehenge with a gardens by an iconic Chelsea gold medal winnerat Moor Hatches, while away the hours fishing on the Avon, enjoying the amazing gardens, or exploring this seven bedroom farmhouse with exquisite interiors.
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An estate for sale that's older than the Norman Conquest, complete with stone circles, burial mounds and a beautiful country houseAt the Lanacre Estate near Withypool, potential buyers have the opportunity to live and own some of the most beautiful and historic land on Exmoor.
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A five-bedroom home on Dartmoor where brown trout flourish, swallows glide and song thrushes lead the dawn chorusAt Bagpark near Widecombe-in-the-moor, the current owners have taken a delightful manor house and turned it into a home for nature.
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For sale for the first time in 50 years, an unlisted Sussex farmhouse surrounded by a 'thriving 117-acre nature reserve'https://www.knightfrank.com/properties/residential/for-sale/wards-lane-wadhurst-east-sussex-tn5/CHO180010
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18th century elegance and some 6,500sq ft of space with views over the citadel of RyeThe Victorian elegance of Mountsfield House stands in stark contrast to the town's history of smuggling and piracy.
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