New to the market is Kites Nest farm, a large Georgian farmhouse in about 13 acres just 12 miles from Tetbury and 2 miles from Wooton-Under-Edge in Gloucestershire. The house has been recently modernised to a very high standard and includes many character features including stone fireplaces, sash windows and timber floors. * Search for prime property for sale in Gloucestershire The house has a generous reception hall, drawing room, sitting room, library, orangery, kitchen/dining room, four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a shower room. Additionally there is a cottage Pipkin s Cottage which has a sitting room and two or three bedrooms, as well as its own telephone and broadband connections. Outside are landscaped gardens with lawns and a large entertaining area with carp ponds, flagstones and a raised decked terrace as well as rose and vegetable gardens behind Pipkin s Cottage. There is also young woodland which contains a number of mature fruit trees and a grass bank running down to a duck pond. The equestrian facilities include 15 stables, a covered yard, tack room, horse solarium, three storage rooms and a feed store, and have been developed to an international standard. Guide price: £2.25m. For further information, telephone Knight Frank on 01285 659 771 or visit www.knightfrank.co.uk. * Search for prime property for sale in Gloucestershire
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Simon Jenkins: 50 years of saving Britain's buildings, from triumphs and disasters to the great country house we bought for £1In 1975, a new organisation was set up with the express aim of saving Britain's most beautiful and historic buildings from the wrecking ball. How has SAVE fared in the 50 years since then far? Simon Jenkins — who was involved as a trustee right from the very start — looks back on half a century of successes... and one or two painful failures.
