Lancashire — £4.25 million
Fancy a house that looks like a cross between a country farmhouse and the sort of ranch you'd see in 80s TV show Dallas? Eight bedrooms, views for miles across the Ribble Valley, and almost 15,000 sq ft of space. Quite a place.
For sale via Knight Frank — see more details and pictures.
Buckinghamshire — £1.495 million
An 18th century home with a wonderful village location, with a huge garden, a thatched barn and an indoor swimming pool — an extraordinary blend at this price and in this location between High Wycombe and Aylesbury.
For sale via Michael Graham — see more details and pictures.
Carmarthenshire — £1.2 million
The house of comedian, actor and writer Robert Webb, painstakingly restored from a complete wreck (read that story here), is now on the market.
For sale via Savills — see more details and pictures.
Suffolk — £1.995 million
Sitting at the end of a long, tree-lined drive, this grand country home is packed with period charm — we particularly love the dining room with its timbered ceiling and inglenook fireplace.
For sale via Strutt & Parker — see more details and pictures.
Somerset — £795,000
A stylishly restored cottage in a popular village with three reception rooms, kitchen/breakfast room, three double beds and a pretty courtyard.
For sale via Stags — see more details and pictures.
Devon — £1,680,000
A highly appealing Edwardian property with two letting cottages set in a large plot with an attractive outlook over open fields.
For sale via Wood and Pilcher — see more details and pictures.
Yorkshire — £1,750,000
How's that for a view from the living room? This superb Georgian home, recently restored, comes with outbuildings and two-thirds of an acre of gardens and grounds.
For sale via Bentons — see more details and pictures.
Kent — £1,250,000
A 4-5 bedroom detached home with period features, requiring full refurbishment, set in large gardens with scope to extend (STP).
For sale via Blenkin & Co — see more details and pictures.
Gloucestershire — £1,400,000
A spacious four bedroom detached Cotswold stone family home, with pretty gardens, double garage and parking.
For sale via Hayman Joyce — see more details and pictures.
Kent — £895,000
Stunning barn conversion within an impressive mews enjoying countryside views across protected farmland.
For sale via Hobbs Parker — see more details and pictures.
Buckinghamshire — £1,100,000
A unique barn-style home with gardens and recreational paddocks of three acres within the historic setting of Crawley Grange.
For sale via Jackson-Stops — see more details and pictures.
Somerset — £650,000
A gorgeous three-bedroom house in the fine village of Wedmore.
For sale via Sandersons — see more details and pictures.
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War, ruin and renaissance: Dorfold Hall's 400-year journey through the agesJohn Goodall describes the antiquarian rediscovery of Dorfold Hall, Cheshire — home of Charles and Dr Candice Roundell — and the recent spectacular renewal of this important Jacobean house. Photographs by Paul Highnam for the Country Life Photo Library.
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The Old Rectory for sale in a village up the road from Jane Austen's home, where the family lived that might have inspired some of her most memorable charactersIn the village of Dummer, close to Jane Austen's family home at Steventon, a beautiful old rectory has cone to the market. Penny Churchill takes a look.
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The Old Rectory for sale in a village up the road from Jane Austen's home, where the family lived that might have inspired some of her most memorable characters
In the village of Dummer, close to Jane Austen's family home at Steventon, a beautiful old rectory has cone to the market. Penny Churchill takes a look.
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The pink granite chateau that the Cointreau family built in the Loire Valley is for sale at £3.5 millionThe great country seats of the Guinness family have an equivalent over the Channel, where the chateau built by the Cointreau family is on the market.
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Is this the end of the Forever Home?The classic dream of finding a family house in which you can settle down, raise a family and grow old has never been harder to obtain. So has the concept of the 'Forever Home' had its day? Annabel Dixon reports.
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An Arts-and-Crafts home that sits in prime position in the most exclusive (and priciest) road in HampshireWith its own private jetty on the Beaulieu River, The Rookery is a rare and beautiful home. Penny Churchill takes a look.
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A home where medieval, Georgian and modern come together in rare styleSet in a couple of acres in the leafy outskirts of Essex, Rochfords is a family house that blends old and new with charm and a sense of fun.
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A private island in the Thames Estuary is up for sale at £50,000, complete with its own Victorian fortDarnet Fort is seeking a new owner — but it's going to need someone of great vision and spirit.
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A 500-year-old house with Soho House-style interiors, Chelsea gold medallist gardens and a grass tennis courtHaslingfield Manor is an extraordinary mix of styles and ideas, from Tudor Britain to the cutting edge of modern design. Penny Churchill takes a look.
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Utterly wonderful country homes for sale across Britain, from a 10-bedroom mansion to a Devon hideaway, as seen in Country LifeFrom an irresistibly charming house in Devon to a 400-year-old commutable home in Hertfordshire, here's our pick of some of the best homes to come to market via Country Life in the past week.
