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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