A huge opportunity at this gorgeous 18th century farmhouse with a wonderful rural location, but in need of updating inside.
For sale with Michael Graham. See more pictures and details for this property.
In the hills above Lyme Regis, a wonderfully-renovated thatched house set in charming grounds.
There are five bedrooms, a wine cellar and a separate coach house among the many selling points.
For sale with Strutt & Parker. See more pictures and details for this property.
East Riding of Yorkshire — £2,500,000
One of the most outstanding country houses in East Yorkshire with eight bedrooms, coach House, swimming pool, tennis court and immaculate gardens.
For sale with Blenkin & Co. See more pictures and details for this property.
This newly-built mansion in a prime spot in Guernsey has seven acres, 17,000sq ft and its own private lake.
Not only is it an extraordinary property, it's one of the best locations on the island, with a wonderful beach, a superb golf course and the charming open spaces of L'Ancresse Common pretty much on the doorstep.
For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details for this property.
An 11,500sq ft house with magnificent views, full of character — particularly with the stained glass cupola above the sweeping staircase. Yet it's deceptively new: just 30 years old, and is for sale for the first time.
The main house is in a lot with 38 acres of land, but a further 80 or so acres are available as a separate lot.
For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details for this property.
A substantial six-bedroom property with open-plan living room and kitchen, balcony, large gardens, summerhouse and parking for several cars.
For sale with Charles Wycherlye. See more pictures and details for this property.
An elegant Cotswolds mill house, beautifully presented with a two-bedroom cottage, situated in the pretty hamlet of The Vatch.
For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details for this property.
An 18th-century farmhouse set in the Blackdown Hills, offering rare seclusion and easy access to the Jurassic Coast, Exeter and Taunton.
For sale with Stags. See more pictures and details for this property.
A character coastal five-bedroom luxury home with gardens and outbuildings, close to Watergate Bay. Currently a successful holiday let.
For sale with ChartsEdge. See more pictures and details for this property.
A traditional, Grade II-listed five-bedroom country house including period features, annexe and double cart barn with planning permission to convert, set in just under an acre of grounds.
For sale with Fine & Country. See more pictures and details for this property.
Quirky, charming and offering an idyllic country life: ride in the morning, hit the beach in the afternoon, then enjoy sundowners on the deck.
For sale with EXP UK. See more pictures and details for this property.
A picturesque period cottage with new kitchen and landscaped gardens, in a tucked away village setting close to Snape and the Suffolk Heritage Coast.
For sale with Jackson Stops. See more pictures and details for this property.
A delightful category B-listed detached dwelling with a walled garden, located in a conservation village on the Black Isle.
For sale with Galbraith. See more pictures and details for this property.
A well-presented three-bedroom character cottage with detached studio annexe, car port and large garden, located in the centre of the village.
For sale with Terra Cotta. See more pictures and details for this property.
A five-bedroom Wells house in a village not far from Storrington, with five bedrooms, grounds of over an acre, and a fine swimming pool.
For sale with GL & Co. See more pictures and details for this property.
A breathtaking location, four bedrooms in the main house, a string of outbuildings and nine acres, at the sort of price you'd pay for a three-bedroom house in the home counties.
For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details for this property.
Gloucestershire — £3.5 million
An old rectory dating back to 1550, with seven bedrooms, almost 6,000sq ft of space and an acre of gardens in the centre of the village of Rodmarton.
This outstanding two-bedroom apartment sits within a wonderful Grade II*-listed country house in Balcombe, with easy access to London via the mainline station.
Ebberly House is a Classical Grade II*-listed home of some nine bedrooms in the beautiful Devon countryside. The property comes with 249 acres of gardens and grounds, featuring a Victorian pleasure garden, small stream, walled garden, waterfalls, lakes and swimming pool. Arcadia itself.
Peasemore House is one of stories. Originally called Priors Side, it was built as a great hall for the nearby Poughley Priory, dissolved by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525. Dating of the timbers of the great hall have the origins of the building as late 13th-century.
These days, it is a seven bedroom family home on the edge of the sought-after village of Peasemore, with 12 acres of gardens and grounds. It has been passed down through the same family for the past 150 years.
A large five bedroom family home with four acres of gardens and grounds in the heart of Amport. As good as the interiors of this home are, and they are great, the gardens steal the show. Amazing planting and lots of fun water features. Plus a superb location.
For sale with Evans & Partridge
Over 6,000sq ft of space in this beautifully-refurbished home near Stockbridge, with views over the Test Valley.
For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details for this property.
Grade I-listed, 15 bedrooms, 12 receptions rooms and 83 acres: Howsham Hall is everything you could hope to find.
For sale with Strutt & Parker. See more pictures and details for this property.
In a charming rural village between Bury and Newmarket, this huge thatched home of almost 4,000 sq ft has a great mix of old and new.
For sale with Bedfords. See more pictures and details for this property.
Views to die for from this incredibly-located house just a few miles from Pitlochry.
For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details for this property.
Quite simply breathtaking. This Georgian home sits on an estate that pre-dates the Norman Conquest by almost 200 years.
The house and its 10 bedrooms are full of period features, while glorious views of the surrounding 17.7 acres seem to be available from almost every window. There are lawns, rose gardens, a pool house, summer houses and much more.
For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details for this property.
1,800 acres, a Grade II-listed manor house, a string of further properties... The Bapton Estate is just about as good as it gets. Astonishing. You can read the full story here.
For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details for this property.
Gloucestershire — £7.5 million
Seven bedrooms, 11,000sq ft and wonderful privacy in this home on a gated estate in Cheltenham, that's one of the finest homes in the town.
For sale with Jackson-Stops. See more pictures and details for this property.
Over 1,500 acres of Scotland for sale, with fishing rights, farming, a shoot and potential for both peat and woodland restoration and creation.
The house at the heart is a grand, 10-bedroom lodge, while there are also five cottages and a string of working buildings.
For sale with Landfor. See more pictures and details for this property.
Gnarled beams, oak panelling and leaded windows add huge character to this house on Aldwick Bay, just along the south coast from the Pagham Harbour nature reserve.
There are six bedrooms, a summer house and a boat house as part of the package within this private estate.
For sale with Strutt & Parker. See more pictures and details for this property.
43 acres with a Grade II-listed farmhouse at the centre of this secluded rural home not far from Banbury.
For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details for this property.
A distinguished Victorian coastal house, formerly a hunting lodge, with remarkable interiors, sea views and extensive gardens.
For sale with Blenkin & Co. See more pictures and details for this property.
A grand home right on the shores of Loch Rannoch, with five bedrooms, an orchard, separate cottage and 1km of waterfront.
For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details for this property.
A Grade II listed five-bedroom residence benefiting from fishing rights on the River Tamar, set within 16.77 acres of grounds.
For sale with Fine & Country. See more pictures and details for this property.
Dumfries and Galloway — £270,000
A traditional whinstone farmhouse with an outbuilding, in a peaceful rural setting with views over the surrounding countryside.
For sale with Galbraith. See more pictures and details for this property.
A 665-acre private island estate with a fine main home, farm buildings, it's own harbour — and a colony of seals.
For sale with Strutt & Parker. See more pictures and details for this property.
Complete with a very familiar bridge, an area of small lakes within the nearly 12-acre landscape of Tappington Grange is a homage to Monet’s lily ponds at Giverny in France.
The Grade II-listed, eight-bedroom house dates to the late 17th century, with high ceilings, fireplaces galore and some fine plaster work in the drawing room.
£2.75m via Hamptons
Within the rest are lawns, woodland, a swimming pool, a tennis court, a line of pleached lime trees and a timber barn — a rural haven that is somehow within quarter of a mile of Wadhurst station, with fast services to London.
About midway between Falmouth and the Helford River, close to the village of Mawnan Smith, lie the idyllic 31-acre environs of Penwarne. The manor was first recorded in 1313; the current house was built in the late 18th century, with a major structural renovation in the 1980s, and the gardens open every spring via Cornwall Gardens Trust in support of various charities.
Today, the modernised Georgian house, with its six bedrooms and views of Falmouth Bay, is an occasional film set. As well as a hard tennis court in Wimbledon purple and green, the grounds contain a swimming pool, walled garden, kitchen garden, duck pond, water tower, Japanese garden and ‘Jungle’, all interspersed by pathways and streams, plus a sloping lawn in front of the gravel forecourt fringed by specimen trees. Two two-bedroom cottages accessed via a separate driveway could be let.
£5 million via Savills
Once part of the estate of Hunstanton Hall, former long-time home of the Le Strange family, five-bedroom The Clock Tower — a reworking of the former Victorian coach house by the architect Charles Morris — is approached through picturesque parkland beyond a small moat; Morris’s Gothic stone-mullion windows are particularly distinctive.
Expansive gardens include a paddock, orchard and tennis court and there is an option to purchase a separate two-bedroom cottage. Old Hunstanton, some 18 miles north of King’s Lynn, is a popular coastal village with its championship golf course, clifftop walks, lighthouse and ruins of 13th-century St Edmund’s Chapel.
£1.7m via Sowerbys
Seclusion and beauty, right by the beach with a slipway to get on the water in Poole Harbour. The interiors are dated — to say the least — but you won't care in the slightest.
For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details for this property.
A six-bedroom farmhouse in a village near Cheltenham that's a wonderful mix of traditional Cotswolds charm and newer touches — particularly with the round garden room.
For sale with Jackson-Stops. See more pictures and details for this property.
This wonderfully pretty 'Georgian' home was actually built in 2006 — but you'd never know it, other than the lack of maintenance problems. The planning permission stipulated it should be designed as a Dower House to Tyringham Hall, nearby, and they did a superb job.
For sale with Michael Graham. See more pictures and details for this property.
A bucolic dream, where the four-bed main house also comes with a cottage, an orchard and wildflower meadow.
For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details for this property.
This enchanting 600-year old character home exudes timeless elegance and rural charm with equestrian facilities and idyllic countryside setting.
For sale with EXP UK. See more pictures and details for this property.
A five-bedroom farmhouse with equestrian facilities and versatile buildings offering a wealth of potential, set in 13 acres.
For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details for this property.
A sympathetically restored former Rectory with a holiday barn, outbuildings and 60 acres, in a stunning position within The Quantock Hills.
For sale with Stags. See more pictures and details for this property.
Superb Georgian country house in an elevated position with far-reaching views, separate cottage and traditional outbuildings, in 11.4 acres.
For sale with Blenkin & Co. See more pictures and details for this property.
A stunning period farmhouse with five bedrooms, a tennis court, useful range of outbuildings and about 9.5 acres including idyllic gardens.
For sale with Hobbs Parker. See more pictures and details for this property.
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Deep lakes, tall peaks and Flemish portraiture. It's the Country Life Quiz of the DayAugust 28's quiz gets to grips with geography, art, film and also cats.
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The market for super-prime houses in England's biggest millionaire's playground is booming — and this £10m example is one of the bestWhirley Hall is a 17th century building that's a perfect example of how 21st century updates can transform an old home almost beyond recognition.
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A micro estate for sale in west Wales shows that the best things come in small packages. In this case, three of themBrithdir is a remarkable collection of properties centred around a lake and just five miles from the sea.
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This blissful converted mill has sweeping views, a breathtaking library and gardens by a Chelsea gold medallistPenny Churchill takes a look at Stanbridge Mill, one of the finest properties for sale today in the west country.
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Location, community and charm: the enduring desirability of London's mews housesFrom birds, to horses, to beautiful family homes, the mews of London are some of the nation's most sought-after homes. But why?
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The distinctive and historic home that might just be 'one of Dorset’s most picturesque'Grade II*-listed Manor House, set in just under eight acres, dates from the 16th century.
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A 17th century farmhouse in Surrey with one of Britain's oldest squash courtsFords Farm is on the market for the first time in over half a century.
