Best country houses for sale this week
A dream commutable house in Suffolk and a charming village home near York are among this week's wonderful places on the market.
Suffolk — £2.5 million
Breathtaking charm and a wonderful location for this immaculate, country house.
There's better news yet: with trains to London from nearby Diss taking just an hour and a half, it might even be commutable at a push.
For sale via Strutt & Parker — see more details.
Bedfordshire — £2,500,000
An exceptional Tudor rectory, renovated and restored, with six bedrooms, over 6000 sq ft, 10 acres and a heated pool within a setting offering total privacy.
For sale via Artistry — see more details and pictures.
York — £2,450,000
This substantial village homes sits in a beautiful walled garden just outside of York.
For sale via Blenkin & Co — see more details and pictures.
Surrey — £2,350,000
We're not sure we've ever seen a house quite like this, tucked away on a small, gated development. This unique family home offers a rare combination of architectural flair and practical family living.
For sale via eXp UK — see more details and pictures.
North Devon — £1,800,000
There's a touch of Wuthering Heights, inside and out, at this Jacobean hall with eight bedrooms. It comes with a fine coach house, stabling and a tithe barn, all in beautiful grounds of 13 acres.
For sale via Stags — see more details and pictures.
Jersey — £1,750,000
This beautifully-renovated four-bedroom house offers a style, comfort, and functionality.
For sale via Fine & Country — see more details and pictures.
Leicester — £1,700,000
A seven-bedroom Arts and Crafts-inspired house that is full of character.
For sale via James Sellicks — see more details and pictures.
Kent — £1,625,000
A wonderfully versatile family home including an annexe and swimming pool, set within established gardens in the village of Wye.
For sale via Hobbs Parker — see more details and pictures.
Devon — £1,395,000
Life in the Blackdown Hills beckons at this farmhouse, which has three cottages, guest accommodation and four acres of gardens and paddocks.
For sale via Stags — see more details and pictures.
Surrey — £1,250,000
The Surrey Hills at Albury Heath are literally on the doorstep at this four-bedroom family home.
For sale via Terra Cotta — see more details and pictures.
Northumberland — £1,250,000
A handsome and recently modernised family home in an outstanding and elevated location with an imperial view.
For sale via Galbraith — see more details and pictures.
Kent — £1,195,000
Beautiful village location for this bespoke home, cleverly designed to include a stunning double height entrance hall and galleried landing.
For sale via Hobbs Parker — see more details and pictures.
Oxfordshire — £1,000,000
This townhouse at Abingdon Marina has its own private mooring, while the house's three storeys all have magnificent views over the water.
For sale via Humberts — see more details and pictures.
Wiltshire — £925,000
The library-wall alone will probably sell this house, but the rest of the place is handsome and beautifully proportioned, plus there's a charming garden and a popular village location.
For sale via Rural View — see more details and pictures.
Oxfordshire — £900,000
A bit of a rare find, this completely refurbished family home is in a quiet location near Chipping Norton.
For sale via Maxwell Douglas — see more details and pictures.
Bedfordshire — £750,000
A spectacular living space in a beautifully renovated, three double bedroom cottage within a peaceful riverside village.
For sale via Artistry — see more details and pictures.
Hampshire — £649,999
An exceptional, five bedroom property, perfectly positioned in the heart of Hythe village. With space and versatility, it is ideal for growing families.
For sale via Citrine Estates — see more details and pictures.
Cumbria — £500,000
A beautiful, semi-detached home with a self-contained annexe — in need of some TLC, but, ideal for multi-generational living.
For sale via JR Hopper — see more details and pictures.
Suffolk — £475,000
A location right in the centre of Woodbridge — with its own driveway — is just the start at this impressive, three-storey townhouse.
For sale via Jackson-Stops — see more details and pictures.
Gloucestershire — £465,000
Glorious Cotswolds views from this elevated cottage in an utterly idyllic village.
For sale via Hayman Joyce — see more details and pictures.
Kent — £450,000
A delightful semi-detached two-bedroom cottage in the heart of Groombridge, brimming with character, featuring a versatile attic room.
A very pretty two-bedroom cottage in the heart of Groombridge, with a garden room, attic and bi-fold doors leading out to the terrace and garden.
For sale via KMJ Property — see more details and pictures.
Kent — £350,000
This extended and recently updated Victorian mid-terrace home has the perfect blend of period charm and contemporary convenience.
For sale via Sandersons — see more details and pictures.
Surrey — £2.99 million
This Shropshire home is 'an absolute dream'.
Some 15 acres of the South Downs come with this house on a private lane just outside Haslemere, on the Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire border. Privacy, space (six bedrooms) and sports facilities that include a pool, tennis court and games room are all part of the appeal.
For sale via Strutt & Parker — see more details and pictures.
Buckinghamshire — £3.5 million
A picture-perfect Georgian home covered in creeping wisteria and arranged around a beautiful terrace ane circular lawn. Seven reception rooms, six bedrooms and an indoor swimming pool, plus a village-edge location that makes commuting to London perfectly possible: Marylebone is under 40 minutes away from nearby Chalfont & Latimer station.
For sale via Savills — see more details and pictures.
Shropshire — £1.375 million
The house is a joy, the gardens sublime: this Shropshire home is an absolute dream of a place, with six bedrooms, endless character and a thriving garden business included in the sale.
For sale via Knight Frank — see more details and pictures.
Bedfordshire — £2 million
Windmill House is a real rarity: an Edwardian country house set in two acres, yet still within walking distance of the mainline railway station at Bedford. A five-bedroom country home that really does offer the best of both worlds.
For sale via Michael Graham — see more details and pictures.
Kent — £2.95 million
Grade II*-listed, charming and with five acres, this is a joy of a place in the garden of England. Guests at this home over the years include Agatha Christie.
For sale via Knight Frank — see more details and pictures.
Gloucestershire — £4,500,000
A classic Cotswolds home, dating to the 17th century, with what was once a mill now a six-bedroom home with pool, tennis court, spa complex and 112 acres.
For sale via Savills — see more details and pictures.
Buckinghamshire — £1,850,000
This working equestrian property has fabulous facilities, with a yard, stabling and 15 acres of land. At the heart is a house that's very beautifully done inside.
For sale via Michael Graham — see more details and pictures.
Hertfordshire — £3,750,000
A country house in a leafy setting with wonderful gardens, close to a charming village... and yet it's within the M25. The best of all worlds?
For sale via Knight Frank — see more details and pictures.
Jersey — £797,500
A rare opportunity to refurbish or redevelop a charming three-bedroom property in a quiet lane in St Brelade.
For sale via Fine & Country — see more details and pictures.
North Devon — £2,000,000
A beautiful seven-bedroom farmhouse with two further cottages in an idyllic location overlooking Exmoor.
For sale via Stags — see more details and pictures.
Hertfordshire — £2,500,000
This glorious ivy-clad Jacobean-style mansion is immaculate inside, and sits within the grounds of Hanbury Manor, backing on to the golf course.
For sale via Strutt & Parker — see more details.
Anyone who loves beams will be in seventh heaven in Chantry Farmhouse, as carved wood appears everywhere — within the walls and on the ceilings — giving the feeling of a walk back through time. The inglenook fireplaces have much the same effect and there are three of varying sizes, with carved bressumers to boot, to sit beside and think how much history has taken place within the walls of this eye-catching Grade II-listed Tudor hall house over the past five centuries. Modern comfort, however, hasn’t been sacrificed for character.
The two are intertwined, not least in the six bedrooms, and the partly vaulted kitchen, a later addition, is bang up to date with a comprehensive range of wall and base units and integrated appliances. Chantry Farmhouse’s location — the village of Denston — is only 10 miles from Newmarket and historic Bury St Edmunds and Cambridge is a 35-minute drive away.
For sale via David Burr — see more details
Grade II-listed North Tregeare Farmhouse is a ‘late-16th- or early-17th-century, possibly with earlier origins’ property that is accompanied by 19½ acres of land. Everything about this house in Tresmeer is unique — from the shape and size of its windows, one of them an ancient stone mullion, and its stone-arched door that leads into the front porch to its characterful nooks and crannies within. One of the biggest nooks of all is the imposing stone-backed inglenook fireplace that forms a focal point in the cosy sitting room.
The house boasts four bedrooms (one currently on the ground floor) and there are a further two in the spacious self-contained converted barn, offering a potential income stream for new incumbents. North Tregeare can be found at the end of a long no-through road, so the sound of the modern world is usually absent, with only the chirping of birds and the whistles of the wind audible.
For sale via Knight Frank — see more details.
The agent says of the four-bedroomed Mill Cottage in the village of Thurleigh that it offers ‘generous internal accommodation across two floors and, with scope for annexe-style living, the cottage is perfect for families, down-sizers, or multi-generational households’. On the ground floor, the kitchen/breakfast room features newly installed deep-green Shaker-style cabinetry, solid-wood worktops and a Belfast sink. Steps from this space lead into the spacious 26ft by 12ft reception room, where there is an eye-catching red-brick inglenook fireplace containing a woodburning stove.
Additionally on the ground floor, apart from a dining room and a garden room, there is that potential annexe mentioned by the agent with its double bedroom, family bathroom and second kitchen/sitting room, currently being used as a utility. Outside, the garden, laid mostly to lawn, abuts open countryside, giving a feeling of exceptional spaciousness.
For sale via Fitzjohn Estates — see more details
Sancreed is almost on the tip of Cornwall’s toe, so for a getting-away-from-it-all feeling, at the same time as enjoying close proximity to vibrant Penzance, there is probably no better place than Ennis Cottage. This property has been updated and modernised by the current owners and, when they were doing so, they paid heed to the historic features, including the two inglenook fireplaces, which sit within the spacious 28ft by 14ft sitting/dining room, one of them containing a statement Dik Geurts woodburning stove.
Outside, there is a detached studio above the double garage that is currently furnished as a fourth bedroom, in addition to the three within the cottage, offering the potential for a variety of uses.
For sale via Rohrs & Rowe — see more details
Characterful features proliferate within Holly Farm, a thatched, Grade II-listed, 17th-century property with three bedrooms (plus another one in an annexe), four reception rooms and a look that would be perfectly suited to the front of a chocolate box. It is the principal sitting room that contains the inglenook fireplace — but one with a difference in this day and age, for it has a range as an inset, on which kettles were once boiled and irons heated.
The annexe is currently let out regularly to holidaymakers, providing a potential income stream for the new owners. Continuing this theme, there is a paddock with five motorhome pitches, plus the possibility of converting the barn, subject to planning permissions. Holly Farm is within walking distance of the village of Happisburgh, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and its nearby beaches are sometimes wild, but always wonderful.
For sale via Winkworth — see more details.
Leeds — £2,500,000
An outstanding family house with far-reaching views, landscaped gardens, garaging, outbuildings and over eight acres.
For sale via Blenkin & Co — see more details and pictures.
West Sussex — £1,675,000
In the South Downs near Billingshurst, but just outside the boundaries of the National Park, this 11-acre property has pasture, gardens, stabling and tack room, a sand school and hay barn — and 3,000 sq ft, five-bedroom house at the centre of it all.
For sale via Churchill Country & Equestrian — see more details and pictures.
Kent — £1,399,000
A contemporary lakeside property within a gated development of exclusive bespoke homes close to the desirable village of Pluckley.
For sale via Hobbs Parker — see more details and pictures.
Leicestershire — £2,500,000
An impressive home on the edge of Leicester, near the racecourse and botanic gardens, beautifully extended and comprehensively refurbished.
For sale via James Sellicks — see more details and pictures.
Surrey — £2,500,000
A well-presented four-bedroom, detached family home set in two acres offering a one-bedroom annexe, garage and views in a quiet private road.
For sale via Terra Cotta — see more details and pictures.
Wiltshire — £4.25 million
Sturford Mead is a Greek revival house with views across the countryside to an ancient Iron Age hill fort. There is over 11,000sq ft of space, just under 10 acres and a splendid elegant feel throughout this eight-bedroom home.
For sale via Knight Frank — see more details and pictures.
Northamptonshire — £2.5 million
A deceptively new five-bedroom country house in pretty gardens of just over an acre. There's a pool, billiard room, huge reception rooms and access directly on to the river.
For sale via Michael Graham — see more details and pictures.
Wiltshire, near Bath — £4.5 million
A Grade-II listed Georgian property just outside Bath that isn't exactly a house — it's currently used as an office — but certainly could become a wonderful family home once more.
Eight bedrooms, five acres and a pool, plus a coach house and log cabin, are among its wonders.
For sale via Strutt & Parker — see more details and pictures.
Surrey — £5 million
A Classical-style mansion in Windlesham of over 10,000sq ft, with its own cinema, gym and tennis court. We particularly love the orchard and the Alpine cabin-style pool house.
For sale via Savills — see more details and pictures.
Battersea — £2.5 million
Pieds-a-terre don't get much better than this: it's a four-bedroom flat on the third floor of the lovely York Mansions, overlooking Battersea Park. It's 'the best flat on Prince of Wales Drive', say the agents. Which by our reckoning means it's also the best flat in Battersea, full stop.
For sale via Radstock — see more details and pictures.
Hampshire — £2.85 million
The wine cellar alone is sure to win over at least of the potential buyers for this home in an enviable setting in Hampshire, with trains from nearby Grateley getting to London in an hour and a quarter.
There's a bit of updating needed to be sure, but the house is a joy — as are the groudns, which include a wonderful walled garden.
For sale via Knight Frank — see more details and pictures.
Leicestershire — £1.95 million
This Queen Anne farmhouse sits right in the middle of the village of Lubenham, a pretty spot with a pub, a lovely primary school and a conservation area protecting its charms.
The house itself is a gorgeous, sympathetically-restored home — but we suspect the paddocks, stables, outbuildings and workshops will prove just as much of a selling point to the next owner.
For sale via Strutt & Parker — see more details and pictures.
Northamptonshire — £2 million
Three houses for the price of one — a farmhouse, a cottage and a converted barn — plus its own little vineyard at this village home overlooking open countryside. There's even a discreet bank of solar panels, so you can be at least partially self-sufficient for both power and wine.
For sale via Michael Graham — see more details and pictures.
Wiltshire — £9.5 million
Striking and unusual, this Arts-and-Crafts house — which dates to 1905 — is bold on the outside, and bold within, from the magnificent colour scheme to the cherry blossom tree in the dining room.
The equestrian facilities are truly outstanding, too, with both indoor and outdoor maneges, wonderful stables and a parade ring, as well as paddocks within the 60 acres.
For sale via Strutt & Parker — see more details and pictures.
East Sussex — £2,400,000
This gated farmhouse is set in an idyllic 21 acres of gardens and woodland, and has outstanding equestrian facilities.
It's a wonderful blend of rural charm and refined modern living — and we love the cabin tucked away in the woods within the grounds.
For sale via Bees Homes — see more details and pictures.
Norfolk — £2,000,000
A Grade II-listed barn built in the late 17th century that's been converted into a grand, 21st century eco-home with air source heat pump, solar panels and ultra-fast internet. It's set in four acres, and comes with two separate cottages that are rented out and generate over £1,000 a month each.
For sale via Humberts — see more details and pictures.
Devon — £1,500,000
Space, privacy and seclusion at this Grade-II listed country house with four acres, a cottage, outbuildings and a location looking across open countryside to Devon's south coast.
For sale via Stags — see more details and pictures.
Kent — £1,400,000
Character pours out from this farmhouse, thanks to a sensitive refurbishment that's kept the charm — the library is a real highlight. There's a separate annexe, thatched double garage, gardens of over three acres, and its commutable from a nearby station
For sale via Hobbs Parker — see more details and pictures.
Oxfordshire — £1,350,000
One of the Thame's most iconic homes, a six-bedroom house overlooking the town’s cricket ground and St Mary’s church.
For sale via Hammett Hayward — see more details and pictures.
Somerset — £1,300,000
A wisteria-clad, six-bed home dating back to the 19th century, with Exmoor National Park literally on your doorstep.
For sale via Fine & Country — see more details and pictures.
East Sussex — £1,250,000
It's all about the garden and the spectacular position on the South Downs at this three-bedroom home in the hills above Lewes.
For sale via Charles Wycherley — see more details and pictures.
Surrey — £950,000
By no means the prettiest home on this list, but to those who love horses this is the holy grail: a house with stables and almost three acres, only just outside the M25, for under £1 million.
For sale via Churchill Country & Equestrian — see more details and pictures.
Perth — £875,000
A country house within a beautiful walled garden enjoying a superb location, woodland and a paddock.
For sale via Galbraith — see more details and pictures.
Shropshire — £845,000
Beautifully presented family house with five bedrooms, jaw-dropping panoramas of Shropshire countryside, and no chain.
For sale via Balfours — see more details and pictures.
Devon — £3.95 million
An estate mentioned in the Domesday Book, with a spectacular tale to tell. The house has been here since at least the 13th century, was once the house of the Bishop of Exeter, and was expanded and enlarged in the 19th century to turn it into the Gothic Revival mansion that it is today.
18,000 sq ft, eight bedrooms, plus a string of ancillary flats make this more than just a home in the countryside outside Exeter. And did we mention the chapel, with its stained glass windows?
For sale via Strutt & Parker — see more details and pictures.
East Sussex — £5 million
Over 100 acres of land, staggeringly impressive equestrian facilities (including a hangar-like barn containing an indoor manege) and a sprawling eight-bedroom house, set in rolling hills near Hartfield, between Tunbridge Wells and East Grinstead. A country estate that's genuinely commutable to London.
For sale via Savills — see more details and pictures.
Surrrey — £6.95 million
At first glance a classic Arts-and-Crafts mansion in the Surrey hills between Guildford and Dorking, but a closer look reveals a house built to exacting standards as recently as 2013.
The countryside — which is incredibly unspoilt considering the proximity to London — surrounds the place, while inside there's charm, space, and a magnificent wine cellar-slash-tasting room.
For sale via Knight Frank — see more details and pictures.
Hertfordshire — £1.7 million
Surrounded by countryside in the village of Cottered, this home — which is less than two years old — might be very new, but it scores highly for its location and (unlike far too many new builds) the 1.37-acre plot.
And what you might lose in character you gain back in energy savings: this superbly-insulated house has an air source heat pump, solar panels and more eco-friendly elements to earn it an impressive EPC rating of 87.
For sale via Michael Graham — see more details and pictures.
Cornwall — £3.4 million
A five-bedroom house right on the water at Restronguet Point, giving unmatched views across the Fal Estuary.
The house itself dates to the 1960s — it was built by well-known local architect John Crowther — and retains a mid-20th-century vibe within, with parquet flooring and huge picture windows. But really, this one is all about the location and the 135ft of waterfront to call your own.
For sale via Strutt & Parker — see more details and pictures.
Berkshire — £9.25 million
A real rarity in the form of a 250-acre estate for sale in Berkshire. An 11,000 sq ft country house is at the heart of things, but there are half a dozen cottages, land, equestian facilities, farmland and a motor museum. The vendors are happy to split it into lots.
For sale via Savills — see more details and pictures.
Buckinghamshire — £3.425 million
A charming village house that feels like a true country home, yet walking distance from a station that can get you to London in under an hour.
For sale via Michael Graham — see more details and pictures.
West Berkshire — £13.5 million
A huge country house, extensively renovated, on a magnificent 31-acre estate. Everything looks superbly done — with the sort of pool you'd imagine seeing in The White Lotus.
For sale via Strutt & Parker — see more details and pictures.
Suffolk — £1.75 million
An Elizabethan manor house in the wonderful town of Woodbridge.
It's also deceptively large — six bedrooms, nine acres — which you might not spot from the pictures. What you will spot from the pictures is that it's utterly charming throughout.
