Seven magnificent properties for sale, from a Surrey mansion to Gloucestershire estate, as seen in Country Life
Our weekly round-up includes a truly superb home with gardens laid out by the great Gertrude Jekyll.


Bedfordshire — £1.695 million
Built in 1725, this Grade II listed property has been sympathetically and professionally remodelled with the utmost respect to its history. 4 reception rooms, 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, playroom, boot room, plant room, cellar, summer house, garden with terrace and lawn areas, triple car port.
For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details about this property.
Cumbria — £2.25 million
Beautifully renovated and diversified residential farm in a spectacular setting. 3 reception rooms, 2 en suite bedrooms, 3 further bedrooms, traditional barns, tea room with 2 en suite letting rooms, 1 mile of Ullswater lakeshore, lakeshore cabins, grassland, woodland and fell rights.
For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details about this property.
Gloucestershire — £11.5 million
Substantial, ringfenced farming and sporting estate within the Cotswolds AONB, with about 911 acres of productive arable land.Attractive three-bedroom Cotswold stone cottage, plus further estate dwellings, operational farm buildings, grain storage and family pheasant shoot with potential to improve.
For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details about this property.
Hertfordshire — £1.75 million
Attractive Georgian-style detached house set in a secluded, tucked away location. 2 reception rooms, 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, wine cellar, double and triple garages, formal gardens and woodland.
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For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details about this property.
Hertfordshire — £1.75 million
Landmark village property with far reaching views. 4 reception rooms, 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, conservatory, double garage, arrangement of outbuildings with immense potential, including two original stables.
For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details about this property.
Norfolk — £1.65 million
A detached Grade II* Listed family home. Comes with a large garden, meadows and orangery, together with gate house, traditional barn, stabling and ancillary buildings. For sale as a whole or in three lots.
For sale with Brown & Co. See more pictures and details about this property.
Surrey — Price on application
Beautiful Grade II listed Queen Anne country house set in 16 acres containing many authentic period features. 5 reception rooms, master bedroom, 8 further bedrooms. Gertrude Jekyll-designed formal gardens, south facing terrace, paddock and woodland.
For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details about this property.
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Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.
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Tim Burton is selling the house he shared with Helena Bonham-Carter, a sublime home on the Thames that comes with three private islands
Mill House in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, might just be the perfect English country home.
By Rosie Paterson Published
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Puffins and shearwaters, skuas and terns, gannets and gulls and guillemots and wings, these are a few of our favourite things (seabirds)
From a heroic long-distance swimmer to a producer of spectacularly eerie sound effects, the seabirds seen swooping and diving over British waters have all manner of singular skills.
By John Lewis-Stempel Published
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Tim Burton is selling the house he shared with Helena Bonham-Carter, a sublime home on the Thames that comes with three private islands
Mill House in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, might just be the perfect English country home.
By Rosie Paterson Published
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A spectacular tower for sale that's a blend of Victorian folly, architectural marvel and 21st century family home
Hadlow Tower has space, and a back story of love, jealousy and intrigue.
By Toby Keel Published
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A spectacular, light-filled home on the Isle of Wight where you can see the water from practically every window
Penny Churchill takes a look at the grand and impressive Fishbourne Quay House.
By Penny Churchill Last updated
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The former stables — and recording studio for the Pet Shop Boys — transformed with a magical blend of city and country aesthetic, now seeking a new owner
In the heart of Clerkenwell, what was once a Victorian industrial unit is now a beautiful home.
By Toby Keel Last updated
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The Good Life 2025? A development promising 'Britain's greenest homes' blends zero carbon, organic allotments and a touch of luxury in the Kent countryside
Hartdene Barns, sitting on a disused dairy farm in Kent, is a vision of what sustainable living one day mean for all of us.
By Annunciata Elwes Published
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Breathtaking views and gardens that run down to the water's edge at this delightful home in Cornwall
The Garden House in Polruan sums up the appeal of waterside living. Penny Churchill steps inside.
By Penny Churchill Published
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A 500-acre estate that spent 11 centuries in the same family, for sale for only the second time in its history
In the beautiful hills of north Wales the Garthewin estate has come up for sale, including a great country house once restored by the architect who created Portmeirion. Penny Churchill takes a closer look.
By Penny Churchill Published
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'The city has always held an important creative space within our design studio': A luxury townhouse in Tokyo, courtesy of Aston Martin
A new four-storey property in the Omotesandō district is the first single home private residence by the British ultra-luxury performance brand.
By James Fisher Published