Hampshire, offers in excess of £4 million
Six-bedroom, Grade II-listed, Tudor The Priory is positioned around an immaculate courtyard knot garden with intricate box hedging and topiary contrasting with 15th-century ruins beyond. Set discreetly off Odiham village high street, near Hook, there are nearly five acres of meticulously cared-for formal gardens, incorporating a large pond to the west with free-roaming ducks and geese and a central weeping willow. Strutt & Parker (01256 702 892)
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Oxfordshire, £850,000
A sizeable thatched house at the tip of the Cotswolds, near Banbury, Gowers Close looks out through large leaded windows onto a terrace and a landscaped south-facing garden that has featured in several magazines; the vendor is a gardening writer. It has five bedrooms, wisteria, a vine-covered pergola for alfresco dining, shrub borders, lavender, box, yew and a vegetable patch. Savills (01295 228 000)
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Northumberland, £4.5 million
The twin-turreted treehouse in the three-acre gardens at Springfield House, Corbridge, is an impressive piece of architecture by the same company that built the famous Alnwick Garden treehouse. It connects to the main house via a stone terrace. The principal gardens lie to the south at the front of the six-bedroom Victorian home, where there are open lawns, an all-weather tennis court, rhododendrons and tall evergreen trees. Sanderson Young (0191–223 3500)
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Cheshire, £3.995 million
Said to be one of the most impressive Arts-and-Crafts houses in the country, Thieves Hollow, near Prestbury, has seven bedrooms and a plant room and sits in 10 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds with southerly views. There’s also a lodge with permission for a swimming pool, gymnasium and games room. Jackson-Stops & Staff (01625 54 0340)
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Breathtaking views and gardens that run down to the water's edge at this delightful home in CornwallThe Garden House in Polruan sums up the appeal of waterside living. Penny Churchill steps inside.
