Hampshire — £3.995 million
Magnificent period home full of character features, perfectly secluded within woodland, complete with a wonderful outdoor swimming pool — and just over a mile from Liphook, from where direct trains run to Waterloo.
For sale via Strutt & Parker — see more pictures and details.
Essex — £2.65 million
Six bedrooms, a barn, a Grade II-listed Dovecote... and most intriguingly of all, a willow orchard. Time to branch out into making your own cricket bats!
For sale via Knight Frank — see more details and images.
Bedfordshire — £2 million
How many houses come with the sort of bridge that Monet might have painted? Not many, but this lovely place in Marston Moretaine does. It's a former rectory with a separate coach house, nearly 7,000sq ft of space in total, and over three acres of wraparound gardens.
For sale with Michael Graham — see more details and pictures
Cheshire — £4.45 million
An absolutely wonderful Arts-and-Crafts home in a magnificent woodland setting. Seven bedrooms in the main house plus several cottages, and ridiculously good leisure facilities — including a swimming pool which could have been lifted from a Las Vegas hotel
For sale via Savills — see more pictures and details
North Yorkshire — £21 million
As we wrote about a week or two ago, Ripley Castle isn't so much a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as a once-in-ten-lifetimes one: it hasn't changed hands in 700 years. Incredible.
For sale via Carter Jonas and Christie's — see more pictures and details.
