If owning your own stately home is out of reach, living in the gatehouse can offer much of the charm at a fraction of the price, as these lovely homes demonstrate.
Kent – £529,950
Anyone who read The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett as a child has long dreamed of finding such an idyll – and here it is:
The rose garden at Great Maytham Hall Estate inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett to write ‘The Secret Garden’
The romantic, rose-filled walled garden at Great Maytham Hall, in a setting designed by Gertrude Jekyll, is the very spot that inspired the author.
In the village of Rolvenden, near Tenterden, 1, The Clock House has three bedrooms and has been modernised, yet retains period features, including the split stable door. Laurel hedging creates its own secret garden, with a climber-clad pergola.
For sale with Jackson-Stops . See more pictures and details about this property.
Oxfordshire – £775,000
As charming as they come and in the glorious Evenlode Valley AONB, The Gatehouse was once the entrance to Jacobean Shipton Court, just four miles from Burford, gateway to the Cotswolds.
Views from this three-bedroom property, which comes with an English ‘mulberry lawn’, take in the grounds of the big house and the village of Shipton-under-Wychwood.
For sale with Butler Sherborn . See more pictures and details about this property.
Cornwall – £320,000
Once the gatehouse to medieval Pengersick Castle, this character property has two bedrooms over three floors, with a private, elevated garden.
It’s only a short walk from Praa Sands, a white-sand beach with shallow waters and backed by dunes, which faces south-west between the Lizard Peninsula and Penzance on the beautiful south-Cornish coast.
For sale with Lillicrap Chilcott. See more pictures and details about this property.
Warwickshire – £565,000
Close to the Oxfordshire border, in the Cotswold AONB, castellated Broadmoor Lodge in Little Wolford, near Shipston-on-Stour, was once the lodge to Weston House.
Built in 1846, it has an orangery (recently added) and three bedrooms, one of which is octagonal, and features a fireplace, vaulted ceilings and pretty lawned gardens.
For sale with Hayman Joyce . See more pictures and details about this property.
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