I absolutely hated 'Wuthering Heights', but the film sounds like fun — and so now I'm moving to one of these impossibly remote and romantic farmhouses

I spent what feels like eight years studying Wuthering Heights.

It probably wasn't eight years; actually, definitely not, because it was one of my set texts for A-level English. It merely felt that long because I hated the entire thing. The characters, the setting, the language... the whole lot.

You might think that means I'm not excited by the prospect of the new Wuthering Heights film adaptation, but you'd be wrong.

I've not seen it yet, but by all accounts it does everything it can to take the best ingredients (Sex! Death! Adorable old houses! The Moors!), skate over the boring bits (everything else), and wrap it up in a movie that sounds like a sort of Inglorious Basterds treatment of Emily Brontë. And the best bit? I'll be able to watch the whole trashy mess in a fraction of the time it'd take to read a single chapter of Nelly warbling on about the Earnshaws and the Lintons.

So while the book itself did its best to turn me off going to live in a remote Yorkshire farmhouse, the film has turned me back on to it — and I don't think I'll be alone in that. So here, for those of us who find themselves pining for an existence that ends with their lifeless body being dug up by a crazed former lover*, is our pick of the best Wuthering Heights-worthy farmhouses for sale across Britain right now.

North Yorkshire — £3.15 million

Let's start this look at Wuthering Houses with this absolute beauty of a place which is, at first glance, almost too beautiful to be part of the Brontë world. Built in 1716, Hornby Grange is a six-bedroom house near Northallerton that's set in 20 acres of grounds, with wonderful views of the North Yorks Moors.

Inside, the place is quirky in a very Wuthering way, from the charmingly old-school hallway to a magnificently Gothic home office, complete with wood panelling and a suit of armour in one corner. You can almost picture Nelly coming in and stoking the open fire with another scoop of coal.

Hornby Grange is for sale at £3.15 million through Knight Frank — see more details.

North Yorkshire — £735,000

The classic stone-built house, the slate roof, the backdrop of hills... This house in Upper Niddderdale is the absolute epitome of the Yorkshire farmhouse, and it even dates to the era of Wuthering Heights: it was around half a century old when the book was published.

There's good news for those who want a touch of Brontë romanticism without actually having to rough it too much: the place is gorgeously refurbished inside, with a nicely-balanced blend of old and new.

This property is technically a leasehold, but with 10,000 years left on that lease — coincidentally, the same number of years that it took me to wade through Wuthering Heights.

For sale at £735,000 via Hopkinsons Estate Agents — see more details.

Yorkshire Dales — £725,000

Now this is the sort of view that film-makers dream of when green-lighting the 83rd screen adaptation of Victorian novels. This remote farmhouse is tucked away in a narrow valley between the villages of Dent and Cowgill in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

It's a way off to the north of the old Brontë home at Haworth, but in every other respect this four-bedroom place could be lifted from the pages of the original novel. Beamed ceilings, thick walls, low doorways and huge stone fireplaces in pretty much every room add all the character you could wish for.

As well as the generous gardens and high-speed internet (an unexpected surprise, half-way up Dentdale) there's another bonus: planning permission to convert the barn. Could you turn it into a Brontë tribute holiday home? Why yes, we think you could.

For sale at £725,000 via Fisher Hopper — see more details.

West Yorkshire — £895,000

Finally, we head into West Yorkshire, just a few miles from Brontë Ground Zero at the parsonage in Haworth. And what a find we've made there: Upper Saltonstall, a magical old house, built in 1604, and in the sort of location which will probably make Wuthering Heights's producers kick themselves for not having used the place in the film.

Not only is the setting perfect, everything about the place inside screams 'Wuthering Heights': the ancient stone floors, the wooden panelling, the exposed stonework and beams, the original doors and doorways. This is it. This is Wuthering Heights.

Except, since it's 2025 and not 1847, it's Wuthering Heights with hot water, electricity, 1800Mbps broadband, a decent mobile phone signal, bathrooms swish enough to grace a decent hotel, an Aga in the kitchen and a double-garage.

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In other words, it's a house that is a perfect mash-up of Gothic fantasy and post-industrial consumerism. Just like the film, in fact. What a place it would be to live.

For sale at £895,000 via Charnock Bates — see more details.

*Apparently, the director left this bit out of the film. Which is like leaving the 'To be or not to be' soliloquy out of Hamlet. Madness.