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The Shropshire boarding school that's lived multiple lives, transformed into a wonderful country house with the coolest cellar we've seen in yearsOakhurst Hall, just outside Oswestry, is a house that's lived many lives — but it's never looked better than it does now.
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Home is where the hearth is: Five picture-perfect cottages with glorious fireplacesAn imposing inglenook fireplace can be the natural heart of a home — and a characterful draw for buyers — as it radiates warmth and coaxes company towards that comforting glow.
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A 350-year-old estate in Barbados that’s hosted royals and Helen Mirren, furnished with 400 potted plantsOh, and it comes with 400 pot plants.
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The seven best-kept secrets in the UK property marketExclusive research from Strutt & Parker shows the best places, near the best places, to buy.
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This Easter, give the gift of a small Welsh islandIn the heart of Eryri National Park, Ynys Gifftan is the very definition of privacy in natural beauty.
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A 16th century gatehouse for sale outside the castle where Henry VIII is thought to have pursued Anne BoleynBolebroke Castle in East Sussex is full of fascinating history — and its striking Tudor gatehouse is currently up for sale.
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A Cluedo board rendered real at a country pile with 19 bedrooms, and a gym in the chapelThere aren't many privately-owned houses in Britain where you need a map to get around. Burton Hill House is one of them.
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'The most beautiful house for sale in London' is a six-bedroom home with a walled garden that backs on to Greenwich ParkWill Hosie takes a look at Crooms Hill — and immediately starts figuring out how to raise three million pounds.
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A Georgian lodge tucked away on a 900-acre National Trust estate in one of the most beautiful settings in PembrokeshireA Georgian lodge has come up for sale on a National Trust-owned estate, just a short walk from one of the prettiest beaches in Wales.
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Part Scottish castle, part French chateau, part Gothic fantasy: The $60 million home in the heart of the wealthiest village in TexasThe Lodge at Hunters Creek is an extraordinary blend of styles in a bucolic setting, yet it's just a short drive from one of America's busiest cities.
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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 farmhousesEvery generation tells and re-tells the best stories, and the fresh treatment given to Emily Brontë's 1847 classic 'Wuthering Heights' will be enough to get even the strongest among us pining for the moors.
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A 'Sleeping Beauty' house, covered in wisteria and tucked away in ancient woodland, has come up for sale in SussexThe impossibly romantic Durrant House, set amid woodland, gardens and ancient rocks, is like nothing we've seen before.
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Rolling Stones legend Charlie Watts spent four decades in this idyllic Devon home — and now it's up for saleIn the early 1980s, Charlie Watts and his wife Shirley were looking to buy a country escape. They found it in the pages of Country Life, and stayed there happily for the rest of their lives. Now their daughter Seraphina is putting this idyllic home on the market, as Arabella Youens reports.
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A 1980s sitcom superstar is selling his 'just idyllic' Surrey hideawayThe actor Peter Egan, who became a household name when starring in one of the best-loved sitcoms of the 1980s, has put his home on the market.
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Five superb homes, from a Wiltshire mansion to 'the best flat in Battersea', as seen in Country LifeOur look at the best homes to come to the market via Country Life this week includes several places with pools and tennis courts.
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The Norfolk home of the grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, has come to the marketLady Fermoy's former home Uphall is on the market, with 11 bedrooms, endless charm and a Victorian swimming pond in the gardens.
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When is a cottage not a cottage? When it's a spectacular, glass-walled lakehouse making waves in 'Heated Rivalry'The television show 'Heated Rivalry' has become such a huge hit that the phrase 'coming to the cottage' has found a whole new definition. But does that spell trouble for those who still think of a cottage as an ancient stone-built home with a thatched roof? Will Hosie investigates.
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The nearest thing you'll find to a tropical lodge in London? This exotic home is right on the Thames, and 10 miles from the centre of the cityThe aptly-named River Haven is for sale in Thames Ditton, and it's a gorgeously exotic home.
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A Grade II-listed farmhouse just outside the Cornwall village dubbed 'Hollywood-on-Sea', on sale for the first time in 500 yearsIn the hills above Mawgan Porth, a wonderful opportunity has come up to take on a Georgian farmhouse, and the 167 acres that come with it.
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'We made the mistake of accepting the word of a surveyor. Off we went on a voyage of restoration lasting 30 years': Griff Rhys-Jones on his first house in the countryThe comedian, actor and conservation campaigner Griff Rhys-Jones has called rural Suffolk home for over 40 years.
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A Georgian home that's the epitome of the country house dream, with four-poster beds, Aga and pool, set in one of Britain's most sought-after spotsThis glorious house in Bruton 'would have sold almost instantly' during the race for space. These days buyers seeking dream homes in Somerset can afford to take their time a bit more — although things do seem to be speeding up again, as Arabella Youens reports.
