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Girls just want to have fun (in Somerset): A weekend away in one of the West Country's best holiday homesThe right holiday home can inspire you to throw even the best laid plans to the wind, finds Rosie Paterson, on a weekend away to Somerset’s wild and mystical Quantock Hills.
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A country house with dour façade which hides some of the most amazing Jacobean interiors you'll ever seeReject modernity and embrace tradition on Melbourn Street in Royston.
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A 300-year-old Jacobean mansion that comes with woodland, orchard and its own mini-villageFrome is where the heart is, so they say. It's easy to see why you might fall in love with this small estate called Selwood Manor in Somerset, mind.
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Is now a good time to buy a house? What do you need to ask before making an offer? And where are the best places to look? Annabel Dixon on the Country Life podcastProperty writer Annabel Dixon joins the Country Life Podcast to take a look at the state of play in the housing market.
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An exquisite Georgian country house for sale for the first time in 40 years in a village with an irresistibly quirky nameYou'd never get sick of writing 'Trudoxhill' as your address — nor of living in this beautiful country home in this pretty Somerset village.
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House buyers pay up to 122% more to live in one of Britain's most beautiful areasFancy living on the doorstep of a picture-perfect landscape? Be prepared to pay a premium as high as 122% for it, according to Savills.
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21 magical homes, from a miniature castle to a house in a fairytale setting, as seen in Country LifeWe've fallen in love with a house by a lake in Wiltshire this week.
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A £13 million Wiltshire mansion where Nancy Mitford and Siegfried Sassoon once partied with 'the brightest of the Bright Young Things'After Wilford Manor's glory days in the 1920s it became a near-wreck with a tree was growing out of one of the bedrooms; today, it's as wonderful as it has ever been in its history, and is seeking a new owner.
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A gorgeous Victorian farmhouse that comes with almost 900 acres of Exmoor all to yourselfEmmetts Grange is the highest farmhouse on Exmoor — and one of the most enticing. Penny Churchill takes a look.
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A glorious wisteria-clad home on the edge of Exmoor for under £1 millionThe Church House in West Anstey benefits from a superb location, offers plenty of gardens and three bedrooms. It also wouldn't look out of place on the cover of the magazine.
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A five-bedroom home on Dartmoor where brown trout flourish, swallows glide and song thrushes lead the dawn chorusAt Bagpark near Widecombe-in-the-moor, the current owners have taken a delightful manor house and turned it into a home for nature.
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The British seaside towns where the average home costs almost £1 million — and the ones where you can still buy a home for £100kThis pretty town has retained its crown as the most expensive place to buy a coastal home. Annabel Dixon discovers which other resorts made the cut.
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Live and let live in the gorgeous former monastery that's been home to everyone from iconic Bond girls to legends of musicJane Seymour bought this stunning house a few years after becoming one of the most celebrated Bond girls in the entire 007 series; now, it's seeking a new owner.
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Red-brick walls, a thatched roof, a barn and an EPC rating of A. This home of the future in Dorset looks suspiciously like the pastAt Godwins House near Christchurch, tradition and modernity embrace to create exquisite results.
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An award-winning architectural delight in Polzeath that's a perfect place to watch the sun setKai Tak in Cornwall is a surfer's paradise, with three levels of contemporary accommodation in the heart of one of Cornwall's best towns.
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A honey-coloured home in Wiltshire that sits at peace with its landscapeRock Cottage offers four bedrooms and almost two acres of land in the pristine countryside near Turleigh.
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Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian? The most popular period property styles revealedWhether it's a manor house in the country or a terraced house in the city, it's Victorian homes that have the most pulling power. Here are the other architectural eras that are capturing buyers’ attention.
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What you need to know about buying an equestrian propertyOwning a house with land where you can keep and ride your own horses is the dream for equestrians everywhere — but there are a number of things you need to know before you take the plunge. Annabel Dixon spoke to experts in the field to share their advice.
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A former monastery up for sale, with eight acres and breathtaking viewsThe aptly named Monastery once welcomed residents such as Eric Gill, Edgar Holloway and David Jones. Now it's a characterful family home with 8 acres of sublime countryside.
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A £24 million estate that has everything you could dream of — except the final half acre to make it perfectThe Buckholt Estate is a grand country home in a grand country estate of a size that's a hair's breadth away from being a grand.
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Six stunning estates for sale, from the big to the small, as seen in Country LifeGrow your own wine in Kent, power your house with the sun in Cornwall, or get lost in the woodland of the Lake District with our pick of the best homes to come up for sale via Country Life last week.
