Country Houses and Estates
The latest Country House & Estate breaking news, comments and features from Country Life
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A beautiful house that comes with an award-winning wine estate which supplies Raymond Blanc
The Ancre Hill Estate in Monmouthshire produces 100,000 bottles per year — but it's a place which is ripe for an ambitious new owner. Annunciata Elwes reports.
By Country Life Published
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A sprawling estate with a country house, cottages and a huge swathe of woodland, set just minutes from Glasgow
Finnich Malise offers the trappings of a Scottish estate without the need to head into the Highlands or islands to get there.
By Toby Keel Published
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A stunning, 16th century English mansion on Guildford Estate...across the pond in Pennsylvania
Guildford in Chestnut Hill is the perfect English country mansion with a rich history and beautiful views. Inspired by Sutton Place in Surrey, the stately home has found itself in quite a different setting on the other side of the world.
By Alexandra Fraser Published
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A sprawling estate that includes not one but two magnificent country houses
It's not often that great country houses come to the open market in Cheshire — but two have arrived at once in the form of Cogshall Hall and Cogshall Grange.
By Penny Churchill Published
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A Grade II-listed farming estate, once home to unruly horses and their talented trainer
A landmark Oxfordshire estate where champion racehorses were prepared – or retrained – is an exciting addition to the market.
By Penny Churchill Published
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A vast Scottish estate for sale that includes five of the Munros, at the cost of a central London flat
Pait and West Monar is a Scottish estate of enormous proportions that's full of all sorts of potential.
By Toby Keel Published
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The journey of a beautiful Suffolk estate from crumbling ruin to modern masterpiece, with a 448-acre conservation and sporting estate
Worlingham Hall fought off damp and dry rot to become an exceptional Grade-I listed Georgian country home. Penny Churchill reports.
By Penny Churchill Published
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An estate with glorious views and a library tower on the shores of Loch Ness
This spectacularly-located estate on the banks of Loch Ness offers grand accommodation, miles of land and a castellated tower with a 360-degree viewing and entertaining space. Toby Keel reports.
By Toby Keel Published
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A new mansion in the coveted Wentworth Estate that has it all... including state-of-the-art spa facilities and a car museum
Westbourn is the kind of place for someone who has everything – family and friends to fill the large bedrooms, numerous cars to stack the 'car museum' and £17 million to foot the bill...
By Alexandra Fraser Published
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A stunning Grade II-listed country house in Norfolk, adjoining a 4,500-acre National Trust estate
The Grange in Aylsham is an extraordinarily well-appointed country house, with numerous outbuildings and a charming demeanour, inside and out.
By Penny Churchill Published
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A traditional country estate in Kent with stunning views of the North Downs, on the market for the first time in 70 years
An exception to the law which saw many of Kent's finest estates divided among families and therefore unable to support a traditional country house lifestyle, Pettings Court remains one of the most extensive holdings in the parish.
By Penny Churchill Published
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A wonderfully unspoilt 120 acre estate in the heart of ‘a Country of Gardens and Orchards’
Bernithan Court estate boasts a 17th century Grade II-listed manor house, rich pastureland and a lake famous for breeding monster carp.
By Penny Churchill Published
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A perfect small estate in Surrey up for sale with croquet lawn, pool and easy access to the City
Dunsfold is an ideal spot for those moving out of London: out in the countryside but within easy reach of great schools, the bustling local hub that is Guildford and with quick rail links for when you need to get into town. Penny Churchill takes a look at a property that's up for sale in this desirable area.
By Country Life Published
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The curious tale of how estate agents came to run the British property market
From gentlemen farmers to auctioneers of Nazi wine, Roderick Easdale traces the birth of British estate agents.
By Roderick Easdale Published
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A nine-acre estate with plenty of room for improvement, wonderfully secluded in the north of England
Old Ridley Hall is a Grade II-listed country house, under 20 miles from the busy Newcastle-upon-Tyne, yet firmly ensconced in its own rural privacy. Penny Churchill reports.
By Penny Churchill Published
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A country house with a clock tower ready for conversion on this beautiful Wiltshire estate
Sensible pricing is all the rage as we enter 2019 and Lower Moor Manor comes with it all: six bedrooms, a reasonable price tag and planning permission to convert a beautiful tower into a two-bedroom dwelling.
By Penny Churchill Published
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Two beautiful estates for sale, as seen in Country Life
This week we take a look at a pair of incredible houses in the north of England which have come to the market.
By Country Life Published
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The ancient estate of the de Vere family, sympathetically updated to include a tennis court, swimming pool and a stunning orangery
Once the seat of one of the most powerful families in Oxford, Crepping Hall and its surrounding grounds will provide the ideal countryside escape for one lucky buyer.
By Penny Churchill Published
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An idyllic 80-acre estate in the Cotswolds with a 10-bedroom Tudor house, stables and woodland
From time to time an estate comes up for sale which looks like something out of a bucolic fantasy novel. This Gloucestershire property – a late-Tudor home in dozens of acres of sprawling countryside – is just such a place.
By Toby Keel Published
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A country estate on the shores of Lake Windermere, complete with its own boathouse
The sale of this glorious Lake District estate has just fallen through – but one buyer's loss will be another's gain, as Penny Churchill reports.
By Penny Churchill Published
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A rare and wonderful estate that includes a Georgian house, a former royal deer park and 500 acres of the Cotswolds
Sudeley Lodge Estate, one of the most remarkable properties in Gloucestershire, has come to the market.
By Penny Churchill Published


