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Seven glorious country houses for under £1 million

January 13, 2018, 6:00 am
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You don't have to be a millionaire to live in a grand country mansion, as these beautiful homes across Britain demonstrate.

Yorkshire, £725,000

Local folklore has it that Whernside Manor may have provided inspiration for Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë and her sisters went to school in nearby Cowan Bridge). Set in tranquil Dentdale, close to the Dales Way, any ghosts of former residents have long since been banished.

This nine-bedroom gentleman’s residence has previously been run as a B&B and, with a little modernisation, could become a fabulous private home or boutique hotel.

For sale via Richard Turner & Son – see more pictures and details.

Hampshire, £995,000

A six-bedroom family house in the Test Valley for less than £1 million? Pull the other one, you might say, if you weren’t already pulling on your waders to take advantage of some of the finest trout fishing in the country nearby. Pretty, Grade II-listed Brook Farm House is in the hamlet of Brook, on the banks of the River Test.

Surrounded by rolling chalk hills, the house has 17th-century origins, but has been sympathetically modernised. There’s a spacious kitchen, leading to a sitting room with a log burner. The master bedroom has a dressing room and en-suite shower and there are five further bedrooms.

For sale via Strutt & Parker – see more pictures and details.

Cornwall, £695,000

When Kenneth Grahame penned the line ‘there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so worth doing as messing about in boats’, he might well have been sitting in the front garden of Wandsley, which runs down to Lerryn Creek, part of the Fowey Estuary, which inspired The Wind in the Willows.

Waterfront properties this charming in picturesque Lerryn don’t come up very often. This one is south-facing, with three double bedrooms, gardens of one acre, backing onto National Trust woodland and mooring for a boat.

For sale via Fowey River Estate Agency – see more pictures and details.

Perthshire, offers over £900,000

Nine-bedroom Bardmony House has only been for sale once in its 400-year history. It sits in nearly six acres of gardens and grounds in the Vale of Strathmore. Dating from the 15th century, a Georgian façade was added in 1830 and this part of the house includes a typically elegant drawing room.

An additional wing was added in 1991. There’s also a gardener’s cottage, garaging and outbuildings. At offers over £900,000, it may also squeak in under the crucial £925,000 Stamp Duty threshold.

For sale via Savills – see more pictures and details.

Suffolk, £880,000

In the absurdly pretty Constable Country village of Nayland, this Georgian former steam mill sits in a quiet lane, moments away from the bustling high street.

The immaculate accommodation – including a bespoke kitchen with Aga, five bedrooms and four bathrooms, is set over four floors, with wonderful views from the top floor. Trains from nearby Colchester reach London Liverpool Street in under an hour.

For sale via Fine and Country – see more pictures and details.

Wiltshire, £995,000

This dreamy house is Grade I listed, thanks to its handsome medieval open hall, thought to be the oldest in Wiltshire. The Old House, in the lively village of Market Lavington, has all the accoutrements of country living, including a family kitchen with Aga, a boot room and five double bedrooms.

The master bedroom includes a rolltop bath and overlooks delightful gardens with a parterre, a lawn and mature borders. There’s also scope for a self-contained one-bedroom annexe.

For sale via Hamptons – see more pictures and details.

Devon, £810,000

In an idyllic, secluded setting at Lewdown on the northern edge of Dartmoor, The Old Cottage is a traditional stone four-bedroom house with three holiday lets in its 2½ acres of landscaped gardens. The main house is flanked by a one-bedroom converted barn with its own garden.

In the paddock, to the front of the house, are two delightful shepherd’s huts, ideal for shorter stays, with their own electric and water supplies. Should the new owners prefer to return the paddock to its original use, there’s also a tack room and stables.

For sale via Mansbridge & Balment – see more pictures and details.

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The stunning converted barn with its own timber cabin

January 25, 2018, 3:00 am
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The Barn at Watton, near Bridport has been extensively refurbished and extended to create the ideal family home.

the barn at watton

Less than a mile from the bustling Georgian town of Bridport is The Barn at Watton, a former stone barn under a thatched roof which, under the current owners, has been extensively enlarged and refurbished to create a beautiful three bedroom family home retaining many character features.

The carefully considered character features include exposed beams, bespoke oak windows, elm and sweet chestnut joinery, solid oak doors, hamstone flagstone flooring, a bespoke elm staircase and hamstone fireplaces throughout.

The bespoke kitchen is particularly beautiful with maple worktops, an oil-fired Aga, flagstone flooring and a walk-in pantry.

On the first floor is a landing area and stunning minstrels gallery with study area boasting vaulted and beamed ceiling and views to the sea at West Bay.

The Barn at Watton is set in land about of about half an acre. The front gardens comprise a courtyard area with raised bed and at the rear is a paved courtyard with lean-to log store. To the side is a large elevated timber decking area with stone barbecue and a beyond a large paddock with a detached timber cabin enjoying far reaching views over Bridport and down to West Bay to the sea.

The Barn also boasts a large, oak-framed double garage with attic/play room.

The Barn at Watton is on the market with Humberts at a guide price of £850,000 – see more details and pictures.

 

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Four beautiful thatched cottages for sale

February 2, 2018, 3:00 am
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As Bilbo Baggins has it: ‘It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.’ Best stay warm, under cover of thatch.

Norfolk, £290,000

thatched cottage

With a lovely garden backing onto paddocks and overlooking Worthing Common at the front, pretty The Cottage in Long Green, near the market town of Diss, has two bedrooms and comes with outbuildings.

Durrants (01379 462233)

Suffolk, £675,000

With parts dating from the 16th century and later additions, Ruggs Hall comes with a lot of character – exposed beams, fireplaces, a back stable door and salmon-pink exterior walls. Nevertheless, the interior is well maintained, with a beautiful modern kitchen with handcrafted wooden cabinets, butler sink and electric Aga. In the popular village of Raydon, near Hadleigh, it has three bedrooms; outside, there are extensive lawns, a summer house and greenhouse.

Fenn Wright (countrylife.onthemarket.com; 01473 232700)

Dorset, £1.475 million

Grade II* listed and with 15th-century origins, palatial Old Sandpitts House is set in 10 beautiful acres with a series of spring-fed lakes, a yard, a large barn with a studio, two stables, multiple garages and a paddock. Close to the village of Broadwindsor, near Beaminster, it has seven bedrooms, a library, a 40ft indoor swimming pool, a gym and a separate three-bedroom detached cottage. Also available as four separate lots, the property enjoys views of rolling Dorset countryside from its prominent position in the historic hamlet of Sandpit.

Knight Frank (www.knightfrank.co.uk; 01935 812236)

Wiltshire, £899,950

Of sandy-coloured limestone and dating back to the 1720s, Cress Cottage has been completely restored within. There’s an inglenook fireplace with bread oven, exposed beams and oak floors, plus three bedrooms and landscaped gardens with several apple trees. There’s also a terrace that overlooks the village pond, created from the former cress beds that gave their name to the cottage, which forms the centrepiece of Sherrington, a delightful Wylye Valley village. The market town of Warminster is nearby.

Strutt & Parker (countrylife.onthemarket.com; 01722 344011)

 

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Five dream homes, from castles to townhouses, as seen in Country Life

February 11, 2018, 7:00 am
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We take our regular look at the finest homes to come to the market via Country Life in the past week or so.

Somerset – £2.75 million

A truly exceptional 4 bed country residence – the major wing of a Grade-II* listed building, light & impressive accommodation. 2 garages. Parking. 2.4 acres to river with riparian rights.

For sale with Pritchards. See more pictures and details about this property.

Bristol – £2,950,000

Substantial Victorian house for sale with a large garden in Clifton.

For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details about this property.

Chelsea – £9,000,000

An exceptional, double fronted Chelsea house.

For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details about this property.

London SW1 – £12,950,000

A Grade I listed unmodernised property with direct views of St James’s Park.

For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details about this property.

Regent’s Park – £12,950,000

This magnificent and classical residence has been interior designed and has with exceptional views over Regent’s Park. The property is within easy reach of Regent’s Park (Bakerloo Line), Great Portland Street (Hammersmith and City, Circle and Metropolitan Line) Underground Stations.

For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details about this property.

 

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‘The most beautiful spot on Earth’ for sale as Sir Christopher Ondaatje puts Glenthorne on the market

February 17, 2018, 6:00 am
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Glenthorne, Sir Christopher Ondaatje’s picturesque house on the hilly north Devon coast that incorporatesthe best of Georgian, Tudor and ‘mystical Gothic’ says Penny Churchill.

Glenthorne

Restless and charismatic, the patrician Sir Christopher Ondaatje is no stranger to Country Life, which has variously described him as an ‘adventurer, historian, geographer, author, collector and connoisseur of countless treasures, business magnate, sportsman and philanthropist’ – all of which he has been, and at the highest level, in the course of an extraordinary life.

Writing in the magazine on August 9, 2001, Sir Christopher reflects on his lifelong love affair with Exmoor and the enduring fascination of his ‘mystical Gothic manor house’, Grade II-listed Glenthorne at Countisbury, near Lynton, north Devon, which he and his wife rescued from dereliction in 1985.

With his nearest neighbour some seven miles away, the gloriously secluded house, set in 77 wooded acres overlooking the dramatic west Somerset coastline, has been an oasis of peace and tranquility – a welcome escape from ‘the hurly-burly of city life’.

Sir Christopher dreamed then that ‘someday, the weekends will stretch to meet in the middle, and we will spend most of our time at Glenthorne, living out our days in this peaceful haven’.

Glenthorne

Sadly, times change and with his 85th birthday in the offing, two children living in the USA and their daughter married with homes in the UK, he and his wife have concluded that houses in London, the Bahamas and Canada more than meet their needs. Hence the agonising decision to offer their Devon retreat for sale through Carter Jonas in Taunton at a guide price of £5.5 million – a sensible decision, no doubt, ‘but it hurts’, Sir Christopher admits.

The original Glenthorne estate was created by the Rev Walter Stevenson Halliday, son of a Scottish naval surgeon and banker, who made a fortune during the Napoleonic Wars and died in 1829.

Having resigned from the Church on inheriting his father’s fortune, the bookish Halliday set out to invest in a country estate and eventually settled at Countisbury, where he gradually bought the entire parish – some 7,000 acres in all – and became the local squire.

He immediately embarked on the construction of Glenthorne, a grand new manor house built on a spectacular coastal site overlooking the Bristol Channel – said to be the only piece of flat land between Porlock and Lynmouth.

It reputedly took the best part of a year to create the three-mile drive leading down to it. Thought to be the longest in England, it zig-zags some 1,100ft to the grassy clearing where the house stands, beyond which the lawn falls steeply down to the sea.

For Sir Christopher, ‘it is the most beautiful spot on Earth. Woods climb giant hills behind us, separated occasionally by narrow streams, hidden by ferns and rhododendrons, which cascade over mossy rocks down to the stony beach’.

Halliday was in the happy position of being able to choose his landscape and fit his house into it. Stables were built at Home Farm to house working horses, a track was cut to the shore and a landing stage built for building materials to come in by sea.

Only then could work begin on the house, which is classically Georgian in places and Gothic in others, with some homespun Tudor elements in between. Built of pinkish local stone, ornamented with Bath stone and roofed with Cornish slate, it stands in the most picturesque setting imaginable, against the backdrop of the hills and the moorland of Exmoor above it.

The nucleus of the house was finished in 1831 and, in 1839, the hillside to the rear was extended to provide space for new kitchens and service quarters and a large conservatory added.

In 1846, the front of the house was extended by adding a library wing with a new master bedroom and dressing room above. The bay windows of the library look out over the sea to the north, others face east along the wooded cliffs to Porlock Bay.

During the 1850s, Home Farm, a substantial stone-built house – now fully restored by the present owners and home to a unique museum of literature – was built in a sheltered corner away from the house. It also offers additional accommodation, a first-floor theatre, a charming courtyard and, to the rear, stabling and garaging.

Halliday died childless in 1872, leaving the estate to his sister’s son, William, who was High Sheriff of Devon in 1882. He added the billiard room and had a croquet lawn created at the side of the house. Following William’s death in 1898, Glenthorne was left to his second daughter, Constance, who owned it until her death in 1952; it eventually passed, in 1968, to Benjamin Halliday, the last of the family to live there.

On September 11, 1983, a snippet in Country Life announced the sale, ‘for the first time in its history, of Glenthorne, with 18 acres of gardens, woods and paddock, access to the foreshore, and views across the Bristol Channel to Wales’; offers in the region of £250,000 were sought by Jackson-Stops & Staff in Yeovil. The following year, the house, by then in a parlous state of repair, was bought by the present owners.

‘Despite its romantic, Daphne du Maurier appearance, the house was an absolute wreck, with rain pouring through the roof, right down to the ground floor,’ Sir Christopher recalls.

In typical Ondaatje style, a team of 35 craftsmen and builders was drafted in to renovate the entire, 12,552sq ft house in a military-style operation that took just seven months to complete. Home Farm was acquired some years later.

Today, Glenthorne House boasts impressive accommodation on three floors, including six main reception rooms, a gun room, a kitchen and a breakfast room, a master-bedroom suite, 11 further bedrooms and four further bathrooms. In addition to Home Farm, it comes with a two-bedroom garden cottage and is surrounded by impeccably maintained gardens – the exclusive domain of master gardener Jonathan Dare since 1997.

Glenthorne is for sale via Carter Jonas – see more pictures and details.

 

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A West Country farm that’s the perfect spot for City folk escaping the rat race

March 8, 2018, 3:00 am
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As life in the City of London becomes increasingly uncertain, more and more people are heading off to start a new life in the country – a path that the former owners of the magical Stolford Farm took seven years ago.

Political uncertainty is prompting many Londoners to contemplate swapping a life of ‘getting and spending’ for the ‘good life’, according to property search agent Jess Simpson, who has been busy finding rural retreats for City escapees – retreats exactly such as this one, Stolford Farm, on the market for £3.75 million.

The decisions aren’t being made with heads full of romance, however, as Jess explains.

‘Although some are satisfied with the privacy, security and recreational benefits that come with owning a house surrounded by its own land, others are determined that a farm should pay its way or at least contribute substantially to the property’s overall running costs,’ she says.

‘As a result, we’re seeing new rural businesses popping up all over the place, from specialist market gardens to the production of epicurean foods, as well as more traditional livestock and farming enterprises.’

 

There’s nothing new about families with school-age children moving out of London to enjoy a sporting lifestyle in the countryside. It worked wonderfully well for the owners of Stolford Farm, who bought this picturesque, 272-acre property in 2011.

It’s a beautiful place, situated in a sheltered valley on the Brendon Hills, just outside the Exmoor National Park and with views from its highest points to the Blackdown and Quantock hills and Clatworthy reservoir in west Somerset.

 

No expense has been spared in renovating and extending Stolford Farm’s main farmhouse, which boasts four reception rooms, five bedrooms and four bathrooms.

They have also added a stable block with seven boxes, a tack room and a central covered courtyard; built a proper cross-country course on part of the farm; converted two nearby traditional barns – one to guest accommodation, the other to a gym – and created terraced gardens to provide a pleasing outlook from the house.

‘With the children settled at school in Taunton, the family was happily enjoying life in the country when work commitments intervened to draw them back towards London,’ says Charlie Evans of Strutt & Parker.

‘Having sold the house to them first time around, we are now selling it on their behalf, at a guide price of £3.75 million.’

The timing may be fortuitous, however, as Mr Evans explains: ‘The market in the West Country is only just beginning to wake up after a slow start to the year.

‘Properties have been taking longer to sell, mainly because buyers are not prepared to accept “cheeky” offers, and many of the transactions that have taken place have been done privately.’

 

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A chance to own a huge chunk of Exmoor, including a lovely five-bedroom farmhouse

March 14, 2018, 1:00 am
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Horsecombe Farm in Somerset offers a huge expanse of Exmoor with all sorts of options for a new owner seeking to live the good life.

Horsecombe Farm - Greenslade Taylor-Hunt

If you’re looking to get out of the city and throw yourself into farming life, an opportunity has come up in the West Country which might tick all the boxes.

The 244-acre Horsecombe Farm is located two miles from the village of Exford, in the exact centre of the Exmoor National Park, which is being offered for sale at £1.95 million through Greenslade Taylor-Hunt.

Horsecombe Farm (via Greenslade Taylor-Hunt)

At the heart of the property is a pretty, five-bedroom main farmhouse with accommodation arranged over three floors.

Downstairs, the house features a large kitchen-diner with a separate utility room and pantry. Upstairs, there are three bedrooms on the first floor and a further two on the second floor.

There are also several outbuildings, including a 192ft sheep/cattle building and a wonderfully atmospheric brick-built barn that seems ripe for transformation, subject to the right permissions being obtained.

The seller is willing to split Horsecombe into two lots: one of them, available at £1.2 million, includes the main farmhouse plus the substantial farm buildings and 104 acres of high-quality grassland.

The other lot comprises a further 140 acres of pasture, and is on offer at £750,000.

Horsecombe Farm - Greenslade Taylor-Hunt

For those looking to buy this property with an eye on leisure rather than work, Exmoor offers all manner of opportunities. It’s home to some of the finest hunting, fishing and shooting in the country, while for the equestrian-inclined there are numerous active pony clubs in the area, point-to-points, polo clubs and racing at nearby Taunton.

Exmoor National Park (©Alamy)

Then there is the fishing, both course and game fishing, as well as sailing on local reservoirs, lakes and rivers, including nearby Wimbleball Lake. The north  Somerset coast is also close by for those who’d prefer surfing and sailing on rather different waters.

Horsecombe Farm is for sale via Greenslade Taylor-Hunt – see more pictures and details.

 

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A magnificent house on its own headland at The Lizard, the balmiest place in Britain

March 15, 2018, 4:00 am
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Polbream is for sale for the first time in a generation – Penny Churchill takes a look at this delightful Cornish spot.

Via Savills in Truro: For sale at a guide price of £2 million is Polbream, in Mullion, some eight miles south of Helston. This extended former farmhouse sits on its own headland, Polbream Point

Spring comes early on the Lizard Peninsula, which, thanks to the warming effect of the Gulf Stream, boasts the balmiest climate in Britain. Sub-tropical vegetation grows along the cliffs, and primroses and foxgloves are about to flower in the hedgerows and on the clifftops of the spectacular Heritage Coast, which runs down the western edge of the peninsula from Porthleven to Enys Head – just beyond Lizard Point, the most southerly point of the mainland.

With much of the Lizard coastline heavily protected, both for its raw beauty and the richness of its flora and birdlife, houses with direct access to the sea rarely come onto the market. One has now come up with Savills in Truro, however, at a guide price of £2 million: Polbream, in Mullion, some eight miles south of Helston.

Pic: Savills

This extended former farmhouse sits on its own headland, Polbream Point, and faces south over Polurrian Cove, the National Trust-owned Mullion Island and out across the sea to the west.

Also owned by the Trust is much of Mullion Head, home to breeding colonies of kittiwakes, razorbills, guillemots and black-headed gulls, and the historic stone harbour of Mullion Cove.

Pic: SAvils

Polbream, for sale for the first time in 20 years, stands in just under six acres of terraced gardens and land.

Savills

The house itself offers 3,379sq ft of family accommodation, including two reception rooms, a kitchen/breakfast room, a study, five bedrooms and five bathrooms, with most rooms enjoying breathtaking views out over the coastline.

Via Savills in Truro: For sale at a guide price of £2 million is Polbream, in Mullion, some eight miles south of Helston. This extended former farmhouse sits on its own headland, Polbream Point

But while the house is nice it’s undoubtedly the setting which will attract most buyers. Historically, the towering cliffs and jagged rocks of the Lizard’s coastline, which bars the way in and out of the busy Fal estuary, had a fearsome reputation as a graveyard for ships, the scene of many a maritime disaster.

Via Savills in Truro: For sale at a guide price of £2 million is Polbream, in Mullion, some eight miles south of Helston. This extended former farmhouse sits on its own headland, Polbream Point

Nowadays, the wilder Atlantic west coast is a haven for the discerning, hardy few who appreciate its staggering views, quiet surf beaches and secret coves. The more protected east side offers shelter from the prevailing winds and fewer opportunities to surf, but many more family-friendly beaches.

The deep, sheltered valleys, ancient forests and safe waters of the Helford River and Loe Pool, which form the northern boundary of the peninsula, encouraged the rich and famous to build holiday homes there in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Pic: Savills

However, with no railway to lure travellers beyond historic Helston, Britain’s most southerly town, in Victorian times, few were inclined to venture farther south.

Even today, the narrow lanes of the Helford Valley tend to discourage weary family drivers from going the extra mile.

 

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A thatched waterside cottage for sale in one of Cornwall’s most beautiful spots

March 19, 2018, 4:00 am
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The brilliantly-name Hotch Potch lies in prime position overlooking a stretch of water made famous by Daphne du Maurier. Penny Churchill reports.

Hotchpotch in Helford (Lillicrap Chilcott)

Immortalised by Daphne du Maurier in her novel Frenchman’s Creek, the Helford River nestles between the western edge of Falmouth Bay and the sheltered eastern side of the Lizard Peninsula. More secluded than the main estuary are the river’s many steep-sided, tree-lined creeks, which provide a tranquil habitat for a wide range of bird and marine wildlife.

Helford river estuary - aerial view

‘There are many compelling reasons why families return to Helford year after year, and generation after generation, usually to take advantage of the idyllic sheltered creeks and inlets of the Helford river, which is ideal for day sailing,’ says Ian Lillicrap, founder of Truro-based Lillicrap Chilcott.

Mr Lillicrap is handling the £1.1 million sale of the delightful Hotch Potch in Helford, which stands on high ground overlooking the water, the village and the creek below – it’s the thatched cottage towards the top left of this picture:

Hotchpotch in Helford (Lillicrap Chilcott)

This enchanting three-bedroom house, on the market for the first time in 40 years, overlooks the pretty, colour-washed and thatched cottages of a delightfully unspoilt village that hugs the shoreline of the tidal creek.

Re-thatched in 2016, and equally desirable as a main or second home, according to the agent, Hotch Potch was built in the traditional local style in 1964.

It offers luxurious accommodation on two floors, including a reception hall, a dual-aspect master bedroom and two further bedrooms on the upper floor.

On the lower ground floor there is a large living room, a handmade Richard Winfrey kitchen and a stunning recent addition – a splendid dining conservatory with breathtaking views over the river.

The house, which appears to belie its name, comes with gated driveway parking, a thatched studio/home office, landscaped and well-stocked gardens, terraces and a deck, with steps descending to the village.

Planning consent has existed to convert the loft space to a superb master suite with 360-degree views. The owners have also considered extending the house to the rear, but, as their children have now left home, they have not felt the need to do so.

 

Hotch Potch is for sale via Lillicrap Chilcott – see more details and pictures.

 

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Living on The Lizard: Two hilltop houses on Britain’s most southerly tip

March 21, 2018, 12:00 am
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Penny Churchill takes a look at two houses for sale on this wonderful and unique part of Cornwall.

Lizard point - Lillicrap Chilcott

People born and bred on the Lizard tend to share its island mentality and love of the sea.

So says David Jenkin of Savills, a native of this part of the world and the estate agent who is now selling what is the most southerly house in the most southerly village in Britain.

Kynance Bay House, for sale at £1 million, stands on the cliffs at the southern edge of Lizard village, Britain’s most southerly settlement, with views across National Trust land towards popular Kynance Cove, two miles to the west, Frog Rock and Old Lizard Head.

A substantial Victorian house built in 1888 and set in an acre of gardens, Kynance Bay House has two attached annexes that would be suitable for holiday lets.

The property was the childhood home of the prolific writer and drama critic J. C. Trewin and featured in his autobiographical memoir Up from the Lizard.

The son of a master mariner, Trewin would hoist a Union Jack whenever his father’s ship passed below.

The imposing 4,378sq ft house retains the large windows and high ceilings typical of its period and offers, in addition to the annexes, accommodation on three floors, including two main reception rooms, a sun room, a fitted kitchen, five bedrooms and extensive loft space.

Another landmark cliff-top house, for sale for the first time in 20 years, is the aptly-named Gone With The Wind, which is on sale via Lillicrap Chilcott at £575,000.

The house is the foremost of a terrace of three former coastguard cottages at the spectacular Bass Point.

Built in the 1840s, it commands glorious views from almost every room across open sea and for miles along the dramatic and unspoilt coastline near Lizard village.

It’s a large, light and airy two-bedroom cottage, which has lapsed planning consent to extend the kitchen area to create a third bedroom.

The house stands at the end of a no-through lane with immediate access to the scenic South West Coast Path.

Kynance Bay House is for sale at £1 million via Savills – see more pictures and details.

Gone With The Wind is for sale via Lillicrap Chilcott at £575,000 – see more pictures and details.

 

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Four literary houses for sale, as seen in Lorna Doone, Wuthering Heights and more

March 22, 2018, 4:00 am
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Penny Churchill takes a look at Oare House, a beautiful home in North Devon which appears in Lorna Doone, plus three other homes with literary links.

Oare House, Exmoor – Knight Frank

Oare House, as seen in Lorna Doone – £1.95 million

Oare House, Exmoor – Knight Frank

Romantic Exmoor – the ‘Doone country’ of R. D. Blackmore’s novel Lorna Doone – has long exerted a pull for its open spaces and tranquillity. Tucked away in a secret valley on the northern fringe of the National Park, between the coastal towns of Minehead and Lynmouth, sits Oare House (pictured above), a beautiful Georgian home which overlooks the ancient Oare Church mentioned in the novel.

This wild but accessible corner of Exmoor is a magnet for lovers of fieldsports and wildlife, says Will Morrison, head of Knight Frank’s Exeter office, who are selling the house at a price of £1.95 million. It is not available via the open market, but you can reach Mr Morrison and his colleagues on 01392 247883.

Oare House, Exmoor – Knight Frank

The solid, 6,629sq ft house stands amid lovely sheltered gardens and grounds that have been greatly improved by the present owners, thanks to extensive new planting, the creation of terraces and lawns and the renovation of a delightful walled garden close to the main house.

The accommodation includes four reception rooms, a large kitchen/breakfast room, a master suite, four further bedrooms, three bathrooms and extensive attics. There is also a two-bedroom flat on the first floor of the main traditional barn.

Far more than just the house is on offer here, however. The sale includes 164 acres of grazing and moorland that abuts the famous Lillycombe shooting estate, with a further 160 acres of shooting rights across adjoining land. Both offer ways for the new owners to make the estate pay for itself – whether you want to raise livestock, run an Air BnB or rent out a barn to a local small business. ‘Nowadays, even the wealthiest buyers, who are already aware of the tax advantages of owning a working farm, are keen to make an income from the property,’ explains Mr Morrison.

Upper Heights Farm, on the doorstep of the real life farmhouse that inspired Wuthering Heights – £675,000

While walking across Haworth Moor almost 200 years ago, Emily Brontë came across a ruined farmhouse called Top Withens. Her imagination began to spark the characters and situations which eventually saw her write Wuthering Heights, one of English literature’s most enduring novels.

Top Withens on Haworth Moor in Summer near Haworth West Yorkshire England

Top Withens on Haworth Moor

While Top Withens itself remains a crumbling ruin, Upper Heights Farm is perhaps the next best thing: it’s the last house on the moor before the building which so inspired Brontë, set high above high above Stanbury and Haworth with majestic views.

Inside, it’s like nothing that the Earnshaws would recognised: an excellent refurbishment has made this a characterful but modern stone-built home, which boasts four bedrooms, five reception rooms and a range of outbuildings.

Upper Heights Farm is for sale via Dacre, Son & Hartley – see more details and pictures.

Priddacombe Farm, just up the road from Jamaica Inn – £475,000

The Jamaica Inn in Bolventor, near Launceston, had been notorious locally as a smuggler’s den for years before Daphne Du Maurier’s novel and the Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation of the same name made that fame widespread. Even today, the remoteness of the area makes it clear what those smugglers saw: a quite place to lie low and store goods, yet on the main thoroughfare up from Cornwall’s rocky coast to the rest of England.

Priddacombe Farm enjoys all those benefits. Blessed with a beautiful location, this is a delightful 3/4 bedroom house with access to the open moor, 1.3 acres of gardens and grounds and a separate log cabin plus stables, all just a mile off the main A30.

Priddacombe Farm is for sale via Fine & Country – see more details and pictures.

De Vere House as seen in Harry Potter – £995,000

De Vere House is one of the most eye-catching homes in the beautiful village of Lavenham, a house twisted by age into a delightfully higgledy-piggledy appearance that is utterly beguiling. The house is on the market via Carter Jonas at £995,000.

The medieval charm of this home – herringbone brick (or ‘nogging’), leaded mullions and ornate carved timbers – has made it one of the most photographed private houses in Britain.

 

That fame no doubt brought it to the notice of the makers of the Harry Potter film adaptations, who used it as Harry Potter’s childhood home in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as part of the fictional village of Godric’s Hollow, where Harry lived as an infant before his parents were killed.

Hollywood fame has made it even-more photographed: the Daily Telegraph even claims that it is the second-most photographed home in Britain after 10 Downing Street (though they don’t seem to have a source for where they’ve plucked that statistic from).

De Vere House is for sale via Carter Jonas – see more details and pictures.

 

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Best places to live near Bristol – and what you could get for your money

March 29, 2018, 3:00 am
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Commuters working in Bristol and looking to live in the country have all sorts of fantastic options, with places that offer everything from Cotswolds charm to sandy beaches. Eleanor Doughty picks out some of the best places.

The beating heart of the South-West, Bristol is surrounded on every side by the most charming spots, not to mention the Kennet & Avon canal , which stretches east all the way to Reading. Bradford-on-Avon is one such location, an elegant town with Roman origins nestled between the Mendip Hills, Salisbury Plain and the Cotswold Hills and built of Bath stone.

Three miles away down the road in Holt, close to Trowbridge (where trains to Bristol run within 32 minutes), Holt Manor is on the market with Strutt & Parker for £5.95m.

The idyllic villages of Box and Avoncliff are also well situated for the Bristol commute, looking over Bath. Which brings us to Bath itself, the jewel of the West Country. Just 14 miles from Bristol, it’s as few as 12 minutes on the train to get to Temple Meads.

Further south and west, the Taunton-Bristol train takes just 34 minutes. The town, surrounded as it is by the Quantock Hills and Blackdown Hills AONBs, is awash with country greenery.

Crowcombe village in the Quantocks is home to Crowcombe Court, the 300-year-old seat of the Carew family until the 1960s. Schooling ticks the box, too, with King’s College Taunton and Wellington School in close proximity, plus Millfield is 30 miles up the road in Street.

Other towns, such as Cheltenham, 45 minutes from Temple Meads, hardly need an introduction. House prices rose here more rapidly than anywhere else in the UK last year, so look to the angelic Bourton-on-the-Water, Shipton Oliffe and Winchcombe – home to Sudeley Castle – all within half an hour of Cheltenham, for housing stock outside the centre. And south of Cheltenham, wind your way to Miserden, two miles from the A419, for a model Cotswolds village.

Alternatively, cross the Severn Bridge to Chepstow, home of the races and the oldest surviving stone castle in Britain, and find yourself a home in Wales, just an hour from Temple Meads station (or a 30-minute drive).

The property stock is varied, but whitewashed Georgian townhouses are a winner. Bristol is also just 40 minutes from the dramatically beautiful Brecon Beacons – the train from Abergavenny to Temple Meads is a little over an hour, but if you’re willing to drive, it’s a 50-mile journey that comes in just under the one-hour limit.

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Holt – £5,950,000

The nine-bedroom Holt Manor is a Grade II-listed manor house which dates back to the 17th century, approached over a gravelled carriage driveway through impressive entrance gates to a turning circle which reveals the handsome facade. It’s a huge, sprawling home: there are, among other rooms, a library, study, utility room, boot room, playroom and several cellars.

For sale with Strutt & Parker. See more pictures and details about this property.

Crowcombe – £585,000

This beautiful, thatched cottage set in half an acre of gardens has all manner of beautiful 16th century features including cross passage hall, kitchen/breakfast room with an Aga and a fabulous inglenook fireplace.

For sale with Fine & Country. See more pictures and details about this property.

Abergavenny – £1,700,000

This is not just a house, it’s an estate. The centrepiece is the nine-bedroom, 10-reception room manor house, but there are two coach houses and a lodge house also included. Then there’s the 78 acres of land including stables, paddock, tennis courts, two lakes and a sunken walled garden.

For sale with Newland Rennie. See more pictures and details about this property.

East Huntspill – £740,000

Within minutes of the beaches of Burnham-on-Sea and with easy access to the M5, this five-bedoom house comes with two acres of land that include a paddock and an orchard.

For sale with Berrymans. See more pictures and details about this property.

 

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The Cornish castle that once housed a wife in each tower

April 21, 2018, 7:00 am
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A magnificent Grade I listed Castle surrounded by its own land and gardens.

ince castle

Ince Castle is a splendid, Grade I-listed place located on its own 190-acre private peninsula overlooking the River Lynher, near Saltash, in Cornwall’s Tamar Valley AONB.

A rare and magical place with views across the river towards Plymouth and the hills of Dartmoor, Ince Castle is for sale via Strutt & Parker and Knight Frank, with offers over £7 million being sought.

In reality it’s more a fortified brick manor than a castle, and possibly the oldest brick house in Cornwall – it was built by Henry Killigrew in the 1630s.

He had the castle laid out as a rectangular keep with walls a metre thick and four square corner towers, each four storeys high, where he is alleged to have kept four wives, each one supposedly unknown to the others.

During the Civil War, Ince Castle declared for the Royalists and, in August 1646, was besieged by Parliamentary forces and surrendered within a matter of hours. Thereafter, it was sold to Edward Nosworthy, Mayor of Truro, before passing to John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire, in the early 18th century.

From the Hobarts, Ince Castle passed through various hands before being let as a farm in the 1800s and was in a poor state of repair when, in 1918, it was bought by Sir Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans.

He renovated and extended it, rebuilding the south façade and adding another storey to the building.

In 1960, Ince Castle was bought by Patricia, Viscountess Boyd, wife of the former Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, who had the lower-floor French windows installed to bring more light into the house and extended the service wing.

Following a disastrous fire apparently caused by a smouldering cigarette, the house burnt down in 1988, but was rebuilt with the help of English Heritage and architect Anthony Jaggard of John Stark and Crickmay.

As a result, Ince Castle reverted to its original layout of a principal floor with three compartments at the front and back, with the addition of a splendid cantilevered staircase in the entrance hall.

Today, Ince Castle boasts 13,958sq ft of elegant accommodation, including four fine main reception rooms, five further reception rooms, 13 bedrooms and lots of bathrooms, plus guest and staff flats. Other buildings include a secondary house and five staff cottages; amenities include a tennis court, a swimming pool, a private quay and moorings on the Lynher.

The enchanting gardens originally laid out by in the 1960s by Viscountess Boyd have been the pride and joy of the current owners, Simon Lennox-Boyd, 2nd Viscount Boyd of Merton and his wife, Alice, who, since their arrival in 1994, have added many delightful new features.

Despite the late spring, there can be no better time to see the gardens massed with bulbs and hellebores under magnolias and spring-flowering shrubs, and the woods and drive carpeted with daffodils and cow parsley, cyclamen and wild orchids.

Ince Castle is on the market with Strutt & Parker and Knight Frank at a guide price of in excess of £7m – see more details and pictures.

 

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14 spectacular properties, as seen in Country Life

May 6, 2018, 7:00 am
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From a dream in Devon to a wonder in Warwickshire, here's our pick of some of the best houses as seen in Country Life over the past week or so.

Devon – £1,350,000

A fine rural country house with far reaching views including Dartmoor

For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details about this property.

Gloucestershire – £1,950,000

A charming old rectory with separate annexe in a desirable North Cotswold village.

For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details about this property.

Gloucestershire – £2,000,000

Former country house in an enchanting Cotswold setting.

For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details about this property.

Gloucestershire – £2,950,000

A charming edge of village Cotswold house.

For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details about this property.

Gloucestershire – £2,950,000

Country house luxury in vibrant GL54.

For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details about this property.

Gloucestershire – £3,000,000

The most handsome house in Gloucestershire.

For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details about this property.

Gloucestershire – £4,500,000

Beautiful country estate with some of the finest views in the Cotswolds.

For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details about this property.

Norfolk – £9,500,000

A very special residential, farming and sporting estate in south Norfolk.

For sale with Brown & Co. See more pictures and details about this property.

Oxfordshire – £1,950,000

An idyllic edge of village Cotswold house.

For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details about this property.

Somerset – £1,000,000

A development of four, luxury detached homes in an outstanding country location midway between Bath and Bristol.

For sale with Andrews. See more pictures and details about this property.

Somerset – £5,000,000

A most attractive woodland estate with permission for the construction of a substantial Edwardian style country house situated within the Mendip Hills with outstanding views over Chew Valley and Blagdon lakes.

For sale with Carter Jonas. See more pictures and details about this property.

Vale of Glamorgan – £1,000,000

An opportunity to restore one of the great houses of Glamorgan

For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details about this property.

Warwickshire – £1,575,000

A very charming converted Medieval granary with separate guest cottage, set within idyllic secluded gardens and grounds. The property will appeal to purchasers looking for an intriguing versatile property in the heart of Shakespeare Country.

For sale with Pritchard. See more pictures and details about this property.

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A magical medieval manor just outside Glastonbury, available for the first time in half a century

May 21, 2018, 3:00 am
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Lottisham Manor is an idyllic home near Glastonbury full of medieval character, as Penny Churchill explains.

Lottisham Manor near Glastonbury (Strutt & Parker)

The idea of the ‘forever’ house is a tricky one to pin down. You may not have a clue what it will look like, but you’ll know it when you see it. And that’s clearly what happened to the owners of Lottisham Manor, near Glastonbury, when they moved in half a century ago.

This dreamy Grade II*-listed home is on the market for the first time in 50 years, priced at £1.75 million. It’s spectacularly pretty 15th century hall full of medieval character. While the place was added to in the 16th and 17th centuries, its alterations have been minor. Neither the manor nor its surroundings in the hamlet of Lottisham have changed much in the half a millennium since it was built.

Lottisham Manor near Glastonbury (Strutt & Parker)

Part of the vast monastic estates of Glastonbury Abbey until the Dissolution, the manor stands in more than 14 acres of gardens and pasture in an area scattered with ‘a nice spread of farmhouses and former estate cottages, but, amazingly, no modern in-fill,’ says Andrew Cronan of Strutt & Parker, who are handling the sale.

Chamfered beams, panelled walls and screens and fine, dressed fireplaces abound throughout the house, which offers more than 3,900sq ft of living space, including the central hall, three main reception rooms and a kitchen/breakfast room.

Upstairs there are six bedrooms, a family bathroom and a series of attics, while elsewhere within the grounds is a stone-built coach house that has garaging, workshop and storage space on the ground floor and a one-bedroom flat above.

The meandering gardens are a real feature: superbly kept with beautiful lawns framed by pretty borders. There’s a kitchen garden, water garden and an orchard, plus a tennis court.

Lottisham Manor is also well equipped for equestrian pursuits, with stabling and lush summer grazing for six pampered horses or ponies.

Lottisham Manor is for sale via Strutt & Parker at £1.75m – see more details and pictures.

 

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A fabulous converted lighthouse for sale at a bargain price, with the ‘best views in Somerset’

May 23, 2018, 3:00 am
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An incredibly rare opportunity has come up to buy a lighthouse overlooking one of Somerset's most famously beautiful beaches.

Burnham High Lighthouse

Most ‘lighthouses’ for sale tend to be… well, a slight disappointment.

Quite often what you’re actually being offered is the lighthouse keeper’s cottage at the bottom of the lighthouse itself – especially if the lighthouse is still in use. And on those rare occasions that the tower itself is included, it’s generally as a sort of added extra – a 21st century folly, if you will.

But Burnham High Lighthouse – for sale at £575,000 with Chartsedge via OnTheMarket.com – is different. This is the real deal.

It’s a spectacular 110ft lighthouse in the town of Burnham-on-Sea, originally built in the 1830s and operated until 1993 – it actually has a place in lighthouse history as the first lighthouse in Britain to be automated, back in the 1920s.

Burnham High has been a listed builing since 1985, and when the conversion into a home was undertaken in 1996 by architect Elspeth Beard, great care was taken to preserve the character of the place – particularly in its external appearance, with features such as the the original solid oak front door with its bronze porthole still in place.

Inside, however, what was once little more than a staircase to the top has become a fascinating eight-storey dwelling. The ground floor has a living room, while the three bedrooms are on the first, second and fourth floors. There’s a family bathroom on the third floor, boasting a roll-top Victorian bath and terrific views.

The fifth and sixth floors are the dining room and kitchen respectively, while the top floor – the lantern room itself – has a balcony offering utterly magnificent views across the Bristol Channel.

Image 13 of 15: Curved Stairwell

“This balcony quite simply has the best views of ANY property in the whole of Somerset,” say the agents.

“One can look down upon seagulls in flight watch the golf at the links course which is located only a few yards away. On a clear day most of the Severn and South Wales is visible.

“On New Year’s Eve, Bonfire night or during the Somerset Carnival season, firework displays in several cities can be enjoyed simultaneously!”

It’s a fascinating opportunity – and it could also be a lucrative one. The present owners have used Burnham High as a holiday let, and given the irresistible quirkiness of the place you won’t be surprised to hear that they’ve got an occupancy rate of around 90%. That has translated to an annual income of around £50,000.

The down sides? Well, we’d imagine maintenance headaches for a place like this would eat up a fair amount each year, and you’d need a full structural survey done – but on paper at least the yield seems huge. This lighthouse might prove to be something of a shining bargain.

Burnham High Lighthouse is for sale at £575,000 with Chartsedge via OnTheMarket.com – see more details and pictures.

 

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A glorious townhouse restored by a top interior designer in the ‘best piece of townscape in Gloucestershire’

May 28, 2018, 7:00 am
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A rare chance has come up to buy a house in Chipping Campden's famously picturesque high street.

Market Hall and Cotswold stone cottages along High Street at dusk, Chipping Campden, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire

Widely recognised as one of the most beautiful and unspoilt of all the Cotswold market towns, Chipping Campden’s high street – known as Leysbourne – was described by Pevsner as ‘the best piece of townscape in Gloucestershire, arguably one of the best in England’.

In which case, the ‘best of the best’ is Maidens Row, a grand terrace of four Jacobean houses located towards the end of the high street and remodelled in the Classical Georgian style in about 1826.

Local legend has it that the original 17th-century houses were built by a rich clergyman for his four daughters, all of whom eventually married, hence the name Maidens Row. And on this page you’ll find the end house of the terrace, for sale with Savills at £1.25 million.

Having bought the house two years ago, former Vogue journalist and interior designer Sandy Bishop finds commuting from the Cotswolds to Europe and beyond somewhat less than relaxing.

Having sympathetically restored and refurbished Maidens Row in the style of a London townhouse, she is now ready to relocate.

With terraced gardens expertly laid-out by Mrs Bishop’s son, Max, Maidens Row offers three reception rooms, five bedrooms and three bathrooms

There is also a guest annexe, the whole painted in a refreshing palette of pastel heritage colours.

Maidens Row is for sale via Savills at £1.25m – see more details and pictures.

 

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‘One of Devon’s great country houses’ for sale, complete with orangery, chapel and helicopter hangar

May 31, 2018, 3:00 am
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Bridwell Park has survived everything that the world can throw at it – including a devastating fire – to remain one of the West Country's finest houses. Now, it's looking for a new owner.

Bridwell Park

Back in March 1981, stately Grade I-listed Bridwell Park at Uffculme, near Tiverton, Devon, was described in Country Life as ‘one of the unsung surprises of Devon’. The plainness of the exterior belied an interior ‘of considerable sophistication and individuality’ – from the elegance of the elliptical entrance hall to the fine detail of ceilings and fireplaces in the reception rooms.

It’s indisputably one of Devon’s great country houses, and is now on the market at £5 million.

There is more than 13,000sq ft of elegant living space in the main house, including four grand reception rooms, a huge conservatory and eight bedroom suites, as well as two further bedrooms and bathrooms.

There is also a list of other rooms and facilities which mean the house could be used commercially instead of as a grand family home in the country.

There are substantial ‘back-office’ facilities in the basement, further accommodation in the Grade II*-listed stable block and the entrance lodge, plus extensive modern buildings including a helicopter hangar.

Bridwell Park was built between 1774 and 1779 for Richard Hall Clark, whose family were to own it for the next 200 years. The striking, four-square Georgian house stands serenely overlooking the ornamental lake at the heart of the 118-acre estate’s wooded 88-acre deer park, where herds of red and fallow deer have roamed freely since their introduction in the late 1990s, following a period when life at Bridwell Park was anything but serene.

Bridwell Park

In 1991, a disastrous fire ripped through the house, destroying much of the interior, but leaving the bare bones of the building intact. It was subsequently restored at vast expense under the watchful eye of English Heritage, to a standard that allowed it to retain its Grade I listing.

However, following a failed planning application for housing development on the estate, the then owner felt obliged to sell and, in 1996, Bridwell Park – unloved and unlived in since the fire – was bought by Robert Tchenquiz’s Rotch Property Group.

A year later, following a major spring clean, Bridwell Park was bought by Lord Ivar Mountbatten, its present owner. During his 21 years at the helm, the estate’s fortunes have improved steadily, its immaculate condition reflecting its current popularity as a wedding venue, especially among Londoners, who appreciate its accessibility by road, rail and air.

However, following his decision to scale down his involvement, Bridwell Park is back on the market.

Bridwell Park is for sale via Knight Frank at £5,000,000 – see more pictures and details.

 

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An idyllic waterfront spot on Restronguet Point, one of the most sought-after locations in the West Country

June 1, 2018, 3:00 am
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One of the most sought-after waterfront spots in England has come to the market. Penny Churchill reports.

Waterfront spot

Slipways on Restronguet Point, near Feock, 10 miles from Falmouth, is described by agents Knight Frank and Jonathan Cunliffe as, ‘an exciting refurbishment or redevelopment opportunity on one of the most sought-after, prime waterfront positions in the whole of the South-West’.

The house is up for sale for the first time in 36 years, at a guide price of £2.5 million.

Slipways is one of the few remaining original properties on Restronguet Point that has retained its original character, having been extended and improved over the years.

The engaging four-bedroom house has been cleverly designed and positioned to maximise the views across the water.

It comes with an outdoor swimming pool –one which, it must be said, appears to be in need of some major TLC. Then again, the agents have been upfront about this place being a project – though internally, the house looks to be very nicely kept.

The fact that there is work to do won’t put off those who want a prime spot from which to get out onto the water, of course. For Slipways has – as you’d hope, given its name – a private slipway leading directly to the Fal estuary and the Carrick Roads.

There is even an electric winch, a running mooring or outhaul and a boathouse.

Slipways, Restrongeut Point, Feock, Cornwall, Photographed by Hugh Hastings for Jonathan Cunliffe

Slipways is for sale via Knight Frank and Jonathan Cunliffe – see more pictures and details.

 

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Five fabulous houses in the heart of the moors, including a dream thatched cottage at the price of a London studio

June 2, 2018, 7:00 am
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What could be more romantic than living in the wild, rolling hills of the West Country moorland? Annie Elwes takes her pick of houses on the market right now in Exmoor, Dartmoor and the Quantocks.

Dartmoor – £595,000

A pretty thatched-barn conversion near Yeoford, on the fringes of Dartmoor in Devon, Berties Cottage has four bedrooms and 1½ acres of ‘enchanting country gardens’ on the hillside, say agents, with an orchard, vegetable patch and paddocks.

The roof is well maintained and, inside, there are charming exposed beams, floorboards, fireplaces, a woodburning stove and an Aga.

A goat house and two stables and the end of the garden could easily be converted into holiday lets, making this an incredible bargain when you consider how little the same money will buy you in London – as this £600k studio demonstrates.

For sale with Strutt & Parker . See more pictures and details about this property.

Bodmin Moor – £2.95 million

Situated at the heart of about 90 beautiful acres of pasture and farmland, complete with a family shoot and equestrian facilities, Lower Polgrain Farm is ‘an idyllic mini-estate protected by its own land’, say agents.

The principal house has five bedrooms and there are a further five created from the conversion of The Old Mill and an adjacent barn.

It is located in the village of St Wenn, Cornwall, with Wadebridge about five miles away and Padstow and Rock about 10.

For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details about this property.

Exmoor – £2.65 million

Set in some 14 acres in the north-Devon foothills of Exmoor, Elizabethan Whitechapel Manor has been impressively refurbished, with care taken to maintain its historic character.

Six reception rooms face south across the formal walled gardens.

The 11 en-suite bedrooms, two with dressing rooms, betray the manor’s spell as a country-house hotel (from 1985 to 2000). The market town of South Molton is three miles away.

For sale with Savills. See more pictures and details about this property.

Exmoor – £950,000

Tucked into the hills above the village of Luxborough, Somerset, Nurcott Farm dates to the 16th century and is unlisted. With fireplaces and three bedrooms, it has outbuildings and two stone holiday cottages (one with five bedrooms, the other two), forming a yard.

Its 6.8 acres include paddocks and a flight pond and offer views to Dunkery Beacon, the highest point on Exmoor, and over the Bristol Channel to Wales. Taunton is 20 miles away.

For sale with Greenslade Taylor Hunt. See more pictures and details about this property.

Quantocks – £1.295 million

In the hidden Somerset village of Goathurst on the edge of the Quantocks, The Arch Barn sits at the end of a drive shared with nearby folly The Temple of Pan (both were once part of the Halswell estate) and is viewed here across the spring-fed lake, with a dramatic backdrop of old quarry and woodland.

With its eponymous arched windows, galleried drawing room and exposed beams galore, it retains plenty of charm in its conversion. There are four bedrooms, plus a detached guest barn with a balcony, and the property comes with four acres.

For sale with Jackson-Stops. See more pictures and details about this property.

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