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A Robert Adam style twin pedestal mahogany dining table, handmade in bookmatched crotch okoume veneer. The top with inset brass stringing, square edge, and apron finished with finely hand-carved rope edge in gold metal leaf. The pedestals with concave panelled and veneered sides with further rope detail, on scroll feet with gilding.

Length: 82" (208.3cm) | Width: 42" (106.7 cm) | Height: 30" (76.2cm)

£5,675 An impressive dining chair with scoop back fully veneered in bookmatched crotch okoume with inlaid brass perimeter. The front splat in matching veneer with roll top and sweeping reeded arms encapuslating a fixed seat and back in light tan leather. Giltwood rope detail above reeded square tapering front legs and downswept back legs.

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n exceptional Grade II listed Georgian villa with beautiful gardens and spectacular views. Avonstone House occupies a prime position in Bathampton, less than two miles east of the City of Bath.

P R I N C I PA L B E D R O O M S U I T E | 5 F U R T H E R B E D R O O M S | 5 B AT H R O O M S | 7 R E C E P T I O N R O O M S WINE CELLAR | GYM | SAUNA | HOME OFFICE STUDIO | FORMAL GARDENS | OUTD O OR KITCHEN | HOT T UB B AT H C I T Y C E N T R E 1 . 8 M I L E S | B AT H S P A S TAT I O N 1 . 9 M I L E S ( L O N D O N PA D D I N G T O N F R O M 9 0 M I N U T E S )

Guide price £4,000,000 Knight Frank London & Bath sarah.ka.brown@knightfrank.com 020 4502 7856 charlie.taylor@knightfrank.com 01225 685523 Ref: BTH012149138

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HANSLOPE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Asking Price: £1,750,000 6 Bedrooms

4 Reception Rooms

4 Bathrooms

C EPC

A detached house with an annexe, a triple garage with a studio and planning for a further 3,000 sq. ft. extension, on a 6 acre plot with uninterrupted countryside views.

The property has 4,957 sq. ft. of versatile accommodation set over two floors including a studio/annexe which can be accessed from the main house or through its own private entrance. The grounds have a terrace with steps leading down to the 6 acre plot which has a garden mostly laid to lawn with established trees and shrubs. The land has two gated access points which provide the potential for equestrian facilities or a smallholding.

Newport Pagnell Office | Gareth Paul | 01908 218860 London Office | Bob Bickersteth | 0207 839 0888

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SOUTH END HOUSE , TWICKENHAM TW1

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n utterly exquisite, Georgian landmark home occupying an incredible setting overlooking Marble Hill Park. The property's semi-rural location provides a wonderful retreat from the hustle and bustle of daily life.

7- 8 B E D R O O M S | 5 B AT H R O O M S | 8 - 9 R E C E P T I O N R O O M S | S W I M M I N G P O O L E X T E N S I V E PA R K I N G | G A R A G I N G | G A Z E B O | W O R K S H O P | G R A D E I I * L I S T E D R I C HM O N D 0.8 M I LE S

Guide price £10,500,000 Knight Frank Richmond james.williams@knightfrank.com 020 8939 2808 Savills dhutchins@savills.com 020 8614 9136 Ref: RCH012063215

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Perfect Village Location Nether Wallop, Hampshire Grateley Station: 4.1 miles, Stockbridge: 5.8 miles Charming Grade II listed family home in a wonderful setting with significant potential.

5 reception rooms, 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, former grass tennis court, barn with stables, hayloft, tack room, workshop and garaging, 5-bay open-fronted car port, gardens and paddocks.

About 5.39 acres | Guide £2.25 million Steven Moore Savills Winchester 01962 657 843 smoore@savills.com

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Devon, Chulmleigh

Guide Price £1,750,000

A substantial Victorian house with an annexe, holiday cottages and direct river frontage with fishing rights Chulmleigh: 1 mile, Exmoor National Park: 14 miles, Dartmoor National Park: 18.5 miles, Barnstaple: 20 miles, Exeter: 26 miles Main house with drawing room | Dining room | Garden room | 5 Bedrooms | Annexe with 2 bedrooms | 4 Holiday cottages | Outbuildings and stores | Beautiful gardens and grounds | Direct river frontage with fishing rights on 2 rivers | Pond | Woodland | Paddocks About 18.79 acres Oliver Custance Baker

Richard Speedy

Exeter Office 01392 248 207

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Devon, Sidmouth

Offers in Excess of £1,000,000

A Grade II Listed farmhouse situated in a wonderfully private and secluded position in the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Sidmouth: 2.5 miles, Exeter: 15 miles Entrance hall | Drawing room | Dining room | Kitchen/breakfast room | Utility room | Cloakroom | Boot room | 5 Double bedrooms 2 Family bathrooms | Large barns | Stables | Double garage | Stores | Paddock | Stream About 4.26 acres

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Country Estate to London in Minutes Northaw, Hertfordshire Cuffley: 2.5 miles, Potters Bar Station: 3 miles (London King’s Cross from 19 minutes) An exceptional Nash style villa with 3 cottages set in a mature parkland estate, just 20 miles from Central London.

5 reception rooms, master bedroom suite with twin bathrooms and dressing rooms, 4 further bedroom suites, heated swimming pool, tennis court, 3 self-contained cottages, coach house with games room and 11 garages, walled garden with conservatory, landscaped gardens, parkland with lake, paddocks and mature woodland. EPC = D About 106 acres | Guide £12 million

Tim Phillips Savills London Country Department 020 3930 4164 tmphillips@savills.com

Paul Jarman Savills Harpenden 01582 805 653 pjarman@savills.com

Mark Rimell Strutt & Parker London Country Department 020 7591 2213 mark.rimell@struttandparker.com

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Magnificent Country House Binley, Hampshire St. Mary Bourne: 2 miles, Whitchurch Station: 5.5 miles (London Waterloo from 63 minutes) A magnificent country house located in some of Hampshire’s finest countryside on the edge of the Bourne Valley.

5 reception rooms, 8 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, billiard room, wine cellar, swimming pool, 2 bedroom cottage, outbuildings, garaging, terrace, gardens, paddocks and pasture. EPC = C

About 9.43 acres | Guide £5.95 million

Camilla Elwell Savills London Country Department 020 3944 3128 camilla.elwell @savills.com

Steven Moore Savills Winchester 01962 657 629 smoore@savills.com

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Private Estate with Planning Shepton Montague, Somerset Bruton: 2 miles, Castle Cary: 4 miles An exquisite private estate, fully organic and without footpaths. Planning permission for a unique 8,500 + 1,500 sq ft contemporary house, Grade II listed Georgian lodge with 4 bedrooms and walled enclosures, 2 further cottages, Grade II* listed towers and extensive farm buildings. EPCs = F & G

About 355 acres | Guide £8 million

Fred Cook Savills Salisbury 01722 569 753 fred.cook@savills.com

Alex Lawson Savills London National Farms & Estates 020 3925 6668 alex.lawson@savills.com

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Exquisitely Renovated Home Ramsbury, Wiltshire Hungerford Station: 5 miles (London Paddington from 65 minutes) An outstanding Grade II* listed house which has been meticulously restored, with views over the village and surrounding countryside. 4 reception rooms, 7 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, swimming pool, tennis court, coach house, pavilion, beautiful gardens and grounds, including an orchard.

About 3 acres | Guide £6 million Ed Sugden Savills London Country Department 020 3944 7501 esugden@savills.com

Camilla Elwell Savills London Country Department 020 3411 0852 camilla.elwell @savills.com

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Exceptional Wealden Privacy Lamberhurst, Kent Frant Station: 4 miles (London Bridge from 50 minutes) Pretty and private lifestyle farm within easy reach of Royal Tunbridge Wells and London.

Grade II listed farmhouse, equestrian facilities, barn annexe, farm manager’s cottage, 2 flats, environmental stewardship opportunity. EPCs = D-F About 233 acres | Guide £5.25 million Chris Spofforth Savills Sevenoaks 07812 965 379 cspofforth@savills.com

Alex Lawson Savills London National Farms & Estates 07967 555 502 alawson@savills.com

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breathtaking compact country estate with a beautifully presented period residence and spa facilities. The property is situated in idyllic surroundings of 51 acres and offers ample secondary accommodation.

5 B E D R O O M S | 5 B AT H R O O M S | 5 R E C E P T I O N R O O M S | C O T TA G E | L O D G E IND O OR P O OL COMPLEX | STEAM RO OM | SAUNA | GYMNASIUM T E NN I S C O U RT | B E AU T I F U L GAR D E N S | K I TC H EN GA R DE N

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Guide price available upon request Knight Frank London & Haslemere james.crawford@knightfrank.com 020 3930 2523 russell.grieve@knightfrank.com 01428 786268

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charming estate overlooking St Martha's Hill in the Surrey Hills with rolling land and huge potential.

The estate benefits from a substantial family house, extensive outbuildings, pasture and woodland.

6 B E D R O O M S | 4 B AT H R O O M S | 6 R E C E P T I O N R O O M S 2 C O T TA G E S | O U T B U I L D I N G S | FA R M B U I L D I N G S | PA S T U R E L A N D W O O D L A N D | A P P R O X I M AT E LY 2 0 2 A C R E S | E P C D

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GUILDFORD 4 MILES | CENTRAL LONDON 44 MILES AVA I L A B L E A S A W H O L E O R U P T O 3 L O T S

Guide price available upon request Knight Frank London & Guildford george.bramley@knightfrank.com 020 4502 8284 tim.harriss@knightfrank.com 01483 355875

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Buyer demand doubles across Central England With its beautiful market towns, expansive countryside and useful connectivity, it's unsurprising that in the past three months we have seen a surge in demand and have 11 prospective buyers for each property available, a 50% increase on the five-year average*. Here is a selection of homes currently available in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire.

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire A stunning Regency-style home close to the historic Pittville Pump Rooms.

6 B E D R O O M S | 4 B AT H R O O M S | 5 R E C E P T I O N R O O M S | G A R D E N | D O U B L E G A R A G E | E P C T B C

Guide price £1,850,000

nick.chivers@knightfrank.com 01242 806824

Tatenhill, Staffordshire A stunning Grade II listed turreted hall immaculately refurbished by the current owners.

4 B E D R O O M S | 2 B AT H R O O M S | 5 R E C E P T I O N R O O M S | A P P R O X I M AT E LY 1 . 8 4 A C R E S

Guide price £1,150,000

sarah.briggs@knightfrank.com 01213 927805

Welford-on-Avon, Warwickshire An immaculately presented contemporary bespoke home in the heart of the village.

4 B E D R O O M S | 3 B AT H R O O M S | 3 R E C E P T I O N R O O M S | E P C C

Guide price £1,150,000

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Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire Beautiful barn conversion with a separate annexe.

4 B E D R O O M S | 3 B AT H R O O M S | R E C E P T I O N R O O M | E P C E

Guide price £975,000

helen.waddilove@knightfrank.com 01451 888130

Aynho, Oxfordshire A delightful and immaculately presented Cotswold stone cottage with generous ceiling heights and garaging.

3 B E D R O O M S | 2 B AT H R O O M S | 2 R E C E P T I O N R O O M S | G R A D E I I L I S T E D

Guide price £800,000

harry.sheppard@knightfrank.com 01865 987983

Stroud, Gloucestershire Lypiatt Lodge is a most impressive gate house, dating back to 1820, with outbuildings, private gardens and potential to modernise.

5 B E D R O O M S | 2 B AT H R O O M S | 2 R E C E P T I O N R O O M S | A P P R O X I M AT E LY 0 . 5 A C R E | E P C F

Guide price £700,000

rupert.sturgis@knightfrank.com 01285 895776

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n elegant house standing in the former walled kitchen garden to Flore House.

The fully walled garden was professionally designed and is well stocked, with the Parish Church as a backdrop. The house has a self-contained flat above the garage and is situated in the sought-after village of Flore, about eight miles from Northampton.

5 - 6 B E D R O O M S | 4 - 5 B AT H R O O M S | 4 - 5 R E C E P T I O N R O O M S D O U B L E GA R AG E | WO R K S H O P | E P C C NORTHAMP TON 8 MILES | CENTRAL LONDON 68 MILES

Guide price £1,500,000 Knight Frank Stratford-upon-Avon james.way@knightfrank.com 01789 863993 Ref: STR012176867

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SARRATT, HERTFORDSHIRE

ASCOT, BERKSHIRE

PRICE ON APPLICATION

OFFERS IN THE REGION OF £1,750,000 FREEHOLD

A beautifully restored 16th century listed timbered farmhouse of great historical interest. Set within eight acres with outbuildings including stables, threshing barn and garaging.

A period family home forming the major part of a country house with gracious rooms within park-like gardens and only a mile from Ascot High Street. Five bedrooms and four reception rooms. EPC D

Hamptons Rickmansworth 01923 889863

Hamptons Sunningdale 01344 985941

SEER GREEN, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE GUIDE PRICE £2,775,000 FREEHOLD

WINDSOR, BERKSHIRE £2,750,000 FREEHOLD

A seven bedroom family home built 17 years ago

by Berkeley Homes offering a part vaulted kitchen breakfast room with a full width balcony, self-contained annex/studio, garaging and views. EPC C

A truly unique family home with six bedrooms and four receptions located in a prime residential road. Also offering a four car garage, self contained annexe/office and the garden is just over 0.5 of an acre. EPC E

Hamptons Beaconsfield 01494 854713

Hamptons Windsor 01753 307675 HAMPTONS.CO.UK

KILN GREEN, BERKSHIRE £3,500,000 FREEHOLD

GUIDE PRICE

A magnificent six bedroom Grade II listed Georgian property, beautifully presented and sitting in established gardens in excess of an acre. Perfect for families and with great entertaining space, in total extending to 7,825 sq ft.

Easy rail and road links to London.

Hamptons Maidenhead 01628 873618

KNOWL HILL, BERKSHIRE £2,500,000 FREEHOLD

RAEMOIR, ABERDEENSHIRE £36,750 PER WEEK (3 NIGHT MIN STAY)

An historic five bedroom period country house with a studio cottage with separate access set in outstanding gardens of 2.8 acres with swimming pool, pond, woodland and barbeque hut. EPC (main house) D

A 17th century authentic Scottish hideaway, set in 14 acres of beautiful parkland. Sixteen bedrooms, award winning kitchen and a large number of traditional activities and service options available.

Hamptons Maidenhead 01628 873618

Hamptons Stratford Upon Avon Lettings 01789 863769 HAMPTONS.CO.UK

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Kegworth, Leicestershire

£1,000,000

guide price

A Grade II listed former rectory set in beautiful walled gardens (circa 1.75 acres) with a detached Victorian coach house.

Contact: Loughborough 01509 428864

Carnoustie, Angus

£550,000 offers over

Wysall, Nottinghamshire

£1,950,000 guide price

A charming and imposing traditional farmhouse with outbuildings and private garden grounds extending to 0.76 acres.

Contact: Perth office 01738 301821

A truly magnificent remodelled and extended Victorian six-bedroom detached residence, with grounds extending to 0.81 acres.

Contact: Melton Mowbray 01664 518924

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Llangunnor, Carmarthen

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£650,000

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£925,000

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A uniquely re-built mansion (set in 1.8 acres) boasting 9 bedrooms, 7 en-suite bathrooms, bespoke kitchen and guest/leisure wings.

Contact: Carmarthen office 01267 312981

A desirable four-bedroom detached farmhouse, set within approximately 7.7 acres with landscape gardens, pools and outbuildings.

Contact: Mold office 01352 376430

A handsome and charming country house, providing spacious accommodation and occupying a truly delightful plot (1.9 acres).

Contact: Stafford office 01785 292858

Crawford, Lanarkshire

Dilwyn Common, Herefordshire

Buckerell, Devon

£219,995

offers over

Incredibly rare Gothic church, offering the chance to live in a historic, listed building whilst enjoying the modernised interior.

Contact: Hamilton office 01698 599773

£600,000 guide price

Down a quiet lane, this cosy cottage has lovely gardens, a paddock and stable block - all surrounded by tranquil countryside.

Contact: Ludlow office 01584 539971

£2,000,000

offers in excess of

A Grade II listed refurbished farmhouse with seven holiday cottages, a swimming pool and 13.57 acres.

Contact: Exeter office 01392 976715

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Hornblotton Green, Somerset

Enholmes Hall is an impressive country house (close to Spurn Head) with coach house, gardens, grounds and own private golf course.

Contact: York office 01904 595677

A substantial detached house enjoying stunning landscaped gardens, versatile outbuildings and a semi-rural position.

Contact: Street office 01458 521949

A delightful coastal gem, this unspoilt Grade II listed three-bedroom cottage offers comfortable and characterful accommodation.

Contact: Aberaeron office 01545 630985

Soulby, Cumbria

Ashen, Essex

Knowl Hill, Berkshire

£595,000

guide price

Traditional four-bedroom detached farmhouse and annex, set in 2 acres. Two garages/ample parking and well-maintained gardens.

Contact: Leyburn office 01969 738985

£699,950

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£650,000

guide price

Built around the era of Henry VI, this late Medieval Grade II listed detached, thatched petite Hall House has gardens and parking.

Contact: London office 01473 679842

Aberarth, Ceredigion

£375,000

offers over

£1,375,000 guide price

A beautifully renovated three-bedroom period home with superb contemporary features, whilst retaining its period charm.

Contact: Henley-on-Thames 01491 738871

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Barmby Moor, York

£375,000

A charming semi-detached cottage which has been beautifully maintained by the present occupier and has a large rear garden.

Contact: Pocklington office 01759 438932

Albury, Surrey

£735,000

An immaculate two double bed, two reception room cottage with garage, outdoor dining area/ study, in stunning location with views.

Contact: Shere office 01483 665627

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The drama of Arts and Crafts Two superb small estates in Surrey and Hampshire are as desirable for modern owners as they were in their illustrious beginnings

Designed by C. F. A. Voysey, Norney Grange, near Godalming in Surrey, doubled for Sutton Hoo House in the Netflix film The Dig. £8m

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HOSE of us who relied on Netflix to lift their spirits during the long dark evenings of lockdown were rewarded by the screening in January 2021 of The Dig, a haunting dramatisation of the 1939 excavation of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial and its treasure in the grounds of the Sutton Hoo estate, Suffolk, starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan. For lovers of historic houses, however, the real star of The Dig was its ‘moody and magnificent’ location, Norney Grange at Shackleford, three miles from Godalming, Surrey, which doubled for Sutton Hoo House in the film.

An important, Grade II*-listed Arts-andCrafts house built by the architect C. F. A. Voysey and set in 21 acres of landscaped gardens and woodland, Norney Grange is for sale, for the first time in 69 years, at a guide price of £8 million through Savills (07773

571950). Little changed since it was built, the house has played a leading role in numerous period dramas over the years, including Carrington (1995), Midsomer Murders (2007), Miss Marple (2009) and London Spy (2015).

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey was the eldest son of the Revd Charles Voysey, a Church of England priest who lost his Yorkshire living in 1871 due to his unorthodox religious views and subsequently moved to London, where he founded the Theistic Church. A man of equally strong ethics, C. F. A. Voysey was articled to the Gothic Revival architect J. P. Seddon for five years from 1874 and later worked as an assistant to country-house architect George Devey, a follower of his father’s church, before setting up his own practice in London in 1881 or 1882.

The railway, which came to Guildford in 1845 and to Godalming four years later,

encouraged men of new wealth to settle in these parts. Voysey built several important houses in the area, evolving a distinctive architectural style of long, low roofs and ground-hugging outlines, using traditional English rustic materials—mainly slate and white roughcast plaster or render.

According to Norney Grange’s owner: ‘Voysey’s approach was holistic; he designed everything. Thomas Elsey of West London made for him the metalwork gutters, down pipes, door handles, key holes and keys, fireplaces, air vents and hinges. He disparaged overt decoration and fashions in furniture, which had to be simple and functional.

At Norney, he experimented with a quintessentially English architectural style. Thus the slates on this and many of his houses are from Westmoreland; the leaded light windows are of Tudor style; at the eastern end,

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Grade II*-listed Norney Grange has retained its original interiors, including its marble fireplace and gallery landing, ‘largely intact’

the shaped leaded roofs above the inglenooks are of Gothic style; the panelling inside is of Austrian oak, but apparently such trees grew on the nearby common.’

Norney Grange was built in 1897 for Canon William Leighton Grane of the Chichester Diocese who, according to the owner, ‘had talked to Lutyens, but chose Voysey’. In 1903, the main house was extended to the west with the addition of a service wing and a stable block for Sir James Gadesden Wainwright, a governor of London’s St Thomas’s Hospital.

Sir James died in 1929 and was succeeded at Norney Grange by Herbert Le Marchant, who commissioned the botanist and plant explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward to bring back an exotic collection of plants and shrubs from south-east Asia that were interspersed with Voysey’s original planting. Although now in need of maintenance, the gardens are a mass of colour in spring, with bluebells, daffodils, and banks of rhododendrons traversed by the romantic Kingdon-Ward’s Walk.

In 1952, Norney Grange was bought by the Clapshaw family, the current vendors, since

when, according to its Historic England listing, the interior has remained ‘largely intact’.

The listing notes, in particular, ‘the panelled entrance hall with its half-domed ceiling, gallery landing and square-railed baluster; the original “bird and tree” ventilation grilles; the panelled library with its marble fireplace and original copper and brass surrounds; and the green marble chimney breast in the end room to the left’.

He experimented with a quintessentially English architectural style The house is broadly divided into two parts, with the larger and more impressive family accommodation on one side and the staff and service areas on the other. In all, the accommodation comprises the entrance hall, four main reception rooms, a kitchen, butler’s hall, pantry and various domestic offices on the ground floor, with five principal bedrooms,

five secondary bedrooms, three bathrooms, a box-room and attic storage on the floors above. It comes with two lodge cottages— the two-bedroom gate lodge and the threebedroom Stable Lodge, which provides garaging for several cars and a stable block.

‘Although some rearrangement, upgrading and decoration is now required, Norney Grange has enormous potential to create a spacious and comfortable family home surrounded by its own extensive grounds within the Surrey Hills AONB, Green Belt and designated Area of Great Landscape Value—with all the protection that implies,’ says selling agent Theo James-Wright.

Across the county border in east Hampshire, the story of another classic Arts-andCrafts house, Conford Park House, which sits in 50 acres of beautifully landscaped gardens, grounds, paddocks and woodland on the edge of the charming hamlet of Conford, 1½ miles from the village of Liphook, has followed a different trajectory.

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Above and right: An idyllic small estate, Conford Park House, Hampshire, has airy reception rooms and five bedrooms. £8.5m of the Manor of Ludshott, the house was constructed of whitewashed walls with flared gables under a tiled roof. Following the failure of his marriage, the heavily mortgaged estate was sold and Sir Archibald was declared bankrupt. He died, aged 48, in 1919.

Conford Park House rode out the storm and had already been upgraded and modernised by dedicated previous owners when the present incumbents bought the property in 2005.

They, too, embarked on a complete refurbishment programme that included extending the house and adapting the internal layout to its present, ultra-modern configuration.

The house was re-plumbed, re-wired, fitted with new bathrooms and a striking open-plan kitchen, now the centrepiece of the house Underfloor heating was installed throughout the ground-floor rooms and in the master- and guest-bedroom suites. A spectacular new indoor swimming-pool complex was added to the north and linked to the house. Lacking only its own spacecraft, this perfect small estate is now on the market through Knight Frank (020–7861 1065) at a guide price of £8.5m.

Light streams through the house, which boasts a gross internal area of more than 12,300sq ft, including entrance and reception halls, four free-flowing main reception rooms,

the open-plan kitchen/breakfast room, a boot room and wine room, a large master suite with his-and-hers dressing rooms, two en-suite bathrooms and a balcony and four further bedroom suites. Further accommodation is available in the gate lodge, plus another estate cottage, and an excellent garage building by the house has space for three cars, with a private office and boardroom on the first floor.

Over the past 15 years, the gardens of Conford Park House have been designed and

configured to embellish the estate’s already idyllic parkland. Deer-fenced and irrigated from the lake, they include a kitchen garden and greenhouse, an enchanting secret garden with gravelled paths and neat flower borders, a purpose-built chicken coop and a children’s playground. On the south-east side of the house, terraces, clipped borders and a belt of mature trees stretch down to the lake and its boathouse, beyond which are fields, paddocks and a large area of mature woodland.

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Charmingly unpretentious former farmhouses are hard to beat Norfolk, excess £950,000 It’s difficult not to be drawn to this pretty pink farmhouse dating back to 1537—with all its exposed beams and inviting woodburners. In the wild Waveney Valley village of Denton, five miles from Harleston and Bungay towns, Grade II-listed Pear Tree Farm has been beautifully updated with five bedrooms, two under the towering pitched roof and one en suite. The drive sweeps through eight acres that include a double garage with a converted attic space (an excellent home office), six stables, tack room, outdoor school and paddocks.

Durrants (01379 852217)

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Buckinghamshire, £1.375 million In the Chiltern Hills AONB on the outskirts of Great Missenden—where Roald Dahl wrote in his garden shed for some 30 years—brick-and-flint Frith Hill Farm is pretty as a picture, white picket fence and all. Dating back to 1630, it has three/ four bedrooms, three/four sitting rooms, a wooden summerhouse, detached garage and a cottage garden of dreams, plus a vegetable plot and 1½-acre paddock with separate access from the road. Knight Frank (01494 689261)

When Sir Francis Fatt-Catt floated his payday loans to an online gambling empire for gazillions, he was determined not to rest.

‘Whatever the Champenoise can do, I can do better,’ he said on a visit to Épernay with Lady Fatt-Catt. A trip to the Napa Valley with his mistress inspired him to create the swankiest, most state-of-the-art winery, designed by an architect about whom he read in How To Spend It.. And spend it they did: the cellars, visitor centre and tasting room are a vision in marble and glass that, most importantly, is bigger and better than any of his ‘woefully unambitious’ competitors. ‘For me, this is about creating a legacy rather than a quick buck,’ he said to his accountant Eddie Excel over a glass of his first ever vintage of Fatt-Catt Brut. ‘Just as well,’ muttered Eddie, ‘this project could prove that the only way someone like you will ever make a small fortune in this business, is to start with a huge one.’ GK

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Devon, £1.295 million Long views over the valley of the River Yealm stretch out from five-bedroom Mill Farmhouse, which was once part of the Kitley estate. Secluded grounds of gardens, terraces, pasture and woodland stretch to nearly four acres, beyond which the South Hams market village of Yealmpton is within easy reach. All the bedrooms, together with the dining, drawing and family rooms, are spacious and a water pump in the kitchen dated 1849 is one of many characterful touches in this beautifully restored early-Victorian property. Marchand Petit (01752 873311)

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Northumberland, £850,000 One can only imagine the awe felt by the labourer who, when taking down the remains of 12th-century fortified Fenwick Tower in 1775, happened upon 226 gold coins minted mostly for Edward III and Richard II. Alas, the hoard is no longer in situ—some of it can be seen in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow—but the treasure that remains in this little hamlet of Fenwick, between the villages of Matfen and Stamfordham, is a 17th-century farmhouse with a 19th-century front, incorporating that ancient tower’s remains.

Grade II-listed Fenwick Towers Farmhouse has four bedrooms, one en suite, and glorious views over the Tyne Valley, and its 2½ acres include formal gardens, grazing paddocks and timber stables, with two loose boxes and a tack room.

There is potential for further accommodation in an attached stone store and, via separate negotiation, another outbuilding may be acquired. Finest Properties (01434 622234)

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