Athelney, Bowdon, Cheshire. An Arts & Crafts-style house dating from the early 1900s. It has been extended to include a guest apartment. The main house retains a number of original features, including beamed ceilings and fireplaces. 6 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, 2-bed flat, 2-bed annexe, gardens, 1.9 acres. £3.65m Jackson-Stops & Staff 0161-928 8881.
Beehive Lodge & Honeysuckle Cottage, Costessey, Norfolk. A 1790s Grade II-listed lodge and attached self-contained three-bed cottage built in a Gothic style in grounds with open views, river frontage and woodland. 4 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, summer house, fishing rights, 1 acre. £775,000 Jackson-Stops & Staff 01603-612333.
Elberton Old Manor, Elberton, South Gloucestershire. A Grade II-listed restored manor with outbuildings. 7 beds, 5 baths, 4 receps, 2 games rooms, office, cellar, coach house with stables, large studio flat with kitchen and shower room, formal and walled gardens, orchard, all-weather mange, 1.7 acres. £2.175m Knight Frank 0117-317 1999.
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Kingston Pastures Farmhouse, Old Wimpole, Cambridgeshire. A Grade II-listed farmhouse with an annexe and an office outbuilding. It has exposed ceiling beams, open fireplaces and a weatherboarded single-storey wing to the rear. 4 beds, 3 baths, dressing room, 4 receps, gardens, 8.2 acres. £1.75m Savills 01223-347147.
Lambert Estate, New Canaan, Connecticut, US. A house flanked by a studio with a 14-foot vaulted ceiling, a one-bed guest house and a restored three-bed barn. All the properties have been renovated. 5 beds, 4 baths, 2 receps, solarium, wine cellar, tennis court, 2.5 acres. $5.15m Barbara Cleary's Realty Guild +1 203 966 7772.
The Old House, Middle Duntisbourne, Gloucestershire. A Grade II-listed, 17th-century Cotswold stone house with an adjacent barn conversion that is now a one-bed annexe. The main house has beamed ceilings, inglenook fireplaces and flagstone floors. 4 beds, 2 baths, 2 receps, 0.3 acres. £1.1m Savills 01285-627550.
The Old Kennels, Garsington, Oxford. A Grade II-listed, 17th-century house surrounded by walled gardens with a range of outbuildings, including a semi-converted barn and lapsed planning permission for development of the other outbuildings. 6 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, paddock,
1.6 acres. £1.375m John D Wood & Co 01865-311522.
Trevella, Trispen, Truro, Cornwall. A Grade II-listed, 18th-century house surrounded by large grounds with a separate three-bed cottage attached to the main house. It has wood floors, open fireplaces with wood-burning stoves and a country kitchen with an Aga. 8 beds, 5 baths, 3 receps, outbuildings, 13.9 acres. £2.6m Knight Frank 01392-423111.
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