This week: smallholdings and hobby farms from a rural estate in Dumfries and Galloway to a renovated 17th-century hunting lodge in Worcestershire.
Brickhouse Farm, Charlton Musgrove, Wincanton. This renovated traditional farmhouse has been extended and comes with two semi-detached two-bed cottages. 6 beds, 5 baths, 3 receps, study, barn with 4 stables, outbuildings with playroom, office, 2 manges, gardens, 26.5 acres. £2.95m Knight Frank 01935-812236.
Caber Farm, Croglin, Carlisle, Cumbria. This restored, 17th-century farmhouse in the Cambrian fells comes with a range of traditional farm buildings and a two-bed holiday cottage. 4 beds, 2 baths, 3 receps, 2 kitchens, gardens, vegetable garden, grass tennis court, 49 acres of pasture and woodland, 500 yards of fishing rights on Croglin Water, 55 acres. £1.395m Savills 01668-281611.
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Gilchristland Farm, Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway. A rural estate with a modern farmhouse and a range of traditional and modern farm buildings with fenced pasture, woodland and rough grazing. 7 beds, 3 baths, 4 receps, games room with kitchenette, walled garden, roe deer stalking and rough shooting, 62 acres. £775,000+ Knight Frank 0131-222 9600.
Pyne Farm, Washford Pyne, Crediton, Devon. A 16th-century, Grade II-listed farmstead with a newly thatched main farmhouse set around a courtyard and a range of traditional outbuildings in need of some renovation. 5 beds, bath, 2 receps, gardens, pasture, 47 acres. £995,000 Savills 01392-455755.
Shophouse Farm, Farley Green, Guildford, Surrey. A 15th-century, Grade II-listed, modernised cottage with equestrian facilities set around a stable yard in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. 4 beds, 3 baths, 2 receps, 52ft barn, 3 fenced paddocks, 3.75 acres. £1.395m Hill Clements 01483-300300
The Old Barn, Elham, Canterbury, Kent. A modernised, converted barn and outbuildings set around a courtyard with stabling in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The main property has a double-height glass entrance, galleried landing, a wood-burning stove and a kitchen with an Aga. 4 beds, 2 baths, 2 receps, 1-bed annexe, 6.3 acres. £1m Strutt & Parker 01227-451123.
Woodhall Farm, Wichenford, Worcestershire.A renovated 17th-century hunting lodge with large grounds that include a water-filled moat that feeds a woodland lake, orchards and traditional brick outbuildings. The house has flagstone floors, beamed ceilings, a wood-burning stove and a country kitchen with an Aga. 7 beds, 3 baths, 5 receps, fenced pasture paddocks, 10.25 acres. £875,000 Grant & Co 01531-637341.
Brockdale Cottage, Warfield, Berkshire. The current owners of this 5.5-acre smallholding keep bees, pigs, chickens and run a microbrewery. 5 beds, 4 baths, 3 receps, breakfast kitchen, 1-bed timber barn, garage with 1-bed flat, bespoke greenhouse, walled vegetable garden, orchard, woodland. £3m Strutt & Parker 01344-876363.
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