This week: buy yourself an income from an East Sussex oast house with grounds used to run a luxury camping business to a 16-acre zoo-licensed farm on the edge of Exmoor National Park.
The Elms, Walpole, Halesworth, Suffolk. A restored, Grade II-listed farmhouse overlooking the River Blyth. It comes with a range of outbuildings with a permit for light commercial use and a converted three-bed barn that is licensed for holiday letting. 4 beds, 4 baths, 3 receps, 2 acres. £1m Abbotts 01986-875357.
Wattle Hill Oast, Staplecross, East Sussex. A renovated oast house with a leisure complex that includes an indoor swimming pool and gym set in grounds in which a range of luxury tents are used to run a "glamping" business. 4 beds, 2 baths, 2 receps, study, 1-bed flat, barn, fields, paddocks, woodland, 15.2 acres. £1.5m Knight Frank 01892-515035.
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Doniford Farm Park, Doniford, Watchet, Somerset. This substantial property, which is set around a 15th-century, Grade II-listed farmhouse on the edge of Exmoor National Park, is run as a zoo-licensed farm park. It has more than 30 species of animals and comes with a restaurant and gift shop. Its current turnover is £442,000 a year. 7 beds, 2 receps, farm buildings, enclosed pasture bordered by the sea, 16 acres. £1.5m Greenslade Taylor Hunt 01823-334455.
The Red House, The Green, Barford St Michael, Oxfordshire. An 18th-century, Grade II-listed village house with a modern outbuilding in the garden that houses a professional kitchen from which the current owners run a home baking business. 4 beds, 3 baths, 2 receps, breakfast kitchen, gardens. £740,000 Savills 01295-228010.
Westow Street, Crystal Palace, London SE19. A mixed residential and commercial property with two two-bed residential flats and two one-bed residential flats let on assured shorthold tenancies, and a ground floor commercial unit let on a 15-year lease that started in 2010. It generates a total monthly rental income of £6,000. £1.5m Martin & Co 020-8771 9990.
Cleave Barton, Bickleigh, Tiverton, Devon. A barn conversion on the edge of a village with a range of courtyard buildings currently used to run an art gallery and art studios. 6 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, breakfast kitchen, gardens, greenhouse, paddocks, 4.6 acres. £875,000 Strutt & Parker 01392-215631.
St John Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire. A 16th-century, Grade II-listed house with wood floors and period fire surrounds. The ground-floor commercial unit is let to a bridal shop and has a lease expiring in October 2017. It provides an annual rent of £12,000. 2 beds, 2 baths, 2 receps. £375,000 Myddelton & Major 01722-337575.
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