This week: houses with kitchen gardens from a Grade II-listed Regency house in Dorset to a 15th-century manor in Oxfordshire.
Thistlewood Tower, Highbridge, Dalston, Carlisle. A renovated, Grade I-listed medieval tower beside the River Roe with a 16th-century hall block and converted byre. The tower is set in tranquil gardens that include a vegetable garden and orchard. It has flagstone floors, exposed beams and stonework, wood-burning stoves and a garden room with oak crook beams. 3 beds, 2 baths, 3 receps, 1-bed annexe, 0.3 acre. £580,000 Fine & Country 01768-869007.
Uploders Place, Bridport, Dorset. A Grade II-listed Regency house on the edge of the village. The gardens are bordered by the River Asker and include mature trees and a walled kitchen garden with vegetable beds. 4 en-suite beds, 3 receps, 2-bed cottage, 2.84 acres. £1.85m Savills 01202-856800.
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The Walled Garden, Panton, Lincolnshire. A modern house with an attached greenhouse set in 6.5 acres of grounds that include a Georgian walled garden. 3 beds, 2 baths, recep, dining kitchen, outbuildings, workshop with sitting room and log burner, woodland. £750,000 Robert Bell & Company 01507-522222.
The Old Manor, Poffley End, Hailey, Witney, Oxfordshire. A Grade II-listed, 15th-century manor with later additions. It has an inglenook fireplace with a wood-burning stove. The gardens are laid out in a series of rooms and there is a vegetable garden and an orchard. 5 beds, 3 receps, 2-bed cottage, outbuildings, 0.73 acres. £1.65m Knight Frank 01865-790077.
Sycamore House, Blencarn, Penrith, Cumbria. A 19th-century farmhouse in a village at the foot of the Pennine Fells. It has a wood-burning stove and a vaulted kitchen with French doors leading onto a patio. The gardens include a kitchen garden and two garden sheds. 5 beds, 2 baths, 2 receps. £525,000 Fine & Country 01768-869007.
Roskruge Barton, Manaccan, The Lizard, Cornwall. A small estate with a Grade II-listed medieval property enlarged in the 18th century. It has a kitchen garden with raised vegetable beds. 5 beds, 3 baths, 2 receps, 1-bed attached cottage, Grade II-listed former mill buildings, 44.6 acres. £2.5m Savills 01872-243200.
Misty Meadows, Bucknell, Shropshire. A quirky modern home built in a traditional style by local craftsmen surrounded by landscaped gardens that include a kitchen garden with raised beds and a potting shed. It has an inglenook fireplace with a wood-burning stove and a large kitchen with an Aga. 4 beds, 3 baths, cinema room, 0.6 acres. £775,000 Strutt & Parker 01584-873711.
Compton House, Compton, Chichester, West Sussex. A Grade II-listed Regency house surrounded by walled gardens and outbuildings in a village in the South Downs National Park. It has a walled kitchen garden with raised beds, espaliered fruit trees and a greenhouse with a mature grapevine. 8 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, 1 acre+. £2.45m Jackson-Stops & Staff 01243-786316.
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