From a Georgian villa overlooking Totnes, Devon, to awing of a Grade II-listed mansion in Amberley, Yorkshire, with a Victorian orangery with decorative ironwork.
Delford House Kinnaird, Perthshire. A renovated Georgian house with a range of outbuildings and views of the Sidlaw Hills. It has a large conservatory with French doors leading onto a terrace and a converted coach house set in its own walled garden. 5 beds,3 baths, 3 receps, paddock, stables, 1.9 acres. £1.1m+ Bell Ingram 01738-621121.
Highfield, Kingsbridge Hill, Totnes, Devon. This 1820s Georgian villa is situated in an elevated position overlooking Totnes and the countryside beyond. It has an entrance hall with tiled floors leading to a drawing room with decorative cornices, a marble fireplace and floor-to-ceiling Gothic shuttered sash windows, an orangery built in 2012, and a large cellar divided into four rooms. 8 beds, 4 baths, 2 receps, breakfast kitchen, study, gardens. £1.25m Marchand Petit 01803-847979.
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Manor Cottage, Westbrook, Boxford, Berkshire. A Grade II-listed, 19th-century cottage with an orangery that was originally part of Speen House. The cottage has a wood-burning stove and a large kitchen with an Aga. 3 beds, bath, 2 receps, 0.13 acres. £750,000. Jackson-Stops, 01635 45501.
South Moor Court, Amberley, Gloucestershire.A substantial part of a refurbished, Grade II-listed Victorian mansion that retains its open fireplaces with period surrounds, sash windows with working shutters, and a Victorian orangery with decorative ironwork and original tiled floors. 4 beds, 3 baths, kitchen, 2 receps, study, wine cellar, double garage with an office above, workshop, gardens, 0.75 acres. £1.595m Knight Frank 01285-659771.
Meadow Wood Drive, Greenwich, Connecticut.This house overlooking Byram Harbour on Long Island Sound was built in 1976. It has a living room that opens into a rounded conservatory that was once part of the Nancy Reynolds estate. 6 beds, 5 baths,3 receps, panelled library, games room, wine cellar, solarium, sauna, outdoor pool, gardens, grounds, 3.87 acres. $8.88m Houlihan Lawrence+1 203 869 0700.
Stoney Stretton Hall, Yockleton, Shrewsbury. A Grade II-listed,17th-century house remodelled in 1831. It retains its Jacobean staircase, original working shutters, decorative corning and period fireplaces. The orangery is a recent addition and has double doors leading onto a terrace. 7 beds, 4 baths, 4 receps, 3-bed cottage, Dutch barn, walled gardens, greenhouse, woodland, 17.7 acres. £1.85m Savills 01952-239500.
Willoughby House, Walled Garden, Matfen, Northumberland. This house was built in 1996 as part of a development offour properties, each set in its own garden. It has exposed beams, an orangery with underfloor heating and a conservatory. 5 beds, 4 baths, 2 receps, 1 acre. £1.75m Sanderson Young 0191-223 3500.
Gussage House, All Saints, Wimborne, Dorset. A Grade II-listed, 17th-century village house with 18th- and 19th-century additions and a large adjoining orangery.It has period fireplaces, sash windows with working shutters, and a sitting room and living room with French doors opening onto a terrace.4 beds, 2 attic beds,5 baths, 3 receps, kitchen with an Aga, library, 3-bed coach house, swimming pool, tennis court, paddocks,4.5 acres. £2.75mSavills 01202-856873.
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