The Old Vicarage, Llanrhystud, Ceredigion. A restored, 1870s property with two holiday cottages. It has a breakfast room that retains the original brass servants’ bells and comes with woodland that incorporates part of the Wales Coastal Path. 6 beds, 2 baths, 2 receps, study, 2.5 acres. £775,000 Fine & Country 01686-623123.
Manor Farm, Hardwick, Bicester, Oxfordshire. A Grade II-listed house with a three-bedroom cottage and barns, arable farmland and woodland. It has beamed ceilings, open fireplaces and a country kitchen with an Aga. 5 beds, 3 baths, dining room, drawing room, medieval fishponds, 29 acres. £2.75m Strutt & Parker 01865-366660.
Cairnty Estate, Fochabers, Moray. A modern, Georgian-style house, three-bedroom cottage and two cottages in need of restoration on a sporting estate with 265 acres of woodland and commercial forestry. 8 beds, 7 baths, 4 receps, traditional farm steading with modern farm buildings, pheasant shoot, 2.5 miles of fishing rights, let farm providing annual income, 563 acres in total. £2.65m+ Strutt & Parker 0131-226 2500.
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House of Glack, Daviot, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. A restored, B-listed, 1720s house with an orchard and gardens bordered by mature woodland planted with young trees and hazels for cropping. It has open fireplaces with wood-burning stoves, beamed ceilings and tiled and wooden floors. 7 beds, 7 baths, 2 receps, 2 kitchens, 2 studies, gallery, garden room, wildlife pond, grazing land, 17 acres. £750,000+ Savills 01224-971122.
Nethergill Farm, Oughtershaw, Skipton, North Yorkshire. A restored farmhouse with two holiday cottages that have won a gold award for green tourism and substantial grounds in which the National Park and Forestry Commission has overseen the planting of 30,000 trees. It has wood-burning stoves and exposed beams. 4 beds, 4 baths, nature barn with conference room, farm buildings, stables, pasture, moorland, 377.54 acres. £1.3m Carter Jonas 01423-523423.
Lauris, Vaucluse, Provence, France. A restored village house set in nearly ten acres that include olive trees and 65 truffle oaks. It has beamed ceilings, tiled floors and a kitchen that opens onto a terrace. 4 beds, 2 baths, recep, 1-bed outbuilding, swimming pool, 9.88 acres. €980,000 Knight Frank 020-3925 9248.
Ffynnon Fendigaid Rhydlewis, Llandysul, Ceredigion. This 1740s former farmhouse is currently run as a five-star holiday business and comes with a converted, one-bed circus wagon, a barn with a two-bedroom flat in need of renovation, a lake and woodland. It has an inglenook fireplace and a drawing room with wood-panelled walls. 3 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, gardens, 10 acres. £675,000 West Wales Properties 01239-615915.
Little Coombe Farm, Dittisham, Dartmouth, Devon. A renovated, Grade II-listed, 16th-century farmhouse with a two-bedroom cottage and a converted, three-bedroom barn in grounds that include stream-fed ponds and an area of mixed woodland. The house has an open-plan living area with an inset wood-burning stove and doors opening onto a terrace. 5 beds, 3 baths, 4 receps, study, dining kitchen, workshop, heated swimming pool, tennis court, 11 acres. £3.6m. Savills, 01548-800462.
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