Properties for sale with beautiful gardens
From a 17th-century house with a Tudor-style knot garden in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, to a 1750s property surrounded by Italianate gardens in Burnhill Green, Staffordshire, eight of the best properties for sale with beautiful gardens.
Brook House, Maplehurst, West Sussex. This 1420s, Grade II-listed house retains its original oak timbers and leaded light windows. The gardens include clipped box-edged rose beds, ornamental ponds, an orchard and a summerhouse overlooking a meadow. 3 beds, 2 baths, 2 receps, two acres. £1.295m Strutt & Parker 01403-246791.
Rampton Prebend, Westgate, Southwell, Nottinghamshire. A Grade II-listed, 17th-century house with a Tudor-style knot garden overlooking the towers of Southwell Minster. It has a Grade II-listed, three-bedroom coach house with its own courtyard garden in the grounds. 4 beds, 3 baths, 2 receps, 0.77 acres. £2m Fine & Country 0115 982 2824.
The Woodhouse, Staplow, Ledbury, Herefordshire. A Grade II-listed, medieval former farmhouse house with a terrace overlooking a moat and a courtyard with ornamental box hedging and raised vegetable beds. The house has flagstone floors, exposed wall and ceiling timbers, inglenook fireplaces with wood-burning stoves and a bespoke kitchen. 4 beds, 3 baths, 2 receps, 2 stables, barn, paddocks, 3 acres. £850,000 Grant & Co 01531-637341.
Oaksey Court, Oaksey, Malmesbury, Wiltshire. A Georgian property with Victorian additions set in large gardens that include a raised, quatrefoil-shaped pond surrounded by herbaceous borders and a further pond. The grounds also include a tennis court, a workshop, two stables and a paddock. 6 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, study, breakfast kitchen with Aga, cellar, 5.2 acres. £2.5m Strutt & Parker 01285-897586.
Halton Green House, Halton, Lancaster. A 1930s property in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the Lune Valley surrounded by 5.5 acres of gated, landscaped gardens with formal areas, box hedging, a pond, a vegetable garden with raised vegetable beds and a greenhouse. 7 beds, 9 baths, recep, dining kitchen, study, garden room, gym, media room, gardener’s room with kitchenette and cloakroom, cellar, roof terrace, workshop, dog kennel. £2m+ Fine & Country 01524-380560.
Flint Cottage, Beamond End, Buckinghamshire. A brick and flint cottage with a conservatory leading to a secluded dining area shaded by a flowering canopy. The cottage has tiled floors, beamed ceilings and an open fireplace. 3 beds, 2 baths, 2 receps, 0.25 acres. £850,000 Knight Frank 01494-675368.
Woolmersdon House, North Petherton, Bridgwater, Somerset. A Grade II-listed, Georgian country house set in formal gardens with box hedging culminating in a ha-ha that drops down to the pasture below. The house has a semi-circular drawing room, a library fitted out in white oak and a kitchen with a solid wood-burning range cooker. 5 beds, 4 baths, 3 receps, orangery, workshop, arable land, 7.36 acres. £1.35m Hamptons International 020-3151 7552.
The West Wing, Burnhill Green, Staffordshire. This renovated, Grade-I listed, 1750s property was originally part of Patshull Hall. It is surrounded by Italianate-style formal gardens that include an ornamental, tiered terrace. The house retains its decorative plaster friezes and has a double-aspect drawing room with a vaulted ceiling and a large, open fireplace with marble columns. 4 beds, 3 baths, 2 receps, open-plan kitchen/family room, gym, sauna. £1.35m Savills 01952-239500.
