8 of the best properties for sale for around £1 million

The best properties for sale for around £1 million – from a restored Grade II-listed house with a church tower and spiral staircase in Hampshire, to a manor house with a Georgian Gothic frontage and a 16th-century courtyard in Warwickshire.

Houses for sale for around £1m – Penybont Hall, Llandrindod, Wells, Powys
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Vigo di Fassa, Trento, Italy

Price: €1.1m Italy Sotheby’s International Realty +39 045 824 2300

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Penybont Hall, Llandrindod, Wells, Powys

A Grade II-listed manor house built in 1755 in a Gothic style with landscaped gardens that include a 19th-century folly. It has a large living room with part-panelled walls. 8 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 reception rooms, breakfast kitchen, 2-bedroom annexe, 21.7 acres.

Price: £1m Strutt & Parker 01743-284200

Farnley Hey II, Farnley Tyas, West Yorkshire

This Grade II-listed house was one of the first post-war buildings to be listed. It was designed in 1954 by Peter Womersley and has floor-to-ceiling windows, open-plan living areas with open-tread staircases and views over the garden and open countryside. 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 reception rooms, study, kitchen, greenhouse, garage, gardens, 1.7 acres.

Price: £1.05m The Modern House 020-3795 5920

Manor House, Chillingham, Alnwick, Northumberland

A manor house built in 1828 with a Georgian Gothic frontage and a 16th-century courtyard to the rear. There is a two-bedroom cottage in the grounds. The house retains its double-height sash windows and shutters and period fireplaces, and has a large kitchen and a secondary kitchen. 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3 reception rooms, cellar, stores, partly walled garden, gardens, terraces, 1.24 acres.

Price: £1m Strutt & Parker 01670-516123

High Street, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire

A Grade II-listed Georgian house with a detached coach house and walled garden. It has an Art Deco-inspired kitchen and modern wood-burning stoves. 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, reception room, dressing room, library.

Price: £950,000 Hayman-Joyce 01608-651188

Foxcotte Tower, Charlton, Andover, Hampshire

This restored, Grade II-listed house incorporates a former church tower dating from 1840, which contains a spiral staircase leading to a study. The house has modern interiors with floor-to-ceiling windows and French doors, and an open-plan sitting/dining room with a contemporary wood-burning stove. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, reception room, kitchen, office, parking, gardens.

Price: £995,000 Savills 01962-841842

Walnut Shade Farm, Suton, Norfolk

A Grade II-listed house that may once have been a medieval hall house, with 17th-century additions and an award-winning two-storey extension surrounded by landscaped gardens. It has exposed wall and ceiling timbers, large inglenook fireplaces and traditional pamment-tiled floors. 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3 reception rooms, kitchen/garden room, 1-bedroom annexe, traditional outbuildings, gardens, 2.5 acres.

Price: £995,000 Sowerbys 01603-761441

Ifield Road, London SW10

A top-floor, two-bedroom apartment in a period property on a terrace close to Fulham Road and the King’s Road. It has a large reception room with high ceilings and an open fireplace, a modern fitted kitchen, and comes with a roof terrace with a decked seating area with views over the gardens. 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, reception room, breakfast kitchen, roof terrace.

Price: £1m Knight Frank 020-3978 2462


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