8 of the best properties for sale with award-winning gardens
The best properties for sale with award-winning gardens – from a Victorian Gothic rectory in Hampshire, to a Georgian house in Kent with gardens designed by multiple Royal Chelsea Flower Show gold medallist Roger Platts


Sloelands Farm, Ashley Green, Buckinghamshire.
A Grade II-listed, 17th-century house with gardens that include a Japanese garden, a maze, and a sunken garden. It has open fireplaces and a kitchen with an Aga. 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 receptions, sun room, 1-bedroom cottage, swimming pool complex, 5.59 acres.
Price: £3m Knight Frank 01494-689263.

Sloelands Farm, Ashley Green, Buckinghamshire.
A Grade II-listed, 17th-century house with gardens that include a Japanese garden, a maze, and a sunken garden. It has open fireplaces and a kitchen with an Aga. 5 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, sun room, 1-bed cottage, swimming pool complex, 5.59 acres.
Price: £3m Knight Frank 01494-689263.

Sloelands Farm, Ashley Green, Buckinghamshire.
A Grade II-listed, 17th-century house with gardens that include a Japanese garden, a maze, and a sunken garden. It has open fireplaces and a kitchen with an Aga. 5 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, sun room, 1-bed cottage, swimming pool complex, 5.59 acres.
Price: £3m Knight Frank 01494-689263.

Nursted Barns, Petersfield, Hampshire.
A Grade II-listed, converted barn with two cottages on a small country estate. The award-winning landscaped gardens include box hedges and an ornamental pond. 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3 receptions, study, kitchen, 1-bedroom cottage, 2-bedroom cottage, barn with swimming pool, 5.24 acres.
Price: £6m Strutt & Parker 01428-661077.

Silver Street Farm, Prescott, Devon.
A restored Grade II-listed Georgian farmhouse surrounded by award-winning gardens that are bordered by a stream and command far-reaching views over the Culm Valley. It has beamed ceilings and a large kitchen with an Aga. 8 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 receptions, 1-bedroom cottage, events barn, cinema room, stabling, courtyard, wildflower meadow, paddocks, pasture, 9.6 acres.
Price: £2.5m Knight Frank 01392-423111.

Silver Street Farm, Prescott, Devon.
A restored Grade II-listed Georgian farmhouse surrounded by award-winning gardens that are bordered by a stream and command far-reaching views over the Culm Valley. It has beamed ceilings and a large kitchen with an Aga. 8 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, 1-bed cottage, events barn, cinema room, stabling, courtyard, wildflower meadow, paddocks, pasture, 9.6 acres.
Price: £2.5m Knight Frank 01392-423111.

Silver Street Farm, Prescott, Devon.
A restored Grade II-listed Georgian farmhouse surrounded by award-winning gardens that are bordered by a stream and command far-reaching views over the Culm Valley. It has beamed ceilings and a large kitchen with an Aga. 8 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, 1-bed cottage, events barn, cinema room, stabling, courtyard, wildflower meadow, paddocks, pasture, 9.6 acres.
Price: £2.5m Knight Frank 01392-423111.

Walton Street, London SW3.
A Georgian townhouse in a quiet street between Chelsea and Knightsbridge with a garden created by the award-winning gardener Jon Uglow. It has period fireplaces and a partly open-plan kitchen leading onto a balcony. The kitchen has Miele appliances, including a Teppanyaki hotplate. 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, reception, home cinema/bedroom 3, wine cellar, study.
Price: £3.5m Hamptons 020-7717 5134.

Roman River House, Church Road, Fingringhoe, Colchester, Essex.
A converted Victorian granary dating from 1895 in the protected Roman River Valley reserve, with riverside gardens designed by Chelsea Flower Show gold medallist Andrea Parsons. It has beamed ceilings, a covered veranda and access to the gardens and river. 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2 receptions, open-plan kitchen/living room, garage, grounds, wildflower meadows.
Price: £1.45m Jackson-Stops, 01206-982272

Goldhawk Road, Brook Green, Hammersmith, London.
A period property with gardens designed by Jonathan Snow, winner of the Chelsea Flower Show, that include an outdoor kitchen, a swimming pool and a summerhouse. The house has an open-plan kitchen and living room, 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2 receptions, wine cellar, garage.
Price: £4.95m Domus Nova 020-7221 7817.

The Old House, Painters Forstal, Faversham, Kent.
A Grade II-listed 18th-century Georgian house set in gardens designed by Roger Platts, multiple gold medallist at the Royal Chelsea Flower Show and winner of the People’s Choice garden 2010. It has oak floors, open fireplaces and an open-plan kitchen with a wood-burning stove and French doors leading onto the gardens. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 receptions, study.
Price: £1.5m Strutt & Parker 01227-473700.

The Old Rectory, Dummer, Basingstoke, Hampshire.
A Victorian Gothic former rectory with gardens created by Sarah Eberle, winner of Chelsea best in Show 2007, which include a parterre, a woodland walk, a croquet lawn and a converted coach house with one bedroom. It has oak doors and fireplaces with Victorian tiles. 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, breakfast room, dressing room, 2 receptions, library, study, wine cellar, indoor swimming pool complex, 1.20 acres.
Price: £3.45m Savills 01962-841842.
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