The best smallholdings for sale – from a medieval cross-passage farmhouse in Taunton, Somerset, to a former farmhouse with an orchard in the Welsh Marches
This B-listed former Laird’s house comes with grounds that include five ponds and a vegetable garden. An additional 28 acres of land is available by separate negotiation. 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 receptions, kitchen with an Aga, stables.
A Grade II-listed house dating from 1709 with a circular facade, large gardens and a 2.5-acre paddock. It has stone walls, exposed beams and open fireplaces. 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 3 receptions, study, kitchen/dining/living area, 2 barns, 8.7 acres.
A restored medieval cross-passage farmhouse with a converted cider barn and outbuildings, including a recording studio set in pasture leading to the River Culm. 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 kitchens, 2 receptions, hall, study, 2-bedroom cottage, outbuildings with recording studio, office, bar, workshops, tennis court, 3 pastures, river frontage, 11.7 acres.
A restored medieval cross-passage farmhouse with a converted cider barn and outbuildings, including a recording studio set in pasture leading to the River Culm. 5 beds, 3 baths, 2 kitchens, 2 receps, hall, study, 2-bed cottage, outbuildings with recording studio, office, bar, workshops, tennis court, 3 pastures, river frontage, 11.7 acres.
A former farmhouse and converted barn in the Lake District National Park with grazing land, meadows and woodland available in lots. It has exposed beams and open fireplaces with wood-burning stoves. 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, kitchen, receptions, barn with a 1-bedroom flat and two 5-bedroom flats, 2 agricultural barns, stables, paddocks, 6.62 acres.
A former farmhouse dating from 1706 in the Welsh Marches on the border between Powys and Shropshire. It comes with three shepherds’ huts, a two-bedroom cottage and a barn with a function room. The grounds include a kitchen garden, an orchard and paddocks with field shelters. 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, reception, study, conservatory, 1-bedroom flat, cabin, workshop, woodland, 23 acres.
A borders smallholding with a main house, a one-bedroom cottage, outbuildings, a kitchen garden and greenhouse, an orchard and a hen house, grazing paddocks and a riverside area with a hut with a wood-burning stove. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, kitchen, 2 receptions, sun room, conservatory, 2 barns, 25 acres.
A borders smallholding with a main house, a one-bedroom cottage, outbuildings, kitchen garden and greenhouse, orchard and hen house, grazing paddocks and a riverside area with a hut with a wood-burning stove. 4 beds, 3 baths, kitchen, 2 receps, sun room, conservatory, 2 barns, 25 acres.
Mill Farm, Long Clawson, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
A rural property with a Grade II-listed, 19th-century windmill overlooking the Vale of Belvoir. The gardens include a kitchen garden with a greenhouse, cold frame and fruit trees. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, breakfast kitchen with bespoke oak cabinets, 3 receptions, office, garden room, wine room, courtyard, barn, home office, paddocks and grazing land, 11.35 acres.
A renovated house set in 30 acres of grounds that command far-reaching views over the surrounding Cotswold valley and include spring-fed lakes, a walled kitchen garden, an apple orchard, wildflower meadows, and extensive outbuildings. The house has open fireplaces and a breakfast kitchen with a range oven and bespoke cabinets. 7 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 receptions, study, stables, woodland, lakes.
A renovated house set in 30 acres of grounds that command far-reaching views over the surrounding Cotswold valley and include spring-fed lakes, a walled kitchen garden, an apple orchard, wildflower meadows, and extensive outbuildings. The house has open fireplaces and a breakfast kitchen with a range oven and bespoke cabinets. 7 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, study, stables, woodland, lakes.
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Natasha read politics at Sussex University. She then spent a decade in social care, before completing a postgraduate course in Health Promotion at Brighton University. She went on to be a freelance health researcher and sexual health trainer for both the local council and Terrence Higgins Trust.
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