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Exceptional Estates with Captivating Gardens Now Available for Purchase

Seventeenth-century longhouse and sixteenth-century manor house showcasing beautiful gardens in Carmarthen, Wales, and Hampshire, respectively.

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Eight exceptional real estate offerings, each boasting noteworthy outdoor spaces
Eight exceptional real estate offerings, each boasting noteworthy outdoor spaces

Exceptional Estates with Captivating Gardens Now Available for Purchase

Comparing Luxury Historical Homes Across the UK

1. Modernised 1680s Laird’s House (Scotland)

  • Historical Significance: A Laird’s house from the 1680s is steeped in Scottish heritage, often linked to landed gentry and clan history. These houses are typically stone-built with thick walls designed to withstand harsh Scottish weather.
  • Architecture: Characterised by classic Scottish vernacular architecture—often featuring crow-stepped gables, small windows, and sometimes defensive features.
  • Modernisation: Sensitive restoration and modernisation tend to blend original features (exposed beams, fireplaces, stone walls) with contemporary comforts (underfloor heating, modern kitchens, en-suite bathrooms).
  • Location: Typically rural or semi-rural, surrounded by scenic Scottish countryside, offering privacy and expansive grounds.
  • Unique Selling Points: Historic ambience combined with modern luxury; often includes sizeable land suitable for outdoor pursuits (gardens, woodlands, possibly crofting rights).

2. Craigfoodie House (Dairsie, Cupar, Fife, Scotland)

  • Historical Significance: A 1680s Laird's house, extended in the Georgian style.
  • Architecture: A blend of Scottish vernacular and Georgian architecture with a traditional stone exterior.
  • Modernisation: Modernised interiors with a mix of original features (exposed beams, fireplaces) and contemporary comforts.
  • Location: Rural Fife, Scotland, offering picturesque countryside views and extensive grounds.
  • Unique Selling Points: Historic charm combined with modern luxury; includes additional properties like a 2-bed flat, a 3-bed cottage, stables, and grazing land.

3. Capel Dewi Uchaf (Carmarthen, Wales)

  • Historical Significance: A restored 17th-century stone and slate longhouse.
  • Architecture: Traditional Welsh longhouse design featuring stone and slate construction.
  • Modernisation: Modernised interiors with period features (exposed beams, inglenook fireplaces) and contemporary comforts (underfloor heating, en-suite bathrooms).
  • Location: Rural Carmarthen, Wales, offering a peaceful countryside setting with extensive grounds and river frontage.
  • Unique Selling Points: Includes various outbuildings (cellar, boiler house and stores, greenhouse, loose boxes and stable yard, paddocks, woodland), perfect for equestrian pursuits or hobby farming.

4. Dower House (Annery Park, Monkleigh, Bideford, Devon)

  • Historical Significance: A late Georgian country house.
  • Architecture: Classical Georgian architecture with traditional brick and stone construction.
  • Modernisation: Modernised interiors with period features (panelled walls, period fireplaces) and contemporary comforts (modern kitchens, en-suite bathrooms).
  • Location: Rural Devon, England, offering a peaceful countryside setting with extensive gardens and woodland.
  • Unique Selling Points: Spacious living areas, extensive gardens with formal areas, richly stocked borders, an ornamental kitchen garden with a large greenhouse, and a courtyard with outhouses.

5. Old Bedhampton (Hampshire, England)

  • Historical Significance: A renovated 16th-century manor house.
  • Architecture: Traditional English manor house design with timber-framed and brick construction.
  • Modernisation: Modernised interiors with period features (exposed beams, inglenook fireplaces) and contemporary comforts (state-of-the-art climate-control system, fitted cabinetry in the kitchen).
  • Location: Close to Portsmouth and the south coast, offering a blend of countryside peace and coastal access.
  • Unique Selling Points: Includes various outbuildings (stables, barns, garages), a productive vegetable garden, and a timber summerhouse with a covered verandah.

6. High Street, Gilling West (Richmond, North Yorkshire)

  • Historical Significance: A Georgian-era house with a history dating back to the 17th century.
  • Architecture: Traditional Georgian architecture with brick construction and symmetrical facade.
  • Modernisation: Modernised interiors with period features (fireplaces, panelled walls) and contemporary comforts (underfloor heating, modern kitchens, en-suite bathrooms).
  • Location: Rural North Yorkshire, offering a picturesque countryside setting with extensive gardens.
  • Unique Selling Points: Includes various outbuildings (stables, garages), a formal rose garden, a kitchen garden, terraces, and a York stone gazebo.

7. Compton End (Compton, Winchester, Hampshire)

  • Historical Significance: A Grade II-listed 17th-century house enlarged in the 19th century.
  • Architecture: A blend of 17th-century and Victorian architecture with traditional brick construction.
  • Modernisation: Modernised interiors with period features (exposed beams, inglenook fireplaces) and contemporary comforts (kitchen with an Aga, en-suite bathrooms).
  • Location: Rural Hampshire, offering a peaceful countryside setting with extensive gardens.
  • Unique Selling Points: Includes a roof terrace, workshop, and is set in gardens with clipped yew hedges, topiary, naturalistic planting, a croquet lawn, pond, wildflower meadows, and a summerhouse.

8. Hailsham Grange (Hailsham, East Sussex)

  • Historical Significance: The former vicarage at Hailsham Grange, featuring period fireplaces and panelled walls.
  • Architecture: Traditional English vicarage design with timber-framed and brick construction.
  • Modernisation: Modernised interiors with period features (fireplaces, panelled walls) and contemporary comforts (modern kitchens, en-suite bathrooms).
  • Location: Rural East Sussex, offering a peaceful countryside setting with extensive gardens.
  • Unique Selling Points: Includes various outbuildings (stables, garages), a productive vegetable garden, and a timber summerhouse.

Barlaston Hall (Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire)

  • Historical Significance: A restored Grade I-listed house built in 1756.
  • Architecture: Neoclassical architecture with ornate plasterwork, a Chinese Chippendale staircase, and traditional brick construction.
  • Modernisation: Modernised interiors with period features (ornate plasterwork, Chinese Chippendale staircase) and contemporary comforts (underfloor heating, modern kitchens, en-suite bathrooms).
  • Location: Rural Staffordshire, offering a peaceful countryside setting with extensive gardens and a 12th-century deconsecrated church.
  • Unique Selling Points: Includes various outbuildings (stables, garages, a library, an orangery), and is located in landscaped gardens with a 12th-century deconsecrated church.

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