Penny Churchill

1 week ago | countrylife.co.uk | Penny Churchill

Down on Dartmoor, four miles from Mortetonhampstead, there's a fine old manor house with a wonderful claim to literary fame. Wingstone Manor was for many years home to John Galsworthy, the writer who created The Forsyte Saga — an iconic series of novels that was inspired by this wild, dramatic setting. That house — with its setting little changed by the passage of over a century — is up for sale.

2 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Penny Churchill

Down in north Devon, the historic, Grade II*-listed Hudscott Manor at Chittlehampton has come to the market at a guide price of £3.25m by Oliver Custance Baker of Strutt & Parker.

2 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Penny Churchill

It is the week to be thinking about gardens and the homes that are contained within them. As RHS Chelsea rages, property coverage on the website this week will have a focus on homes with fine gardens. First up, Mark Smith of Strutt & Parker’s Banbury office is handling the sale — at a guide price of £2.25m — of the delightful, Grade II-listed Friars Well at Aynho, which stands in 17¼ acres of Capability Brown-designed parkland, once part of the Cartwright family’s Aynhoe Park estate.

1 month ago | countrylife.co.uk | Penny Churchill

It's hard to say which of the counties of the Cotswolds is the finest, but Gloucestershire could certainly try to claim the crown. It is there where Ed Sugden of Savills is handling the sale, at a guide price of £7.5m, of imposing Waterton House, a substantial country home set in some 25 acres of wooded grounds and parkland on the edge of Ampney Crucis village, three miles from Cirencester and 15 miles from Cheltenham.

1 month ago | countrylife.co.uk | Penny Churchill

Located within the Cotswold ‘golden triangle’ between Burford, Chipping Norton and Stow-on-the-Wold, dreamy Grade II*-listed Finstock Manor stands on high ground on the edge of the village it’s named for. Finstock is bounded to the north-east by the River Evenlode on the southern edge of the ancient parish of Charlbury and overlooks the Cornbury Park estate of which it was, until recently, a part.