Modern Georgian style country house for sale for £19.5 million – complete with bowling alley and ‘Indian room’ with LED ‘night sky’ ceiling (more…)
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The house formerly known as Prince
Despite a Málaga villa built by the musician Prince remaining on the market a year after it was put up for sale, bizarrely its asking price has been increased by £1 million (more…)
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Raising the bar
A Shelter Island Heights home with quite possibly the best home bar ever comes to the market for £1.2 million (more…)
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Bog-standard blatancy
Former multi-millionaire Brian O’Donnell fails in his latest attempt to recuse himself from proceedings relating to the repossession of his £6 million South Dublin home (more…)
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Northern glory
Reconfigured Lancashire estate for sale for £4.25 million
Businessman Martin Higginson and his wife Maggie have reversed what has happened to most English country estates in buying back properties and land around their Lancashire home, Hay Carr at Bay Horse, near Lancaster. They are now selling the whole property with a price of offers over £4.25 million. (more…)
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New balls please
Alexandra Naylor reports on this year’s strawberries and Pimm’s fuelled Wimbledon Championships
It’s Wimbledon again – the oldest and most prestigious tennis championship in the world. (more…)
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A fine classical country house
£8 million Morley Hall combines traditional style with a home fit for modern living
Morley Hall is a Georgian country house to the east of Ware in Hertfordshire. This fine residence is worthy of note as it was remodeled in the Palladian style by the renowned classical architect Raymond Erith (more…)
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A classic English home
A former rectory that truly is a classic English home
Old rectories and vicarages are the things of novels: Jeffrey Archer lives in one near Cambridge that was previously the home of the poet Rupert Brooke and Joanna Trollope waxes lyrical about them regularly. (more…)
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The Perfect English Country House
17th century Oswaldkirk Hall for sale for £4 million
Described by Candida Lycett Green as “a fine and architecturally distinguished house, built in the reign of William and Mary” in her 1994 book The Perfect English Country House, Oswaldkirk Hall in the North Riding of Yorkshire is at the heart of the setting of Julian Fellowes’s fictional Downton Abbey. It was “built to impress” and could indeed have been a perfect starter home for Lady Mary Crawley and her late husband Matthew. (more…)
