Country Property News
National Trust buys Lutyens & Jekyll masterpiece in Surrey
Designed by Edward Lutyens for influential garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, Munstead House 'is an 11-acre horticultural gem', says the new owner - which plans to open the Arts & Crafts house and grounds…
Historic Herefordshire estate hits the market after ‘a quite extraordinary renovation’
The Sir William Chambers-designed Poston House has been meticulously refurbished at the hands of Francis Sultana, creating an outstanding country estate - which is now on the market.
Developer secures £7.4mn to build two new luxury homes on ‘exceptional’ Marlow site
Two significant new detached houses are to built on a 15 acre site in a Buckinghamshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
‘Extremely rare’ Kent country estate offered for £32mn – with consent for a return to a palatial single residence
Linton Park is "everything an English estate should be", says Strutt & Parker.
In Pictures: Cornish clifftop home on Betjeman-favoured coast seeks £5mn
This house in North Cornwall is on the market for the first time since it was built in the 1930s.
Scottish estate market cools, but prices remain high
Gross investment in Scottish estates dipped in 2022 as £1mn+ activity refocused to urban centres - but country estate prices remain at historically high levels.
In Pictures: Former PM Johnson buys moated Oxfordshire Manor House
A source tells us that Boris Johnson has exchanged on Brightwell Manor for £3.8mn.
Jane Austen’s Hampshire birthplace offered for £8.5mn
Celebrated novelist Jane Austen lived in the original Steventon House for 25 years, and wrote three of her most famous works there.
On a rare mixed-use SDLT success for the taxpayer
The buyer of a barn conversion with 39 acres has managed to pull-off a 'rare win' to pay the lower Stamp Duty rate for mixed-use properties, says Helen Coward of Charles Russell Speechlys.
Prime Country Homes are not in a ‘cappuccino market’: Estate agency predicts only a ‘minor adjustment’ for house prices next year
Jackson-Stops thinks house prices will dip in some markets next year, before returning to positive growth in 2024.
In Pictures: ‘Joyous & eccentric’ Dorset home named UK’s best new house
The Red House, a contemporary family home in rural Dorset by David Kohn Architects, has been named RIBA House of the Year 2022.
Kent planners give Para 80 consent for a contemporary country house on an historic fort site
Holloway Studio has designed an ultra-modern family home near Upnor Castle, securing planning approval via the 'Country House Clause' route - which demands 'truly outstanding' architecture in rural locations