Fine period country house
Interesting kitchen
3 principal receps, cinema
Snooker rm, office, gym
Garden & paddocks to 7.5 acres
Thistleber Farm is on for £2,150,000
Author: Diane
Higher Holway Farm
Higher Holway Farm is a lovely house with sensational rural views
5 reception rooms
Kitchen/breakfast/family room
7 bedrooms
5 bathrooms
Loads of lovely rooms and outside it has a 2 bed annexe, office, outbuildings, tennis court, paddocks and woodland
Oh and did I mention the tiger on the wall?
Bredons Norton Manor
Bredons Norton Manor is a lovely house with 5 Reception Rooms
6 Principal Bedroom Suites
2 Attic Bedrooms
Further Attic Rooms
Outdoor Swimming Pool
Grade 2 listed
Lovely! Love this suit of armour
Cadmore Lodge
Cadmore Lodge is a stylish modern hotel situated in an absolutely stunning lake-side location. The approach is via a 300m tree-lined drive down into the secluded and private 58 acre Cadmore Valley Estate.
This tower is almost Rapunzel like!
Cote House
Listed Grade II*, Cote House is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, partly rendered with a Cotswold slate roof with stone mullioned windows.
8 bedrooms, 4 reception rooms
2 bedroom cottage
Swimming pool
Packed with history the house is in Marcus Binney’s book ‘In Search of the Perfect House’
Breach House
Designed by renowned British architect Mr Edward P Warren for himself in 1905 Breach House is huge! It’s got 10 bedrooms. The house is on Halfpenny Lane, Nr Moulsford, Wallingford although you’ll need more than a halfpenny to buy it as it’s on for £4,500,000
With solar or without
This house is for sale and has solar panels. An interesting line in the details though:
The present owners have installed solar panelling which would be available to a purchaser under a separate negotiation.
Whilst I like the idea of buying a house with solar, it seems a bit strange that they’d consider not including them in the price to start with.
Writers houses
If a famous writer has lived in a house, does it make the house worth more?
This article on the telegraph lists a few houses
Sir Walter Scott – Peffermill House, edinburgh
Llanwenarth House in Golivan in South Wales, where Cecil Frances Alexander wrote the song All Things Bright and Beautiful
There are lots more mentioned in the article – if you have any links to famous houses that you’d like to share then please do!
Landlords from hell
Landlords from Hell – Channel 4 tonight at 8.30
See more on Ch 4 Dispatches page
Dispatches goes undercover in the property rental market again to find out what really happens when you’re without a roof over your ahead and desperate.
I hope it has some practical advice about what to do if you have a landlord from hell!
How safe are the roads near where you live?
This amazing, but perhaps a little ghoulist, map shows every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010
A total of 36,371 people were killed on Britain’s roads between 1999 and 2010.
An interesting map that gives you details on road deaths. Whilst perhaps not directly related to buying a house, you might want to check out the area and spot any accident blackspots near where you live, or want to live.