Yes it has stabling!

The first picture gives you the clue this house has stabling! The coach house is absolutely stunning and would make a lovely place to live even if the main house wasn’t there. The fireplaces in the main house are amazing. Tennis court and swimming pool. Really stunning views.

Oh for a lottery win to be able to buy this amazing house. It’s got cottages for the family to come and stay in without being under your feet at all, it’s got a lovely garden with a greenhouse and garages and workshop space too. Everything a girl could ever dream of.

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Palladian style modern Manor House

Palladian style modern Manor House

Another Matterport for you at this lovely house

Picture 10 for all your fellow staircase enthusiasts! Plus picture 16 for the top of the stairs!
Picture 27-30 shows some of the history of the house. Amazing!
Beautiful garden – that topiary is lovely! Just imagine how much hard work goes into looking after that. Some lovely features in this house and garden. With great views too!

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Doctor Who fans ahoy!

This house featured in the BBC Doctor Who 2014 Christmas Day special

It has
36ft drawing room, 26ft breakfast room, 25ft living room, study, 19ft kitchen, housekeeper’s room, utility room, gamekeeper’s pantry, stores and basement rooms, 23ft billiard’s room, 7 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, versatile 5 attic room and stores with possibilities

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Gardens (Part Listed)

This made me giggle. Part listed gardens doesn’t mean on a slope!
Glen Usk is stunning

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The house is very elegant, it’s entrance has three-bay stone Tuscan Colonnade and inside the entrance hall is lovely, with scaglioli columns and a piano.
In 1990 the Grecian Temple was built, similarly Grade II Listed, which is panelled with bookshelves and features a later added minstrels gallery for entertaining. This has been in several films apparently! Anyone spotted it?

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Y shaped house

This is an interesting property! Quite old too! It’s at Goodrich (Where there’s a castle that I went to on a school trip in the early 1980s!)
It was built in 1636! The original fortified front door is sheltered by a porch supported by Doric columns, one date 1636. The hall has an open fireplace, panelled walls and main staircase as well as the staircase to the lower ground floor.

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Monmouthshire magnificent staircase

I would love this property.
It’s in Monmouthshire!
The staircase if absolutely stunning (pic 9) and I think it’s one of the loveliest I’ve seen for a long time. The brochure (second link in the description) has another photo of the beautiful stair well.
Picture 11 is of the kitchen, which looks absolutely lovely. The library is beautiful and reinforces the desire for a library room of my own! Picture 13 is such a nice photo – a lovely toom with a fire roaring in an arched fireplace. Amazing lightshade too.
It’s got an extensive range of traditional stone and modern farm buildings and in all about 275.53 acres. Plenty of room for whatever animals you wanted to keep.
The brochure also includes a boundary plan – just what you actually want to know! Just how far does the land stretch.
Absolutely stunning property, really love it.

Can anyone lend me the £4.5M I’d need?

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Things I think are essential for expensive properties

The number one things I think is essential is a plan of the land. Why tempt me telling me it’s 2.5 acres, or 280 acres if you’re not going to show me a plan. I don’t mind the land registry plan or the aerial views with a red line. Anything to tell me which bits are included.
Nothing worse than viewing a stunning house and then realising that half the buildings in the first photo are not included.

Virtual Reality viewings – which ever system you want to offer, just offer one. They’re amazing. I can tell by viewing a matterport (for example) whether the layout works for me!

What else? Photos at night aren’t needed really but sometimes are so pretty you know why the estate agent includes them.

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Still browsing Wales

It’s really beautiful around Tenby! I think it’s fair to say this part of Wales is on my wish list of places I would buy a house in – with a lottery win.
This one is stunning.
Round Well
Despite growing up watching Neighbours on TV, I think this is the right amount of neighbours to have!
This house has a beautiful big kitchen with an Aga. There’s a games room with table tennis table – You can play Table tennis with the oculus! But it would be nice to have a house big enough for a table for the times you want a game in real life!
The house is beautifully decorated. I don’t think I’d change a thing.
Some lovely furniture too.

There’s a matterport again https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=YiqToib1r25

One of my first memories is of a holiday to a cottage in Wales. The cottage was owned by a friend of my dads. We were lucky enough to spend a week there. It was lovely. I was very yound and my main memories of it are the slate window sills and a lovely walk towards the sea.
This Matterport really makes me smile as you can see the beautiful windowledges. Imaging sitting there at dusk, it’d be beautiful.

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Virtual viewings

I love these! Found another one last night
Gardens Cottage is beautiful

Third “photo” is their 3d tour. Lovely. You can view it on your normal computer or phone.

This is on Giraffe

Virtual viewing
This shows there’s dots on a floor plan (Which makes it easier to navigate maybe than the matterport if you want to just have a quick look.)

You can look up and down and all around. It’s like being there almost. Although looking out of the backdoor I notice this one doesn’t have an arrow to take you to an outside view like others I’ve seen. Still, it’s an amazing way to view a house without actually going and would confirm that I did want to view this house.

You can view outside though with the options on the navigation floor plan.
See bottom left. You can also see in this that you can look up.
This is so much better than the wide angle lens pictures estate agents often take of houses.

I’ve found the way out on the giraffe view – look for doors with arrows on doorways!

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Houses and Occulus

Husband bought an Oculus for playing games on. However it can be used for viewing houses. Not very many at the moment, only the really expensive ones that I love looking at.

You can view the dolls house view on your computer and navigate about, but with the Oculus it’s amazing, very immersive and you can have a proper nosey round.
I’m sure this technology will be used more, although maybe only on expensive houses as it takes time to set up the cameras at points around the house.

There are a couple of formats for this: Matterport is one.

This is a lighthouse 

 

Matterport link

 

Stunning house – rightmove link

Aberdovey, Gwynedd, LL35

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=mh5ooyYJiHH Matterport link

 

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