Stay connected: 4 horsey homes with excellent transport links
Our pick of well-connected properties with access to good transport links
1. Red House Farm, Hampshire
Transport links: close to the A303 for easy access to the south-west, and to London and M25 via M3. Commuting distance from London is 1 hour 10 minutes.
For you: a contemporary house in the North Wessex Downs Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There are three bedrooms, an open-plan kitchen, living and dining room, and lawned gardens.
For the horses: an American barn with 10 stables, a 25x50m all-weather arena, a covered horse walker, sand lunge pen and further barns. Set in 16 acres.
What’s the damage? £1m
Agent: Fox Grant
Telephone number: 01722 782727
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Visit: foxgrant.com
2. Corkwood House, East Sussex
Transport links: nearby Rye has a station with services to Ashford International (journey time 22 minutes) with connections for London and the Continent.
A high-speed link also runs from Ashford to London St Pancras in 37 minutes.
For you: a Grade II-listed former farmhouse with four bedrooms as well as a detached two-storey annexe.
For the horses: seven boxes, a wash area, hay store, sand school and fenced paddocks. Set in 3.8 acres.
What’s the damage? £785,000
Telephone number: 01580 720161
Visit: savills.com
3. Forest Edge, Warwickshire
Transport links: well positioned for the Midlands motorway network (M42, M6, M1) and close to Birmingham Airport and Birmingham mainline station.
For you: an Edwardian house with three bedrooms and planning permission for an orangery and a further bedroom. There are also two studio apartments.
For the horses: nine looseboxes, two barns, an all-weather arena and grazing land of about 7.5 acres. BHS-approved and can operate as a full commercial riding school.
What’s the damage? £799,950
Agent: Paul Carr
Telephone number: 0121 3085511
Visit: paulcarrestateagents.co.uk
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4. The Old Manor House, Northumberland
Transport links: 1.2 miles from the A1, three miles from Morpeth station and there are airports at Newcastle and Edinburgh.
For you: a restored Regency house with six bedrooms, a games room, study and formal gardens that include a children’s play area.
For the horses: two looseboxes and a tack room, an outdoor arena and two fenced grazing paddocks, each of about 1.25 acres.
What’s the damage? £1.275m
Agent: Sanderson Young
Telephone number: 0191 223 3500
Visit: sandersonyoung.co.uk
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Ref: Horse & Hound; 25 May 2017
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A graduate from Durham University, Madeleine joined H&H in 2011 and became Features Editor — producing content across the magazine and website, including the popular inside back cover article ‘The horse that made me’ and the weekly ‘The best of my fun…’ interview. She has written on topics as diverse as hay making and headcams, to hot totty in the horse world and circus horses. Madeleine now works as a freelance feature writer for Country Life, The Telegraph, Horse & Hound, cntraveller.com, The Spectator and The Field, as well as writing obituaries for The Times.