If Badminton Horse Trials has made you giddy for Gloucestershire, we don’t blame you. With all of those stone walls, yellow stone houses and horses happily grazing, it’s easy to start dreaming of a Cotswold idyll to set up camp in. Take a look at our selection of equestrian properties for sale to get you started…
1. Norcote House
Where is it? Cirencester
What’s the damage? £2.5 million
What you need to know: A Cotswold manor situated in around 20 acres of parkland and pasture, with six bedrooms, a range of outbuildings, carefully designed gardens, secondary accommodation in a coach house and stabling. The long drive leads up to a wide gravelled parking area outside the house, past the parkland and ha-ha, and amongst the carefully-designed gardens is a large walled kitchen garden.
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2. Ilsom Cottage
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Where is it? Tetbury
What’s the damage? £1.5 million
What you need to know:This four-bedroom house — cottage is misleading — is set in nine acres, with a stone and timber stable block with three loose boxes and a gated yard.
What you need to know: This recently renovated five-bedroom house is in the pretty Cotswold village of Withington. It has a range of traditional farm buildings, including stabling and a tack room.
What you need to know: Set in just over 42 acres, this four-bedroom house comes with an indoor swimming pool, stables, a horse walker and an all-weather arena.
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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.
