Mad on hunting? Here’s where you need to live…
Our pick of equestrian properties for sale in enviable hunting country
1. The Old Rectory, Gloucestershire
Hunting country: Duke of Beaufort’s
For you: a beautifully restored Cotswold rectory from around 1865 with later additions. There are eight bedrooms, a cloakroom, cellar, swimming pool, gym, boot room and a four-bay oak-framed garage. There’s also a two-bedroom converted coach house.
For the horses: a block with two looseboxes, complete with water and electricity. The paddocks amount to four acres and are walled and fenced, with a water supply.
What’s the damage? £2.5m
Agent: Butler Sherborn
Telephone: 01285 883740
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2. The Manor, Oxfordshire
Hunting country: Vale of The White Horse (VWH)
For you: a Grade II-listed house with five bedrooms, five reception rooms, a garden room, a double garage with a first- floor games room/office above, wood store and attached stone barn with loft storage. The landscaped gardens feature distinct areas, including formal gardens with box hedging.
For the horses: a block with three stables and a tack room. The property is set in an idyllic location, surrounded by parkland, with 10 acres.
What’s the damage? £1.35m
Agent: Butler Sherborn
Telephone: 01993 822325
Visit: butlersherborn.co.uk
3. New House Farm, Shropshire
Hunting country: Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (the Wynnstay)
For you: a sympathetically refurbished Edwardian farmhouse with six bedrooms, an office, cellar, cloak/boot room and an orchard in the gardens.
For the horses: four stables, two youngstock pens, a tack room, an outdoor arena, a store providing undercover parking for lorries/machinery as well as about 22.5 acres of paddock land divided into various enclosures, all with water drinkers.
What’s the damage? £925,000
Agent: Jackson Equestrian
Telephone: 01743 709249
Visit: jacksonequestrian.com
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4. Heatherlea, Co. Durham
Hunting country: Braes of Derwent
For you: an extended four- bedroom Edwardian country house with galleried landing. There is also a double garage.
For the horses: four stables, outbuildings and a paddock, with post-and-rail fences. Set in 4.3 acres with a further 18 acres available by separate negotiation, including three trout ponds.
What’s the damage? £795,000
Agent: Finest Property
Telephone: 01434 622234
Visit: finestproperties.co.uk
Next week: Equestrian properties for sale in Dorset
Don’t miss this week’s issue of Horse & Hound magazine (26 October 2017), with our hunting special
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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.