Settle in the west of England, in the beautiful county of Shropshire, with one of these equestrian properties
1. Farden, Shropshire
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For you: a three-bedroom house, with a detached two-bedroom lodge with income potential. There is a well-maintained garden around the main house and decking around the lodge.
For the horses: outside there is a large building (34x12m internally) that has power, concrete floor and internal divisions, which could form stabling. The land extends to about four acres in all, including a large pond. There is ample parking/hard-standing and a covered car port.
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2. Plas Tanat Estate, Shropshire
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For you: a five-bedroom Arts & Crafts house with an orangery and potential for a self-contained annexe. Outside is a garage and mature gardens, with river frontage and fishing rights.
For the horses: two tack/feed rooms, a traditional pole barn with a hayloft, currently open but which could provide four large stables, a newly installed arena (22x45m), a circular lunge area with post-and-rail fencing, and a timber field shelter. Set in 11 acres.
For you: a period farmhouse in a private location with four bedrooms, complete with a pantry, boot room and garden room with French doors leading onto the garden.
For the horses: a manège, tack room and feed stores, barn, two stable blocks with four loose boxes and a field shelter. Set in 12 acres.
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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.
