Are you struggling to find the time (and daylight) to ride as winter sets in? As the light fades, we’re hankering after one of these properties with floodlit arenas.
1. Taintfield Farm, West Sussex
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For you: a five-bedroom house with a groom’s annexe, swimming pool and a farm building with potential for conversion subject to planning.
For the horses: a 30x50m sand and Pasada floodlit surface, and an American barn housing eight large internal stables with swivel feed bowls and an automatic watering system. Set in 17 acres.
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2. Cornish Farm, Wrexham
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For you: a four/five-bedroom farmhouse with a detached two-bedroom annexe currently let to a veterinary practice.
For the horses: a 20x60m floodlit arena with a silica sand and rubber surface, 14 stables and a pony box, plus tack and feed rooms. The land totals 16.2 acres.
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3. Diddle House Farm, Kent
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For you: a five-bedroom property built around an agricultural-style steel-framed barn, including a ground-floor annexe.
For the horses: a 40x40m floodlit all-weather arena and 30 stables. Set in nine acres with a further 25 acres available to rent, and planning permission for the venue to run as a livery yard.
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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.
