Jaw-dropping: 4 dream equestrian homes with wow-factor gardens
Take a look at our pick of properties for green-fingered horse owners
1. Blue Hall, Yorkshire
The gardens: there is a natural wildlife pond and a formal garden laid out in a parterre style with gravelled pathways and box hedging.
Accommodation: a four-bedroom Grade II-listed family home, with a Grade II-listed brick mill, which is ripe for restoration.
For the horses: extensive stabling, a floodlit exercise area, tack room and a further barn. Set in 25 acres.
What’s the damage? £875,000-£895,000
Agent: Rural Scene
Telephone number: 01264 850700
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Visit: www.ruralscene.co.uk
2. Plovers Moss, Cheshire
The gardens: a variety of flowering trees and shrubs, deep floral borders, a flagged patio and a pergola hung with wisteria creeper.
Accommodation: a five-bedroom Edwardian country house with a two-bedroom annexe and a three-bedroom self-contained flat.
For the horses: four loose boxes, a feed room, a machinery store with double doors to the outside and an impressive barn. Set in 7.5 acres.
What’s the damage? £2.4m
Agent: Jackson-Stops & Staff
Telephone number: 01244 328361
Visit: www.jackson-stops.co.uk
3. Ashen House Farm, Suffolk
The gardens:
the current owners created a formal garden area adjacent to the new wing to the south of the house. In addition, there is a large, paved terrace.
Accommodation: a moated country house with five bedrooms, a two-storey granary barn and a range of outbuildings.
For the horses: a stable barn with three boxes, two stores and a bay opening on to an enclosed garden area. Set in 19.56 acres.
What’s the damage? £2.2m
Agent: Savills
Telephone number: 01223 347147
Visit: www.savills.co.uk
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4. Ladygrove, Hertfordshire
The gardens: formal gardens including parterre and knot gardens plus an ornamental kitchen garden.
Accommodation: a country retreat with five-to-six bedrooms, a gym and an art studio.
For the horses: three loose boxes, a large tack room with WC and a storage barn, plus a 20x40m all-weather arena. Set in 45 acres.
What’s the damage? £4m
Agent: Savills
Telephone number: 01582 465000
Visit: www.savills.co.uk
Next week: Equestrian properties near show centres
Ref: Horse & Hound; 16 February 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.