If you're not in a position to buy, or are looking to try out an area with a view to buying in the future, one of these properties could be the solution
1. Summerhill Barn, Sussex
For you: a barn conversion with four bedrooms, vaulted ceilings, an open-plan kitchen/drawing room and a large terrace with rural views.
For the horses: a wooden stable block with two stables and a tack room. The tack room also has a kitchen area and cloakroom and there is ample parking. Set in five acres.
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2. Rydinghurst Farm, Surrey
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For you: a substantial country estate with five bedrooms and a variety of outbuildings including a two-bedroom newly converted cottage, a one-bedroom staff/guest cottage, a granary converted into an art studio, a large party barn and many storage barns.
For the horses: there is a barn with 10 stables, a tack room and a feed room. An all-weather arena and paddocks in around 90 acres.
For you: a recently renovated farmhouse on a no through road within the Badminton Estate, Grickstone Farmhouse features five bedrooms, three reception rooms, a cellar and boot and utility room. It is surrounded by open countryside, with a brook running by and a large garden.
For the horses: stables, a paddock and ancillary storage space are available by separate negotiation.
For you: a Grade II-listed farmhouse on the outskirts of a village, with five bedrooms and a self-contained annexe.
For the horses: prospective tenants have the option to let some of the equestrian facilities on site, which include two stables, shared storage for hay and one large paddock of around four to six acres.
What’s the damage? £2,750pcm (£3,250pcm with equestrian facilities)
Next week: Equestrian properties with wow-factor gardens
Ref: Horse & Hound; 9 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.
