Love Badminton? Move in nearby with these dream equestrian homes
If you you have visited Badminton Horse Trials this week (4-8 May 2016) and have fallen in love with the surrounding countryside, here’s some equestrian properties for sale on the event’s doorstep.
1. Amberley Court, Gloucestershire
Time to Badminton Horse Trials: 25 minutes
For you: an eight-bedroom manor house approached down a long drive, with a lodge cottage, extensive outbuildings, a swimming pool and tennis court.
For the horses: four stables with a storage barn, a Monarch horse walker and a 30x50m all-weather arena. Set in 22 acres.
What’s the damage? £4.95m
Agent: Knight Frank
Telephone number: 01285 897831
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Visit: www.knightfrank.co.uk
2. The Garden House, Gloucestershire
Time to Badminton Horse Trials: 15 minutes
For you: a refurbished Cotswold country house with six bedrooms, two guest flats, an office, games room, tennis court and bothy within well-established gardens.
For the horses: nine stables, plus feed and tack rooms and an implement shed. Set in 34 acres.
What’s the damage? £4m
Agent: Savills
Telephone number: 01285 627550
Visit: www.savills.com
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3. Upper Rushmire Farm, Gloucestershire
Time to Badminton Horse Trials: 20 minutes
For you: a period five-bedroom farmhouse, with a five-bedroom barn conversion plus permission to convert period outbuildings into two cottages.
For the horses: a U-shaped stable block with 10 loose boxes and a tack room. There is also a feed store and hay barn, plus an outdoor arena. Set in 22 acres with 40 acres available by separate negotiation.
What’s the damage? £2.5m
Agent: Strutt & Parker
Telephone number: 01285 897614
Visit: www.struttandparker.com
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4. Monkspool House, Somerset
Time to Badminton Horse Trials: 40 minutes
For you: a five-bedroom family home approached by a long drive, with a stone barn providing potential ancillary accommodation.
For the horses: four stables, an all-weather outdoor arena, secure tack room and a large modern barn providing HGV parking, with additional storage. Set in 11.33 acres.
What’s the damage? £1.35m
Agent: Crisp Cowley
Telephone number: 01225 789333
Visit: www.crispcowley.co.uk
Next week: Equestrian properties near Chatsworth Horse Trials
Ref: Horse & Hound; 5 May 2016
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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.