For you: a Grade II listed house with four bedrooms and exposed timber throughout, plus an inglenook fireplace. Outside there are beautifully landscaped gardens with an orchard and several ponds.
For the horses: numerous outbuildings and two stables in a timber-framed block. Set in four acres.
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2. Lexden Lodge, Essex
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For you: a six-bedroom, Grade II listed farmhouse on a moated island, in beautifully landscaped gardens. There is a range of secondary accommodation and an outdoor pool complex.
For the horses: 15 stables, both internal and external, a Monarch covered horse walker, manège, hot water, lunge ring and field shelter. Set in 10.5 acres.
Next week: Equestrian properties with swimming pools
Ref: Horse & Hound; 19 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.
