PROPERTY | Five of the Best
HOMES FOR REWILDING Create your own wildlife-filled secret garden, says Tessa Dunthorne
SWINDON, £2.8m
A fine Jacobean manor house in its own quiet hamlet, with grounds offering many nooks and crannies for nature to flourish. From the wellplanned woodland featuring mature specimen trees to the fruit-laden orchard, it’s the perfect location for discovering the joys of living off the land. It even sports pastureland for your local grassfed meat. hamptons.co.uk
WEST SUSSEX, £4.5m
Handsome 17th century architecture with all the benefits of 21st century living. Sprawled across six acres, this five-bedroom and five-bathroom house boasts parterre gardens and grounds offering not only an orchard, but also a pond and an island. Oh, and not to mention your own woodland, teaming with wildlife. savills.com
LYMINGTON, £2.95m
Nestled in the leafy New Forest, this characterful five-bedroom house has extensive grounds incorporating a little spring-fed lake, plus various barns, stables and a kitchen garden for cultivating home-grown produce. With a self-contained twobedroom, oh-so-cute cottage on the grounds, cosy seasons spent amid your rewilded grounds are certainly on the cards here. johndwood.co.uk
RIPLEY, £14m
Step straight into The Tudors with this Henrician estate overlooking the River Way in Surrey. Dunsborough Park occupies a sprawling 117 acres, offering over eight bedrooms in the main house (seven of which are ensuite), and its grandiose grounds, with exquisite formal gardens, are perfectly primed for regeneration and remeadowing. struttandparker.com
ST AUSTELL, FROM £415,000
The task of creating an eco-home is made less daunting by this ready-to-go offering at West Carclaze Garden Village, a new development on the south Cornish coast offering townhouses overlooking community allotments, traditional hedgerows and orchards, plus a lake. Best of all, 350 acres of the 500-acre plot will be dedicated to a rewilded country park. westcarclaze-gardenvillage.co.uk
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