British homes

The brief was to transform a dark five-bedroom Edwardian detached house into a colourful, light free-flowing family home.

Grade II listed Turnstone House in Painswick offers classic Cotswolds charm and a secondary revenue stream: the five-bedroom house has a three-bedroom cottage that can be let for £150 a night. The house, with its neogothic mullioned windows, is set in almost five acres, with orchards, paddocks and lovely gardens that won a national landscaping award in 2016. 01452 595204, hamptons.co.uk

A refined and historic mansion in the pastoral English countryside that is tied to British—and Hollywood—royalty has just hit the market for £13.5 million (US$17.7 million). The more than 300-year-old home is in Hampshire—an area also known as Jane Austen’s County for being the author’s beloved home for much of her life—is known as Shawford Park and the manor is thought to date to 1685.

This two-bedroom apartment lies within Redbanks, a handsome, Grade II-listed detached Victorian villa upon a peaceful road in Sydenham Hill.

This six-bedroom Georgian manor house in Beaulieu, Hampshire, is set within the protected New Forest,...

“In retrospect, I’d like our house to be like the Weasley’s” explains the British antique dealer, interior designer, and furniture maker Max Rollitt. “Do y

Marlborough, Wiltshire

Elibank House was built in 1705, designed by English architect Sir John Vanburgh, who was most renowned for designing Blenheim Palace.

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