Country estates

The former home of property magnate Sir Robert McAlpine has come to the market – and it's a perfect spot that would make the country ideal estate.

The perfect home if you REALLY love your commute. A 77-acre cliffside estate with what is thought to be one of the longest driveways in England has come to the market for £7 million (US$8.73 million). Glenthorne House, in the South West of the country, is what sits at the end of the 2.5-mile-long zig-zagging driveway that took almost a year to build.

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The Suffolk property, asking £19 million, includes a main house that dates to around 1560

Elmestree House Estate, situated next to Prince Charles' Gloucestershire home, Highgrove, has just come on the market for the first time since 1949.

Longstowe Hall, Cambridgeshire — the home of William and Mercedes Bevan — is an Elizabethan house that was remodelled by an Edwardian industrialist who created superb interiors in the aesthetic of 17th-century Dutch art. Jeremy Musson takes a look; photographs by Will Pryce for Country Life.

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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, who is worth £345m, had opposed an application to register part of his massive Hertfordshire estate as common so the public could access the grounds.