7 most-viewed houses of the month

From a hidden off-grid cabin to an 11-bedroom corridor as soon as praised by Queen Victoria herself, this month’s most-viewed properties are really distinctive. There’s additionally a Lochside fortress and 17^th century rural retreat, plus a transformed barn with views over the Glastonbury Pageant fields. Let’s look inside seven of the most-viewed houses this month.

1. A storybook Victorian villa with sea views

Often called “The Lavender home”, this pastel purple property feels prefer it’s been plucked proper out of a movie set or storybook. Every room is full of distinctive particulars and options that give it an actual fantasy really feel, from carved mushrooms atop its whimsical kitchen fire to the intricately framed bathtub and scallop-shell basin within the rest room.

The designs are the clear inventive imaginative and prescient of its present artist proprietor, giving the property a glance that wouldn’t be amiss in Alice in Wonderland. Unfold throughout three flooring, there are additionally spellbinding sea views and a surprising courtyard backyard to the rear that includes a separate annex.

2. A spacious nation house in Stratford-upon-Avon

Transferring from storybook to Shakespearean play, homehunters have been eyeing this unbelievable Grade II-listed indifferent farmhouse within the charming village of Tiddington, only a mile exterior of central Stratford-upon-Avon.

As you’d count on, it’s brimming with charming and characterful interval options – wood beams, intricate window frames and slate-tiled flooring. And it’s an enormous property, with seven double bedrooms, 5 loos and 4 reception rooms, three of that are paired with cosy log burners. Stepping exterior, you’re additionally greeted by a wraparound backyard full with a number of outbuildings.

3. Scotland’s serene lakeside fortress

The theme of escapism continues up in Scotland with this fairytale fortress located 18 miles exterior of Edinburgh. Couston Fort sits proper on the Otterston Loch in a serene, non-public, waterside setting. Nonetheless, it’s previous is something however peaceable.

The fortress’s story dates to the 12^th century, when Robert de London granted Couston and different lands in Fife to Roger Frebern. By the sixteenth century, Couston has turn out to be a fortified fortress protected by artillery. Sadly falling into disrepair, solely fragments remained till the fortress was rebuilt within the Eighties, now housing a number of luxurious options together with a fitness center, sauna, and cinema room.

4. Certainly one of Queen Victoria’s favorite stately houses

This eleven-bedroom, seven-bathroom, six-reception-room home set in opposition to 17.14 acres of personal land is a historic marvel.

The sandstone mansion that was designed by famend architect Ignatius Bonomi was accomplished in 1821, and has stood as a breath-taking instance of grand neo-classical design ever since. Actually, Queen Victoria as soon as declared Burn Corridor to be “the best wanting property between the Humber and the Tweed”. With a drawing room, library and gallery, it’s a house that has all of it.

5. A rural retreat inbuilt 1643

In Northamptonshire, home hunters have been testing this honey-hued, stone-built 4 bed room indifferent home that appears as if it’s been overlooking the encircling countryside for hundreds of years. And actually, it has.

Courting again to the mid-17^th century, this property has a number of historic elements together with an arched stone porch sheltering a glass paned door, in addition to a function fire fitted with an inset multi gasoline range. All of this, set in opposition to 7.1 acres of formal gardens and pastureland that features a barn with planning permission and self-contained annex.

6. Barn conversion with panoramic views and Glastonbury tickets

With Glastonbury tickets more and more like gold mud, music lovers could possibly be eyeing this property as a possible live-in loophole from the ticketing firefight. A lovely three-bedroom transformed barn overlooking the pageant fields, it comes with the advantage of free village resident tickets to the UK’s greatest music pageant yearly.

Sitting above Pilton, the property advantages from a chic rural setting, providing panoramic views of the encircling countryside. It’s even acquired its personal tranquil wildlife pond, full with terraced seating for alfresco residing – good for having fun with summer season sunsets.

7. An off-grid cabin in historic woodland

Over in Northumberland, a uncommon likelihood to amass a secluded woodland cabin throughout the historic woodlands of Whittle Dene has emerged. The realm is steeped in folklore, mentioned to be house to fairies. And it’s straightforward to see why, with the traditional woodland being house to previous tree hollows, toadstools and vibrant bluebells.

The cabin itself is one amongst a group of 10 who share cobble stone paths resulting in fruit bushes and shrubbery with cherry, apple and pear bushes plus blackberry, strawberry and raspberry bushes. The woodland, in the meantime, has been house to a number of distinctive cabin websites because the Nineties, with a number of having beforehand been used to deal with evacuees in the course of the Second World Warfare.

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