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THE
TOP 100 UK COUNTRY PROPERTY SALES
100
of the Best Country and Waterside Properties sold since 2005
SOUTH EAST
ENGLAND
BEDFORDSHIRE:
1. Kingswood House Heath & Reach £3m
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE:
2. Cliveden Stud Cliveden £6m
3. South Pavilion Wotton Underwood £4.22m
4. The Manor House Weston Turville £3m
EAST SUSSEX:
5. Rotherfield Hall Crowborough £6.15m
6. Franchise Manor Heathfield £5m
7. Five Oaks Forest Row £4.2m
ESSEX:
8. Nazeing Park Nazeing £3.5m
9. Bishops Hall Romford £3.1m
HERTFORDSHIRE:
10. The Beeches Potters Bar £3.7m
11. Ayotbury Welwyn Garden City £3.6m
12. Cell Park Markyate £3m
13. Offley Holes Farm Hitchin £2.9m
14. Essendon House Essendon £2.85mKENT:
15. Higham Park Canterbury £5m
16. Oakfield Penshurst £4.15m
17. Downgate Sandhurst £3m
18. Summerhill Tenterden £2.95m
19. Salutation Sandwich £2.5m
20. Petham House Canterbury £2.25m
21. Heronden House Eastry £2.2m
SURREY:
22. Wentworth Place Chobham £12.5m
23. Hartlands St Georges Hill, Esher £9.5m
24. Mount House Weybridge £8.3m
25. Park Close Englefield Green £8m
26. Lake House Weybridge £6.7m
27. Silkwood Weybridge £6m
28. Chilworth Manor Guildford £6m
29. Moonridge Virginia Water £4.5m
30. Maryland Worplesdon £4.25m
WEST SUSSEX:
31. West Grinstead Estate Horsham £9m in lots
32. Burdocks Billingshurst £2.4m
33. The Moat House Horsham £2.35m
34. Treyford Manor Midhurst £2m
CENTRAL SOUTH ENGLAND
DORSET:
35. North Haven House Sandbanks £4.65m
36. Morval Studland Bay £3.25m
37. Binnegar Hall Wareham £3.1m
38. 40 Pearce Avenue Poole £2.9m
39. Nettlecombe Cheselbourne £2.8m
40. Tanglewood Wimborne £2.15m
41. Berkeley Towers Branksome Park, Poole £2.1m
HAMPSHIRE:
42. Ashe Park Basingstoke £10m
43. Barton Manor Estate Isle of Wight £6.5m
44. Brooklands Hamble River £5.2m
45. The Tukal Beaulieu River, New Forest £4.3m
46. Wereburne Manor New Forest £3.5m
47. Wooden Walls Beaulieu River, New Forest £3.15m
48. Morestead Manor Twyford £2.8m
49. St.Leonards Grange New Forest £2.75m
50. Stoke Hill Farm Winchester £2.5m
OXFORDSHIRE:
51. Ewelme Down House Wallingford £12m
52. Rocky Lane Farm Henley-on-Thames £6m
53. Bruern Abbey Kingham £5m
54. Wychwood Manor Charlbury £2.75m
55. Mill House Sutton Courtenay £2.5m
56. The Lodge Little Tew £2.3m
WILTSHIRE:
57. Baydon House Hungerford £4.75m
58. Doves House Marlborough £3.75m
59. Withyslade Farm Tisbury £3.6m
60. The Manor House Milton Lilbourne £3m
61. Blackland Park Calne £3m
62. Dauntsey Park Malmesbury £2.85m
BERKSHIRE:
63. Harewood Estate Windsor £27.5m
64. Old Titness Sunningdale £9m
65. Great Martins Shurlock Row £4.3m
66. Oakfield House Mortimer £3.6m
67. Dower House Windsor £3.5m
68. Hurst Lodge Twyford £3.5mSouth West and Wales
SOUTH WEST & WALES
DEVON:
69. Little Dartmouth Estate Dartmouth £3m
70. Feniton Court Honiton £3m
71. The Manor Northlew, Okehampton £2.5m
72. Holme Down Exbourne £2.4m
GLOUCESTERSHIRE:
73. Dowdeswell Court Cheltenham £4.75m
74. Winson Mill House Winson £4.5m
75. Old Down House Estate Thornbury £4m in lots
76. Toddington Manor Toddington £3m
SOMERSET:
77. Weacombe Estate Taunton £5m
78. Maperton House Wincanton £3.5m
MIDLANDS, EAST ANGLIA, NORTH WEST
AND NORTH EAST
CAMBRIDGESHIRE:
79. Westfield Cambridge £2m
CHESHIRE:
80. Delamere Manor Estate Cuddington £5.5m
81. Mill Hall Mottram St Andrew £4.5m
82. Tramore Altringham £3.3m
83. Haslington Hall Haslington £3m
84. Windy Howe Alderley Edge £2.53m
85. Meadowstream Prestbury £2.5m
86. Hill House Alderley Edge £2.2m
CUMBRIA:
87. Burrow Hall Kirkby Lonsdale £3.5m
LINCOLNSHIRE:
88. Bilsby Estate Alford £5m
89. Stragglethorpe Hall Newark £2.5m
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE:
90. Easton Neston Towcester £18m
SHROPSHIRE:
91. High Hatton Hall Estate Hodnet £5m
STAFFORDSHIRE:
92. Chestall Hall Estate Lichfield £2.5m
SUFFOLK:
93. Broome Place Bungay £2.2m
WARWICKSHIRE:
94. Ashby St Ledgers Estate Rugby £9.5m
95. The Old Rectory Stretton-on-Fosse £3m
WORCESTERSHIRE:
96. Bretforton Manor Broadway £2.5m
YORKSHIRE:
97. Thimbleby Estate Northallerton £7m
98. The Priory Nun Monkton £7m
99. Faceby Lodge Estate Stokesley £2.3m
100. Alder Carr House Farm Harrogate £2m
THE
TOP LONDON PROPERTY SALES
SOLD OR AVAILABLE FOR SALE IN RECENT TIMES
Toprak Mansions
Price: £50 million ($88.5 million)
Location: The Bishops Avenue, Hampstead, LONDON
Toprak Mansion, built by Turkish entrepreneur Halis Toprak,
and laid along the millionaire's row of Bishops Avenue, is in one
of the most sought after addresses in North LONDON and covers two
acres of landscaped gardens. The grand entrance to the 28,000-square-foot
house has a double staircase and a glass elevator. There is also
an indoor leisure complex that has a swimming pool with a glass
bridge, sauna and not surprisingly a Turkish bath that seats 20.
Witanhurst
Price: £32 million ($57 million)
Location: 41 Highgate West Hill, Hampstead, LONDON
This protected neo-Georgian mansion is one of the largest in
LONDON after Buckingham Palace and encompasses nearly 40,000 square
feet of living space. The Queen Anne-style house has 25 bedrooms
and 12 bathrooms and is set within 5.5 acres, which includes three
gatehouses and a number of gardens. Witanhurst was built between
1913 and 1920 for soap magnate and member of Parliament, Sir Arthur
Crossfield, although one wing in the house dates from the 1700s.
Neighbors include Sting and George Michael.
Old Swan House
Price: £32 million ($57 million)
Location: 17 Chelsea Embankment, LONDON
Old Swan
House is one of the largest houses in Chelsea. It was designed by
the renowned Victorian architect Norman Shaw in 1875, and it continues
to have commanding views over the River Thames towards Battersea
Park from its second floor ballroom. A Grade II-listed house--which
means it must be preserved by British law--this 19,000-square-foot
home still has its brick exterior intact, as well as five principal
bedrooms and 11 staff bedrooms, a dining room that seats 20, private
terraces, a swimming pool complex with sauna and showers, a passenger
lift, air conditioning, state-of-the-art security and hi-fi systems.
Do not forget the cinema and parking for five cars.
Debenham House
Price: £29 million ($51 million)
Location: 8 Addison Road, Holland Park, LONDON
Debenham
House is a 22,000-square-foot property that is listed as Grade I,
which means it is in the U.K.'s statutory list of buildings of special
architectural interest. Built in 1906 and designed by Halsy Ricardo,
this house is a mixture of the Arts and Crafts movement, neo-classical
and Byzantine styles. Glazed tiles are used extensively inside this
ten-bedroom, five-bathroom house. Some depict peacocks, eagles,
flowers, galleons and mythical beasts. Many may have come from an
assignment originally commissioned for the Russian czar's yacht
Livadia, built in the 1870's. In addition, there is a covered walkway
from the road, a front garden laid out in a formal Dutch style and
an Orangery in the back garden, where there is also a croquet lawn
and a coach house with two-bedroom suites. But it's not lacking
in modern amenities: a swimming pool, Jacuzzi, sauna, gym and billiards
room can all be found on the property.
17 Upper Phillimore Gardens
Price: £25 million ($44 million)
Location: Kensington, LONDON
The property
was used by the Kensington Preparatory School for Girls from 1941
until 1997. After extensive renovation, it is now a detached property
with bags of character. This nine-bedroom, seven-bathroom house
covers more than 18,000 square feet over five floors, with two dining
rooms. There is even an eight-person passenger lift, indoor swimming
pool, gym, sauna and steam room, while all lighting in the house
is computerized. An underground tunnel connects the house to the
three-vehicle garage, and outside there is a Japanese-inspired garden
with a waterfall. The house is part of the Phillimore Estate, situated
within the Kensington Conservation Area--an architecturally preserved,
historical LONDON suburb.
Carlton House
Price: £17 million ($30 million)
Location: Bishops Avenue, Highgate, LONDON
This new,
15,000-square-foot house on a half-acre features a 50-foot long
ballroom, catering kitchen fitted out for banquets, cherrywood-paneled
library and gentleman's study. This property has nine bedroom suites,
all with Italian marble bathrooms, a sweeping oval staircase rising
through three floors and a wood-paneled lift that takes six.
The leisure
complex has a heated mosaic swimming pool, sauna, gym and a 12-person
Turkish bath, which was modeled on the one in Toprak Mansions. And,
like Thunderbirds, there is a vehicle lift that takes your car from
the forecourt into the four-vehicle garage below.
16 Mansfield Street
Price: £15.5 million ($27 million)
Location: Near Cavendish Square, Central LONDON
It is described as a "palatial residence for Europe's royalty
and nobility." Mansfield Street was designed and built in 1770
by one of the most renowned architects of the time--Robert Adam--for
the Duke of Portland. There are only a few of Adam's palatial residences
remaining in LONDON, of which 16 Mansfield Street is one of the
best. The nine-bedroom, seven-bathroom property on five floors comes
with electrically heated marble floors, panic buttons on every level,
a gold vault and a marbled courtyard.
Hanover House
Price: £15 million ($26 million)
Location: Shepley, Drive, Wentworth Estate, Berkshire
Located
near Ascot and bordering the 14th fairway of Wentworth course, Hanover
House is a 2.3-acre property that was finished in 2003 and has yet
to be occupied. Inside the 17,000-square-foot house are five bedroom
suites including a second-floor penthouse. The home has under-floor
heating, air conditioning, high-specification security and a ten-line
telephone system with 17 extensions. The property also hosts an
indoor swimming pool with Jacuzzi, steam shower and sauna, floodlit
tennis court and landscaped gardens.
14 Charles Street
Price: £15 million ($26 million)
Location: Mayfair, LONDON
A newly
restored Mayfair mansion, right in the heart of central LONDON,
comes with a sense of grandeur--check out the double-height, galleried
reception room with chandelier. This four-bedroom suite house covering
11,000 square feet has an impressive open staircase as well as a
Mews House out back with three further bedroom suites. The house
also comes with a 45-foot swimming pool and double garage. It also
comes with a laid out 50-foot formal garden.
28 Cadogan Square
Price: £14 million ($25 million)
Location: Knightsbridge, LONDON
This listed
family house in one of the best residential areas in central LONDON
was designed by the well-known Victorian architect George Devey
in 1886 for the Earl of Cadogan. It sits on the west side of this
central LONDON garden square with a mews house behind. In the 1950s,
the house was severely modernized inside to create more space and
a lighter feel. It now has nine bedrooms, four bathrooms, a roof
terrace, patio garden and lift. The house had been passed down by
descent, although when the present earl inherited the title and
the estate, he remained in his Chelsea house. The Cadogan Estate
office occupied the building, but they moved out in 1996, and the
house was put up for sale. The property sits on the picturesque
Cadogan Square, which has a communal two-acre garden incorporating
a tennis court.
68 Cadogan Place
Price: £12 million ($21 million)
Location: Knightsbridge, Central LONDON
This imposing
11-bedroom home also comes with its own Mews house. Mews houses
were originally used for the horses and coachmen. It can now be
used as a staff quarters. The Grade II-listed property has state-of-the-art
technology with music systems integrated into the principal rooms.
There's a swimming pool, gym and steam room, as well as extensive
gardens behind. The house is also a few minutes walk from some of
LONDON's best amenities--Harvey Nichols, Harrods, Sloane Square
for shopping, restaurants in Knightsbridge and nightlife on Kings
Road.
Sources: Land Registry data in the public domain, our own research
via contacts (selling agents, buyers, solicitors etc.) and information
published in Country Life magazine. Where a private sale/exchange
of trust took place (i.e. no registration at The Land Registry)
figures stated are asking prices. Whilst every care has been taken
in the preparation of this information. Sands does not guarantee
or accept responsibility for its accuracy. E&OE.
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