- Oct 16, 2025
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Updated: Oct 17, 2025
Twenty Or So Spectacular Homes Currently Sitting On The Market, October 2025
So many of these could do with a zhuzh, but that’s part of the dream. We’ve included one or two turnkey properties; many of the twenty, though, are in need of a new owner with big ideas and deepish pockets.
Our houses range from £750k to £18 million. They’re spread across the UK and come in all shapes and sizes. There’s a French château in Oxfordshire, a glorious mustard-coloured abode in Wales, and a Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh so good I’m somewhat starstruck just looking at it. Some of the rooms below are downright startling. Most of us are out of the running when it comes to buying, but we’re all here for the snooping and, by god, there’s snooping to be had. I do hope you enjoy looking as much as I enjoyed finding.
Once a modest 18th-century farmhouse, it was enlarged in 1817 by John Collingwood for sisters Julianna and Charlotte Strickland, with a stuccoed south front of two storeys, five wide bays and a central Ionic porch. Around 1850 H Rowe and Son extended it for their brother Henry Eustatius, adding end bays, a full-length cast-iron veranda, shutters and dormers. In the same family for over 200 years, it now needs complete modernisation and restoration - perhaps not complete - lets not abandon all that charm.
Shellingford House is an impressive Grade II–listed home on a quiet no-through lane. The main house spans over 7,000 sq ft with well-proportioned rooms, including a double-volume drawing room with long views towards the White Horse, an extraordinary 17th-century staircase with moulded balusters and Doric columns, and a superb party barn. Two cottages provide excellent scope for visiting family, multi-generational living or rental income.
Offered to the market for the first time in nearly eighty years, and parted from its former farm in the mid-1960s, New House Farm is a classic red-brick beauty with bags of potential. This is a proper project in the best sense, with elegant ground-floor reception rooms, wooden floors, high ceilings, sash windows with shutters and a pleasing parade of period fireplaces. Arranged over three floors, it also comes with a cellar and an annex for good measure.
Set on the side of an unspoilt, pretty valley following the River Yarty down from the Blackdown Hills, Yarty House has complete peace and quiet and long views over rolling countryside. This impressive unlisted family home offers over 6,500 sq ft, built in handsome red brick with two storeys under a plain clay tile roof, deep eaves and tall 12-pane sash windows in dressed sandstone surrounds. A graceful glazed veranda looks over the garden. There is additional space in the roof and a suite of cellars below. Inside, the rooms are well proportioned with high ceilings, gathered around a central hall and first floor landing.
Rose Tree House has history in its bones and plenty of personality. It gives you a beautiful home and, handily, an elegant studio or office alongside.
Here she is — my beauty. Flicking through the photographs, I couldn’t help noticing a good dose of Robert Kime fabric wafting around the rooms, and lo and behold, the description confirmed it — the owners worked with the great man himself. So now all that’s left is to win the lottery (and then some) so I can try to haggle with them over the furniture, especially that bed.
Lodsworth House came into being between 1837 and 1839 when Hasler Hollist enlisted Edward Blore, star turn of country houses, to create a grand home on a ridge by the village. The gardens look south to the rolling South Downs, which is rather the point. Grade II listed, it waits at the end of a handsome tree lined drive and sits in generous mid-19th-century parkland, thick with mature shrubs and specimen trees that have had plenty of time to make themselves at home.
Freshly renovated and full of character, this five-storey home has had its period details lovingly brought back to life. You step into a grand hall with ornate pillars and a beautifully restored staircase, then glide through a generous reception, formal dining room, proper kitchen and a sunny breakfast room that opens to a glorious garden. A rare slice of central London calm.
Once the site of an interwar pub, this exceptionally bright four-bed is a short stroll from Camberwell Green and Denmark Hill. Formerly an artist’s studio, it sprawls over 5,000 sq ft across four floors with a basement and three roof terraces, plus architect-remodelled living spaces, a generous new office and a steam room for good measure. Out front there’s parking for four cars.
A rare Hampstead prize. Built around 1709, this Grade II listed five storey Georgian house offers over 4,620 sq ft, beautifully cared for and sensitively restored. Original details abound, from wall panelling and fireplaces to box cornice, dadoes and proper door architraves. The walled garden runs over 100 feet with green, uninterrupted views, while the front looks down Frognal Way with long southerly outlooks. Church Row is one of the village’s best addresses and this one feels especially special.
Stoke Hall is a 17th-century Grade II-listed beauty in the Cheshire countryside, with around 7,000 sq ft arranged as six/seven bedrooms and a self-contained coach house to boot. Inside, it’s a feast of early details: an ornate staircase with string-turned balusters, exposed beams, oak panelling and those satisfyingly grand fireplaces. Later Georgian and Victorian flourishes add fine woodwork and floors, while the early-20th-century front wears neat red brick and sash windows; at the rear you can still spot the c.1635 Flemish bond.
Grade II listed and early Georgian, this Crooms Hill classic more than earns Pevsner’s praise. Symmetry outside, generous rooms inside, and top-notch materials that marry old soul with modern comfort. French doors lead to a lush garden of hibiscus, wisteria, peonies and apple trees, with Greenwich Park at the end of the road. Meticulous restoration by Matt Whittle, plus an 18th-century wood-grained front door by Ian Harper. History with a wink.
Set in the leafy hills of Carmarthenshire, this c.1796 farmhouse has had a meticulous, designer-led revival by Hilton Marlton. Around 2,500 sq ft and wrapped in roughly 12.5 acres of unspoilt West Wales — think ancient footpaths, barrows and earthworks for neighbours — with period barns for extra scope. Planning’s already in place to extend the main house, so you’ve got history, headspace and options in one tidy bundle.
Five bedrooms, Grade II listed, and part of a grand Georgian house in the Quantock Hills AONB. Light pours through towering sash windows in the Bridgwater-brick façade, and the grounds are a delight with ancient trees, including an English oak believed to be 700 years old. Set at Broomfield Hall in a private hamlet with a shared gated drive, the three-storey wing has far-reaching views to Glastonbury Tor and the Mendips to the east and the Quantocks to the west. History and headspace in one.
Grade II* Listed Number 1 Goodwin’s Court, 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bathroom + WC, Covent Garden, London, £2,000,000
Built around 1700, just 34 years after the Great Fire, No. 1 Goodwin’s Court has emerged from a meticulous ten-year revival with its soul intact. Part of a Grade II* listed row in the Covent Garden Conservation Area, it is a rare survivor of early Georgian working-class London and a living slice of the city’s story.
Built in 1618, “The Jacobean House” began life as a Guild Hall, then a boys’ school, and word around town is that it may have been concieved by Inigo Jones. Its symmetrical façade shows off the period’s fine detailing. Step inside and the entire ground floor opens as one calm, airy reception. Lime-washed walls, cool stone underfoot and mullioned leaded windows set the tone, framing views of the town centre and ancient St Peter’s Church next door.
Middleton Park is a fine slice of early 20th-century country house architecture by Sir Edwin Lutyens with his son Robert, commissioned by the 9th Earl of Jersey and completed in 1938. Set in mature listed gardens and parkland, you arrive through cast-iron gates off Oxford Road in Middleton Stoney, the drive sweeping to a turning circle at the north front. Built in coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, it wears a timeless neo-Georgian face beneath a plain-tile roof. A pinch at a mere £18 million.
Newliston is a proper Georgian idyll, tucked away in green pasture yet only minutes from the city. At its heart sits a Robert Adam mansion in a designed landscape, waterways threading through the policy parkland. Grand but welcoming: five reception rooms on the ground floor; seven bedrooms and four bathrooms on the first, with scope for six more bedrooms and two further bathrooms above. There’s also an integral three-bed flat on the lower ground. Beyond the house, the estate earns its keep with fourteen let homes, commercial spaces in a converted courtyard steading and further assets at The Haugh. All told, about 764 acres of productive arable, rolling pasture and fine woodland.
Bridge House is a handsome Grade II listed home by the Biss Brook in Westbury Leigh, offering nearly 4,000 sq ft of elegant space on just under an acre. Six bedrooms, generous reception rooms and a detached annexe make it ideal for family life, guests or working from home. Grand interiors and original features meet a peaceful semi-rural setting, with rail links to London and Bath close by. A rare mix of character, space and ease.
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