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Helmdon, Northants
Guide price £1.5m
Astwell Castle is Grade II-listed
and the attached Gatehouse Tower
is a scheduled monument. It was
formed from the gatehouse to a
former fortifi ed manor house, and is
in about 30 acres with outbuildings
with planning consent for residential
conversion. The house has enviable
architectural features and the tower
a 15th century stone spiral staircase
leading to rooms with great views
and access to the castellated roof.
The four bedrooms, three reception
rooms house is habitable but further
work would require serious money.
Knight Frank, 01789 297 735
Sutton, Suff olk
Guide price £320,000
Groom’s Cottage is a thatched
Grade II-listed former gatehouse
(one of a pair) on the Sutton Hall
estate and was used as the estate
offi ce until the 1980s when a single
storey extension was added and
it reverted to residential use. It is
about a mile up a track from the
road and has a private drainage
system, but does have mains water
and electricity. All accommodation ,
including the two bedrooms, is at
ground level. There’s a single garage
with workshop area in the grounds
which extend to just over 0.3 acres
and more land is available to buy
via separate negotiation. Bedfords,
01394 779 444▲ Alfreton, Derbyshire
Guide price £595,000
South Lodge, a detached former
gatekeeper’s cottage on the edge
of Alfreton Hall Park, comes with
a detached annexe. The main
house retains impressive period
features including oak panelling and
fi replaces, ceiling roses and quarry
fl oor tiles. There are four bedrooms,
one en-suite, and a family bathroom.
The two-storey annexe adds two
bedrooms and a shared bathroom.
Savills, 0115 934 8020▼Shipton-under-
Wychwood, Oxfordshire
Guide price £595,000
The Gatehouse, at the entrance to a
Jacobean mansion, Shipton Court,
is in perfect order with lots of space.
There’s a family room/offi ce, a
dining room opening onto a terrace,
a sitting room with a door to the
garden plus three double bedrooms,
one en suite. The garden includes a
“mulberry lawn”, once the orchard
for the mansion. Butler Sherborn,
01993 822 325 Eastchurch, Kent
Guide price £2.5m
Shurland Hall is a Grade II-listed 16th century
gatehouse with far-reaching views over its
seven-acre manicured grounds. Having stood
empty and in disrepair since the war, it was
bought in 2006 and restored over fi ve years
by the Spitalfi elds Trust. It is now a scheduled
monument largely enclosed by medieval
walls. The fi ve-bedroom, four-reception room
property has luxury bathrooms and bedrooms
in the octagonal turrets. There’s a boating lake,
medieval ruins and a renovated barn with a
bar and an alcohol licence. Fine & Country,
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