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The property, centered around a historic manor house, has a pool, a tennis court and a wine cellar

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

Kingston Maurward House is a large Georgian English country house set in a 750 acre (3 square km) estate in Dorset situated in the Frome valley two miles east of Dorchester. The mansion was built by George Pitt, cousin of William Pitt the Elder, between 1717 and 1720. The mansion was originally in red brick, but after derogatory comments from King George III, Pitt clad the house in Portland limestone. Much of the house is now used by Kingston Maurward College, though some of it is used for…

The house where Evelyn Waugh wrote his nostalgic masterpiece comes to the market.

A refined and historic mansion in the pastoral English countryside that is tied to British—and Hollywood—royalty has just hit the market for £13.5 million (US$17.7 million). The more than 300-year-old home is in Hampshire—an area also known as Jane Austen’s County for being the author’s beloved home for much of her life—is known as Shawford Park and the manor is thought to date to 1685.

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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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