Yahoo Finance Have yourself a very merry Christmas with these eight festive homes
Anyone hosting Christmas dinner will appreciate having a dining room with sufficient space for everyone to eat, drink and make merry in comfort. If yours doesn’t quite hit the mark, these properties for sale are bound to whet your appetite as their spacious dining rooms are a feast for the eyes.
1. Stockleigh Pomeroy, Crediton, Devon, £775,000
Dating back to the middle of the 15th century, this Grade II* listed thatched cottage has been sympathetically renovated by the current owners and boasts many original features. It includes four double bedrooms, three bathrooms, a new country-style kitchen with an original 1940s Rayburn cooker and three reception rooms. One of these is the cosy and characterful dining room, replete with timber beams, panelled walls and an inglenook fireplace. Get in touch with Winkworth.
2. Ogle, Northumberland, £1m
Grade I listed Ogle Castle is a handsome 7,600 square foot stone-built country house that’s believed to date back at least 700 years. There are seven bedrooms and three reception rooms, including a grand dining hall with a beamed ceiling, exposed stone walls, mullion windows, a wide inglenook fireplace and plenty of room to cater for a very large family. Everyone can burn off the calories with a post-prandial stroll around the extensive grounds, which contain an ornamental garden, a carriage house, stables and paddocks. Find out more from Galbraith.
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3. Shepton Beauchamp, Ilminster, Somerset, £1.075m
You’re unlikely to find a dining room more atmospheric than this one in The Old Rectory Back, the four-bedroom south-facing wing of a Grade II listed former rectory and seminary that was divided into two separate dwellings in the 1970s. For it’s housed in a gothic-style repurposed chapel so you’ll be able to enjoy turkey with all the trimmings seated under its impressive vaulted timber roof and – if your prayers for good weather are answered – with sun streaming in through the glass rose and high arched windows. Via Jackson-Stops.
4. Manningtree Park, Manningtree, Essex, £1.025m
A generous amount of living, eating and entertaining space is incorporated into this five-bedroom detached house, part of a new development surrounded by open countryside. As well as a sizeable open plan kitchen/breakfast/family room, there’s a living room and a separate bay-windowed dining room that’s more than big enough for a 10-seater table. For more details contact City & Country.
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5. Canterbury, £1.395m
This beautifully restored six bedroom house is encircled by woodland that was once a hunting ground for Henry VIII, yet it’s only a five-minute drive from Canterbury city centre. Like most of the rooms, the dining room is all-white and flooded with light, featuring painted floorboards, a high ceiling, a fireplace, a sash window and shutters. French doors open out to the garden, and glazed double doors into the adjoining drawing room and kitchen/breakfast room can be opened to create a free-flowing, sociable space. From Fine & Country.
6. Penmayne, Rock, Cornwall, £2.15m
A vast open plan space comprising a kitchen, living and dining area is at the heart of The Barn, a five-bedroom oak-framed and stone house completed just two years ago. Daylight pours in through skylights in the vaulted ceiling, and there’s a contemporary suspended fireplace. An air source heat pump, underfloor heating, triple glazing and good insulation make it highly energy-efficient and relatively inexpensive to run. On the market through John Bray Estates.
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7. Baunton, Gloucestershire, £2.95m
Charles II is believed to have sheltered at The Old Manor House after retreating from the Battle of Worcester in 1651 and the bones of this grade II-listed Tudor property have changed very little since. On sale for the first time in over 40 years, it’s been lovingly maintained and comprises a six-bedroom main house and a two-bedroom coach house, run as a holiday let. The kitchen, sun room and drawing room all open off the dining hall, which has a high beamed ceiling, a large working fireplace, exposed stone walls and a flagstone and wooden floor. Through Butler Sherborn.
8. Bath, Avon, £4m
The trompe-l’oeil walls in the dining room of this Grade I listed six-bedroom Georgian townhouse are guaranteed to be a talking point, as they were created when the BBC’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s persuasion was filmed here in 1995. However, most of the features are original – such as limestone flagstone floors, plasterwork and architraves, marble fireplaces, sash windows, shutters and a cantilevered stone staircase with wrought iron balustrades and inlaid mahogany handrails. Available from Carter Jonas.
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