Yahoo Finance Property: 9 smashing homes with tennis courts
If the Wimbledon Championships are inspiring you to improve your backhand and perfect your serve, now’s the time to raise your game by finding a home with its own court.
From period piles to a Modernist masterpiece, start with this selection of suitable properties for sale. Anyone for tennis?
1. Temple Bruer, Lincolnshire, offers over £750,000
Previously a pair of adjoining farm workers’ cottages, Ephraim House is a five-bedroom stone-built house with an open plan kitchen/dining/family room, two further reception rooms and a second floor games room, which could be turned into an office.
A triple garage and workshop, a second outbuilding used as a gym, a petanque court and a fenced grass tennis court can all be found in the grounds, which extend to nearly three acres. Via Yopa.
2. Perth, Perthshire, offers over £1.2m
The grandly-named West Mains of Huntingtower is a B-listed period country house that’s geared up for entertaining both inside and out – weather permitting.
It has six bedrooms, five reception rooms and a spectacular 47-foot long conservatory opening out to a wide terrace, and comes with two cottages.
The nearly four and a half acres of land includes landscaped gardens, an orchard, a walled kitchen garden and a hard tennis court. Find out more from Strutt & Parker.
3. Udimore, East Sussex, £1.3m
An all-weather tennis court and a croquet lawn lie at the far end of the secluded garden of Sowdens Oast, a converted oast house and granary.
Complete with twin roundels, a two-bedroom barn and an unconverted school house, it has five bedrooms, three bathrooms and three reception rooms and enjoys sweeping views over the surrounding countryside. Find out more from Phillips & Stubbs.
4. La Garde-Adhémar, Drôme, Rhone Alps, France €1.95m (£1.67m)
Located in the scenic Drome Provencal, just north of Provence and convenient for the A7 autoroute, this traditional and very spacious six-bedroom farmhouse dates from the 17th century.
Between 2008 and 2010 it was extensively renovated and extended, with a new kitchen added on one side and a living area on the other.
Two separate buildings contain a swimming pool and jacuzzi and a playroom and storage space, and the large garden includes an automatic watering system and a tennis court. Through French Estate Agents.
5. Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, offers over £2m
The ultimate abode for a sports enthusiast, Cressbrook House was built for a local solicitor in 1850 and became a boys’ prep school in 1913. After the school relocated a century later, the property was given a contemporary refurbishment and has been reinstated as a family home.
Along with five reception rooms, seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms, there’s a leisure complex containing swimming and spa pools, a gym, sauna, changing rooms and a shower, and a multi-purpose outdoor court for tennis and other ball games. Through Finest Properties.
6. Halstead, Essex, £2.3m
Buy grade-II listed Star Stile House and you’ll be in excellent company as it was once the home of Agnes Morton, runner-up in the Wimbledon ladies’ singles finals in 1908 and 1909, and doubles winner in 1914.
The 8,200 square foot, eight-bedroom Georgian manor house is in a nine acre plot which includes a floodlit hard tennis court, manicured lawns, stables, paddocks and a Koi carp pond — previously a swimming pool. Contact Purplebricks.
7. South Kensington, London, £2.75m
This immaculate four-bedroom penthouse is on the seventh floor of a portered block in leafy Onslow Square.
It features a bespoke kitchen/breakfast room fitted with Gaggenau appliances, a light-filled living/dining room with views towards the V&A and Natural History museums and has a basement storage area.
Residents have access to the square’s two communal gardens — one with a hard tennis court that they don’t have the hassle of cleaning or maintaining themselves. Through Tedworth Property.
8. Coombe, Surrey, £8m
One of a kind, Grade II listed Miramonte was designed by the Modernist architect Maxwell Fry while he was in partnership with Bauhaus master Walter Gropius, and completed in 1937.
Following sympathetic refurbishment in conjunction with English Heritage, it comprises a six-bedroom main house, a one-bedroom annex and an indoor pool complex.
The property has over an acre of gardens containing extensive lawns, a full-width patio, an inner courtyard and a studio/gym next to the hard tennis court. Find out more from Knight Frank.
9. Bel-Air, Los Angeles, $185m (£145.734m)
Anyone spending such a colossal sum of money on a house would expect it to be huge and of exceptional quality, and this new-build really does deliver.
Six years in the making and with views towards the Pacific Ocean, accommodation is spread over 35,000 square feet and includes an eight-bedroom main house, a two-bedroom guest house, a curved lap pool, a wellness centre, fitness room, sauna and steam room, a cinema and a 2,000 bottle temperature-controlled wine room.
The custom-designed, pastel-coloured tennis court is tastefully illuminated for night-time knockabouts. Through Joyce Rey.
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