Yahoo Finance 9 romantic homes that could be the perfect match
There’s more to keeping the spark alive than red roses and chocolates, so how about making a grand Valentine’s Day gesture by finding a romantic new home for you and your loved one? From secluded country cottages to luxurious overseas retreats, these gorgeous properties will set your heart racing throughout the year.
1. Withersfield, Haverhill, Suffolk, £310,000
The ideal size for two people, this Grade II-listed chocolate box cottage is move-in ready and has a cosy sitting room with a log burner, a handmade kitchen, a dining area leading out to a pretty courtyard garden, a shower room and a double bedroom fitted with handmade wardrobes. Period features include exposed timber beams and an inglenook fireplace. Find out more from Cheffins.
2. Lamorna, Penzance, Cornwall, £795,000
Grade II-listed Clapper Mill sits in an idyllic spot at the top of the Lamorna Valley. Formerly a water mill, it’s been fully restored and modernised and original features such as the water wheel, mill workings and exposed timber beams have been retained. There are four bedrooms, three reception rooms and three bathrooms and a mature secluded garden. The current owners have built a patio area with space for a hot tub that can be purchased separately. Contact Savills.
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3. North Bersted Street, West Sussex, £850,000
With everything you could possibly need under its predominantly thatched roof, tearing yourself away from this delightful Grade II-listed house won’t be easy. Dating from the 17th century, it was built as two farm cottages and later combined into a single residence.
A sitting room and dining room – both with working fireplaces – a snug and recently extended country-style kitchen/ breakfast room are on the ground floor, and two staircases lead up to five double bedrooms and a family bathroom. On top of all this there's a self-contained pool complex, complete with a heated swimming pool, sauna and shower room. Via Fine & Country.
4. Kilchrenan, Argyll, offers over £850,000
If you’re after an immensely private waterside retreat, you’re bound to fall for Achnacarron Boat House, currently run as a holiday home. For it's perched in wooded grounds on the edge of Loch Awe – Scotland’s longest freshwater loch – and accessed via a mile long track. Accommodation consists of two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, utility, sitting/dining room and lounge, and it enjoys uninterrupted views and fishing rights from the shore and by boat. Get in touch with Dawsons.
5. Heartwood, Docking, Norfolk, £959,950
This four-bedroom, three-bathroom detached house marries character and convenience, being brand new but traditionally designed with an attractive brick and flint exterior. It's part of a romantically-named village development of 26 two, three and four-bedroom houses set around a pond and close to North Norfolk’s unspoilt beaches. Currently a show home, it has a large kitchen/diner, a sitting room, study and underfloor heating, and furniture, fixtures and fittings are included. By The Hill Group.
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6. Praia da Luz, Algarve, Portugal, €1.3m (approx £1.109m)
The swimming pool is one of many outstanding features in Casa Sita, a five-bedroom villa a short walk from the beach in Praia da Luz on the Algarve. South-facing with a lush mature garden and views over the Atlantic Ocean, it’s been modernised and extended so that it can be divided into two self-contained sections, allowing one to be rented out as a holiday let if required. Find out more from O and O Real Estate.
7. Harrogate, Yorkshire, £1.8m
An excellent example of a swoon-worthy Victorian villa, with a wealth of character inside and out. The original cast-iron veranda is a thing of beauty, and you’ll find tall sash windows and intricate cornicing in most of the rooms. These include a bay-windowed sitting room, a formal dining room, a garden room and five bedrooms, and there's also a two-storey coach house. Available from Strutt & Parker.
8. Faringdon, Oxfordshire, £1.95m
Admirers of Gothic architecture will be blown away by Grade II-listed Largo House, a former vicarage believed to have been designed by architect George Street, who built the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
The six-bedroom house sits in a central but discreet position, set well back from the road down a carriage driveway, and is arranged over three floors. There are open fires in both the drawing room and dining room, the main bedroom has a walk through dressing room and a sunken tub in the ensuite bathroom, and a castellated balcony with views towards the Wessex Downs opens off the study. Through John D Wood.
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9. Paris, France, €8,850,000 (approx £7.546m)
Situated in the desirable Saint-Germain-des-Près neighbourhood in the world’s most romantic city, this spacious second floor apartment was renovated and lavishly decorated by Jacques Garcia, an esteemed architect and interior designer. Includes high ceilings, ornate mouldings, a vast living room with a balcony, a dining room, a library with a monumental carved fireplace and three bedrooms. The main bedroom is particularly seductive, boasting two dressing rooms as well as an ensuite bathroom. From Propriétés Parisiennes Sotheby's International Realty.
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