Vale of Glamorgan, £1.395 million
Opposite a 12th-century church on the southern edge of sought-after Colwinston—famous haunt of Agatha Christie (her descendants still live in the village)—sits the extraordinarily pretty, Grade II-listed Old Parsonage. All five bedrooms and principal living rooms overlook the superbly tended gardens, with several seating areas, a heated swimming pool and Little Parsonage summerhouse or home office. The market town of Cowbridge is about four miles away. Watts & Morgan (01446 773500)
Devon, £1.175 million
Striking for its former chapel with fanlight, cross final and turret, West Hill’s East Grange makes up the larger part of a vicarage designed in 1850 by the Revd George Buchanan Wollaston, a botanist, watercolourist and architect who was articled to Auguste-Charles Pugin; Wollaston also designed the Church of St Michael the Archangel at West Hill. Just south-west of Ottery St Mary and now wisteria-clad and secluded, accessed via a long drive, four-bedroom East Grange enjoys views over lawns, well-stocked beds, a striking magnolia tree, apple and plum orchard, outdoor pool and separate studio/office. Humberts (01404 42456)
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