▲ Gloucestershire, £600,000
Pool End Barn is a delightful Grade IIlisted, two-bedroom Cotswold-stone cottage that lies in the heart of the village of Willersey, a few miles north of Broadway. Its position overlooking the village duck pond is particularly picturesque. The house used to be a dairy barn, but was sympathetically converted a number of years ago.
There are two gardens: a classic cottage-style one to the front borders the duck pond and a further acre, enclosed by Cotswold-stone walling, lies across the drive. This garden is landscaped with herbaceous borders and a stone terrace. The nearest station serving London Paddington is some 10 miles away at Moreton-in-Marsh. Jackson-Stops (01386 840224)
◄ Wiltshire, £1.45 million
Turleigh is a hamlet in west Wiltshire, about 1/4 miles west of Bradfordon-Avon-which has the same pretty stone-built streets as Bath, but without the crowds-and on the southern end of the Cotswolds National Landscape (the new term for an AONB). Despite its name, Grade II-listed Rock Cottage has the appearance of a small country house, thanks to its classical Georgian façade of mellow Bath stone.
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