Keyword search of the week: orchards
August 28th, 2009 by claire.mitchell
If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, just imagine how healthy you would be if you had your very own orchard.
As September fast approaches we are entering the apple harvest season, which means the apples would be just about ready to pick right now. The idea of strolling to the bottom of the garden to find a paddock full of apple trees groaning under the weight of their fruit sounds tempting.
So tempting, in fact, that it got us searching for properties with orchards. Here’s our pick of the crop…
Churchstow, Devon
£1,000,000
This 14th-century country house is tucked away in a valley created by the River Avon.
The house has three/four bedrooms and comes with a separate studio in a converted barn.
Its 2.5 acres of cider orchards sit alongside paddocks and two ponds linked by waterfalls.
Wacton, Norfolk
£995,000
Eight miles from the market town of Diss, Wacton Hall is a well-restored 16th-century manor house.
It has six bedrooms, five reception rooms and four bathrooms. The established orchard is hard to miss – the drive passes through on its approach to the house.
West Hall, Suffolk
£850,000
Paradise Farm, a 16th-century five-bedroom farmhouse, comes with not one but two orchards.
It also has several acres of woodland, meadows, paddocks, former kitchen garden, lawns and ponds.
Crickleaze, Somerset
£790,000
The orchard that comes with this Victorian coach house is in good company – it sits alongside a swimming pool, fish pond, kitchen garden and bluebell copse.
The house, situated in a tiny hamlet, has five bedrooms and three reception rooms.
