Make a splash: the best properties with swimming pools
Glebe House, Chiddingfold, Surrey. A Grade II-listed, 16th-century village house with five acres of landscaped gardens that include a two-bed cottage, a garage with a two-bed flat above, a tennis court, an outdoor swimming pool and an orangery. 7 beds, 4 baths, 4 receps, study. £6.5m Knight Frank,01483-565171.
Villa Almaviva, Palm Island, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. A furnished beachfront villa with an outdoor swimming pool overlooking the beach and sea beyond. The villa comes with its own back-up generator, desalination facility, 14,000 gallons of reserve water, a boat and a car, and has been reduced from $9m to $4.5m for a quick sale. 6 beds, 6 baths, 1 acre. $4.5m Sotheby’s International Realty +1 214 288 3299.
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Througham Slad Manor, Bisley, Gloucestershire. A Grade II-listed, 16th-century manor altered for the Cadbury family in the 1930s by the architect Norman Jewson. The landscaped gardens include a two-bed cottage and an outdoor swimming pool surrounded by a stone-flagged terrace overlooked by a pool room. 7 beds, 5 baths, 2 receps, study, paddocks, 7.7 acres. There is a further cottage and land available as separate lots. £4.25m Knight Frank 01285-659771.
Thorpe Lodge, Littlethorpe, Ripon, North Yorkshire. This restored country house is surrounded by mature gardens that have been part of the National Gardens Scheme. The gardens include a walled garden with an outdoor swimming pool. The house retains its original sash windows and has open fireplaces with ornate surrounds. 6 beds, 6 baths, 3 receps, 1-bed flat, 4-bed annexe, 12 acres. £1.75m Strutt & Parker 01423-561274.
The Manor House, Utterby, Louth, Lincolnshire. A Grade II-listed village house set in mature gardens that include a heated swimming pool in a courtyard that leads onto the sun room, kitchen and dining room. 7 beds, 3 baths, 4 receps, orangery, coach house, greenhouse. £875,000 Robert Bell & Company 01522-538888.
Mavins Farmhouse, Kingston Deverill, Wiltshire. A Grade II-listed farmhouse in the Deverill Valley. It is surrounded by landscaped gardens that include a newly refurbished outdoor swimming pool overlooked by a summer house that has a large, open fireplace. 5 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, conservatory, breakfast kitchen, 1-bed detached flat, five stables, outbuildings, paddocks, 7 acres. £2.35m Strutt & Parker 01722-328741.
Little Salterns, Bucklers Hard, Beaulieu, Hampshire. This large, thatched property is situated on the banks of the Beaulieu River and is surrounded by landscaped gardens that include a swimming pool and a pool house with a kitchenette, a summer house, tennis court, greenhouse, and a garage complex with a workshop. 5 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps, breakfast kitchen, 3-bed annexe, woodland walk, kitchen garden, meadows, 3.9 acres. £5m Savills 01962-841842.
Beetle House, near Wisborough Green, West Sussex. A Grade II-listed, 17th-century house set in landscaped gardens that include a heated pool with a pool room. 5 beds, 5 baths, kitchen with Aga, 3 receps, 2-bed cottage, stables, tennis court, croquet lawn, lake, 0.5 acres. £2.55m Savills 01483-796820.
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