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Homes with moats – in pictures
From Staffordshire to Normandy, these moated homes offer privacy in picturesque surroundings. Which ones float your boat?
Wed 16 Mar 2016 03.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 23 Sep 2020 10.56 EDT
Home: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
The £3m price tag is the only unappealling feature of one of the few habitable moated castles in England. Turning it into a spa hotel might help with mortgage repayments; otherwise you can make you and your family – and your extended circle of friends – at home in the 16 bedrooms and 20 acres. Rebuilt in 1625, it at one stage housed the Wedgwood family who bequeathed the library’s decorative Wedgwood ceiling. Elaborate panelling clads many of the other rooms. A chapel and dungeon could usefully serve in times of differing need. Sotheby’s, 020 7495 9580 Share on Facebook Share on TwitterHome: Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire
The modern part of the building dates from the 15th century when, already a century old, it was refurbished, when a 17th-century owner gave it a full refurb. The heavy studded front door and medieval patterning on the limewash in the vaulted master suite are testament to its antiquity, while 20th-century upgrades have contributed a posh kitchen, three bathrooms and a games and office annexe. A cottage within the 20.8 acres adds two bedrooms to the six in the main house. Cost: £2.8m. Strutt & Parker, 020 7318 5025 Share on Facebook Share on TwitterHome: Morley St Peter, near Wymondham, Norfolk
The moat is three centuries older than the 450-year-old house, which made it into both Pevsner’s and Burke’s guides to notable buildings. Its glorious antiquity, including the original staircase, has saddled it with a Grade I listing, which means you have to apply for official consent for alterations. But the vendor recently carried out thorough renovations, including new central heating and two extra en suite bedrooms. Three cottages in the 32 acres can be used as holiday lets. Offers in the region of £2.4m.Strutt & Parker, 01603 883603 Share on Facebook Share on TwitterHome: Wakes Colne, Colchester
This moated eyrie helps earn its keep by contracting its 90 arable acres to a a neighbouring farmer, and selling an annual £7,500 licence to a local motorcycle club who use 23 acres as an occasional scrambling track. Inside are four bedrooms and three receptions, most with a drama of ceiling beams and wall studs. Cost: £2.35m. Nicholas Percival, 01206 563 222 Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAway: Le Hommet-d’Arthenay, Normandy
An aristocratic lifestyle is almost affordable across the English Channel. This 15th-century moated castle – yours for a mere £738,663 – is run as a B&B with nine bedrooms and six bathrooms off the stone spiral staircase and four stately receptions below. It comes with 27 acres of gardens and meadows and several adaptable outbuildings. Ferries at Caen are an hour’s drive away and it’s 20 minutes to train services to Paris. Leggett, 08700 115 151 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
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