AYOT BURY
Ayot St Peter, Welwyn, Herts
For you: a Grade-II-listed Georgian manor house in a parkland setting, with an 18th-century symmetrical façade and 19thcentury wings. Highlights include a magnificent ballroom with a carved marble fireplace, plus hand-painted silk panels in the drawing room. There are eight bedrooms plus a one-bed cottage. The gardens include lawns, specimen trees, sunken rose garden and tennis court.
For the horses: stabling for six horses, plus a floodlit all-weather manège surrounded by tall hedges. Set in 41 acres.
£10.75m
Strutt & Parker, 020 7318 5025, struttandparker.com
STONES FARM
Hilfield, Dorchester, Dorset
For you: a rural Grade II-listed 19th-century farmhouse, with four double bedrooms, large sash windows, fireplaces, an Aga, formal walled gardens and a kitchen garden.
For the horses: seven stables in former milking…