Estates for all seasons
TODAY’S COUNTRY LIFE highlights the launch onto the market of three exceptional, although quite different, country estates. The first is a residential and sporting estate in the Chilterns AONB; the second, a thriving 2,000-acre mixed farming estate in Norfolk; and the third, a treasured collector’s piece set in 120 acres of Capability Brown-style parkland in deepest West Sussex.
Louise Harrison of Savills (020–7016 3715) quotes a guide price of £15 million for the historic, 773-acre Hexton Manor estate near the picturesque village of Hexton, five miles from Hitchin and 40 miles from central London. The estate sits on a peninsula of north Hertfordshire that juts northwards into the Bedfordshire plain, whereas its southern half forms
