Country Life

Lands of hope and glory

CRISPIN HOLBOROW of Savills Private Office (07967 555511) has hit the ground running at the start of the spring selling season with the simultaneous launch onto the market of three historic country estates, each of which has survived the upheavals of the 20th century to emerge resplendent in the 21st, thanks to sound long-term investment and upgrading by current owners.

He quotes a guide price of £18 million for Grade II-listed Combe Court, a classic Victorian country house set in 94½ acres of formal gardens, lakes, parkland and woodland in the heart of the Surrey Hills, two miles from the quintessentially English village of Chiddingfold. The house stands on high ground overlooking its own grounds, with glorious southerly views over a wonderfully peaceful part of rural Surrey.

Combe Court was built

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