Eight properties across the UK are currently listed for sale, all featuring ponds or moats within their grounds. These properties vary in style and age, from historic farmhouses to converted windmills.
Among the listings is Maynards, a Grade II-listed 1670s former farmhouse in Little Sampford, Essex, which features a moat around three-quarters of its grounds and is priced at £1.5 million. In Wilton, Marlborough, Pond Cottage, a 17th-century thatched cottage overlooking a village pond, is available for £995,000.
Other properties include The Mill in Arnesby, Leicester, a converted 19th-century windmill with a wildlife pond, listed at £2.75 million. Bulkeley Grange in Malpas, Cheshire, a restored Victorian country house with a pond, is on the market for £2.25 million. Tinley Lodge in Shipbourne, Tonbridge, Kent, a country house with a large pond and a Japanese garden with a wildlife pond, has a price of £4.95 million.
Barley Hill Farm in Combe St. Nicholas, Chard, Somerset, a Victorian former farmhouse with a wildlife garden and ponds, is listed for £1.65 million. Loughbrow House in Hexham, Northumberland, a late Victorian house needing renovation with a pond on its estate, is priced at £2.1 million+. Puddledock in Norden, Corfe, Dorset, a contemporary house incorporating a 200-year-old building, overlooks wildlife ponds and is available for £2.25 million.