The call of the Cotswolds
WHENEVER recession looms, the Cotswolds is the first port of call for buyers seeking a safe haven for their families and their assets. Vendors deprived of the traditional spring selling campaign are making up for lost time by launching their houses on the market in July, as this bumper issue of COUNTRY LIFE shows.
High-achievers will find themselves at home in the small south Gloucestershire farming village of Tormarton, near Badminton, where the Duke of Beaufort and Sir James Dyson are near neighbours. Here, the Cirencester office of Strutt & Parker (01285 653101) is handling the sale, at a guide price of £6.5 million, of historic, Grade II-listed Tormarton Court, a beautifully renovated Georgian family house set in more than 10 acres of wonderfully private gardens, parkland and woodland on the edge of the village.
The house, originally a rectory, was altered and enlarged in the 17th and 18th centuries. The village became part of the Duke of Beaufort’s
