Three of a kind
THE surprisingly remote and tranquil landscape of the North Wessex Downs AONB, which straddles the boundaries of Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, is home to some of England’s loveliest, but least-known country houses and estates, most of which never make it onto the open market.
Thus, it’s all the more exciting to see the simultaneous launch onto the market of three fine Georgian-style houses, all three located along a 10-mile stretch of the Kennet valley in the south of the AONB, between the historic market towns of Newbury and Hungerford. Alex Barton of Strutt & Parker’s Newbury office (01635 521707) is handling the sale of two of them, the first being Grade II-listed The Old Rectory at Chilton Foliat on the West Berkshire/Wiltshire border, two miles north
