Country Life

A new lease of life

OU would have to be a cricket lover to take on this property,’ says Sarah Roué, director at Savills’ rural division in Exeter (01823 445034), ‘because every Sunday you will look directly out onto a cricket match.’ This is aptly named Cricket House, a handsome cottage set right against the pitch boundary in the deer park of the ancient Boconnoc estate in Cornwall, formerly the seat of the Pitt family. An unusual, rustic

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