Christmas homes – in pictures

Cranham, Gloucestershire. Jingle Cottage can be found in this pretty little Cotswold village near Stroud. As well as a large, rambling garden it boasts two conservatories, four bedrooms, a gravelled driveway and traditional mullioned windows. At the edge of the garden is a gate leading to the village cricket ground, beyond which sits Cranham Common which is managed by Natural England and is home to many rare and endangered species, including wild orchids. But at £715,000, it’s not cheap.
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Photograph: Fine & Country

Hursley, Hampshire. Period features are usually 10 a penny in Grade II-listed houses, but Parsonage Farm House has something I bet no other home can offer: a donkey walking wheel in the drawing room. When the house was extended and restored in the 1970s the drawing room was built around the well and the original wheel, which was used for water extraction until the early 1900s. It also has stunning views over the countryside and a 36ft swimming pool – perhaps useful for baptisms? Yours for £1.4m
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Photograph: Carter Jonas

Grantham, Lincolnshire. What better way to celebrate Christmas than relaxing with a mince pie in Reindeer House. The £650,000 detached four-bedder in Swayfield has undergone extensive renovation, according to the sales agent, and offers light, flexible living accomodation. It has four receptions, a detached garage and beautiful gardens. Swayfield is also just 15 miles from Stamford and close to Rutland Water, one of the largest reservoirs in England.
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Photograph: Chesterton Humberts

Enfield, Greater London. The seller of this four-bed semi on Turkey Street will no doubt be hoping a buyer gobbles it up. It has two receptions, a kitchen/diner, a handy ground floor shower room, and double glazing and gas central heating throughout – all for £324,995. It is also near a mainline train station (which is just over 30 minutes to London’s Liverpool Street) and the A10.
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Photograph: Equity

Watlington, Oxfordshire. With a price tag of £2.5m, Magpie Farm in Christmas Common is definitely one for the three kings. But as it comes with 43 acres there is plenty of space for their camels, the sheep and the donkey too. The immaculately presented farmhouse has four spacious receptions, four double bedrooms and a kitchen/breakfast room – but if you insist on staying outside with the donkey, there’s a logstore, a studio/office and a storeroom nearby.
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Photograph: Sherston Associates