If I had loads of money I would live in---

Is it for sale, Whitewave?

No - NT

Sometimes they have people living in to look after these NT houses ?

That does look lovely, whitewave. I was going to say that Greenway (Agatha Christie's house) is lovely, and I noticed that Coleton Fishacre is just nearby.

I always enjoy looking around a NT property that would be 'manageable', imagining myself living there (with enough money of course!).

I'd live in Boscastle; I lived there in my late teens and I've never found anywhere else to match it.

It looks still good even after the floods the NT did a good job I think

No, far too new for me. I would live here

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/mottisfont/

The photos don't do it justice, it's lovely and has the most beautiful rose gardens I have ever seen. Rivers and streams run through the grounds and they have finally done up the top floor - so it's ready for me to move in!

One of my ancestors did live in this Jacobean Manor House - but as a servant boy aged 12.

I suspect that I would be in the servants' quarters too, unless anyone I know chooses it as a wedding venue.

My mother's father was born here. But I do not expect it looked like that in 1870. His father was the publican, not the owner of the castle.
www.boarsheadripley.co.uk/

Have you ever stayed in the NT places in Boscastle, Tegan? They have about half a dozen there as holiday lets.

Now Smallfield House would be a very swish place for a Gransnet weekend - room for 20, the whole place to ourselves for £2700 for a two-night weekend (plus meals!) That is £135 each for two nights. Catering extra as required.

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I've always wanted to stay in one of the NT cottages at Port Quin but they don't allow dogs. We used to have family holidays at a farmhouse in a little place called Halgabron. I lived at a place called Hengar Manor before it became a Hoseasons holiday resort; as I've said before, I started at the top and worked my way down .

If I had loads of money I would probably stay where I am (get it updated) and buy a swish flat somewhere sunny but no more than 4 hours flight away, a cottage in Devon or Cornwall and another super duper flat in Australia (not sure where). And flit around between them as the fancy took me.
I can dream.

I'd love to live in Stoneacre ( NT, near Maidstone). It has a delightful garden, and wonderful views. Or Winforton Court, where we go for family weekends away at least once a year. It's perfect!
Failing that...find me a half-timbered hice in beautiful grinds, on the edge of a historic country tine. Do me fine!

whitewave, fishacre is indeed a very beautiful art nouveau house in a very lovely spot

If I had lots of money I'd live exactly where I am, but would put in a couple of new bathrooms and get it decorated- and would make a Grand Design flat in the huge barn (not before putting lots of new nests for the swallows and house-martins under the eaves first- as they are the current inhabitants)

BTW did you also visit Agatha Christies wonderful pile a bit further up river? But I do prefer Fisheacre's style.

Nobody admitting to having loads of money, I notice.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXuRvthgn4U

I bet he owns a big mansion or two.

I thought Greenway was fairly manageable, provided one had the staff .....

How about this place?

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ightham-mote/

It's really beautiful and in the midst of lovely Kentish countryside.

At Cornwall`s Lizard Point, there`s a house I`d love to live in. It`s not grand, just in a lovely position. Granted there`s a car park in front, but out of season it would be lovely.

Glen App Castle or Inverary Castle plus a traditional Parisian Townhouse with a courtyard entrance and going the whole hog here, a private jet to transport me back and forth when necessary. There we are, not much to ask. [ grin]