Hesket Newmarket, Cumbria
This solitary Cumbrian farmhouse is in the Lake District national park. From a raised spot it surveys open countryside and the Lakeland fells. The main house was built in 1750 and has been sympathetically renovated, making the most of its exposed beams, large inglenook fireplaces and a wrought-iron spiral staircase. The property has a collection of outbuildings, including annex accommodation, a wooden barn-turned-workshop and a hut-like summer house on the other side of a stream on the edge of the 0.5-hectare (1.25-acre) land. £850,000. Finest Properties, 01434 622234