Homes for sale in England with swimming pools
There is much to ogle at in this four-bedroom, ground- and first-floor apartment – part of a striking 17th-century manor house that has been sensitively carved up as part of a cohousing community. Every room is cavernous and light pours in through mullioned stone windows. There is a cellar, now a workroom. The property sits in 2.8 hectares (seven acres) of grounds which ramble through lawns to woodland. The communal open-air swimming pool is shrouded by trees. It is a seven-minute drive to Bradford-on-Avon station and town centre. £785,000. Inigo, 020 3687 3071 Photograph: Inigo
This grand Edwardian home, to the south of the city centre, has three reception rooms, four bedrooms and a conservatory. The light-filled hallway leads into a sociable kitchen, a dining room, a conservatory, and the drawing room, which has an arched window seat under the stained-glass windows. Outside, the rear paved terrace is south-facing with a swimming pool at its centre. The garden is part-walled and bordered by mature flowers and trees. This detached house sits on a large a corner plot twice as wide as the neighbouring terrace homes. £725,000. Sowerbys, 01603 761 441 Photograph: Sowerbys
High above sea level, and on the private North Foreland estate, is this restored Edwardian villa. It is thought to have been the original show house of the estate, and has views of the lighthouse and east across the sea. Built in 1902, it has only been occupied by four families. Spread over three floors, there are five bedrooms. The dining room leads on to the terrace and BBQ area, sheltered by raised flowerbeds, and beyond is the sandstone-bordered, heated swimming pool – fitted with a concealed, automatic cover . £2.5m. Inigo , 020 3687 3071 Photograph: Inigo
A short walk from the green space of the park and lido is a corner building on Mentmore Terrace. On the third floor is a two-bedroom, two-bathroom, warehouse-style apartment with exposed concrete ceilings in the open-plan kitchen-dining-living area, and a private balcony with a protective half-height glass screen. Atop the building is a communal heated swimming pool with decking, flowerbeds and views over the City of London. The terrace runs alongside the railway line and parallel to London Fields, and the overground station is nearby. £730,000. Dexters, 020 7247 2440 Photograph: Dexters
On South Quay Plaza, a Berkeley Homes development, is the 68-floor Hampton Tower, which is home to 627 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. There is a one-bedroom flat for sale on the ninth floor with an open-plan living-dining-kitchen area and floor-to-ceiling windows looking out to Canary Wharf. The tower has a gym, a swimming pool, a games room, a co-working space, and a bar and a roof terrace on the 56th floor. It's a five-minute walk to the DLR, a seven-minute walk to the Jubilee line and a 13-minute walk to the Elizabeth line. £727,500. Dexters, 020 7590 7299
Photograph: Andrew Beasley /Dexters
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