Greatest homes: large gardens

The great outdoors can be right at your back door when you have an expansive garden
Whether it’s your own grounds in a grand house, or simply somewhere the kids can run to the end of to get some distance, a large garden makes all the difference to a home. Add to that the communal gardens so many apartments get to share these days and you may find you have the perfectly tailored topiary without living beyond more everyday means.

Elms Lea Avenue,
Preston?Park
You’ll never feel fenced in once you’ve moved into this glorious four bedroom house with an incredible south west facing rear garden enclosed by a low wall. Your home could be the hub for the kids’ outdoor games, with cricket in the summer and football all year around – or this is all ready for that vegetable ‘patch’ you always promised yourself. A lovely home too, this is fabulous.
>£735,000
>Hamptons International
>01273 230230

Valley Drive, Brighton
Let yourself spread out and enjoy gardens on all sides, with this beautiful front offering a sizeable and well kept greenery, as well as a fantastic rear garden around the back for all of your barbecue and running around needs. Inside the house there are four bedrooms, a stunning kitchen/breakfast room, two bathrooms and a study for that extra retreat. Rather beautiful.
>£675,000
>Goldin Lemcke
>01273 777123

Tongdean Road, Hove
Truly embracing the mantra to live outside as well as you do inside the home, this gorgeous detached house with six bedrooms, three bathrooms and three reception rooms – as well as every fun-lover’s favourite, the games room – has incredible mature landscaped gardens and its own swimming pool. There’s also a garage accessed via a gated driveway, ensuring that outside is as beautiful to behold as this stunningly beautiful house.
>£2,950,000
>Fox & Sons
>01273 820280

Queen Victoria Avenue, Hove
You don’t need to have a stately pile to enjoy a big garden all of your own. This massive enclosed space, lawned and beautifully kept, belongs to a well presented and extended semi-detached family home with three double bedrooms, a large living dining room and a rear conservatory.
>£369,950
>Elliotts
>01273 773399

Varndean Gardens, Brighton
Just take in this incredible sight – a beautiful landscaped south facing garden, as well as an indoor swimming pool enclosed in its own glass house, allowing you to swim in the warmth and gaze up at the stars from the comfort of your nightly backstroke. The main house has five bedrooms, three bathrooms, two reception rooms, a driveway and a double garage – plus a separate snooker room. All the mod cons for absolute enjoyment of life.
>£975,000
>Mishon Mackay
>01273 775588