Dining rooms so spectacular, you’ll be entertaining every night
Feast your eyes on these stylish spaces.


Surrey, £5.25 million
June Farm—a 17th-century, eight-bedroom house with a dramatic sweeping roof said to be by Lutyens—has a double-height dining room with a viewing gallery and south-westerly views.
Near Reigate, it comes with 25 acres and equestrian facilities to rival any small commercial set-up, with seven post-and-rail paddocks and 18 loose boxes that form a courtyard, plus various other outbuildings. Strutt & Parker (020–7318 5190)
Gloucestershire, £2.95 million
The French-style dining room of this classic Cotswold-stone barn conversion is beautifully bright, with good views, and opens onto a terrace for summer suppers.
Eight-bedroom Ewen Mill, near Cirencester, comes with 17 acres of woodland and pastureland, a privately owned bridge over the Thames, a grass tennis court and outbuildings. Knight Frank (01285 411037)
London SW1, £22 million
Newly refurbished and extravagantly designed with grand entertaining rooms, the dining room at this Grade I-listed Queen Anne house in Westminster seats 20 and features inlaid antique-mirror detailing, painted panelling and an Art Deco-inspired chandelier. Good views over St James’s Park. Strutt & Parker (020–7591 2201)
Isle of Wight, £1.8 million
At least eight monarchs have owned this fine manor house, the earliest being Alfred the Great—undoubtedly, they all dined in this panelled room. In 1629, Charles I reviewed troops on the lawn and, much later, Queen Victoria planted a tree in the garden. Grade II*-listed Arreton Manor has eight bedrooms, an Old Dairy and a one-bedroom annexe.
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Tudor arched doorways, fireplaces and stone-mullioned windows have been retained during sensitive restorations. Biles & Co (01983 872335)
Annunciata grew up in the wilds of Lancashire and now lives in Hampshire with a husband, two daughters and an awful pug called Parsley. She’s been floating round the Country Life office for more than a decade, her work winning the Property Magazine of the Year Award in 2022 (Property Press Awards). Before that, she had a two-year stint writing ‘all kinds of fiction’ for The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, worked in internal comms for Country Life’s publisher (which has had many names in recent years but was then called IPC Media), and spent another year researching for a historical biographer, whose then primary focus was Graham Greene and John Henry Newman and whose filing system was a collection of wardrobes and chests of drawers filled with torn scraps of paper. During this time, she regularly gave tours of 17th-century Milton Manor, Oxfordshire, which may or may not have been designed by Inigo Jones, and co-founded a literary, art and music festival, at which Johnny Flynn headlined. When not writing and editing for Country Life, Annunciata is also a director of TIN MAN ART, a contemporary art gallery founded in 2021 by her husband, James Elwes.











