Lucy Denton examines the highs and lows of renting an estate property.
‘You would have to be a cricket lover to take on this property,’ says Sarah Roué, director at Savills’ rural division in Exeter ‘because every Sunday you will look directly out onto a cricket match.’ This is aptly named Cricket House, a handsome cottage set right against the pitch boundary in the deer park of the ancient Boconnoc estate in Cornwall, formerly the seat of the Pitt family….