North of Florence, the 44-hectare estate sits in Tuscany’s greener, more mountainous and heavily wooded landscape, near the Mugello, the historic homeland of the Medici family.

Just 15 miles from central London, Ripley Grange looks as though it has stood beside Epping Forest for centuries. In fact, the Tudor-style country house was built between 1928 and 1930 for industrialist Charles Frederick Clark, whose fortune came from carbon paper and typewriter ribbons.

Known as the “green heart of Italy,” Umbria is home to this historic Antico Borgo Rurale, where a group of old farm buildings has been restored as one private estate.

This restored mid-19th-century Victorian country house is set on Scotland’s Kintyre Peninsula, around 2.5 hours from Glasgow and just minutes from ferries to the Inner Hebrides.

Built for Virginia’s Randolph family in the 1730s, the former plantation known as Tuckahoe was home to Thomas Jefferson for seven years of his childhood and still contains the schoolhouse where he received some of his earliest education.

Behind Great Elm’s soaring glass atrium is a Buckley family estate shaped by Mexican architectural details, political gatherings and guests from Ronald Reagan to Sylvia Plath. Divided in the 1980s, the mansion could now be reunited as a single home.

Built in 1999 as one man's vision of the Old West, Rancho Alegre was later bought by another lifelong Western enthusiast who had grown up in Germany watching cowboy films and dreaming of life in the American West. Decades apart, the two men shaped the same extraordinary ranch outside Santa Fe.

A 1925 English manor built as a full-scale showcase for oak construction at the British Empire Exhibition was later taken apart piece by piece, moved to Devon and rebuilt on a hillside above Salcombe. Today, Falconers stands in seven acres of gardens believed to have been designed by Gertrude Jekyll.

Set on 3 hectares / 7.4 acres, this restored 18th-century Provençal farmhouse offers 550 m² / 5,920 ft² of living space and 7 bedrooms in the main house and a separate 2-bedroom caretaker’s residence.

An 18th-century Catalan farmhouse to restore in a protected landscape, with 127 hectares / 313 acres of woodland, sea views, and access to the Costa Brava, Girona, and Barcelona.