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WARWICKSHIRE

THIS five-bedroom property occupies a wing of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, where Jane Austen stayed with her sister. Jacobean House is supposed to have inspired her novels Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park. Knight Frank: knightfrank.com. £1 MILLION

SUFFOLK

COASTGUARD Cottages in Ipswich was once owned by children’s author and illustrator Jill Barklem. One of her Brambly Hedge books, Sea Story, was inspired by the riverside home. She bought the four-bedroom house in 1990 and used it as a holiday retreat. Savills, savills.com. IN EXCESS OF £500,000