Wimbledon provided the occasion for Rightmove’s July 2023 feature on homes with a tennis connection. The preserved account describes three properties with their own courts, set in Lancashire, Cheshire and North Yorkshire. This retrospective concentrates on those documented examples rather than reproducing the original five-home headline.
Near Goosnargh in Lancashire, a four-bedroom Grade II-listed house dated to 1666. The source described exposed beams and brickwork alongside a contemporary kitchen and dining area. Its roughly one-and-a-half-acre grounds contained a tree-lined asphalt court, together with a summerhouse, greenhouse and a separate two-storey annexe.
The Cheshire example was Sidings Farm at Beeston, a four-bedroom farmhouse built in the nineteenth century. Locally quarried sandstone, York stone floors and a sunroom gave it a different character from the Lancashire building. A lit court extended the sporting theme, while a renovated cabin alongside it provided additional accommodation described in the listing.
In Hutton Buscel, near the North York Moors, a seven-bedroom Georgian manor combined its court with a wider range of leisure spaces. The source described a heated pool, games facilities, cinema room and several outbuildings. A raised patio overlooked the sunken all-weather court, making spectating part of the garden arrangement.
These details show that a court can sit within quite different kinds of property. In one case it accompanied a seventeenth-century house and smaller grounds; elsewhere it formed part of a more extensive entertainment setting. The surrounding layout and additional buildings were as much part of the presentation as the playing surface itself.
The article was a lifestyle selection, not a technical inspection of court condition or a record of completed sales. Historic asking prices and invitations to contact agents are not repeated here as current offers. Nor does the archive establish the maintenance needs or costs of any of the properties today.
Read for architectural and landscape interest, the feature captures how homes were marketed around a sporting moment in summer 2023. The descriptions reflect that period and do not imply present availability, condition or market value.