The property is priced at £450,000 with Marchand Petit (marchantpetit.co.uk/01548 831 163).

ROSES ROUND the door, ancient church to the rear, Church Cottage is a “classic British scene” says the agent Jackson-Stops (jackson-stops.co. uk/ 01473 218 218). The Grade II listed house, which is located at the end of a no-through road, has a pretty orchard garden with apple, plum and greengage trees. Located on the edge of Kettleburgh village in the Deben Valley, Suffolk, there is an active community and pub. The cottage is priced at £495,000.

Norton House is situated in a surprisingly rural spot on the edge of the village but within walking distance of Audley End mainline train station and within two miles of the historic market town of Saffron Walden.

One feature of Norton House, in the delightfully named Essex village of Wendens Ambo (which means Two Wendens), is that you can almost pluck the fruit in your orchard from the comfort of an armchair.

The recently modernised 1930s house has four bedrooms and comes with nearly two acres of garden and a mature orchard with dozens of apple, plum and pear trees. There is a large terrace at the rear of the house beside the garden, where there is a separate brick-built one bedroom cottage annexe. The property is priced at £1,275,000 with Mullock Wells (mullockwells.co.uk/ 01279 246 000). Wenders Ambo is about two miles from medieval market town Saffron Walden.

MEAD LODGE in Hertfordshire has, as its name suggests, a large orchard with mature apple trees once used to make the traditional seasonal drink. The seven-bedroom house, set in five acres, is priced at what appears a relatively modest £1,375,000 for the size of property in Hunsdon Pound, near Stanstead Abbotts. It is on the market with Mullucks Wells (mullucks.co.uk/01279 755 400).

As you would expect, Appletree Cottage, a three-bedroom period home in the Wiltshire village of Burbage, has an apple tree. Just the one, so picking is easy. Priced at £425,000 with Hamptons International (hamptons.co.uk/01672 891 051) the village has a post office, primary school and surgery, with historic town Marlborough a 10-minute drive away.