Equestrian families on the hunt for a spacious house with paddocks and stables should cast their eye over a property that is surrounded by countryside and less than three miles from a town centre.

José and Miota, 46, have been married since 2002, and as newlyweds they had built a new house on the 1,359-acre farm. They lived there with their two sons, José, 20, now at university in Lisbon ...