A huge shout-out too forThe Barn,an architecturally designed four-bedroom luxury house with native landscaped gardens and pool that’s just opened on picturesque thoroughbred horse stud Kitchwin Hills, near Scone in the Hunter Valley. As the property’s owners say, ‘‘this is your unique opportunity to stay on a working stud farm and soak up all the atmosphere of horses and horse life’’. Priced from $1500 a night on weekends and $1000 during the week, it sleeps up to 14 people.

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