Price: Est. $1 million* 
Location: Pulborough, West Sussex

Dame Maggie Smith might be used to putting on airs and graces for her role as the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey, but the reality couldn’t be more different. When she isn’t acting up a storm or working on a new project, the 87-year-old star is living a quiet life in the English countryside. 

Smith and her late husband Beverley Cross bought a 15th-century red brick farmhouse in Pulborough in the early ‘80s. Maggie has lived there ever since, but is so fiercely protective of her privacy that she even asked Google Maps to blur out the street view of the property, according to Velvet Ropes.