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- Category: Architecture
- Church Cottage, Humbleton: The school that became a picture-perfect country house
- Curious Questions: Why do churches have gargoyles?
- Chandler’s House: Style with sympathy, as 18th century architecture meets 21st century flourish
- How Sir Giles Gilbert Scott left an indelible mark on London — and how that infuriated his critics
- Sir Christopher Wren: The life and times of a legendary architect, from ‘miracle of a youth’ to national treasure
- The best architects in Britain, from Country Life’s secret address book
- The buildings of Winchester College: ‘An extraordinary tapestry of architecture and spaces’
- Winchester College: A palace for education
- How the Church of England joined the race to Net Zero
- Munstead Wood: The house that Edwin Lutyens built for Gertrude Jekyll
- ‘Of all the countries in the world, Ireland is the country for ruins’
- Dover Castle, Kent: England’s strongest castle
- Leuchie: The house and garden where the 1960s meet the 1690s
- The millionaire who created a real-life toy train set on a human scale
- Fawley Hill: Inside the wacky and wonderful home of the late Sir William McAlpine
- Great British Architects: John Morow
- The strangest museum in London? Dennis Severs’ House is art installation, theatre set and 18th century throwback
- Netherby Hall, Cumbria: Roman foundations, a 16th century tower, a Georgian house… and a very 21st century future
- Category: Gardens & Nature
- Grow your own tomatoes: What to plant, when to plant them and how to make sure they thrive
- U2’s Adam Clayton: Guitarist, rock god and visionary gardener
- There are over 1,000 different citrus fruits out there — and you owe it to yourself to try something a little different
- Curious Questions: What’s the difference between a labyrinth and a maze?
- Celandine: The delicate flower, harbinger of spring, which Wordsworth thought more beautiful than daffodils
- Horatio’s Garden: The life-changing gardens that ‘give you hope and take away the darkness’
- How to start your own cutting garden, by three of Britain’s most successful flower growers
- The best garden designers in Britain, from Country Life’s secret address book
- The Top 100 builders, architects, interior decorators and garden designers in Britain
- How to grow fritillaries – Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh: The hardest thing in life is keeping a sense of perspective. In that respect, a garden has no equal
- The Wild Garden at Doddington Hall: Bright-bulb moments
- The forest garden in Devon ‘with an air of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory’
- United to save our plants — and stop another eco-tragedy like ash dieback disease
- Six weird and wonderful vegetables you should be growing in your garden
- In search of a mutant snowdrop
- Best gardens in England and Scotland
- Why does Kew Gardens have a giant pagoda?
- Alan Titchmarsh: I won’t hear a bad word about privet hedges, but they’re not a patch on my one-off ‘country hedge’
- Les Colombières: Ferdinand Bac’s house-and-garden masterpiece on the Riviera
- Wild Garlic: How to forage it, and how to grow your own
- The place you’ll find the world’s best roses — and it’s nowhere near Britain
- Category: Interiors
- Category: Property
- Five country homes for those with deep pockets, as seen in Country Life
- A truly incredible medieval house in West Sussex where even the front door is 1,000 years old
- An almost absurdly picturesque thatched cottage in rural Dorset — and it’s priced under £400,000
- A 13th-century grange for sale with stone floors, open fires and gothic arches for doorways
- What you need to know if you’re building a new house from scratch
- What’s next for house prices?
- A picturesque stone cottage has come up for sale in the Peak District National Park
- An idyllic thatched cottage with pond, treehouse — and an absolutely unforgettable name
- A spectacularly converted 15th century watermill with original beams, glorious surroundings and a minstrels’ gallery
- Five truly spectacular country houses for sale, from £1.5 to £7.25m
- A spectacular and sprawling mansion in Suffolk — and it’s completely free of listed status
- Property Talk: Why are there so many different ways of measuring house prices?
- An ‘astonishing beauty’ of a house has come up for sale just outside Guildford
- A beautiful Arts-and-Crafts home in a town with a beach, castle and award-winning ice cream
- ‘One of the finest townhouses in East Anglia’ hits the market in Bury St Edmunds
- Country charm, village atmosphere and city delights at this irresistible Edwardian house near Richmond
- 22 wonderful homes for sale from just £110,000 to over £17m, as seen in Country Life
- Elizabethan meets Edwardian at this grand hall overflowing with character from the ancient walls
- The Dorset estates which show new-builds at their best — and their worst
- A sprawling and elegant house created by one of the great Arts-and-Crafts architects of the 20th century
- Titter ye not — Frankie Howerd’s Kensington townhouse is for sale, and it’s a beautiful home in an iconic London square
- A glorious country house with library, gym and treehouse, in a hamlet a stone’s throw from Guildford
- A beautiful 15th century house that was home to a supermodel caught up in the Profumo scandal
- Seven superb country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
- An amazing Victorian villa in the grounds of a ancient palace, yet under 10 miles from central London
- A delightful 17th century thatched cottage for sale in a magical corner of the New Forest
- How the property market has changed in the three years since the Pandemic
- A magnificent country home in Hampshire that dates back to the Jacobean period is now on the market for £5 million
- A ‘real gem’ of an Elizabethan hall where Virginia Woolf came to recuperate, and ended up writing a story
- ‘One of Somerset’s most iconic buildings’ — built by Henry VII’s mother — is up for sale
- An iconic riverside home in a sought-after Cambridgeshire village that will leave you mesmerised
- A majestic Suffolk country house and estate up for sale for the first time since 1845
- 20 superb homes from £225,000 to £19 million, as seen in Country Life
- A ‘real gem’ of an Elizabethan hall where Virigina Woolf came to recuperate, and ended up writing a story
- House prices up by £14 — but don’t spend it all on prosecco just yet
- An exquisite home near Canterbury that dates back to the 14th century is now for sale for £2.75 million
- A medieval house complete with moat and bridge that’s been evolving for seven centuries
- A beautiful Suffolk country house that’s spent over 500 years in the same family
- The home of the man who first bred Aberdeen Angus cattle is now up for sale in Scotland
- A beautiful medieval-style house and estate in the heart of Surrey’s ‘Golden Triangle’
- Five glorious properties for sale, as seen in Country Life
- A handsome Gothic Tudor House in Aberdeenshire with a fabulous log cabin in the garden
- An 18th century watermill that was home to the man who made millions from Reader’s Digest
- Best country houses for sale this week
- A picture-perfect William and Mary house that’s like stepping back in time
