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Lord Byron, Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott once dined at this Jacobean mansion in London. Destroyed by The Blitz it lives on now only in the Country Life Archive
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What is everyone talking about this week: Mutton chops are back and everyone's drinking sloe gin
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Zero XE: Zipping around the countryside on a mountain bike on steroids
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The smartest dog breed in the world — loved by Robert Burns and Queen Victoria
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Five magical homes for sale, from an 18,000sq ft mansion in Devon to a 1960s-period piece right on the waterfront in Cornwall
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Hello Kitty, the FBI and the exclusive island of Nantucket: Weird and wonderful tartans, and where to find them
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A golden-stone manor that's just about as perfect a Cotswolds home as you could wish for
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Wealthy Boomers collected blue-chip paintings. Gen Z is opting for collectibles. Who will come up trumps?
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Posh people do well on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! because they survived boarding school: Sophia Money-Coutt's snob's guide to reality television
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The Seaside Boarding House review: The cosy gourmet getaway on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast with a proper sense of place
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What do Taylor Swift, Guy Ritchie and The King have in common? They all love a 200-year-old fabric born in Scotland’s textile mills
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Five magical homes for sale, from an 18,000sq ft mansion in Devon to a 1960s-period piece right on the waterfront in Cornwall
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A golden-stone manor that's just about as perfect a Cotswolds home as you could wish for
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An 'architectural masterpiece' on New York's Fifth Avenue — and Ralph Lauren could be your neighbour
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A 'wildly romantic' castle that once hosted royalty and supermodels, saved from ruin and ready for a new family to make it their home
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'Like valuing an antique': The fine art of balancing provenance, history, and size when pricing Britain's rarest homes
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John Constable's old school is for sale, and it's now a 500-year-old house in the wonkiest village in Britain
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Best country houses for sale this week
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How do you add a dash of theatricality to a 1930s house? By taking inspiration from the legendary architect and set designer Oliver Messel
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Are you a curator, a sympathiser or a conscientious objector? Take our Interiors Editor's quiz to discover your design DNA
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‘The pair drove to Belgium in their Mini and returned with the chair wrapped in duvets’: The mother-and-daughter duo that brought a converted Cotswolds barn back to life
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'You should need little reminding that the 1980s are back': Country Life's interior-design predictions for 2026
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How an eco-friendly interior designer transformed a former milking parlour into a multi-purpose space in the middle of the Pandemic
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How Britain’s biggest and best country houses are decking the halls (and façades) for Christmas
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Giles Kime: Cushions, rugs, upholstered stools and sofa blankets are the ingredients of a pleasing new trend
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John Goodall: Restoration is 'an act of recycling', but we need a system that encourages it
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What is everyone talking about this week: Mutton chops are back and everyone's drinking sloe gin
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Hello Kitty, the FBI and the exclusive island of Nantucket: Weird and wonderful tartans, and where to find them
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‘I thought I was going to be sick. I was very nervous about MasterChef’: Monica Galetti’s consuming passions
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Come rain or shine: Burberry’s Gabardine Capsule collection celebrates the art of dressing for Britain’s changeable skies
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The evergreen appeal of winter tree planting
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Small but mighty: How can you not love the little owl?
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From woodland to Westminster: Can the felling of ancient oak trees be an act of cultural service?
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The gardeners' gardens: Alan Titchmarsh, Mary Keen, Clive Nichols and more on the places they have on their 2026 hitlists
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Beautiful, rewarding, unpronounceable: Chaenomeles, the spectacular shrub that grows happily in gardens where azaleas will never bloom
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What is everyone talking about this week: Rewilding starts in your own back garden — even in the city
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English country gardens once dotted the French Riviera. Now the last of them is about to slip away forever
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Three plants to grow in 2026 that are as delicious as they are pretty, from Siberian chives to 'Turkish warty cabbage'
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Seeing the centuries old specimens of Carl Linnaeus in a new light
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Eileen Soper: The 'schoolgirl among the masters' with paintings in millions of homes, even yours
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A mesmerising portrait in the eerie country house that inspired Charlotte Brontë to write 'Jane Eyre'
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Wealthy Boomers collected blue-chip paintings. Gen Z is opting for collectibles. Who will come up trumps?
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The 'micro mosaic' at Holkham Hall that uses a fascinating, unusual technique pioneered by the Vatican
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Sopwell House hotel review: For a spa trip, look no further
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The Seaside Boarding House review: The cosy gourmet getaway on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast with a proper sense of place
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Above the clouds to beat the crowds: Where to stay in Wales if you want to conquer the 'other' Snowdon
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Inside the 19th century château in St Tropez where hotel guests are ferried to the beach in Rolls-Royces and season four of The White Lotus is about to start filming
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Revelstoke is the heli-skiing capital of the world, where legendary powder, lethal lines and famous names collide
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This new hotel medi-spa in Morocco has got tongues wagging for all the right reasons — and it’s nearly as big as The White House
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Forget haggis — the humble swede is the real hero of the Burns Night meal
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Tom Parker Bowles talks tartiflette: 'This is not a dish worried about precision, elegance or nuance. It is all about beautiful ballast and you wouldn’t want it any other way'
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For Hairy Biker Si King, the secret ingredients will always be hard work and community
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The enduring allure of menus from ancient civilisations to modern day, via the revolutionary France
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The 12 types of hangover, from 'Backwards Binoculars' to 'Titanic', and how to cure them all
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'We begin making in May and start packing and despatching in November — it’s carnage': How the Cotswolds' favourite cake-makers get ready for Christmas
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Tim Wilson of The Ginger Pig on the perfect Christmas ham
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