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Britain's most widespread bird is also the most elusive — spotting it is one of ornithology’s great joys
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The reviews are in: but can you guess whether these Wuthering Heights reviews are of the new film or the original novel? Find out in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, February 16, 2026
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'The most beautiful house for sale in London' is a six-bedroom home with a walled garden that backs on to Greenwich Park
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'He allowed lion and a tiger to prowl around the castle and, if an unfortunate servant was mauled, they were paid compensation': Exotic animals in art
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Fashion fit for the Winter Olympics (sort of) from the Country Life Archive
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What is everyone talking about this week: How to make the most of wetter winters
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Renault 4: Retro, rewired, and ridiculously likeable
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Border terriers: The low maintenance dogs beloved by Sir Andy Murray, Lorraine Kelly and Country Life
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When is a cottage not a cottage? When it's a spectacular, glass-walled lakehouse making waves in 'Heated Rivalry'
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‘I don't consider myself to be a nepo baby at all’: Caroline Avedon on preserving her grandfather's legacy — and her consuming passions
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The W1 set is up in arms about Liz Truss's roof terrace. But what is a members' club without one?
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'The most beautiful house for sale in London' is a six-bedroom home with a walled garden that backs on to Greenwich Park
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12 wonderful homes, from a Cotswolds mill to a country house within the M25, as seen in Country Life
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A Georgian lodge tucked away on a 900-acre National Trust estate in one of the most beautiful settings in Pembrokeshire
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Part Scottish castle, part French chateau, part Gothic fantasy: The $60 million home in the heart of the wealthiest village in Texas
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I absolutely hated 'Wuthering Heights', but the film sounds like fun — and so now I'm moving to one of these impossibly remote and romantic farmhouses
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A 'Sleeping Beauty' house, covered in wisteria and tucked away in ancient woodland, has come up for sale in Sussex
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Best country houses for sale this week
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'A fantastic creation, with the magic of a strange, dreamed, longed-for world': Inside Schloss Charlottenhof, the Prussian royal family's exquisite sanctuary
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The magnificent London mansion that Country Life mourned when it was demolished to make room for the Dorchester Hotel
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Repton: The 500-year-old school with a medieval priory whose story leads back to the kings of Mercia
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The striking Arts & Crafts country home with interiors by William Morris that disappeared without a trace
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'The Shakespeare of architects... he has yet had no equal in this country': Sir John Vanbrugh and the legacy of Blenheim Palace
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Can you tell the difference between a trefoil and an embrasure? A pictorial guide to medieval architecture
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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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'Climbing is to ascend not only through space, but through centuries of lineage': The great staircases of Britain's finest country houses
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How do you add historic character back into a soulless room?
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This clever interiors trick is the secret to creating multifunctional spaces — and it was integral to the design of many English country houses of the past
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'It was a complete wreck': Reclaiming a Hampshire coaching house from the earth
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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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Penns in the Rocks: The East Sussex garden created by Vita Sackville-West, with a little help from the huge boulders that stood here when dinosaurs walked the earth
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'I was utterly bewitched': The heartwarming success story of one of Britain's greatest rose-growers
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William Robinson, the visionary gardener 150 years ahead of his time
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'It was like going on a blind date... over a few glasses of wine our friendship was sealed and by three in the morning we had a plan': The creation of a spectacular Moroccan garden
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Alan Titchmarsh: I'm always asked about 'creating a sensory garden', and my answer is always the same
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RHS to run two new touring shows at Badminton and at the royal estate at Sandringham
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Fashion fit for the Winter Olympics (sort of) from the Country Life Archive
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What is everyone talking about this week: How to make the most of wetter winters
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Renault 4: Retro, rewired, and ridiculously likeable
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‘Please, for heaven’s sake, not a pear-shaped diamond with a gold band’: Proposal etiquette for the modern man
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Britain's most widespread bird is also the most elusive — spotting it is one of ornithology’s great joys
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Love is all around us, just ask the natural world
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The short-eared owl is a breed apart
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'He allowed lion and a tiger to prowl around the castle and, if an unfortunate servant was mauled, they were paid compensation': Exotic animals in art
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'He was really the most radical artist of the 19th century': Georges Seurat at the Courtauld Gallery
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This Civil War coat and armour has survived four centuries in almost perfect condition — apart from the hole made by the musket ball that killed the man who wore it
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The British Museum's successful attempt to save a Tudor-era pendant with links to Henry VIII is proof that the institution is on the up
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Couples are changing how they holiday — even on honeymoon
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The Cotton House review: If you're going to be the only hotel on Mustique, you better be great
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The real challenge facing Britain's grande dame seafront hotels
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Is this London’s sexiest hotel room?
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Sophia Money-Coutts: A snob's guide to airport etiquette
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Lodge Park: Megève is where snow and style mingle, and this hotel is at the heart of it all
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Tom Parker Bowles: 'There is no dish more lusty and full blooded than boeuf à la Bourguignonne'
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The 'chef's table' is off the ick list
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Sophia Money-Coutts: A snob's guide to supermarkets and what to do when there's no Waitrose
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Patrick Galbraith: 'The idea that a bar in Norfolk selling vinho verde would make it through even one winter was about as likely as the Madonna herself reappearing by the old water pump'
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Agromenes: The Food Waste Inspector is right to call out M&S, Waitrose and Lidl for throwing away food that is perfectly good to eat
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Gill Meller's recipe for wholesome and flavourful cauliflower cheese gratin
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Forget haggis — the humble swede is the real hero of the Burns Night meal
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