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'The builders took the roof off and all the walls fell down': Mary King on her first house in the country -
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'It’s very ageing to sneer at Essex, now': A snob's guide to the Home Counties -
'I am destined to a life surrounded by books with never quite enough shelves': George Saumarez Smith on his design for Country Life’s stand at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show -
Lock your doors and close the windows, the Royal Family is coming to visit -
Avengers (and other heroes), assemble. It's a super Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 28, 2026 -
'Audiobooks are closer to how stories used to work before we pretended silence was superior': These are a few of Rankin's favourite things -
Is the cure for modern life as simple as going for a walk?
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Clodagh McKenna on living next door to the real Downton Abbey, meeting her husband at Fortnum & Mason’s and forest bathing -
'It was always his fever dream... his manifesto': London’s strangest house blends art, modernity and science, and it's just thrown open its doors to visitors -
It’s a race to the auction house — Steve McQueen’s most storied watch is up for grabs at Sotheby's -
The carnival barker bush pilots that bring the world's oldest desert to life
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'The builders took the roof off and all the walls fell down': Mary King on her first house in the country
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'It’s very ageing to sneer at Essex, now': A snob's guide to the Home Counties
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An ivy-clad farmhouse for sale in a hopelessly idyllic spot where they hold dog shows and play cricket on the village green -
An idyllic country home and grounds designed by one of Britain's greatest-ever gardeners -
18 wonderful houses across Britain, from £725,000 to £9.5 million, as seen in Country Life -
A Georgian home in the sleepy Surrey village that's been an A-lister's hideaway for everyone from Agatha Christie to Tom Cruise -
A castle that's actually liveable: Bellister has all the grandeur and romance, but none of the usual headaches of living in a Grade I medieval pile
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The 17th century Devon home that inspired a smoking ban and lives on only inside the Country Life Archive -
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'It was always his fever dream... his manifesto': London’s strangest house blends art, modernity and science, and it's just thrown open its doors to visitors
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Ampleforth Abbey: How an iconic architect somehow blended Gothic Revival, Arts-and-Crafts and Modernism with clarity, simplicity and spatial coherence -
Theft, damage, violence and crumbling fabric: The plight of Britain's churches is only getting worse -
A house lost, a landscape reborn: The story of Worsley New Hall -
Victoria and Albert at Burghley House: The royal visit that set the mould, and helped stave off revolution -
Le Logis and Floréal: The houses were intended to be ‘humble and enriched by vegetation’. They are just that -
The owners of this Palladian masterpiece amassed an enviable collection of exotic plants before it all burned to the ground
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What is the secret to choosing colours that are sympathetic to the past? -
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How the founders of Weaver Green turned a Victorian cricket pavilion into the perfect off-grid escape -
The Bannerman's Somerset home is the best of both worlds -
Giles Kime: What the perplexing language used to describe modern interior design actually means -
The revival of interest in folk art is fueling a new fascination with the art of decorating wagons -
What do you get when you cross classic English country house style with a French château kitchen? -
The craft renaissance, with Giles Kime -
The Country Life Top 100 architects, interior designers, garden designers, landscape designers and country house specialists in Britain
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'I am destined to a life surrounded by books with never quite enough shelves': George Saumarez Smith on his design for Country Life’s stand at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show -
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The Victorian world lost for 140 years, rediscovered and restored in Devon -
The man who made daffodils the flower of spring in Britain -
Mount Congreve: The exquisite Irish garden on an unimaginable scale -
Alan Titchmarsh: The thrill of raising a plant from a speck of dust or a green leaf can only be learned first-hand -
‘I have no concept of anyone who's like me. Now, that's either because I'm such an egomaniac that I am sort of completely self obsessed, or … because I haven’t watched enough films’: Monty Don’s consuming passions
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From Land's End to John o' Groats in one of the world's best sports cars -
Elizabeth II's favourite accessory is a firm fashion crowd favourite — and it fits inside a pocket -
'Where we're going we don't need roads' -
The first detailed and accurate bird’s-eye view of the capital ever seen shows London in a whole new light
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Is the cure for modern life as simple as going for a walk?
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Divine tears, fairy footsteps or the sweat of heavens: The delight of dew -
With a fighting spirit and human help, the red squirrel is fighting back
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‘Vandalised, disembowelled and dismembered’: Artist Jack Milroy gives books a brutal treatment with beautiful results -
The world has gone Lilliputian: The 21st-century renaissance of the dolls' house -
A glass act: This centuries-old craft is alive and well -
'First, all the Georgian silver goes, and then all that furniture. Then, the Canalettos go': The anatomy of a country-house sale
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Matthew Freud’s hotel with four restaurants turns the expected Cotswolds stay on its head -
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Where to eat the best risotto alla Milanese in the city where it was created, you ask? An insider’s guide to Milan, for Salone del Mobile and beyond -
The theatrical-inspired London hotel suite that I would break a leg to stay in again -
The carnival barker bush pilots that bring the world's oldest desert to life
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Storfjord Hotel review: A Scandi fantasy that's spitting distance from a distinctive-looking Art Nouveau fishing town -
Pamela Goodman: Don't mess with the wind, else it might just blow your car doors off
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What is everyone talking about this week: The curious case of American dining -
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The lunch menu is where it's at -
'It soothed the most vicious of hangovers, the only possible justification for that ghastly thing called brunch': Tom Parker Bowles talks eggs Benedict -
Viking hats, natural wines and messy lunches, with Leonie Cooper -
Stout and about: Why is everyone ordering a pint of Guinness? -
All hail the egg! The most innovative eggs in London — and how to make some of them at home this Easter -
'If it is going to work anywhere, it is going to work here': Meet the makers of English olive oil
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