All content Archive | January 2018

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January 31st
- Six spectacular country houses for sale at £700,000, from thatched cottages to country mansions
- Country Life January 31 2018
January 30th
- How to make Tunworth cheese, caramelised-shallot and oat tarts
- A remote Scottish island home that’s the stuff of dreams
- Jason Goodwin: ‘The boys excavated a rusty buckle and I carelessly tossed it over my shoulder – later, we found its identical twin, labelled Roman, in the museum’
January 29th
- The designer’s drawing room: ‘When you mix things together, each piece has to have integrity’
- The demolition of Halnaby Hall is a warning from history, but destruction needn't always be a disaster
January 28th
- 24 magnificent houses, as seen in Country Life
- British finches: A simple guide
- Stockton House, Wiltshire: An Elizabethan house packed with 21st century surprises
- The last bicycle maker in the Midlands: 'Our founder wanted small numbers and high quality. We've stuck rigidly to that.'
January 27th
- Burfield Hall: An ideally-sized house and land in Norfolk at the price of a flat in Belgravia
- Country Life and Huntsman's guide to wearing Black Tie
- How to choose the perfect Mother of the Bride dress, shoes, hat and accessories
January 26th
- The only listed house on the Wentworth estate is up for sale after a decade-long rebuild saga
- Giardini La Mortella: A lost world of near-tropical beauty tucked away on an Italian isle
- Monkeys, cows and slugs on the runway: The life of the rural pilots who keep our communities alive
January 25th
- The best fish and chip shop in Britain for 2018 has been officially crowned
- The stunning converted barn with its own timber cabin
- 13 things you never knew about weasels, from taking on rabbits to squeezing through wedding rings
January 24th
- Dunsborough Park: A home for sale next door to Wisley with gardens that look like they've been created by the RHS
- Country Life January 24 2018
January 23rd
- The designer’s bedroom: ‘Juxtaposing colours and pattern is great, but you still need to know when to pull back’
- The incredible gardens at Wilton Castle, a 900-year-old home looking for a new custodian
- Jason Goodwin: ‘He was lying and I knew it, but his lies were so egregious I couldn’t quite bear to call him out’
January 22nd
- Aspen property: What to buy, where to buy it in the St Moritz of the Rockies
- My favourite painting: Sarah Sands
January 21st
- Six stupendous properties in Britain and beyond, as seen in Country Life
- Nine of the best new crime thrillers for 2018, from Ruth Rendell to Anthony Horowitz
- Longthorpe Tower's 700-year-old insight into the medieval mind
- The political cartoonist: 'Politicians hate how I depict them, but they'd hate it even more if I ignored them'
January 20th
- A beautiful country house and gardens in a startlingly picturesque medieval fishing village
- How to make chocolate-and-orange upside-down tea cake, with orange whipped cream
- Six common garden problems, solved by our experts
January 19th
- Ablington Manor: A magnificent house and gardens almost untouched by the passing of time
- An immaculate apartment in one of London’s first purpose-built blocks of mansion flats
- The Scottish artists who mashed up Dali and Boticelli to make their mark in the 20th century
January 18th
- A beautiful former rectory with equestrian facilities and a lake
- Nelson's Union Jack from HMS Victory sells for almost £300,000
- The practice of landscape: 10 great gardens by Humphry Repton
January 17th
- The Maytime Inn review: ‘A tranquil, hidden gem off the usual beaten track’
- A gorgeous Shropshire country house whose owner is heading back to town
- Country Life January 17 2018
January 16th
- How to make roast pheasant with bacon and braised lettuce
- A glorious mansion in the Borders with turrets and an artist’s studio
- David Attenborough's Zoo Quest Expeditions: The memoir of a young, madcap film maker
January 15th
- How to combine colour, pattern and texture without making a complete mess of things
- The classic country house designed by Quinlan Terry that comes with its own lake
- My Favourite Painting: Thomas Marks
January 14th
- Nine magnificent homes across Britain and Ireland, as seen in Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh: Grevillea, the winter flower which can stop you in your tracks
- Ince Castle, Cornwall: A country house risen from the flames
- The traditional fence-maker who has been turning out wattle hurdles for nearly 25 years
January 13th
- Everything you should know before getting a double-barrelled name
- How to light a fire perfectly, every single time
January 12th
- A beautiful listed farmhouse with land, stables and a refeshingly realistic price
- The six breathtaking finalists in the South Downs photography competition
- 10 ways interior design will change in 2018: The death of minimalism and an end to trend-chasing
January 11th
- Bruern Holiday Cottages: A cosy Cotswolds getaway perfect for a winter weekend
- A magnificent new mansion with interiors by Linley – and the best views in St George's Hill
- 11 things you must know before commissioning a bespoke suit
January 10th
- The 12th-century castle that comes with the chance to buy title of 'Lord'
- The story of the Oxfordshire house where Dylan Thomas wrote Under Milk Wood
- 11 steps to creating a perfect bathroom for your house
- A Georgian townhouse in the centre of Bath that's a perfect blank canvas for a new owner
- Country Life January 10 2018
January 9th
- Kickstart your detox with chicken-and-kale fritters with hummus
- Il Pampero: An Italian restaurant in Belgravia dishing up that home-cooked feel
- Britain’s top property hotspots for 2018, and what you could get if you moved there
- Is the farmland price boom at an end after two decades?
January 8th
- Nine delightful properties overseas, from an Irish mansion to a Barbadian delight
- 16 fascinating pictures showing life in 1918, from the Country Life Picture Library
- My favourite painting: Mark Wood
January 7th
- 11 absolutely magnificent properties, as seen in Country Life
- Life, death and daphnes – and the variety that goes in and out of extinction peril
- Marston House, Somerset: A magnificent example of Victorian enrichment of a great Georgian country house
- The Saw Maker still turning tools by hand: 'Cabinet makers love these – a lot of doctors and surgeons buy them'
January 6th
- The nine greatest cats in literature, from Macavity to the Cat Who Walked By Himself
- The snowdrops of Oxford: How the city fell in love with winter's most entrancing flowers
January 5th
- A gorgeous thatched home on Dartmoor with an orchard, stables and its own cricket pitch
- The regional bespoke tailors who offer a proper alternative to Savile Row
- Beyond Blue Nun: Three German wines that are truly worth drinking
January 4th
- How the St James's Park pelicans sparked a Cold War stand-off between Russia and the USA
- Two magnificent houses which show why more and more buyers are looking north
- The 18th-century duelling pistols which ended up in the hands of a notorious British spy
January 3rd
- In praise of cats, our 'lithe, scrupulously clean and interesting companions'
- Country Life January 3 2018
- 12 wonderful things to do in 2018 which showcase the very best of Britain
- The most important country house sales of 2017, from £950k to £45m
January 2nd
- Jaguar XJ R-Sport review: 'The non-pareil for comfort and elegance'
- Perfect island getaways in the Maldives, Madagascar and St Lucia
- Why socks are the new ties – and what yours say about you
January 1st
- Haunted houses, a Gunpowder Plot and the castle of Bluebeard’s widow: Country Life’s top architecture stories of 2017