All content Archive | March 2021

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March 31st
- Janine Stone: Creating spaces to show off your art, sculpture, car or and even wine collection
- Curious Questions: Why is chocolate poisonous to dogs?
- The best small cities across Britain are booming, as buyers flock to Winchester and Bath
- Britain's agricultural shows set to go ahead
- Country Life 31 March 2021
March 30th
- A charming Cornish farmhouse on the banks of the River Ruthern
- The Cotswolds town voted the best place to live in Britain, and how much you'll need to buy a house there
- Jason Goodwin: 'This is what it might be like if we weren’t so persistently restless and noisy and greedy and exploitative'
March 29th
- Designing a multi-function kitchen: 'Don’t be tempted to cram the walls with cupboards — the biggest luxury is some free space'
- My favourite painting: Skye McAlpine
March 28th
- 15 outstanding country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
- Should you mow your lawn?
- Labradors: The all-action dogs that are just as happy lazing on the sofa as saving lives
- A Cotswold house has been revived by its creative owners, who have complemented its blend of old and new architecture with a striking collection of modern art, as Jeremy Musson reveals
March 27th
- The historic manor that inspired Thomas Hardy is a Dorset dream, with moat, gatehouse and a helipad
- Curious Question: Could the world’s smelliest fruit soon charge your phone?
- A month-by-month guide to the most beautiful gardens to visit in Britain
- Inside Britain's privately owned villages
March 26th
- A glorious East Sussex pad set in 70 acres of gardens, paddocks and woodland
- How to buy an engagement ring at auction
- The secrets of the basket-maker: 'With a basket, you watch it grow before your very eyes'
March 25th
- A picture-postcard property in Buckinghamshire with beams, character and an absurdly idyllic garden
- The stone-by-stone project to rescue the cloisters at Iford Manor: 'We've saved it from collapse'
- Tom Parker-Bowles on forced rhubarb, the crop grown in the dark and harvested by candlelight
March 24th
- An enchanting yellow stone house in the heart of a Saxon village
- The 10 things you can do to help save hedgehogs
- A gorgeously-converted water pumping station in Sussex that could literally pay for itself
- How an oak-frame extension can transform your home
- Country Life 24 March 2021
March 23rd
- A charming cottage in one of the Cotswolds' prettiest villages
- Easter gifts of real quality, from a diamond bunny to a Fabergé egg
- The best news of the year about puppies, just in time for National Puppy Day
March 22nd
- A picture-postcard cottage under £400,000 in the heart of a pretty village near Stratford
- Five floral print fabrics and wallpapers to bring graceful presence to your house
- My Favourite Painting: Neil Mendoza
- The best chicken breeds for first-time owners
March 21st
- Eight beautiful homes for sale around Britain, as seen in Country Life
- How (and why) to grow your own white currants: 'Scatter them over a knickerbocker glory'’
- Beckside House, Lancashire: A monument to the preservation of Georgian architecture
March 20th
- Curious Question: Do dogs go through a stroppy teenage stage?
- The best May half term holidays still available to book in the UK and abroad
- The Dower House Garden at Morville: Where meticulous historical research meets painstaking gardening
March 19th
- An opulent country house with lake views, set in 20 acres in the New Forest
- A striking contemporary house set in perfect solitude by the waterside in Cornwall
- Why a good frame can be a work of art in its own right
March 18th
- A small estate nestled in private woodland, with equestrian facilities and a beautiful stone-built annexe
- Avebury stone circle in the time of Covid: 'It’s so quiet I have the stone circles almost to myself'
March 17th
- The vast classical labyrinth being built in the heart of Cornwall
- Country Life 17 March 2021
March 16th
- A sumptuous Somerset house with enviable views of rolling countryside
- Uncovering Japan’s hidden gems
- Joe Gibbs: 'He's clearly convinced the laird that, if he is vaccinated, he will be controlled like a drone via a remote console by lizards in tailcoats from somewhere near Middle Earth'
March 15th
- A 16th century farmhouse overlooking beautiful countryside in Buckinghamshire
- A double-height library and drawing room that's full of colour and fresh flowers
- How Mayfair went from a hotbed of scandal, science, art to one of the world's most sought-after addresses
- My Favourite Painting: Xavier F. Salomon
March 14th
- A medieval manor house in Sussex with its own swimming pool, golf course and a fresco in the sitting room
- How to grow your own salad: 'Whether it’s a single-leaf salad or a tumble of colours, no salad is better than the one you grow yourself'
- Ferniehirst Castle: The castle designed specifically for left-handed people
March 13th
- A truly idyllic mansion for sale in the South Downs, with a private jetty for boating and swimming in the river
- Curious Questions: Who created the 'Your Country Needs YOU' poster?
- A Great British holiday on wheels? What it's like spending four days in a Ford Nugget campervan
- One of Britain's oldest homes comes to the market, a magnificent, Grade II-listed house of medieval origins
March 12th
- A Georgian family home with long views of the landscape that inspired David Hockney
- In Focus: The £16,500 book that's a perfect 1:1 scale reproduction of the Sistine Chapel frescoes
- How to make Eton Mess with coffee and hazelnut
March 11th
- A former Dower House in magnificent Hertfordshire countryside half an hour by train from London
- A boot room and flower room rolled into one — with a space made just for the dog (labrador not included)
March 10th
- Glyndebourne, Garsington and The Grange among the summer outdoor operas going ahead in Britain this year
- A graceful riverside house in a perfect Thames-side village that was painted by Sir Stanley Spencer
- How the exodus to the country will shift house prices in Britain in the next five years
- The Blue Tit: The cheerful harbinger of Spring
- Country Life 10 March 2021
March 9th
- A Grade II-listed former mill in a canal-side Northamptonshire village
- Seven gorgeous country houses for sale in Wiltshire
- Lucy Baring: 'Her dressing gown is covered in ketchup, but she can barely take it off to wash it. This is someone I think of as a party animal'
March 8th
- A romantic cliff top house in Suffolk with panoramic sea views and just a few steps from a beautiful beach
- A beautifully restored Georgian country house in Lancashire combining period and contemporary style
- My Favourite Painting: Guy Hills
March 7th
- 14 country houses for sale from £645k to £4.95m, as seen in Country Life
- The ultimate guide to planting your own orchard: 'Getting it right is easy; sadly, so is getting it wrong'
- The Lakeland terrier: 'A hard-working handful'
- Belle Isle, Co Fermanagh: The ups and downs of a Northern Irish gem
March 6th
- A glorious, Grade II*-listed Georgian house in a picturesque Somerset village
- Curious Question: When was the first census held?
- 10 of the finest country hotels in Britain to book for a 2021 staycation
- Roman temples, pirate islands and rooftop allotments as 'Shed of the Year' promises fantastical lockdown creations
March 5th
- A Grade II-listed miniature castle fit for a princess, complete with tower rooms and roof terrace
- An enchanting cottage complete with vaulted drawing room, stone fireplace and gothic windows
- In Focus: Sir Thomas Lawrence, the child prodigy who painted Queen Charlotte
- The 10 most family-friendly places to live in England
March 4th
- A glorious Georgian country home where Jane Austen once stayed — but did she write Pride and Prejudice here?
- When is it right to show a bit of leg? (In your sofa covering, of course)
- An extraordinary estate set in the countryside that inspired Turner, with ballroom, ponds and a waterfall
- Recipe: Tom Aikens's roast leg of lamb
March 3rd
- Stamp Duty holiday extended to June and tapered until September, and government backing 95% home loans
- 10 majestic pictures of the beautiful nature of Britain, in honour of World Wildlife Day
- Country Life 3 March 2021
March 2nd
- The oldest in habited house in Hertfordshire comes up for sale, a 15th century home with some very 21st century touches
- Jason Goodwin: 'I kept heading south, choosing turnings at random, with a deepening sense of time suspended'
March 1st
- An eco-friendly house with a magnificent kitchen, just outside the idyllic town of Sherborne
- Nine of the best new lighting ideas to brighten your home
- My Favourite Painting: Gyles Brandreth