All content Archive | December 2023

Filter (95 articles)

Year:

Month:

December 31st
- From Windsor Castle and the Reform Club to the house where Ghosts is filmed: Country Life's best architecture stories of 2023
December 30th
- The best places to travel to in 2024 and why
- E-Types, Scotland's best beaches and the 'backwards-looking fantasy' of rewilding: Country Life's best features of 2023
- The gardens at Rockcliffe: Cold comforts that even Britain's worst winters can't spoil
December 29th
- The biggest country house sales of 2023, from the ultimate Padstow getaway to one of Britain's greatest stately homes
- Country kitchens, period house insulation and open fires: Country Life's best interiors stories of 2023
December 28th
- A seaside gem with sensational views that is 'one of the very best coastal residences anywhere in Cornwall'
- From goose and gratin to a very royal recipe, Country Life's top 10 recipes, food and drink stories of 2023
December 27th
- A charming stone barn conversion with glorious Tyne Valley views
- Think what you got for Christmas was bad? The worst presents in literature will cheer you up...
- Country Life 27 December 2023
- Figs, wisteria, and the roses that 'are ridiculously easy to grow': Country Life's 10 best gardens stories of 2023
December 26th
- The ten best properties for sale in Country Life in 2023
- The 2023 Country Life Editor's Christmas Quiz: The Answers
December 25th
- The 2023 Country Life Editor's Christmas Quiz
- ‘The love we share at Christmas is a refuge. It replenishes our depleted batteries and allows us to go out again into the world’: The 2023 Country Life Christmas message, by Revd Colin Heber-Percy
December 24th
- The real Ebeneezer Scrooge who inspired Charles Dickens was actually 'noted for his generosity, jovial disposition and appetite'
- Eight beautiful homes with incredible chimneys and fireplaces to make a perfect welcome for Father Christmas
December 23rd
- When England cancelled Christmas
- A West Sussex barn conversion with pretty garden office in mature grounds
- Aled Jones on his favourite Christmas carol
- How to ensure your dog has the best Christmas ever, by top trainer Ben Randall
- The most wonderful time of the year: Country Life's A to Z of Christmas
December 22nd
- My week surviving on an uninhabited Scottish island
- HS2: What happens next? The chaos of the land left behind after the cancellation of the high speed rail project
- Master of Wine Nicola Arcedeckne-Butler on how to pick the perfect wines over Christmas
December 21st
- A divine manor house in the heart of the South Downs — just beware of the naughty peacocks
- Le Meurice Paris hotel review: Illuminating art in the city of light
- The new rules of dining etiquette, from elbows and mobile phones to sex at the dinner table
December 20th
- The Country Life guide to Paris, France: Where to go, what to see, where to stay and what to eat
- A wisteria-clad wonder set in eight idyllic acres that offers country charm, village community and is still commutable to London
- From exquisite luxury properties to design, lifestyle and more, as celebrated by Luxury Portfolio
- 11 ways to do Christmas in right royal style, by A-list party planner Johnny Roxburgh
- Hôtel Plaza Athénée review: Where dedicated followers of fashion stay
- Country Life's best, worst and funniest adverts of 1923, from Burberry and thinning baths to the SUV of a century ago
December 19th
- Stratton, Vermont review: A fully-fledged ski resort just a few hours from the hustle and bustle of New York City
- Five gorgeous country houses for sale in Buckinghamshire, from £1.5 million to £75 million
- Jason Goodwin: The Neolithic treasure I missed by 10 minutes
- Not so jolly old St Nicholas? The dark side of Santa
December 18th
- Nine things you ought to know if you're having goose for Christmas
- An idyllic barn conversion with far-reaching views of the surrounding Norfolk countryside
- The Wisdom of Sheep, by Rosamund Young: An exclusive extract for Country Life
- Not just for Christmas: The enduring appeal of jigsaws
December 17th
- Six character homes for sale at under £200,000, from beautiful Cornish hideaways to a remote barn in the Pennines
- How to create a sweet-smelling winter garden
- The architecture of Henry James: How real-life country houses found their way into the work of one of our greatest writers
December 16th
- Curious Questions: Why do ships have figureheads?
- The Fox at Oddington review: Where the Daylesford charm is in full effect
- George Harrison's Garden: How the Beatle and his wife turned a 'tangled jungle' into a magnificent garden
December 15th
- Naughty sheep, clever cows and a lifetime of farming: Rosamund Young on the Country Life Podcast
- Rowanberry wine: A distinctive and delicious tipple
- The wave of homes set to come to the market on Boxing Day
- 24 hours in Oxford, from the Botanic Garden to the Bodleian Library
December 14th
- An enchanting Cornish house with stunning harbour views
- Tableside cooking: Dinner with a side of drama
December 13th
- The magic of the Rowan tree
- The Grade II*-listed former home of the BBC's founder, Lord Reith, is for sale in the heart of Westminster
- Jurassic bark: The 200 million-year-old trees rescued from extinction and now thriving across Britain
December 12th
- Country Life 13 December 2023
- The country house where PG Wodehouse wrote one of his best-loved books, and where the wife of Charles I fled from her would-be captors
- Carla Carlisle: 'Seamus Heaney deserves a sainthood, as well as his Nobel Prize'
December 11th
- My favourite painting: Melanie Vandenbrouck
December 10th
- 20 charming homes for sale starting from just £250,000, as seen in Country Life
- 'Giving a gardener a tree for Christmas is akin to offering a kitten or a puppy'
- How to stop a dog peeing in the house, by A-list trainer Ben Randall
- Britain's most eccentric crooked buildings, from the pub that looks tipsy to the church that leans more than the Tower of Pisa
December 9th
- An elegant Cornish abbey being sold by one of iconic supermodels of the 1960s
- The stories behind the strangest phrases in English from being 'gone for a burton' to 'caught red-handed'
- Five of the best eating apples to grow in your garden
- Hotel Endsleigh review: A sliver of Scotland in the middle of Devon
December 8th
- Boom, bust and property lust: Penny Churchill on 30 years of Britain’s best houses
- The 102-year-old, the armed robbers and the 'blazing' Picasso which helped Sotheby's sell $1 billion of art in a month
- The happiest place to live in Britain has been named — but it's going to cost you to live there...
December 7th
- A spectacular mansion for sale in the heart of a World Heritage Site — and it's something of a bargain
- Kalettes, the deliciously earthy alternative to sprouts that will even liven up a curry
December 6th
- 'Rain and cold wind might be uncomfortable, but they make you feel alive'
December 5th
- Country Life 6 December 2023
- A charming Grade II-listed country house with indoor pool in the Garden of England
- My 'Franken-Land Rover' has had three new chassis and using the indicators turns on the windscreen wipers. But I just can't get rid of it.
December 4th
- An immaculate timber-framed rectory from the early 1400s where period charm meets a pool and a gym
- My favourite painting: John Lewis-Stempel
December 3rd
- Eight superb homes for sale across Britain, as seen in Country Life
- How to keep your dog calm throughout the Christmas period, by expert trainer Ben Randall
- Somerton: The ruined medieval castle transformed into a magical family home
December 2nd
- Beams, flagstone floors and leaded windows in a glorious old manor house that comes with a pair of 500-year-old barns
- Curious Questions: What should you do if bats take up residence in your roof?
- Durslade Farmhouse review: An extraordinary 18th century restored farmhouse to rent
- The Newt, Somerset: An 18th-century walled garden with the finest display of trained apples
December 1st
- 'Best conditions for years' for house buyers, and why billionaires are turning to renting
- My five favourite castles, by Country Life's Architectural Editor John Goodall
- Seven things you need to know about restoring a glasshouse
- A gem in West Sussex where the graceful Georgian hallway alone will be enough to sell the house
- Randle Siddeley Limited
- Studio Indigo
- Six of the finest islands in the Caribbean, as picked out by the experts at Turquoise