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November 2024 Archive

144 articles

30 November
A 450-year-old house where you can revel in Tudor charm while still enjoying toasty-warm underfloor heating
Curious Questions: What's in a (scientific) name? From Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides to Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis, and everything in between
‘You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life’: The unforgettable life, times and pithy quotations of Winston Churchill, 150 years on from his birth
29 November
Britain's top luxury property hotspots outside London
It's not all glass and horror: Two of London's latest luxury apartments show us that good taste and sensitive design still reign supreme
How to feel like the most important person at an England rugby game
A four bedroom Grade II-listed villa in Kent with interiors reminiscent of the temples of the Greek gods
Chandeliers and marble floors in Britain's most eye-popping £750,000 house
28 November
The iconic cottage from ‘The Holiday’ doesn't exist in real life — but this one does, and it's for sale in one of the prettiest areas in the Cotswolds
The home is more than just 'a machine for living in': how architects, interior designers and builders respect the past, embrace the present and define the future
Christmas gift ideas for ladies
Christmas gift ideas for men
Why calling a fox sly is an insult, the loo with a view, and the end of Billingsgate and Smithfield markets
27 November
'Hotter than the hinges of hell': Tom Parker Bowles's 10-alarm chili
Knock down or rebuild? Kitchen island or cook's table? The 10 questions to ask when you're doing up a house
Wooden walls restored: The astonishing restoration of the church at Urși
A four-bedroom house that was once a bank on the high street of a Cotswolds town for less than £1 million
The florist-photographer turning vases of flowers into a 21st century Grand Masters
26 November
When it comes to heritage development, the conservation officer is king. We need more of them
Country Life 27 November 2024
A country house which blends the best of England, Scotland, Italy and France, with 'views to die for', and an easy commute to Edinburgh
John Lewis-Stempel: The moors, a landscape of 'seamless sameness'
How to choose a Christmas tree — and then keep it alive once you get it home
25 November
Property Talk: The cost of moving more than doubles in a decade (and it’s set to climb further next year)
What to get the wine lover who has everything? How about a 300-bottle barrel, a string of über-vintages or a wine that comes with a trip on a private jet
Kelvin Fletcher: From Strictly Come Dancing to the sheep dip
Why the pub is our favourite amenity, how to send cheap Christmas cards from abroad and the return of the golden eagle
24 November
Five of the best properties for sale, as seen in Country Life
Do not fear the Spanish invaders, the English bluebell will reign supreme
Apethorpe Palace, 'the stuff of dreams', and the spectacular renewal of one of England's great Jacobean houses
23 November
By Royal Appointment: We spoke to 10 of the newly appointed warrant holders
A picture-perfect country house tucked away in its own secret valley, with land, a pool and an exquisite verandah
Curious Questions: What is a Royal Warrant and how do you get one?
Rose hips: the perfect accompaniment to the gentle descent into winter
22 November
The 25% premium for the pleasure of living in one of the UK’s national parks
The key to a great bathroom? Make it feel more like your sitting room — even to the point of having an armchair next to the bath
A cottage that looks like the cottage from The Holiday, but is not the cottage from The Holiday, for sale in Cornwall
The £3 million Van Dyck painting going under the hammer with a unique buy-one-get-one-free offer
21 November
11 truly sensational properties across the world, from a Mallorcan mill to an Australian waterfall, including a beachfront villa for just £230,000
The Legacy: Hans Sloane and the creation of the British Museum
A huge bubbling, burping, living thing: The rise (and rise) of sourdough starters
100 years of the Shipping Forecast, winning the war on antibiotics and the world's best young cheesemonger
20 November
The end of deference: Why using the right title matters
The (royal) seal of approval: Shoes, hats, socks, whiskies and a gold dachshund.
Minette Batters: 'There are serious questions to be asked as to whether the advice given to ministers is correct'
What if a castle was old, but also brand new? What then?
Grazing sheep to save a church, a report from the farmers' march and why olive oil will soon be cheap
Country Life 20 November 2024
19 November
In pictures: Farmers march against inheritance tax in London
Where have all the salmon gone, and what can we do about it?
The five most beautiful Advent Calendars of Christmas
Britain lost 25 million of its 'graceful giants', the elm tree — but there's finally real hope that they are coming back
Welcome to the Notswolds: The county with 'all the ambience of the Cotswolds without the price tag', where a classic Georgian rectory is under £1 million
What happened when Country Life put The Queen's Jack Russells on the Girls with Pearls page
18 November
Henrietta Spencer-Churchill: My life at Blenheim Palace, from waterskiing on the lake to dealing with a £10 million bill for a new roof
Queen Camilla says 'sad farewell' to her beloved Jack Russell, Beth
Lost and then found: A missing painting by Lord Leighton returns to London
An utterly enchanting neo-Gothic masterpiece in 20 beautiful acres of Wiltshire — and it's even unlisted
John Lewis-Stempel: Into the deep of England's lakes
Buy a guitar from Jeff Beck, unpicking the Massacre of Glencoe and why you might go to prison for trimming a hedge
17 November
13 delightful rural homes for sale from £1m to £15m, as seen in Country Life
'That first taste, six months later, was a quiet revelation': Mark Diacono on how he was inspired to grow his own vegetables
How to deal with an older dog starting to show some bad behaviour after many happy years
Knowsley Hall: How Liverpool's grandest country house — and one of the largest homes in England — was brought back to life
16 November
The Aston Martin DB12 Volante: 671 horsepower wrapped in a smoking jacket
A commutable country home for sale that has Cliveden on its doorstep
'Other cultures celebrate the elderly. So why do we consign them to beige farms that smell of cabbage and wee?': Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on Changing Rooms, retirement living and growing old disgracefully
Dummy eyes, faking death and and the whiff of rotting flesh: The great deceptions of Nature's most cunning creatures
15 November
John Lewis-Stempel: The Broads, a relic wetland resurrected
Skate at Somerset House is the friendliest thing you'll ever do in London
'The perfect English country retreat from the modern world', with medieval origins, Georgian flourishes, towering oaks and immaculate gardens
A naughty elf, a bridge quits Twitter and how the Americans have come to terms with Mr Blobby
14 November
Spectacular Scottish castles and estates for sale
Best bar none: The London pub renaissance
Masterpieces in miniature: Where art and elegance meets the precision of timekeeping
An 800-year-old home where oak panelling and ancient floors sit alongside a heated pool and football pitch
How the man who created the British Museum also invented hot chocolate, the £32.5m Notting Hill mansion 'infested with millions of moths', plus our Quiz of the Day
13 November
When Christian Dior came to Scotland: 'I was even more struck by the beauty of the country, the castles, and the moors, than I had expected'
A cake with a surprise ingredient that's either a stroke of genius or 'grounds for divorce'
An unofficial guide to some very nice whiskies that you can drink this Christmas (or before, if you like)
Zebras, lobsters, lions and Ronald Reagan's baby elephant: The strangest pets in history
A four-bedroom bungalow of 3,500sq ft with views over the Helford River reminds me why I hate stairs
Minette Batters solves the Inheritance Tax question, how to buy your own rollercoaster, and why the French are furious about chocolate fingers
12 November
Country Life 13 November 2024
On board the new Britannic Explorer, the luxury sleeper train set to tour the UK, and created by the people who run the Venice Simplon Orient Express
House prices 'to go up £84,000 in the next five years' as signs of a fresh boom emerge
Ben Randall: Ask Country Life's canine agony uncle a question about your dog
A house in Teddington fit for a cardinal, where Henry VIII's right-hand man Thomas Wolsey lived with his mistress
Dawn Chorus: The breath of fresh air that costs £8, a bizarre trick for getting rid of slugs and what you need to know about the Beaver Moon
11 November
The Anderson shelter: Good for gardening, good for storing wine, and great for hiding from bombs
The science behind how Nature can heal us, and how it's easier than you think, with Professor Miles Richardson
In the heart of Penzance, an artist's paradise comes up for sale that's quite unlike anything we've seen before
The First World War, as seen through the unique Country Life Picture Archive
The mini-Hogwarts for sale in north London
10 November
A beautiful Cornish bolthole, a £15m mansion and a converted mill dating back 1,000 years, as seen in Country Life
Growing together: Why the community garden is more than just plants and green space
John McCrae: The solider, surgeon and poet whose words inspired the Poppy Appeal
How to look after a dog who's gone deaf, by A-list trainer Ben Randall
'Wrecking balls swung from the ceiling, pillars were shown toppling, cornices crumbled... it was sensational': The groundbreaking museum exhibition that helped save the country house
9 November
An immaculate Devon farmstead up for sale, with a courtyard, stables and a roundhouse
Curious questions: Where did Quality Street get its name from?
‘They knew they were all going through the same hell’: The graffiti of the First World War
St Moritz and the slopes of hazard: How a Victorian bet sparked the Swiss resort's love affair with adrenaline-pumping winter sports
Alan Titchmarsh's garden: No insecticides, no herbicides, just beautiful flowers, lawns, a statue of Repton and a swing seat that's impossible to resist
8 November
'After one lunch, our server took £5 out of a tip we had left and handed it back to our gobsmacked four year old. He’s still talking about it': The best places for Sunday lunch in south-west London
Bentley tells us the future and announces fully electric car for 2026
Be at one with the River Thames on this luxurious houseboat in Putney
Hot news just in from The British Reversible Plough-Off Final, meet Country Life's new kitten and our Quiz of the Day
7 November
A gorgeous Scottish island for sale that's cheaper than two garages in Clapham
Agromenes: A budget of betrayal
Can a gentleman use food as an aphrodisiac? Tom Parker Bowles on mankind's search for the ultimate 'jiggy jiggy juice'
'The regular Satanic sort of thing', 'an appurtenance of terror', or 'capillary decorations': The moustache still divides opinion
A gorgeous Devon home owned by a great novelist and a Hollywood star, set in one of Britain's most unusual seaside villages... and it even has a bargain price tag
Living in the real-life Cotchester, why would anyone buy a public toilet near Truro and how it took 21 years to designate a footpath
6 November
The law of unintended consequences is teaming up with Britain's latest tax rises — and it'll hit our historic houses hard
What do you get the dog that has everything? A shepherd's hut with a heated towel rail
How to make three-cheese sourdough bread and a perfect winter-warmer soup to go with it
A perfect Cotswolds home in the village made famous by Disney's Rivals, where you'll have The King and Jilly Cooper as neighbours
How to dress with joy, elan, exuberance and carefully-managed extrovertism — no matter how old you are
Diamonds are a man’s best friend
Dawn Chorus: The seven types of gentleman, the hillsides covered in Cadbury's, and try our Quiz of the Day
5 November
Patrick Galbraith: 'What struck me is that English vineyards represent a rare example of farmland being re-peopled'
Country Life 6 November 2024
Ashby St Legers: The spectacular house where the Gunpowder Plot was hatched
Skip the election mayhem and buy your own White House with our handy guide
Giant spiders, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on leather, velvet and growing old disgracefully and a home fit for Gunpowder Plotting
4 November
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen: Changing rooms, mixing leather and velvet, and the joy of growing old disgracefully
Ghost hunters: the search for Britain's rarest flowers
No Time to Buy: A James Bond themed advent calendar for the spy who loves you
A breathtaking house and garden for sale that was created by one of Britain's greatest landscape architects as a playground for his family
Sleep divorce, hurkle-durkling, a heartwarming royal father-and-son image, and our Quiz of the Day
3 November
Five magical homes for sale, from an equestrian dream property to a 17th century manor, as seen in Country Life
The incredible legacy of the 'the only man ever to get away with smoking in the RHS Library'
You've got peemail: Why dogs sniff each other's urine
London's Lost Interiors: Inside the houses of the capital's plutocrats in the days when money was literally no object
2 November
A true once-in-a-lifetime chance as 554 acres of blissful English countryside come up for sale in a location just 45 miles from central London
Curious Questions: How did a scrotum joke confuse paleontologists for generations?
Inside The Painswick hotel's brand new holiday cottage
'Prepare to be amazed' by a cathedral of autumn in the heart of Herefordshire
1 November
'Only the richest estates will be asked to pay': Labour's DEFRA Secretary hits back after backlash over inheritance tax plans for farms
The Stamp Duty surprise, inheritance tax on farms and more: A breakdown of the Autumn Budget
'All the attributes of a classic country house' wrapped up in this stunning (and surprisingly unlisted) Yorkshire paradise
White Prince Property Finders
The mini-White House that's come up for sale in the middle of London