Architecture
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'One of the great landmarks of the Sussex coast', finally finished some 156 years after work was started
John Goodall looks at the recent completion of the chapel of Lancing College, one of the great landmarks of the Sussex coast. Photography by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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Cluny Castle: Granite, grandeur, and testimony to the exceptional wealth of its creator
Never previously described in Country Life, Cluny Castle, Aberdeenshire — the home of Cosmo and Bronya Linzee Gordon — is an outstanding Scottish castle that is also an architectural testimony to the exceptional wealth of its creator. John Goodall reports on its history and recent revival. Photography by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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Newnham Paddox: The ancient country seat that's also brand new
Newnham Paddox in Warwickshire — the seat of the Earl and Countess of Denbigh and Desmond — is an ingeniously planned new house on a small scale which takes advantage of the landscape of a large predecessor demolished in the 1950s. John Martin Robinson explains more; photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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The tale of Knebworth: How does your garden village grow?
A garden city planned by Sir Edwin Lutyens was never brought to completion. Plans to redevelop it today, however, threaten to destroy the character of what was created. Clive Aslet reports.
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Boston Manor House: Renewal and recovery
Boston Manor House in Brentford, Greater London — owned by the London Borough of Hounslow — is a 17th-century house that has undergone a sensitive restoration and now offers fascinating insights into changing domestic tastes, as Charles O’Brien explains.
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'Halfway between a restoration and an environmental research project' — A transformed Georgian country house
The ingenious integration of the polite and service rooms of handsome Marlwood Grange in Gloucestershire has created a modern family home.
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The best country house architects in Britain
Country Life has once again delved into its to update the list of the finest architects in Britain — an indispensable guide if you're considering serious work on your home.
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The exotic and irresistible beauty of Leighton House
An ambitious redevelopment project at Leighton House in West London, former home of the artist Frederic, Lord Leighton, has augmented the celebrated interiors of this magnificent studio house. John Goodall reveals how it came into being; photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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Gilmerton House: The great Scottish country house whose history is intertwined with a pitiful murder
Gilmerton House, Lothian — the seat of Sir David Kinloch Bt — is a handsome 18th-century house that's been developed by the same family for the past four centuries. And it has an unexpectedly dramatic story to tell, as John Goodall explains; photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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Australia House: The story of Australia's unforgettable outpost in the heart of London
An imposing home for the newly federated Commonwealth of Australia sought through its design and materials to celebrate themes of union with Britain and national self worth, as Prof G. A. Bremner explains.
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Inside Madresfield Court, the house that inspired Evelyn Waugh’s 'Brideshead Revisited'
John Goodall looks inside Madresfield Court in Worcestershire — home of Lucy and Jonathan Chenevix-Trench — and the family story that inspired Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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900 years old, one careful owner: How Madresfield Court has come down the centuries in the hands of one family
John Goodall looks at the early evolution of Madresfield Court, Worcestershire — the home of Lucy and Jonathan Chenevix-Trench — to tell the tale of a place that has descended in the hands of one family for more than 900 years.
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Plan to save historic church buildings is 'urgently needed', warns National Churches Trust
In the past 10 years, some 3,500 churches have closed their doors, prompting a call to action to rescue those under threat.
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The War Cloister, Winchester College: A moving and elegant memorial to the Winchester boys who lost their lives in the World Wars
The architect Sir Herbert Baker was the creator of the War Cloister at Winchester College, perhaps the greatest of his many public-school war memorials. Timothy Mowl explores the history of this remarkable monument.
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Hollywood comes to the Home counties in a Surrey home inspired by Spanish villas and Irish castles
A stylish 1920s home brought the glamour of the theatre and Hollywood, as well as the most recent fashions of healthy living, to an incomparable Surrey setting, as Clive Aslet explains. Photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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Seeing the light: The lasting legacy of Sir John Soane
For Sir John Soane, the tools of the trade included skylights, tinted glasses and mirrors, as much as classical motifs, bricks and mortar. Carla Passino retraces the life of the man who chased the poetry of architecture and left an extraordinary gift to the nation
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From Windsor Castle and the Reform Club to the house where Ghosts is filmed: Country Life's best architecture stories of 2023
We take a look back at a wonderful year of architecture articles in Country Life, including an astonishing look inside Windsor Castle with pictures taken just days before the death of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
