Features Archive | May 2024

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May 31st
- A glorious wisteria-clad home on the edge of Exmoor for under £1 million
- A townhouse drawing room as warm and sunny as the personality of its owner
- The best places to commute from Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and even Yorkshire: 'Up here, you can have it all'
- How to eat nettles without being stung, by expert forager John Wright
May 30th
- Light relief: Why pale hues are back in favour
- The mesmerising Mediterranean playground that's entranced visitors for 3,000 years, from the Phoenecians to David Bowie
- Recipe: Creamy tarragon prawns and asparagus with spinach gnocchi
May 29th
- Packing a pinch: Everything you could ever want to know about the UK's crabs
- A gorgeous farmhouse next door to Stonehenge with a gardens by an iconic Chelsea gold medal winner
- The Welsh Way
May 28th
- Wisteria hysteria: Nine beautiful objects that celebrate the most beautiful bloom of the season
- Country Life 29 May 2024
- An estate for sale that's older than the Norman Conquest, complete with stone circles, burial mounds and a beautiful country house
- 'The sound of ripping cloth confirmed there was a crisis. And then I remembered I had come as no-knickers-Norma'
May 27th
- An exclusive chance for Country Life readers to see The George Farrow Collection before it goes under the hammer
- A five-bedroom home on Dartmoor where brown trout flourish, swallows glide and song thrushes lead the dawn chorus
- The 12 most iconic paintings in The National Gallery, by gallery curator Dr Francesca Whitlum-Cooper
- The best places to stop on (and just off) the A303
- Sir Peter Scott: the Olympic sailor, national glider-flying champion and Second World War veteran who became the father of wildfowl conservation
May 26th
- Seven genuinely magnificent country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
- Autumn olives: The summer fruit that enriches the soil, your lunch table and your life
- How to stop a puppy biting when it gets excited
- The history of Covent Garden: 500 years of the world's most famous market
May 25th
- In Fulham, where this four-bedroom cottage with an acre of gardens redefines the meaning of country living in the big city
- Curious Questions: What happened to saucy seaside postcards?
- The creation of Tom Stuart-Smith's showstopping garden at RHS Chelsea 2024
- 'This is, after all, the last remaining wonder of the ancient world' — One writer's pilgrimage to the Egyptian pyramids
May 24th
- A fresh, bright kitchen created to fit in to a 17th century manor house
- The Nevill Arms review: A golden stone country hotel in the oft-forgotten spot dubbed 'the hidden Cotswolds'
May 23rd
- Live and let live in the gorgeous former monastery that's been home to everyone from iconic Bond girls to legends of music
- A perfect summer lunch recipe for the long weekend: Spicy udon noodles with tofu and watercress
May 22nd
- Britain's creepiest crawlie? The 250-million-year-old Scorpion Fly
- Country Life 22 May 2024
- Red-brick walls, a thatched roof, a barn and an EPC rating of A. This home of the future in Dorset looks suspiciously like the past
May 21st
- For sale for the first time in 50 years, an unlisted Sussex farmhouse surrounded by a 'thriving 117-acre nature reserve'
- RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024: See all the gold medallists
- 'I didn't realise quite what we were getting into': how to make cheese in Norfolk and what it says about us
May 20th
- 18th century elegance and some 6,500sq ft of space with views over the citadel of Rye
- 'Nothing wrong with a bit of furore': An insider's guide to judging the Chelsea Flower Show, by RHS senior judge James Alexander-Sinclair
May 19th
- 22 superb homes for sale from £260k to £15 million, as seen in Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh on Chelsea 2024: 'We need controversy to make us think... Just don’t expect me to regard slugs and snails as my friend'
- How to train a 250lb pooch who is a mountain dog in every sense
- Stansted Park in the 20th century: The private made public
May 18th
- Stanwell House hotel review: A central Lymington bolthole that perfectly marries forest and sea
May 17th
- This is how we brew it: The cafés of the Cotswolds
- How a 20-year-old Leonora Carrington told off one of Surrealism's leading lights, and embarked on a career which has just seen her masterpiece go for $22 million
- An award-winning architectural delight in Polzeath that's a perfect place to watch the sun set
May 16th
- Where Cotswolds stone meets Art Deco, a fabulous country home with walled garden, stables — and a pool to wash your sheep
- Where to find the world's best club sandwich — and the story of this triple-layered paean to poolside delight
May 15th
- The Aston Martin Vantage review: A fusion of love, joy and metal
- WOW!house 2024: Six of the brightest ideas you'll see at the interiors event
- The £1m pair of Victorian sea forts for sale in the waters off Britain, complete with hotel rooms, nightclub and helipad
- The terrible truth about the cuckoo, and the 'monstrous outrages' it perpetrates on its foster parents and siblings
- Reader event: Celebrate Chelsea in bloom with Katharine Pooley
May 14th
- Country Life 15 May 2024
- A five-bedroom home within the golden triangle of the Cotswolds that oozes cosiness and charm
- Jonathan Self: Real friendship survives separation, violently different opinions and surprisingly shabby behaviour'
May 13th
- Isabella Tree on how rewilding took the Knepp Estate from a ruin in the red to a miracle of Nature
- A classic Georgian manor house in an ancient hilltop town in the Cotswolds
- The English climate destroyed almost all our medieval church paintings — but not these ones
May 12th
- Six of the best homes in the Cotswolds (or just outside) for sale, as seen in this week's Country Life
- 'I could buy ready-to-go evergreens and hurry up the process, but I’m not in a hurry' — why gardeners, like plants, should move slowly
- Stansted Park, West Sussex: From royal favourite to stranger’s heir
May 11th
- A honey-coloured home in Wiltshire that sits at peace with its landscape
- From the 'gatekeeper' to the 'Scotch argus', where did butterflies and moths get their strange names?
- 'A haunt of ancient peace' — The gardens at Iford Manor and their remarkable history
- 'Sometimes I like to think I have my finger on the pulse when it comes to design and fashion. I am incorrect' — Celebrating one of Europe's biggest street parties in the cushion of contemporary luxury
May 10th
- Latimer Farm in Oddington: 'One of the most charming places that you could spend a few days'
- A 'rare and exceptional' medieval estate with an Elizabethan-style house, a string of cottages, and a location an hour from London
- Michael Prodger: How Britain’s landscapes have inspired painters across the centuries
May 9th
- LifeBook: The easy way to turn your life into the story of a lifetime
- 'The most important spring landscape flower in Britain' that 'engulfs everything in its path' — The unstoppable exuberance of the frothing cow parsley
- Seven gorgeous Cotswolds homes for sale at under £500,000
- Chocolate hobnobs, mascarpone and mint — the perfect cheesecake for summer
May 8th
- An iconic artist's studio in Padstow is on the market for the first time in two decades
- What you need to know about buying an equestrian property
- Everything you could ever want to know about Badminton, 'the most important and most typically English' eventing competition in the world
May 7th
- For sale: apartments in Kensington with a concierge service linked to Harrods
- Country Life 8 May 2024
- A former monastery up for sale, with eight acres and breathtaking views
- Carla Carlisle: The Nanny State isn't to be feared — it can fix pretty anything from the NHS to the Post Office
May 6th
- An unlisted Georgian house of exceptional grandeur in Cheshire that boasts almost 70 acres, a swimming pool, a lake, a squash court and sublime interiors
- A £24 million estate that has everything you could dream of — except the final half acre to make it perfect
May 5th
- Six stunning estates for sale, from the big to the small, as seen in Country Life
- The poisonous plant that can 'run riot' in your garden, was a favourite of Elizabeth II and is more beautiful than a rose
- How to stop your dog from chasing and barking at cats, by expert trainer Ben Randall
- 'We cannot have beauty without paying for it': The glorious revival of Rochdale's Town Hall
May 4th
- An £18 million Surrey mansion, with vaulted hall, turrets, and a kitchen-diner the size of a three-bedroom house
- Curious Questions: Why did the Garden Cities of Tomorrow never catch on?
- Glebe House, Devon: 'The antithesis of big brand hotels'
- The gardens of High Moss, a Cumbrian paradise just moments from Derwentwater
May 3rd
- How the Stevenson lighthouses saved the sailors of Scotland
- An Isle of Wight 'super-cottage' built by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert is up for sale
- Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way: 'Who knew that winding coastal lanes could be so lucrative?'
- The wicker weavers who can make a picnic hamper with such skill that you can choose whether it's silent or squeaky
May 2nd
- A beautiful timber home set in a wildflower meadow that comes with 18 acres of glorious Cornwall countryside
- Charcuterie, chilli oil, pickling and pastry: how to make the world's best picnic
May 1st
- ‘I have nothing but rapt adoration and the greatest of respect for this sugary art form’: Tom Parker Bowles on the perfection of puddings