Features Archive | February 2025

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February 28th
- Why size doesn't matter if you've got some decorating derring-do
- 'As fun a dog as you’ll ever come across’, and a global icon — so why have smooth fox terriers become so rare?
- A five-bedroom former farmhouse brought to life with one of the finest living rooms we've seen
February 27th
- A five-acre estate at the heart of the 'prettiest village in Leicestershire'
- The greatest cottage pie recipe
- The fast and the furryous: When some cool canines stole the show from priceless cars in St Moritz
February 26th
- A wetsuit room, fingerprint entry and coastal views from all the principal rooms: Is this the ultimate Cornish holiday home?
- Jack Badger
- Alan Titchmarsh: I went a bit mad ordering bulbs — and I'm not even a little bit sorry I did
- On the far side of the Himalayas
- Inside Audrey Hepburn's exquisite Alpine retreat
- How to futureproof your family’s finances
- Dawn Chorus: How to travel around the world in 19 flowers and the Mini Moke that took St Moritz by storm
February 25th
- A gorgeously-secluded country home just outside Sevenoaks with world-class equestrian facilities
- Simon Jenkins: 1,000 miles of giant pylons 'would be the most intrusive invasion of the nation’s rural landscape since the Second World War'
- A quirkily exotic townhouse for sale that is the former home of Edwin Lutyens' nephew
- Dukes, drug dealers, naturists and the truth about access to Britain's countryside, with Patrick Galbraith
February 24th
- Thatched perfection in a three-bedroom cottage near Chichester
- Horology with horsepower: Girard-Perregaux unveils new watch in collaboration with Aston Martin
- Dawn Chorus: A Blue Plaque for Marc Bolan, holidaying in the Caribbean with Francis Ford Coppola and a history of the National Gallery in 25 pictures
February 23rd
- Game, set, match: 12 of the world’s most beautiful tennis courts
- Five palatial mansions for sale, including one with its own private swimming lake, as seen in Country Life
- Playing the fool: The rich history of tarot and how it satisfies our desire for transcendence
- Nature and nurture in the gardens of Bramham Park
February 22nd
- If the future of Ferrari is electric vehicles, then it is our future too
- Gaze over Cap Ferrat in this four-bedroom French villa
- The Airlander wants to save our skies
- Nobody has ever been able to figure out just how long Britain's coastline is. Here's why.
- The Country Life guide to Somerset: What to do, where to stay and how to eat
- How to make a gloomy city garden into a haven of colour and nature
February 21st
- What this bathroom says about the return of the shiny surface
- The need for mead: 'We can re-wild the countryside and get drunk while we’re doing it'
- Why are humpback whales flocking to the UK?
- Classical style meets fun and flair in a seven-bedroom manor in Cornwall
February 20th
- Tom Parker Bowles's favourite recipe: French onion soup
- On your marks, get set, go: The booming business of sports tourism
- The art of glass: Is this the ultimate greenhouse for family entertaining?
- Two halves make a sublime four-bedroom home in Kent's North Downs
February 19th
- Everything you need to know about Hampstead: The real star of 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy'
- The week in property statistics: Service charges reach record high
- Why it’s imperative that schoolchildren have access to art and design classes
- A seven-bedroom oast house for sale in East Sussex, where your dreams can run riot
- Dawn Chorus: How to bag a Vacheron Constantin watch like Brad Pitt’s 222 and why London’s Sloane Street is looking better than ever
February 18th
- The daffodil full of 'simple, dotty charm' that's the most generous of all Narcissus species
- Direct to the Dolomites
- Tricks of the trade: London's best spots for second-hand sales
- Country Life 12 February 2025
- Character, history and comfort combine in a four-bedroom farmhouse in Norfolk
February 17th
- How the railways will save the countryside, with Gareth Dennis
- A Grade I-listed Georgian townhouse that's part of the fabric of Bath's history
- When London was beginning to establish itself as modern cultural powerhouse: The 1980s according to David Bailey
- How to leave London — and why
- Dawn Chorus: The Dorchester’s plans for British Pie Week, Anya Hindmarch takes flight and how to rent the Earl of Suffolk’s childhood home
February 16th
- Where to go in 2025
- 17 delightful homes for sale, as seen in Country Life
- From Bond to billions: How Andermatt is becoming one of the most talked about ski resorts in the Alps
- The life and times of P. G. Wodehouse, 50 years on from his death
- The fire that destroyed Bramham Park — and the astonishing revival that it sparked
February 15th
- The Everrati Pagoda: An electric wolf in classic combustion clothing
- 'The ultimate one-billion star hotel' — and it doesn't cost a penny to stay
- The silver screen, blockbusters and bombs: The curious terminology of films explained
- 'The country’s coasts are long-hailed as some of the most desirable destinations on the planet': Where was the third season of 'The White Lotus' filmed?
February 14th
- ‘Seeing all these pictures at the same time is a rare privilege’: ‘Goya to Impressionism’ opens at The Courtauld
- ‘It can take three days to paint one leaf’: The extraordinary, painstaking lives of Chelsea Physic Garden’s Florilegium Society artists
- 'This is the most money you'll spend on anything ever': The things that really matter when buying your first home in London
- Dawn Chorus: The birds, the bees, the jaguars, and the orb-weaver spiders –everything you need to know about love in the animal kingdom
February 13th
- Reader event: Why Sir John Soane matters
- In pictures: A celebration of British food and culture in New York
- Celeriac-crusted cod with chorizo butter and romanesco sauce
- Get lost in the whispers of a running stream at a one-bedroom Cornish cottage
February 12th
- 'The whiff of a McDonald’s Happy Meal has them pouring in': London, where the foxes are streets ahead
- In full bloom: 'Flowers: Flora in art and culture' opens at the Saatchi Gallery
- Land of soap and glory: How the British beauty industry is setting global standards for sustainability and style
February 11th
- How the high street can change for the better
- 'I thought we were forgotten': The Ritz Restaurant has been awarded a second Michelin Star
- Country Life 5 February 2025
- Riviera dreaming: Why this glamorous Tuscan seaside town isn't content to fly under the radar anymore
February 10th
- A 17th century country house estate for sale in Yorkshire that's not too big and not too small
- This rare Picasso lithograph could be yours for £60,000
- Dawn Chorus: Audrey Hepburn’s Swiss villa hits the market for £17 million and research reveals that looking at art can, quite literally, help you live longer
February 9th
- 'We moved here to be in a remote area, but there are 1,000 cars and motorhomes passing my house every day. It’s like Disneyland': How Scotland's best roads are causing local people the biggest headaches
- Bramham Park: A Palladian premonition
February 8th
- On Devon's Saunton Sands, the future is Ferndown
- Curious questions: Where did the Snakes and Ladders board game come from?
- ‘I don’t want to oversell it but they are the best pumpkin pancakes in the universe’: Country Life’s unbeatable guide to Oxfordshire
- 'I followed a lorry for miles just so I could ask the driver if I could buy his pot': How Beth Tarling put together her dream terracotta pot collection
February 7th
- Seven of the UKs best Art Deco cinemas that help remind us of what we have (wrongly) long stopped expecting from public buildings
- ‘The original plan was just to buy a Land Rover and go on a trip’: Why Tati Reed and a battered Land Rover might be the only honest thing on the internet
- Isabel Bannerman: The year’s first and most abundantly cheery, uplifting and undemanding of winter flowers
February 6th
- Moving to the country with Knight Frank
- Prophet, playboy, and provocateur: How meeting Peter Beard changed my life
February 5th
- ‘What we petrolheads wanted but feared we’d never get’: Behind the wheel of Audi’s new, all-electric A6 e-tron Avant
- Five of the National Trust's most outstanding paintings, as chosen by the curators who care for the charity’s world-class collection
February 4th
- Brockfield Hall, the great Yorkshire house that's gone from Regency mansion to modern family home
- Contact Country Life
February 1st
- A Georgian vicarage that blends idyllic seclusion, village life and a simple commute to the City
- Curious questions: Why do we use Seville oranges to make marmalade?