Nine houses, as advertised in Country Life magazine, one taken from each decade of The Queen's life
Country houses through the decades
In the 90 years since The Queen was born, the world has undergone immense change, but Her Majesty has remained constant–as has COUNTRY LIFE, being published weekly throughout. Here, Geoff Heath-Taylor takes a look at properties that have been advertised in this magazine, one for each decade of Her Majesty’s life
1930s
Mid Hampshire
Agent sell ‘Queen Anne House with electric light’
More details ‘12 bedrooms, central heating, two cottages, four bathrooms and 24 acres’
Agent Jackson-Stops & Staff
Price £6,000
1940s
West Berkshire
Agent sell ‘A medium-sized Georgian country house in a much favoured residential area’
More details ‘7 bedrooms, nurseries, 5 bathrooms, staff rooms, 4 reception rooms, main electricity and central heating, stabling, garage and flat, three cottages, small home farm, well-timbered grounds with trout fishing’
Agent Winkworth & Co
Price £17,500
1950s
Hampshire
Agent sell ‘Enchanting Tudor residence, beautifully modernized, of especial appeal to a fisherman’
More details ‘Lounge hall, 3–4 reception rooms, 4–5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, model kitchen with Aga, main electricity and water’
Agent Hampton & Sons
Price £5,250
1960s
Wiltshire
Agent sell ‘Described by Christopher Hussey as “the perfect Charles II house”, the house commands 460 acres in the heart of the Kennet valley’ More details ‘6 principal bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, 2 dining rooms, drawing room, 3 further reception rooms, shooting rights over 810 acres and a home farm covering 176 acres’
Agent Knight Frank & Rutley
Price £300,000
1970s
Berkshire
Agent sell ‘An exceptionally fine riverside house on the edge of Wargrave village and enjoying a splendid view along the Thames’
More details ‘Principal suite of bedroom, dressing room and bathroom, 5 further reception rooms, domestic offices, full central heating, double garage, hard tennis court and a riverside building plot’
Agent John D. Wood & Co
Price £100,000
1980s
Wiltshire
Agent sell ‘A charming Grade II* William and Mary house in a village conservation area, with glorious view over the Avon Valley’
More details ‘Reception hall, drawing room, sitting room, dining room, study, 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, lovely walled garden with summer house’
Agent Cluttons
Price £275,000
1990s
Suffolk
Agent sell ‘Historic Grade I listed country house with superb reception rooms set in mature parkland with outstanding walled courtyard’
More details ‘Great hall, 5 principal reception rooms, 9 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 2 large self-contained apartments, two cottages, coach house, dovecot, extensive barns, farm buildings and stabling’
Agent Carter Jonas
Price £ 950,000
2000s
London SW3
Agent sell ‘Semi-detached house overlooking leafy garden square’
More details ‘3 reception rooms, conservatory, 5 bedrooms, dressing room, 3 bath/ shower rooms, 2 cloakrooms, study, paved garden with off-street parking, access to square gardens’
Agent FPDSavills
Price £3.85 million
2010s
Dorset
Agent sell ‘Chettle House is an exquisite Grade I listed manor house and is described by Pevsner as “the plum amongst Dorset houses of the early 18th century and nationally outstanding as a specimen of English Baroque”’
More details ‘9 bedrooms, stone hall, oak hall, drawing room, morning room, dining room, boudoir, study, ante room, keeper’s cottage, paddock, parkland and woodland, 117 acres in all’
Agent Strutt & Parker
Price £3.95 million
