Constructed in 1831, Harlaxton Manor combines Jacobean, Elizabethan and Baroque styles and is regarded as one of the UK's most beautiful and unusual country houses. The Bluebell Woodland Walk will ...

Built by the young Edwin Lutyens for Gertrude Jekyll in 1896, Munstead Wood is a small, but outstandingly important house, both in the history of English architecture and of Country Life. This was ...

A 'quintessential' country house, Askett Lodge, owned by the same family for more than 50 years, is up for sale.

Following Lady Clark’s death, Munstead Wood was put on the market in 2022, raising concern about the future of the garden and its accessibility by the public. In these photographs, Country Life has ...

This makes the country one of the few places in the ... of the main reasons why people build with wood. The use of wood allows houses to be built more quickly compared to using cement and brick.

A new take on the English country house designed by James Wright of Macdonald ... which can be found nearby and is even framed within views from Caring Wood House. Part embedded into the hillside, the ...

Modern country house interiors feature statement chairs ... gourmet dining. Follow a grand, wood staircase up to 18 tasteful bedrooms, with heritage beds and furniture, opulent curtains and ...

Wenji Zhang and Paul Lehmann fell in love at first sight with the all-wood house, one in a series of eco-friendly houses across the country. “We find ourselves following the rhythms of the ...

In the underbelly of the country's largest fieldstone basement ... “Halfway down a bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables,” wrote ...