Genius of the place award
Jeremy Musson introduces the 2007 Country Life award for the best restored or revived landscape setting for a country house, sponsored by Savills
Architecture
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A Palace in Miniature
A doll's house belonging to the daughters of King George III has been key in the restoration of Kew Palace, as details of the tiny house bear striking parallels to discoveries made inside the Palace, finds Anna Tyzack.
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The rebirth of Apethorpe Hall
Jeremy Musson is given an exclusive insight into the ongoing rescue of Grade I-listed Apethorpe Hall by English Heritage, one of the finest Jacobean houses in the country that had been on the brink of dereliction
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Smart Schoolhouses
Anna Tyzack visits a handful of schools whose pupils learn within the walls of grand former family homes.
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Anglo-Classical Architecture
John Martin Robinson looks at the work of a young architect of the new generation of designers in the Classical tradition, who is designing new country houses of style and character
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Architects' Biographies
Willoughby Gerrish, Florence Heaton-Renshaw and Thomas Ravenscroft take us on a biographical tour of some of the most well-known architects this country has ever seen.
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Book Review: The Jacobean Country House
Clive Aslet is heartened by Nicholas Coopers's celebration of the splendid piles of the Jacobean period, the latest book based on the COUNTRY LIFE archives
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Five things you didn't know about Blenheim
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough's Oxfordshire home plays host to the Blenheim Horse Trials this weekend. Discover five things you didn't know about the estate...
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England's Best Medieval Bridges
Fifty of the best medieval bridges in England, selected for Countrylife.co.uk by David Harrison, author of The Bridges of Medieval England
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Work Commences on Wentworth
A £15 million restoration project has begun on the conservatory at the Wentworth Estate in Yorkshire, one of the country's most fragile structures.
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Easton Neston Art to be Sold
A significant portion of the Hesketh-Fermor family's peerless art collection will be sold later this year at Easton Neston in one of the most exciting auctions of the last 20 years.
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Architect of the Future
Gregory Phillips, award winning architect and interior designer, has reconfigured the concept of the British house.
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Build a good new house in the country
Prime sites are being sold with planning permission for grand new manor houses, but it is not necessary to spend millions to build your own rural retreat
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Save Gwrych Castle
Once a splendid 19th-century Gothic castle, Gwrych has been reduced to a shell by squatters, vandals and arson. An 18-year-old history student is spearheading a campaign to restore it.
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St. Valentine's Shrine
The largest church in Dublin houses the relics of St.Valentine, often visited in the month of February.
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Lulworth Castle, Dorset
Lulworth Castle has opened its doors to the public again
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Castle Howard, Yorkshire
Few of the many visitors who enjoy Castle Howard's splendid architecture and collections realise that, following a devastating fire in 1940, the house's future was at stake
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Arbury Hall, Warwickshire
Arbury Hall, its biographers, location and opening times
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Melrose House, Somerset
Rescued from semi-dereliction five years ago and sensitively restored, Melrose House is a handsome example of a prosperous 17th-century merchant's town house. Recent research has revealed that it was innovative and distinctive for its period and location.
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The Saloon at Uppark, Sussex
Jeremy looks at an important roomin one of the most attractive houses in the south of England.
