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Where was Guy Ritchie's Young Sherlock series filmed? In a historic Welsh home that first appeared in Country Life a century ago
Llanvihangel Court has a Spanish Armada-era avenue of trees and may have been visited by Charles I. To celebrate its star turn in Guy Ritchie's new Amazon Prime television series, 'Young Sherlock', we're revisiting our feature and photographs on the house that first appeared in the magazine in 1916.
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Crestwood Hills: American suburbia need not have been the isolating experience it sometimes was
Tim Abrahams explores a bohemian community created in Los Angeles by a group of musicians.
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Sir John Vanbrugh, Castle Howard and great houses on fire, with Dr John Goodall
The Architectural Editor joins the Country Life Podcast to discuss the legacy of Sir John Vanbrugh and the glorious restoration of Castle Howard
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Why does the discovery of ‘Port Talbot’s Pompeii’ matter?
The discovery of a Roman villa at Margam, outside Port Talbot in Wales, generated huge amounts of publicity, but the press failed to get to the heart of why it matters.
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Castle Howard was devastated by fire. Against all the odds, its decades-long restoration has made it even greater today than it once was
An award-winning restoration at Castle Howard in North Yorkshire has transformed the interior of this fire-damaged great house. What's more, the work has been finished in time for the celebrations surrounding the tercentenary of the death of its designer, Sir John Vanbrugh. John Goodall reports; photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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The 'Welsh Pompeii' is is a staggering reminder of how ancient history still shapes the modern landscape
Country Life's cultural columnist Athena takes a look at the Roman villa discovery in South Wales which plugs a centuries-wide gap in the chronology of the area.
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One of the first substantial buildings constructed from cast iron lives on only in the Country Life Archive
The London Coal Exchange enabled City merchants to buy and sell coal across the world. Despite this magazine's best efforts, it was destroyed in the 1960s.
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The National Trust's untold story: How generations of bachelors poured their souls into their houses, and then gave them to the nation
The acquisition of houses by the National Trust from the 1930s had less to do with the impoverishment of aristocratic families than the industrial wealth of bachelor donors, as Michael Hall reveals.
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The best country house architects in Britain
Country Life's list of the finest country house architects in Britain — an indispensable guide if you're considering serious work on your home.
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From baroque masterpiece to the UKs most picturesque motor circuit: The tragic tale of Oulton Park and its inhabitants
One hundred years ago, Oulton Park — whose family had already been torn apart by the First World War — was consumed by fire.
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At war in a foreign country, jailed by your own son and traded as a teenager as part of a business proposition: The ladies of Leeds Castle saw it all
Laura Kay charts the remarkable history of ‘The Ladies' Castle’ near Maidstone, Kent.
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'A celebration of connoisseurship and the sheer enjoyment of art and history': The extraordinary treasures of Ampthill Park House
In the second of two articles on Ampthill Park House, Bedfordshire — the home of Sir Timothy and Lady Clifford — Jeremy Musson looks at an exceptional modern collection that speaks to the history and character of the house it dignifies.
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There's a town in the Netherlands where you can build whatever you want. The outcome is quite extraordinary
Tim Abrahams on the bewildering and intoxicating architectural collage that is Oosterwold.
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Gibside: The curious roofless castle where The King's ancestor was kidnapped
Gibside flourished under coal baron George Bowes but his heiress daughter, Mary Eleanor, nearly lost it all to her deceitful second husband.
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'A blue-blood background and a drive to disrupt': Lady Violet Manners on the importance of preserving Britain's privately-owned country homes
The Viscountess talks about a childhood at Belvoir Castle, primogeniture and why Americans love a British country home.
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A Suffolk home where glass, steel, timber and thatch come together in perfect harmony
This new house of four discrete elements adopts vernacular forms and materials to striking effect. Clive Aslet pays a visit to Housestead, Suffolk — home of Abigail Hopkins and Amir Sanei — to discover more. Photography by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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Why has everyone fallen under the spell of Wrotham Park — one of the largest private houses inside the M25
Wrotham Park, the seat of the Earls of Strafford, is not open to the public and hardly any interior photographs are available to view online. So why do film directors, photographers and luxury brands continue to flock to it?
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What binds the Queen Mother and Chicago's first department store? A lost castle that was blown to smithereens by the Territorial Army
Streatlam Castle was one of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne three principal seats.
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The only thing better than a stately home is a stately home in wooden miniature
Meet George Barham — the gifted woodcarver who can turn your family pile into a wooden masterpiece.
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'I have never ceased talking of the beauty of Ampthill': The tale of one of Britain's best-loved country houses
Jeremy Musson describes the complex evolution of Ampthill Park House, Bedfordshire — home of Sir Timothy and Lady Clifford — at the hands of Sir Christopher Wren’s master mason Robert Grumbold, mason-surveyor John Lumley and Sir William Chambers.
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Les Espaces d'Abraxas: 'Building a Versailles for the people in Noisy-le-Grand'
The Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill's development in the suburbs of Paris is an intriguing solution to how you expand a city using unwieldy machinery.
