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Part Scottish castle, part French chateau, part Gothic fantasy: The $60 million home in the heart of the wealthiest village in TexasThe Lodge at Hunters Creek is an extraordinary blend of styles in a bucolic setting, yet it's just a short drive from one of America's busiest cities.
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I absolutely hated 'Wuthering Heights', but the film sounds like fun — and so now I'm moving to one of these impossibly remote and romantic farmhousesEvery generation tells and re-tells the best stories, and the fresh treatment given to Emily Brontë's 1847 classic 'Wuthering Heights' will be enough to get even the strongest among us pining for the moors.
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A 'Sleeping Beauty' house, covered in wisteria and tucked away in ancient woodland, has come up for sale in SussexThe impossibly romantic Durrant House, set amid woodland, gardens and ancient rocks, is like nothing we've seen before.
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Rolling Stones legend Charlie Watts spent four decades in this idyllic Devon home — and now it's up for saleIn the early 1980s, Charlie Watts and his wife Shirley were looking to buy a country escape. They found it in the pages of Country Life, and stayed there happily for the rest of their lives. Now their daughter Seraphina is putting this idyllic home on the market, as Arabella Youens reports.
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Every now and then, it's important to remember some Alfa RomeosIn the 1980s, Toby Keel's dad somehow got the keys to an Alfa Romeo GTV as his company car: a gorgeous rocket that was just about usable as a family car. So how does it compare to Alfa's modern equivalent, the Junior Elettrica Veloce?
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Five superb homes, from a Wiltshire mansion to 'the best flat in Battersea', as seen in Country LifeOur look at the best homes to come to the market via Country Life this week includes several places with pools and tennis courts.
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The Norfolk home of the grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, has come to the marketLady Fermoy's former home Uphall is on the market, with 11 bedrooms, endless charm and a Victorian swimming pond in the gardens.
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The nearest thing you'll find to a tropical lodge in London? This exotic home is right on the Thames, and 10 miles from the centre of the cityThe aptly-named River Haven is for sale in Thames Ditton, and it's a gorgeously exotic home.
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A Grade II-listed farmhouse just outside the Cornwall village dubbed 'Hollywood-on-Sea', on sale for the first time in 500 yearsIn the hills above Mawgan Porth, a wonderful opportunity has come up to take on a Georgian farmhouse, and the 167 acres that come with it.
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'They've nourished us, sheltered us, protected us... we owe trees far more than they owe us': Aidan Meighan on the folklore of treesAidan Meighan, author of The Folklore of Trees, joins the Country Life Podcast.
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17 charming rural hideaways, from under £600,000 to £9.5 million, as seen in Country LifeOur look at some of the best homes to come to market via Country Life this week includes a charming farmhouse with stables and a home in a breathtaking spot on the South Downs.
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Thinking of running away from the world? Then you'll need one of these log cabins, hillside villas, mountain retreats or island homes, from £75,000 to £6 millionSometimes the world feels like a lot — and when it does, you could do with a place to get away. Here are some of the most intriguing for sale today across the world — from £75,000 to £6 million.
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The latest 'best places to live' ranking of 1,447 towns, cities and villages... and there are some very odd winners and losersRedbourn has been named the best place to live in the country.
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Can you tell the difference between a trefoil and an embrasure? A pictorial guide to medieval architectureMedieval architecture is easy to admire, but its terminology can be impenetrable. Matthew Rice's illustration unlocks it.
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Adders, Exmoor ponies and the future of the human race: Tom Hilder on the Country Life PodcastTom Hilder, winner of the 'Rising Star' category at the Schoffel Countryside Awards, joins James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast.
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A grand seven-bedroom manor house with 11 acres, stables, 600 metres of river front and space for a grand pianoAmid the beautiful countryside of south-west Scotland, you'll find Kings Grange Manor — a house that offers a huge amount for under the £1 million mark.
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'If romance was a property, this would be it': A wonderful Georgian house in a conservation village in the heart of West SussexAt the centre of a circle which takes in Chichester, Arundel, the South Downs and the South Coast, Eastergate House is a home which ticks every box.
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Five magical homes for sale, from an 18,000sq ft mansion in Devon to a 1960s-period piece right on the waterfront in CornwallOur look at some of the best homes to appear in the pages of Country Life in the past week or so includes a gem in Surrey that's deceptively new, and an eco-home in Hertfordshire.
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A golden-stone manor that's just about as perfect a Cotswolds home as you could wish forFord Manor sits in an idyllic hamlet in one of the most beautiful parts of England. Toby Keel takes a look.
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John Constable's old school is for sale, and it's now a 500-year-old house in the wonkiest village in BritainAmid the gorgeously misshapen houses of Lavenham in Suffolk, The Old Grammar School is a beautiful home with a fascinating tale to tell.
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A mesmerising portrait in the eerie country house that inspired Charlotte Brontë to write 'Jane Eyre'A dark episode in the family history of Norton Conyers inspired a young Charlotte Brontë to write Jane Eyre — but the hidden attic is just one of many treasures in this grand Yorkshire house.
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The house where a young Stephen Fry fell in love with Norfolk is for sale, and it's a charming (and enormous) family home filled with character and warmthBooton House, in the open countryside between Norwich and the coast, is seeking a new owner.
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Katharine Hay, the woman who's walking the length and breadth of ScotlandTwo years and two thousand miles into her epic journey on foot around Scotland, The Scotsman's rural affairs correspondent Katharine Hay joins the Country Life Podcast.
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Nine fixer-uppers for sale, from a six-bedroom farmhouse with a pool for £300,000, to a charming village dairyA house in one of the south coast's most sought-after beach communities is also among the homes needing new owners with time, patience and vision.
