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Colour photographs of Gertrude Jekyll’s garden, rediscovered in the Country Life Archive, offer a rare glimpse of what it looked like at the peak of her fame
In 1997, Country Life published a set of chromatic photographs of Gertrude Jekyll’s Munstead Wood garden that had lain undisturbed in our archive for nearly a century. We have reproduced the pictures, corresponding feature and captions here.
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The Suffolk house where two of the greatest women in British history spent their childhood years
The Suffragette leader Millicent Fawcett and Britain's first female doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, grew up in this home in Aldeburgh.
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22 charming country properties, from £350,000 to £2.5 million, as seen in Country Life
From a glorious mansions to charming cottages — and everything in between — in this week's round-up.
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This is quite possibly the greatest clifftop house in the world, and it's on the market right now
An utterly breathtaking home in New Zealand is for sale. Take a closer look.
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A murdered entrepreneur, an iconic London department store, a £1.5 billion makeover, and the quest to create 'the capital’s greatest residential address'
The more you read about Whiteleys — from Queen Victoria and Eliza Dolittle to the tragic tale of its founder — the more surprising it is that nobody has made a film about the place. Yet.
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Four wildly-different Georgian homes which sum up the appeal of the golden age of property architecture
Think Georgian property and you probably imagine a classic country rectory, but not all 18th century homes come out of the same mould. Julie Harding picks out four wonderful examples for sale that retain their individuality while keeping the best of the Georgian template.
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A Georgian home with a Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen living room that brings a touch of Hogwarts to one of the greenest parts of London
This fine, six-bedroom home in Blackheath has a living space created by the famed interior designer who once dominated the television schedules.
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A Somerset country home that unites the best of medieval, Georgian and Victorian under one roof
The Yews has changed many times over the centuries — and seemingly always for the better.
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Five magical country homes for sale across Britain, as seen in Country Life
From Shropshire to Kent, this wonderful places all came to the market in Country Life this week.
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A spectacular home with a touch of Downton Abbey about it, standing beside one of the last remaining Saxon churches in Britain
Kirk Hammerton Hall is 250 years old, yet is 900 years newer than the church which stands close by to it in this beautiful Yorkshire village.
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A Caribbean home with its own nightclub, down the road from a perfect beach and a pre-Columbian castle
Casa Luna is a spectacular home in a village featuring a picture-perfect beach overlooked by a Mayan castle.
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Alan Carr's new castle is 'a masterpiece of the baronial revival' with 17 bedrooms and its own miniature railway
Ayton Castle is majestic, imposing, graceful, romantic... and the new home of comedian and 'Celebrity Traitors' winner Alan Carr.
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Sir Roger Moore's London pad is on the market
The former home of the most prolific 007 of them all is for sale. Toby Keel takes a look inside.
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Justine Picardie: Fashion, spies and Elizabeth II's wardrobe, from timeless tweeds to a pair of Marigolds
Justine Picardie joins the Country Life Podcast.
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A Cluedo board rendered real at a country pile with 19 bedrooms, and a gym in the chapel
There aren't many privately-owned houses in Britain where you need a map to get around. Burton Hill House is one of them.
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12 wonderful homes, from a Cotswolds mill to a country house within the M25, as seen in Country Life
Our pick of the best homes to come to the market via Country Life this week includes a cottage on Jersey and a string of delightful commutable homes.
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A Georgian lodge tucked away on a 900-acre National Trust estate in one of the most beautiful settings in Pembrokeshire
A Georgian lodge has come up for sale on a National Trust-owned estate, just a short walk from one of the prettiest beaches in Wales.
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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 Texas
The 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 farmhouses
Every 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 Sussex
The 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 sale
In 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 Romeos
In 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 Life
Our 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 market
Lady Fermoy's former home Uphall is on the market, with 11 bedrooms, endless charm and a Victorian swimming pond in the gardens.
