Features Archive | November 2019

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November 30th
- Furs of Mayfair
- The former Chelsea home of the creator of Mary Poppins that’s practically perfect in every way
- The best mince pies in Britain 2019: Country Life's ultimate taste test
November 29th
- Beyond Pinterest: The best ways to ensure your lovely objects aren't exactly the same as everyone else's
- A Grade I-listed house so big it should probably be measured in acres rather than square feet
- David Watson
- In Focus: The Magritte painting that plays with fiction, reality... and unpredictable weather
November 28th
- David Profumo's Fantasy League of angling fishing guests
- A light and beautiful country house near Cambridge with a spectacular colonnaded terrace
- Pullman Editions
- A heart-warming minestrone soup with harissa meatballs, perfect for winter
November 27th
- The best pictures from Country Life's 2019 Gentleman's Life party
- Oystercatchers: The 'hammerers and stabbers' of the avian world, who can live into their 40s
- Country Life 27 November 2019
November 26th
- Suvretta House, St Moritz: The birthplace of winter sports, with pre-warmed boots and excellent pistes
- The country house kitchen created from six knocked-together rooms to create a stunning 1,000sq ft living, cooking and entertaining space
- The biggest snobbery in gardening 'isn't just regrettable — it amounts to a horticultural sin of omission'
- An extravagantly beautiful little castle that has the largest stained glass windows of any private home in Britain
- Jason Goodwin: The second, little-known verse of our National Anthem
- The dogs we lost: 10 extinct British dog breeds
- Inside the Shropshire house where the Royal Family planned to shelter if Britain was invaded during the Second World War
November 25th
- Volvo V90 Cross Country review: 'You have to be in something far more costly and exotic to find a rival experience'
- Regent's Crescent: The collaboration between George IV and John Nash which became one of London's finest addresses
- My Favourite Painting: Fergus Henderson
November 24th
- Two extremely special homes for sale, as seen in Country Life
November 23rd
- A spectacular converted Victorian schoolhouse, with huge amounts of space, beautiful grounds and a cinema in the rafters
- Curious Questions: Why do the numbers in London postcodes make no sense?
- A weekend in Berlin: Culture, creativity and laid-back cool, three decades after the Wall came down
November 22nd
- A drink for all seasons: The Queen Mother's favourite £70-a-glass port, a 1970s party throwback and boozy Christmas baubles.
- Seven gorgeous fires to keep you warm this winter, from clean and green to striking marble
- Five beautiful farms with farmhouses full of potential for sale across Britain, starting from £720,000
- In Focus: How a painting discovered in a rural French kitchen came to sell for £20 million
November 21st
- Revealed: The most dog-friendly pubs in Britain
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: The billionaire's advent calendar and a perfect barbecue for mid-winter al fresco
- A gloriously romantic old mill house, with its own lake and paddock
- Recipe: Squab pigeon with berry sauce and poached berries
November 20th
- Wilkinson Beven Design
- Revival Beds
- The Beauty of British Stone: How to choose the perfect home-grown stone to suit your home
- The Pet Sketch
- Jason Goodwin: 'They swerved, reversed direction and became a solid wall that struck Aphra at 30 miles an hour'
November 19th
- Ten stately homes which became hospitals during the First World War
- A country house for sale for the very first time that's a blank canvas for a new owner to move in
- How to grow garlic: Delicious, lucky and superbly easy to cultivate
- A Scottish country house in the Borders with stables, a coach house — and rooms where Robbie Burns once stayed
- Country Life 20 November 2019
November 18th
- The transformative power of a really beautiful pair of socks
- My Favourite Painting: The Marquess of Cholmondeley
November 17th
- Seven magnificent country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
- Britain's first giant tortoises: 'They’ve been around for 200 million years - we’re a blip to them'
- HRH The Prince of Wales: 'We urgently need a fresh, positive and practical vision for the countryside'
November 16th
- Rory Bremner's 'magical Borders retreat' for sale after 10 happy years and a 'labour of love' restoration
- Curious Questions: How do you make the perfect slice of toast?
- The Bell at Stow: A beautiful bolthole full of Cotswolds charm, masterfully combining a rustic pub and a stunning boutique hotel
- 10 superb pictures from Nature Photographer of the Year 2019
November 15th
- A drink for all seasons: Five drinks for any given mood this Friday
- How to choose perfect bed sheets: 'People think the higher the count, the better — it isn't'
- A coastal mini-estate with its own headland between the Fal Estuary and Helford Passage
November 14th
- Walking The Burren, Co Clare: A place of curved hills, acres of open limestone and a landscape in which to lose oneself
- The Utterly Inessential Cosy Shopping List: Wrap up warm, winter is almost here
- A delightful country house where Haille Selassie once took refuge, which offers the chance of a new life
- Sticky sloe gin venison steaks with parsnip and spinach rösti
November 13th
- The incredible tale of my father's escape from 'Italy's Colditz'
- Margot, Covent Garden restaurant review: A delight from carpaccio to tiramisu, plus a recipe for their venison tortellini
- The oldest house in Britain — and how we were able to tell it apart from the other contenders
- Country Life 13 November 2019
November 12th
- The old sail loft which became a quirky family home, with spellbinding views over the River Exe
- Jason Goodwin: 'Politicians need historians as much as kings need minstrels'
- The Jaguar I-Pace: 'If I had a spare £65,000, I’d buy one tomorrow. It really is that good'
November 11th
- Bespoken for: How Huntsman's personal service creates beautiful suits, and relationships that last generations
- 23 stunning ski chalets across Europe, as seen in Country Life
- My Favourite Painting: Nigel Havers
November 10th
- The remarkable restoration and revival of Haile Hall, home to one of the great dynasties of Imperial Britain
- Five truly wonderful homes, as seen in Country Life
- Is it possible to live off vegetables and fruit from your garden all year round?
- 39 things a gentleman simply must do before he dies
November 9th
- Michael Heseltine's former London home hits the market at £28 million
- Curious Questions: How likely are you to be killed by a falling coconut?
- Gstaad, Switzerland: ‘The last paradise in a crazy world’, a fairytale still untouched with pistes aplenty
- The 15 best pictures from the National Trust's photo competition to find a cover for its 2020 member handbook
November 8th
- How to use Turkish rugs to create a rustic, charming family room
- An upside-down house in Salcombe, with Italian-style formal gardens and breathtaking sea views
- In Focus: The Pre-Raphaelite sisters who fought for recognition in the shadow of the Brotherhood
November 7th
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: How to throw a smashing last-minute dinner party
- An Oxfordshire country house so beautiful that one famous visitor whipped out his cheque book and tried to buy it on the spot
- How to make smoked, slow-cooked pulled venison in sticky sauce
November 6th
- Living in Richmond-upon-Thames: London's prettiest spot and Britain's only protected view in a place full of history and nature
- Take the Gentleman Test
- Country Life 6 November 2019
November 5th
- Port Fairy, Australia: The former whaling town with more bite than its name suggests, on Australia’s Great Ocean Road
- Jason Goodwin: 'In those days, the French government seemed to use sugar wrappers to effect social change'
November 4th
- The two herbs to grow in your garden that'll convince you never to eat parsley again
- Cavalier King Charles spaniels: Handsome, good-natured and the aristocrats of the dog world
- New College, Oxford: The 650-year story of the college that dreamt it was a palace
November 2nd
- A politely symmetrical 18th century Cotswolds house, owned by the same family for over 100 years
- Curious Questions: Should animals wear clothes?
- The Fife Arms, Braemar: Sustainable, beautiful and the ultimate destination for fishing enthusiasts
- A rare treasure of a garden that brings joy at every level, hidden away in the Welsh valleys
November 1st
- How to make the perfect game pork pie
- How to avoid a boxy extension by moving your kitchen into one of the finest rooms in a house
- A magnificent chapel in Chelsea ripe for conversion into a superb top-end home
- In Focus: A self-portrait by Gaugin which fuses the real and the imaginary in a picture of narcissism and divine comparison