Features Archive | June 2020

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June 30th
- The immaculate restoration of the once-despised architecture of St Pancras station
- A waterfront house in West Sussex that's Georgian at the front — and a bit of a surprise at the back
- Hannah Sophia England: Meet the luxury brand putting ethics back into fashion
- Rosie and Jim: The seven rules of cycling that no cyclist will ever tell you
June 29th
- The secret life of fireplaces, and the fascinating tales they tell about the houses which host them
- A manor house in the heart of Cobham with boating pond and orchard, just 22 miles from central London
- My Favourite Painting: Rebecca Stott
June 28th
- Five incredible properties for sale which truly demand a 'virtual viewing'
- Grow your own courgettes: What to plant, when to plant it... and why size really does matter
- The real-life farm and animals that give life to George Orwell's Animal Farm
- Burghley House: The 500-year story of one of the very greatest houses in Britain
June 27th
- A 700-year-old manor house in the Cotswolds with its own moat, secret gardens and royal connections
- Curious Questions: How, and why, do people eat stinging nettles?
- The Northumberland Coast AONB: Just bring a pair of good boots and a fondness for untamed natural beauty
- Parceval Hall: Tucked away in a corner of the Yorkshire Dales, a great garden that's perfectly restored
June 26th
- The next step in kitchens? A kitchen-within-a-kitchen where everything can be swept out of sight
- A mini-estate by the water in the stretch of the Thames that inspired 'The Wind in the Willows'
- In Focus — Poet Laureate Simon Armitage: 'Someone once told me I have a child's eye, probably as an insult, but I took it as an enormous compliment'
June 25th
- Cirencester Park, still full of 'the amiable simplicity of unadorned nature' 200 years after its creation
- The Utterly Inessential Garden Party Shopping List, from summery clothes and barbecues to the £1,000+ ice bucket
- Ripple Court, 'one of east Kent’s most important country houses', has come to the market
- Knock House, the perfect Highland lodge once owned by Queen Victoria's daughter, in one of the most beautiful spots on Mull
- Tom Parker-Bowles' guide to tomatoes — and the recipe that 'is probably the most useful item in any store cupboard'
June 24th
- Country Life 24 June 2020
June 23rd
- The mysteries of Ightham Mote, from its early origins to the skeleton discovered behind a bricked-up door
- A pair of water towers for sale, where graceful Victorian architecture meets purple neon and vintage motorbikes in the hallway
- 'It took my son and daughter-in-law a weekend to set up an online shop... In a week, we sold £10,000 of wine that was languishing in the bonded warehouse'
June 22nd
- The lost art of English joinery: 'Without it, even the grandest room will be nothing more than a box'
- A superb country house with 28 acres, beautiful views — and a free hat and coat
- My Favourite Painting: Andrew Ellis
June 21st
- Five majestic country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh: The plants which will make you ignore the crazy rules of tastefulness and embrace a riot of colour
- How to pick a Labrador puppy
- The national collection of rambling roses at Moor Wood, 'one of midsummer’s most beautiful and romantic gardens in England'
June 20th
- 'One of the most magical properties in the South West', with a rare blend of homeliness and grandeur
- Curious Question: Why can we see the moon during the day?
- The tale of Britain's 52 native orchids, and the 'maverick miscellany of amateur and professional naturalists, painters and writers' who champion them
June 19th
- A room with a shockingly radical solution to finding its focal point: bricking up a window and building a new fireplace
- The house where the incomparable Cecil Beaton wooed Greta Garbo is up for sale, with its own Winter Garden
- In Focus: How Spode went from local ceramics manufacturer to global fame and household name
June 18th
- Not just jewellery — future heirlooms to be treasured for generations to come
- A Georgian home in West Cornwall with heated pool, grass tennis court, and ideal for a lifestyle business
- How to make Royal Ascot's carrot cake
June 17th
- Country Life 17 June 2020
- Best places in Britain for a blend of natural beauty and high-speed broadband
- The Utterly Inessential Father's Day Shopping List, from super-luxury to a big old box of beer
- How to enjoy a touch of Royal Ascot this week, even if you're only watching from home
June 16th
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge's childhood home up for sale, complete with pool, party room and library for 22,000 books
- Income options in a dividend desert
- Rosie and Jim: 'I’d happily trade my flatmate in for a one-way flight to the Mediterranean'
June 15th
- My Favourite Painting: Alice Strang
June 14th
- 30 wonderful country homes for sale, from £395,000 to £9 million, as seen in Country Life
- Mark Griffiths: The joy and consolation of 'Slow Gardening' in this savage yet beautiful spring
- 50 greatest horses of all time
- Holcombe Court, the 'finest Tudor house in Devon', and the 20-year, no-expense-spared labour of love to restore it to glory
June 13th
- Cothay Manor, 'the most perfect small 15th-century country house in the kingdom’, has come up for sale
- Curious Questions: Why are we suckers for comfort food?
- Nine novels which will transport you around the world — and inspire your post-lockdown travel plans
- 'Unleashed, mad and dangerous': How Britain's wild, romantic moorland is our 'signature habitat', inspiring everything from Beowulf to The Hound of the Baskervilles
June 12th
- A perfect cottage on a farm near Barnard Castle that's a beautiful and comfortable getaway from the hustle and bustle of life
- In Focus: The art of Andy Warhol, the 'the anti-William Morris', whose vision shaped the world as we know it
June 11th
- A simply magnificent Hampshire house with huge rooms, immaculate gardens and everything a sportsman could desire
June 10th
- The Tamar Valley AONB: Mines, otters and the ghost of a 'black widow' who roams the moors in a carriage of bones
- What happened next to the 33-room ducal mansion being auctioned off for £200,000
- Country Life 10 June 2020
June 9th
- Christopher Boyle on why the future is Georgian: 'It informs how we exist today and can do in the future’
- A Gloucestershire home with huge character, stables and 800 years of history
- Jason Goodwin: 'My friend was puzzled to discover me up a stepladder, cradling my airgun and scanning vegetable beds'
June 8th
- How to create the perfect party kitchen in a historic home
- Three fine flats under £1m for sale in south-west London
- My Favourite Painting: Stephen Fry
June 7th
- Six fine homes from the suburbs to the south coast, as seen in Country Life
- Cocker spaniel versus springer spaniel: What owners need to know
- The futuristic house of cork, fitted together like Lego, where the skylights stop it from blowing away
June 6th
- A no-compromise forever home has come up for sale in the Cotswolds
- Curious Questions: Why do we call picture puzzles 'jigsaws'?
- The best characters created Charles Dickens, still utterly unforgettable even 150 years after his death
- Charles Dickens timeline: The best of times, the worst of times
- The Kent Downs AONB: One of Mother Nature's works of art, from the famous White Cliffs to the wildlife of the Garden of England
June 5th
- The kitchen at Lundies House, blending practicality, beauty and history
- Tony Birch Ltd
- A lovely Art Deco apartment that was once the home of a genuine rags-to-riches star, plucked from London's bombed-out streets
- In Focus: The greatest books ever written about theatre, as chosen by Michael Billington
June 4th
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Pictish gin, Cotswolds veg, and the mice you want in your kitchen
- House buyers leaving cities in search of homes with space, gardens and home offices
- Raymond Blanc's perfect picnic: 'I'm a Frenchman through and through'
June 3rd
- How the nation's wildlife reclaimed Britain under lockdown, from the Llandudno goats to the owls at Ham House
- A beautiful home with views of an even greater one in the form of Hampton Court Palace
- Country Life 3 June 2020
June 2nd
- Carla Carlisle: 'It sounds tactless, but I’ve long believed that the most beautiful word in the English language is "cancelled"'
June 1st
- How the marbled wallpaper micro revival could go mainstream
- Moving to the West Country? Three superb country houses for sale in Somerset, Devon and Dorset
- My Favourite Painting: Nick Hewer