Features Archive | May 2021

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May 31st
- The charming 18th century house for sale where John le Carré moved after quitting spying to become a novelist
- A Grade II-listed Georgian house with magnificent gardens that's one of the biggest — and prettiest — in Redruth
- Charlie Waite: One of the world's best landscape photographers on how to take pictures, the unknowable beauty of Britain and why an iPhone can be good enough
May 30th
- A mansion that's quite literally risen from the ashes and undergone a £10 million restoration project
- Why gardens can be a biodiversity resource
- How dogs read our minds, spot when we're lying, and fall in love with their owners
- Newnham College, Cambridge: 'The most convincing and delightful example of the "Queen Anne" style in existence'
May 29th
- A pastel coloured 'village-within-a-village' in picturesque Appledore, Devon
- Curious Questions: How do you pronounce Belvoir, Featherstonhaugh and Bagehot?
- Best poppies to sow in your garden
May 28th
- The best wellington boots for walking, for the muddy treks when you need wellies — but not blisters
- What to look for in a great retirement property
- Cerne Abbas: Was the giant naked man an artistic act of defiance aimed at monks?
May 27th
- A glorious estate in the New Forest, up for sale for the first time in 400 years
- Curtains or blinds: How to decide what's right for your house
- How to make perfect burgers to barbecue at home, with blue cheese, avocado and pancetta
May 26th
- A panoramic country house in Wales at the price of a large London flat, with swimming pool, Japanese bridge and walled garden
- Dandelions: Everything you need to know about the humble flower that carpets the world in yellow
- Best hiking trousers for women, for everything from walks in the park to climbing Helvellyn
- The British rivers being made officially clean enough for wild swimming
- Country Life 26 May 2021
May 25th
- As woodland is booming, and planting trees has become the right thing to do — with both heart and head
- Jason Goodwin on why we all need 'a breath of fresh air'
May 24th
- A fantastic opportunity to own an island home on the River Thames in Surrey, complete with a private beach
- An airy open-plan kitchen featuring reclaimed materials for a timeless look
- 'One of the prettiest houses in the Cotswolds' has come up for sale
- Aspinal of London: 'We are more aware than ever of the effects our way of life is having on our planet'
- My favourite painting: Maria Balshaw
May 23rd
- Seven extraordinary houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
- How to make a compost cake
- This Wiltshire masterpiece was vastly improved by an 18th century ‘Architect’ Earl and is now on the silver screen in the new 'Frankenstein' film
May 22nd
- A historic Scottish castle, complete with battlements, a loch and its very own ghost
- The secret life of toads, from frenzied procreation to hunting snakes in the night
May 21st
- The grain silo that dreamt it was a fine country house
- 10 beautiful and thought-provoking pictures of the oceans to remind us all what's at stake
- Clever clothes you can wear all day long
- Can we make our houses Green? The huge battle we face to make our properties fit for a carbon-neutral world
May 20th
- A charming family home in Kent with magnificent, wildlife-friendly gardens
- Best country houses for sale in Dorset, from £850,000 to £18,500,000
- The secret life of bumblebees: Fighting queens, pollinating tomatoes, and the males who 'stay out all night, get drunk on nectar and look for sex'
- How to make Spring roast lamb with maple yoghurt marinade, and maple-glazed roast potatoes
May 19th
- A magnificent, Grade I-listed house in Devon, where Charles I once slept
- 'Trees remind us of our insignificance, our transience, and the necessity of wonder'
- The 10 best trees you'll find in Britain, from Alder to Scots Pine
- Country Life 19 May 2021
May 18th
- A dreamy house with wonderful countryside views in the Cotswolds
- A hopelessly romantic beach hut in Cornwall that once hosted Kate Winslet, up for sale at £1.7 million
- Carla Carlisle: 'Something happened: instead of celebrating the solitude and bounty, I became haunted by the inescapable inevitability of dinner'
May 17th
- A magnificent Victorian house overlooking Cheltenham racecourse in Gloucestershire
- Do the best investments come in small packages?
- Eight beautiful country houses for sale in West Sussex, from £725,000 to £3.95 million
- A grand Hampshire house in need of renovation, which once belonged to Jane Austen's nephew
- Best umbrellas: Top 10 brollies for rainy days in Britain
May 16th
- A medieval Cotswolds manor house with a great hall
- Best strawberries to grow at home, and how to make sure they keep producing fruit all summer
- Golden retrievers: The gorgeous dogs that bring friendship, loyalty and love
- How Bampton Castle became Ham Court: The manor house-turned-castle, and its return to life as an Oxfordshire house
May 15th
- A charming, Grade II listed thatched house with a separate studio for sale in Cambridgeshire
- Curious Questions: Did an Englishman called John Stringfellow really invent powered flight half a century before the Wright Brothers?
- An immaculate character country house for sale in the North Essex countryside
- 39 steps to modern manners for the post-Covid world, from Zoom etiquette to thank-you notes
May 14th
- The 80,000 sq ft country house — with 122 rooms and Versailles-style gardens — that sold for £950,000
- A Grade II-listed, beautifully renovated barn in a vibrant Bedfordshire village
- Best walking boots for women, from walks in the woods to hiking the Himalayas
- A Grade II*-listed manor set in idyllic grounds in the South Hams
May 13th
- A Georgian haven in Norfolk complete with a moat and Monet-inspired bridge
- Walking Winchester: Mystery and intrigue, extraordinary beauty and historic survivals
- England's top rural hotspots as property prices soaring amid dwindling supply
- A 'golden oldie' for sale in Suffolk on the edge of a historic market town
- Chateau International Space Station: The $1 million bottle of wine that's literally out of this world
May 12th
- An idyllic converted barn that takes you straight to the heart of Cotswold life
- How to buy a sofa that won't just last a few years, but a few generations
- Country Life 12 May 2021
May 11th
- A pretty Grade II listed cottage set in a quintessential Oxfordshire village
- Best kids' wellies, from unicorns and dinosaurs to beautiful boots for young sophisticates
- Alan Titchmarsh: The garden blunder that caught me out — and how it's going to cost me than I can admit to my wife
- 'Getting your portrait painted isn't much more than a vainglorious act of self-love; here's why I'm doing it anyway'
May 10th
- An Arts-and-Crafts house with dramatic interiors, 63 acres, spectacular topiary — and two fine pubs nearby
- Why you'll see matching front door and window colours across great swathes of the English countryside
- An impressive family home set within walking distance from the bustling city of Norwich
- My favourite painting: Mark Dowie
May 9th
- A thatched house in Oxfordshire that blends styles, eras and features with breathtaking panache
- Beyond Stonehenge: The lesser-known stone circles of Britain
- Treehouses: The homes that almost hover in the air, and the people who live in them
May 8th
- A magnificent stone house once dubbed 'the perfect small Cotswolds manor'
- Curious Questions: When was the world’s first motor show held?
- Arthur Parkinson: 'It’s a crime that we have forsaken our wildflower meadows for petrol lawnmowers and Flymos'
- Goldingtons, Hertfordshire: 'The brief was for the garden to flow more easily and to bring together its disparate parts'
May 7th
- A Georgian mansion in the a beautiful seaside village for the price of a suburban flat in London
- In Focus: Jemima Blackburn, the extraordinary artist of nature who became the real-life Jemima Puddle-Duck
May 6th
- A sophisticated London bathroom where curves reign supreme
- A sympathetically restored home in Yoxford that's like stepping back in time
- Tom Parker Bowles: Why Dorset snails are as good (if not better) than French ones — and a recipe to prove it
May 5th
- A striking contemporary house with spectacular views across Rutland Water
- 10 sublime photographs from the 2021 RHS Photographic Competition
- What to plant to create a bold, romantic scheme in a classic British garden
- Country Life 5 May 2021
May 4th
- The Amalfi Coast: 'There is more to see and do here than any words could ever give justice to'
- A spectacular former hunting lodge turned photographic studio on the shores of Loch Lomond
- Jason Goodwin: The portrait of my mother I never knew existed, and how it came to me 62 years after it was painted
May 3rd
- An immaculate, remodelled 18th-century home with stable and tennis court, just outside the edge of London
- Ten lovely interiors ideas to refresh your house, from new lamps to complete room makeovers
- 1,841 glorious acres of pristine Scottish forest have come up for sale
May 2nd
- Seven utterly charming and wonderfully grand houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
- How to grow and eat nasturtiums
- How to make elderflower drizzle cake, by Michelin-starred chef Tommy Banks
- A spectacular 'farm' for sale that's more Downton Abbey than dirty wellies
- The Summer House at Warnford Park: Inside the walls of 'One of England’s most romantic follies'
May 1st
- A spectacular Oxfordshire house that was home to Agatha Christie
- Curious Questions: How does a bumblebee fly?
- Pettifers: The breathtaking Oxfordshire garden born from the impeccable instincts of Gina Price