Features Archive | December 2021

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December 31st
- Britain’s most scenic drives: The Snake Pass, Peak District
- Kitzbühel, Courchevel, Gstaad or Cortina — where is the best place to buy a ski property in Europe?
- Britain's oddest place names: How you can visit New York, Hollywood, Jerusalem and New Zealand, all without leaving the country
December 30th
- Britain’s most scenic drives: A meander through the North Cotswolds
- Aspen v Whistler: Where's the best place to buy a ski property in North America?
- How M.R. James wove country house architecture into his ghost stories
December 29th
- Britain's most scenic drives: The Cheddar Gorge, Somerset
- A delightful Georgian cottage for sale in the quintessential English village where 'The Holiday' was filmed
- In Focus: Handel's Messiah, the Christmas music that was created for Easter
- Country Life 29 December 2021
December 28th
- Britain’s most scenic drives: The Causeway Coastal Route, Northern Ireland
- A stunning mews house for sale on the row where Love Actually's most poignant and romantic scene was filmed
- Curious Questions: Are snowflakes really all unique?
December 27th
- Britain’s most scenic drives: The Hardknott and Wrynose Passes, Cumbria
- Country Life's 10 best nature stories of 2021
- Six absolutely beautiful properties for sale around the country for over £10 million
- 12 best Christmas films to watch with the family
December 26th
- Country Life's 10 best dog stories of 2021
- The Country Life Editor's Christmas Quiz for 2021: See all the answers
December 25th
- The Country Life Christmas message by Revd Daniel French, the brilliant and quirky vicar with a penchant for dressing in Dalek costumes at village fêtes
December 24th
- Country Life's best property stories of 2021
- A former rectory once owned by Wordsworth's brother, reimagined to create a state-of-the-art £15m dream home — with one little snag
December 23rd
- Janine Stone's Jeremy Spencer on getting light right
- A 16th century, Grade II-listed property that's been totally transformed by a music legend, now seeking a new owner
- How to cook a Christmas turkey on the barbecue
December 22nd
- Country Life's 10 best interiors stories of 2021
- A secluded rural retreat in Hampshire with fantastic characterful accommodation in an unbeatable village location
- All you need to know about carving meat, according to the experts at The Ritz
December 21st
- Janine Stone's Jeremy Spencer on how houses need not just blend into their settings, but can actively enhance them
- Country Life's 10 best garden stories of 2021
- A wonderful former vicarage and chapel set amongst glorious gardens in a peaceful village in Devon
- Brussels sprouts: Fresh and nutty, sweet and savoury all at once — and a recipe to convert even non-believers
December 20th
- Tom Parker Bowles on Britain's best smoked salmon: 'Pure piscine simplicity and the pinnacle of the smoker’s art'
- Country Life's 10 best architecture stories of 2021
- 'One of Winchester's grandest homes' is up for sale, offering fantastic family living in the heart of the Cathedral city
- Curious Questions: Why do we kiss under the mistletoe?
December 19th
- 12 glorious country homes for sale, as seen in Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh: 'Only God’s earth — in the garden and the countryside — is capable of coming up with the goods with reliability equal to that of St Nicholas'
- Simon Jenkins: Europe's cathedrals are the true wonders of the world, and were once daubed in colour — it's time they were once more
December 18th
- A striking and historic baronial Gothic manor house for sale at £6.5m, including one of the finest treehouses we've seen for years
- Curious Questions: Why is smell the most evocative of our senses, 'primal, unconscious and instantaneous, capable of stopping a person dead in their tracks'?
- Morton Hall: The magnificent garden that gives an illusion of effortlessness amid the silent winter air
December 17th
- In Focus: Dame Laura Knight, the genius written off by the snobs of the art world, finally getting recognition for her vibrancy and expression
December 16th
- Best Barbour jackets: The finest waxed jackets from an iconic British company
- The homes and golf course coming soon on St Lucia in a location that is 'off-the-charts spectacular'
- This sweet chocolate-box thatched cottage in a peaceful Hampshire village is on the market for £620,000
- The Clockspire restaurant review: A sensation in Somerset — and how to prepare their signature venison dish
December 15th
- Building back Bermondsey: The new development breathing fresh life into one of London's vibrant areas
- A farmer's view of Storm Arwen:'I surveyed the shattered wreckage of a wood I remember planting with my father one school holidays'
- One of the finest surviving medieval barns in the east of England has come up for sale, a spectacular historic building offering ancient beams and an indoor swimming pool
December 14th
- Country Life 15 December 2021
- Best wellington boots: The finest wellies you can buy
- Oceanus, Mustique: A magnificent Caribbean home for sale with glorious views, and pools for every time of the day
- An amazing opportunity to own a sprawling 17th century manor in West Sussex at a knockdown price — but you'll need to move quickly
- A grand portion of the historic country house that belonged to John Profumo
- Carla Carlisle: 'I felt a surge of gratitude and hopefulness that’s hard to describe. You could call it Thanksgiving.'
December 13th
- Everything you need to transform your library into the most decadent room of the house: from a £6,000 bookcase to a secret games table
- The Thames-side home of the composer Gustav Holst is up for sale, a true gem in one of London's most desirable villages
- My Favourite Painting: Laurence Cumming
December 12th
- The ultimate view of Loch Ness for sale? A secluded and spacious home that showcases state-of-the-art living in the Highlands
- A gardener's guide to winter, from late autumn to the end of February
- Five reasons why you shouldn't get a dog for Christmas
- Grand Lodge, The Freemasons’ Hall, London: A temple to peace
December 11th
- An utterly charming ancient thatched cottage in a peaceful Suffolk village within an hour of London, for sale at just £650,000
- Curious Questions: How are ice sculptures are made?
- The 10 most famous trees in Britain, and the (often grisly) stories behind them
- Rosie and Jim: 'I'll give anyone who can find me an affordable flat my entire Sex and the City box set'
December 10th
- One year on from successful merger, Murray Income keeps an eye on the long term
- The Manor House for sale in the English village where the local pub landlord once refused to take a Picasso in exchange for a round of drinks
- The £20 sketch bought at a yard sale that turned out to be an original Dürer, and worth over £10 million
December 9th
- The 10 types of cloud you'll see in Britain (and what they tell us about the weather)
- A farmhouse? A castle? Whichever it is, it's a 'wildly enchanting' home set in the rolling landscape of Northamptonshire
- Scallops: Tom Parker Bowles on the sublime seafood that 'is both achingly tender and blissfully sweet'
December 8th
- How white-feathered barn owls terrify their prey into submission: 'It’s like a ghost coming on it'
- A 700-year-old manor house for sale once owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and it's a wonderful blend of age and beauty
- Country Life 8 December 2021
December 7th
- A hot pink house in Hertfordshire where Hollywood royalty — including Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton — partied during the 1930's and 1950's
- A painstakingly-renovated and irresistibly pretty Georgian townhouse in the heart of Chichester
- Jonathan Self: 'Town folk know pleasures, country people joys'
December 6th
- A library reborn: How a former call centre became an elegant but relaxed room
- How Bloomsbury became the cradle of British culture
- My favourite painting: Leonie Benesch
December 5th
- Nine wonderful properties for sale, from a Gloucestershire cottage to a Scottish paradise, as seen in Country Life
- How to grow spectacular winter flowers that will make your garden smell wonderful until Spring
- The ten unwritten rules of walking your dog - and how to follow them
- The Tudor Great Chamber at Gilling Castle, and the bizarre tale of its salvation
December 4th
- Curious Questions: Why do we send Christmas cards?
- Mervyn Millar, the genius puppet master behind War House and more: 'When there’s a puppet on stage, it does something different to your engagement with the storytelling'
- Rosie and Jim: The blood-curdling horror of a stag-do group on a three-hour train ride
December 3rd
- A £20,000 bargain? This crumbling Art Deco lift on the Kent coast is seeking a brave buyer with a head for heights
- Best Christmas gifts for gadget lovers, from iPads and headphones to tablets and keyboards
- A spectacular Georgian townhouse that was the home of the prime minister who steered Britain through the abdication crisis
- In Focus: How Fabergé created his delicate, technical, imaginative, whimsical and always recognisable eggs, only to die 'exhausted and broken'
December 2nd
- The 'unique' mosaic discovered at a Roman villa in Rutland that 'puts the county on a national and international stage'
- Rolls-Royce Cullinan review: Part 'awesome beast', part luxury hotel suite, part cocktail bar — and still able to do 0-60 in 5 seconds
- The 'last grand country house in Wiltshire' is lying empty and unloved, and seeking a saviour (with deep pockets) to bring it back to life
- How to make parkin, the traditional Northern ginger cake
December 1st
- Barnacle Geese: The curious tale of the bird which people believed grew on trees
- Curious Questions: Why do we have Advent calendars?
- Country Life 1 December 2021
- A large Arts & Crafts house with its own rotunda in West Sussex that's perfect for families