Features Archive | June 2024

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June 30th
- Six magnificent houses and estates for sale, from a picture-perfect castle to 7,000 acres of the Scottish Highlands
- Leave the cellophane-wrapped lettuce at the supermarket. It's time to grow your own
- How to 'reboot' an older dog whose training has fallen by the wayside, by expert trainer Ben Randall
- The origins of Wolterton Hall
June 29th
- The £30 million Dorset estate that comes with a 200-year-old mansion, a cricket ground, a nature reserve and an entire village
- Curious Questions: Is there a way to win at rock, paper, scissors?
- J. K. Place, Capri review: ‘A handsome mansion’ with jaw-dropping views of the Amalfi Coast
- Inside the garden of Eton: A rare glimpse into the grounds of the world's most famous school
June 28th
- 3,000 pristine acres of Loch Lomond National Park, where red squirrels roam spectacular woodland, have come up for sale
- How to create the perfect dining room, according to Philippa Thorp
- From Derbyshire to Dunrobin to the Dordogne, Andrea Jones's spectacular winning photographs in the RHS Botanical Photography Awards 2024
- The Country Life guide to Capri, Italy: Where to go, what to see, where to stay and what to eat
June 27th
- A country house, a medieval ruin and 814 of acres of Hampshire countryside up for sale in an idyllic, rural £15 million estate
- Beside lamps and reading lights to brighten up your bedroom
- John Lewis-Stempel: 'Rewilding is a poor, pathetic box of tools for fixing the state of nature'
- How to make gooseberry and ginger custard tart
June 26th
- How 'an insatiable appetite for brass-band music' gave rise to the bandstand, and how we almost lost them all
- The garden at Emmetts Mill, Chobham: Bourne to run
June 25th
- 'The local club is as important as the commute': How the likes of Soho Farmhouse, Estelle Manor and The Newt are reshaping the country property market
- Country Life 26 June 2024
- For sale for the first time in 46 years, a three-storey Georgian home on the edge of Dedham Vale
- Patrick Galbraith: We are a brilliant and terrible species who messed it up a long time ago — and that means we have to do things we don't want to
June 24th
- 'What else can you do but say "it's completely disgusting"?': Britain's worst new buildings, with Charlie Baker and the Carbuncle Cup
- An elegant family home in East Anglia's commuter sweet spot
- My Favourite Painting: Jeremy Clarkson
June 23rd
- 19 grand country homes for sale, from under £300k to over £10 million, as seen in Country Life
- Succession planning for plants? The organisation saving our National Collections
- How to toilet train a dog who just doesn't get it, by award-winning trainer Ben Randall
- Gatewick: The 'Georgian' house that was built from scratch in the 1950s
June 22nd
- A Tudor masterpiece with 10,000sq ft, 21 acres, and a thriving business that could help the place pay for itself
- Tanks, tulips and taxidermy: The strange lives of Britain's most eccentric collectors
- Girls just want to have fun (in Somerset): A weekend away in one of the West Country's best holiday homes
- The gardens at Dunvegan Castle: Hard landscaping on the Isle of Skye
June 21st
- A 900-year-old farmhouse with higgledy piggledy beams, a suit of armour in the hall — and a very 21st century 'smart' swimming pool
- 'A delightful parallel universe of creativity' that's been unleashed on London by 'the world's best designers at the top of their game'
- Jeep Wrangler review: An iconic off-roader that’s stayed true to its roots
- A glorious Scottish island has come up for sale with a price tag of just £500,000
- G. Collins & Sons: Experts in the exquisite
- One of the cleverest pictures ever made, and how it was inspired by one of the cleverest art books ever written
June 20th
- A country house with dour façade which hides some of the most amazing Jacobean interiors you'll ever see
- The day that Stonehenge was sold via the pages of Country Life
- Curious Questions: When does summer actually start?
- A Grade A-listed home in Scotland with its own antique shop for less than £1 million
- The dish that's as simple as it is brilliant: Tom Parker-Bowles on omelettes, and his ultimate omelette recipe
June 19th
- A seven-bedroom home near Wimbledon that will make all your modernist fantasies come true
- Reader event: Alidad on four decades of bringing the past to life through furniture, textiles, colour, craftsmanship and texture
- The Country Life guide to Dorset: Where to go, what to see, where to stay and where to eat
- FREYWILLE: Works of art
June 18th
- A 300-year-old Jacobean mansion that comes with woodland, orchard and its own mini-village
- Country Life 19 June 2024
- Minette Batters: The Peppering Project is a 'blueprint for delivering food and Nature security across the country in a way that rewilding on its own never will'
June 17th
- An incredibly rare chance to buy a great house within one of Britain's most storied estates... but you'll have to be ready to roll your sleeves up
- Six things to know about the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition
June 16th
- Five utterly superb country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
- If you sow seeds in June, you might just be putting down bird seed... but it's worth the risk if you love fresh summer salads
- Elegant and congruous: How Hartland Abbey draws together eight centuries of architectural and family history
June 15th
- Let the moon be your guide: How modern biodynamic farmers are using the tricks of the past
- Curious Questions: Is being left-handed an advantage?
- A grand country house with a wonderful faux-medieval folly, just down the road from the King's estate at Sandringham
- HOLM is where the heart is: A triumphant restaurant with rooms in Somerset’s South Petherton
- 'Bugs don’t care what things look like, they simply want somewhere to live. We try to make it beautiful for the sake of the people': Meet the man who's bringing the buzz back to gardening
June 14th
- Walking the walk: Why properly sustainable interiors set an example to us all
- Everything you could ever want to know about the uniforms of the British Army
- The Legacy: David Austin's English roses
June 13th
- Country Life's Little Green Book: The eco-friendly companies making the world a better place
- How to grow your own botanicals and impress at cocktail hour
- Beautiful views? Mod cons? Close to good schools? A trio of beautiful Norfolk homes up for sale which cover all the bases
- A summer scone recipe with apricot, chamomile and honey, as imagined by the creator of a royal wedding cake
June 12th
- Honeysuckle: The woodbine with a scent so powerful it would inspire erotic dreams
- HollandGreen Architecture, Interior Design & Landscape Design
- An exquisite Georgian country house for sale for the first time in 40 years in a village with an irresistibly quirky name
- Nicholsons Garden Design: Intuitive design with climate and Nature in mind
June 11th
- From shed to 'shoffice': How a rustic lambing barn became a spectacular rural workspace
- Before the palazzo there was Petersfield: The Hampshire cottage where Peggy Guggenheim learned to love the art world
- Country Life 12 June 2024
- Jonathan Self: Gossip, atheists, and the cheating husband caught on his own CCTV cameras
June 10th
- Dressing to impress: how to stand out at Royal Ascot, all while following the rules
- Have you been doing holidays all wrong for years?
- A Scottish island for sale with seals, seven houses, a lighthouse and its own pub
- Celebrating the act of looking and drawing from life: New English Art Club presents latest annual exhibition
June 9th
- The wildlife safaris you can take without even leaving Britain, from puffins and golden eagles to dolphins and deer
- 21 magical homes, from a miniature castle to a house in a fairytale setting, as seen in Country Life
- Why I try to get rid of the pinks in my garden — and the reason I always change my mind and end up keeping them
- 'My dog is scared of loud noises — and now a building site has appeared next door. What can I do?' Expert trainer Ben Randall shares his advice
- Hartland Abbey: The beautiful Devon house behind which lies 1,500 years of history
June 8th
- 'One of Britain's greatest estates', complete with castle, river and 711 acres, is up for sale for the first time in a generation
- Curious Questions: Were Mallory and Irvine the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
- 'There is no end to the beauty of what they have created': The sensational gardens of Selehurst
June 7th
- A Gothic townhouse in Lewes with five bedrooms and a perfectly round 'soaking bath'
- The circus performer who literally gritted her teeth to earn success and fame — and inspired one of the great Impressionist paintings of the 1880s
June 6th
- A £13 million Wiltshire mansion where Nancy Mitford and Siegfried Sassoon once partied with 'the brightest of the Bright Young Things'
- How the country houses of Britain proved perfect for the Allied Forces to get ready for D-Day
- 'By the time I wanted to know about the war that had swept over the world and redefined lives, I’d left it too late for first-hand accounts'
- A taste of The Season: How to make Pimm's Pavlova
June 4th
- A Cotswolds home is up for sale that ticks every box... so long as you have £12 million to spend
- Country Life 5 June 2024
- Jason Goodwin: I always give the snails a flying chance at new life — but with slugs, I am merciless
June 3rd
- Hotel De L’Europe review: Amsterdam’s oldest independent luxury hotel
- Father's Day gifts: What to buy that extra-special dad
- A wonderfully secluded old rectory in Dorset with spectacular gardens, dedicated wine room, and it's walking distance from the station
- Why does Wales exist and 46 more questions about the borders of the world, with Jonn Elledge
- Romancing the stone: How one man has taken the craft of dry-stone walling and turned it into an art
June 2nd
- How a dog taught me an unbeatable technique for calming down a misbehaving dog, by A-list trainer Ben Randall
- Russell House: A Broadway sensation
June 1st
- A gorgeous Victorian farmhouse that comes with almost 900 acres of Exmoor all to yourself
- A game of two halves — how the sandwich went from humble fare to a country-wide lunchtime obsession
- Chilcombe House: the garden that's become a 'pilgrimage' and a 'living legacy' to its former owners