Features Archive | August 2024

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August 31st
- The Scottish house of your dreams has come up for sale beside a loch in the heart of the Highlands
- Curious Question: Did the limerick originate in Limerick?
- The Country Life Guide to Marrakech: Where to shop, stay and eat
- The not-so-definitive Country Life guide to buying a car
August 30th
- Pale and interesting: The textile technology that's bringing back cream interiors
- An Oxfordshire village mansion where Thomas Hughes wrote his most famous book
- The Legacy: Charles Rolls and 'the best cars in the world'
- The glittering new home of Hancocks London, the jeweller that makes the Victoria Cross
- George Stubbs (1724–1806): Hero of the turf
- No calls after lunch? The Probate Office is in disarray and the new Chancellor needs to sort it out, and fast
August 29th
- The Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece that never was, thanks to an assassination, a war, an abduction and an invasion
- 'I loved it like a best friend, and shed a tear when it was finally consigned to the great junkyard in the sky': Country Life's team on our first cars
- Main character syndrome: How to live like the stars of your favourite tv show
- The story of the Victoria plum, and how to serve them roast with nuts and cream
August 28th
- 'It was Labour that ushered in chemical-driven agriculture: it must be Labour that puts that legacy to rights'
- A unique insight into Blenheim Palace, with the interior designer whose family have lived there for 12 generations
- High in the saddle
- A rare opportunity to own a house near some of Cornwall's best restaurants with a private path to a sought-after beach
August 27th
- Leading landscape photographers share their secrets in latest Light & Land exhibition
- With its own private chapel, Robert Adam's most northerly house is for sale with 308 acres
- Country Life 28 August 2024
August 26th
- The ship that was in two different centuries, two different years, two different months, two different days and two different seasons, all at the same time
- Six of the best Scottish Properties for sale in this week's Country Life, from £18.5 million to £980,000
- The Spice Girls, The Stage and the state of the Arts, with Alistair Smith
August 25th
- Striking wallpaper that makes this Parisian sitting room sing
- The small suburban garden: 'It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you do with it'
- How to stop your dog from being protective and barking at builders
August 24th
- Wet wet wet: How water has been irrigating the imagination of our gardens for centuries
- You rang, your majesty? What it was like to be a servant in the Royal Household
- Haymarket Townhouse hotel review: Where to stay when out on the town in London’s West End
August 23rd
- The Rolls-Royce Cullinan II: As smooth as a 'bubble bath with Roger Moore'
- One of the few private dwellings on Cornwall's Percuil River comes to market, with astounding gardens and waterside living
- Tiny sanctuaries: The best huts in Britain
- 'But for a few twists of fate, she might well have been Queen of England': Who was the mystery woman in the Hilliard miniature?
August 22nd
- La Réserve Ramatuelle review: A St Tropez hotel with a detail-oriented approach and slippers to die for
- Rarer than pandas: Meet the native breeds that have a crucial role to play in food security and conservation
- Flower of Scotland: An estate near Edinburgh that was inspired by the gardens of Versailles hits the open market for the first time
- Better than Heinz? How to make your own tomato ketchup
August 21st
- A cosy cottage in the North Wessex Downs in which to relax, unwind and revive
- Patrick Galbraith: 'For a couple of hours, I was part of a rich culture that will soon be lost'
- A manor house built for the British Empire Exhibition in London that was transported to Salcombe brick-by-brick
August 20th
- Getting off-grid on wheels and in luxury — a tour of Scotland's western coast
- Parasites of pleasure: the plants that live on plants and what to do with them
- Country Life 21 August 2024
- Villa Devereux, home of Ron Hickman and one of Jersey's most famous houses, comes up for sale
August 19th
- Minette Batters: The quest for the holy triumvirate
- How to live like a Tudor, and other stories, with Ruth Goodman
- 'fat, dark and juicy': Every type of blackberry you could ever need and how to plant them
August 18th
- Honouring the past, protecting the future: the gardens at Badminton House
- At last, a new chapter for the Reading Room at the British Museum
August 17th
- A contemporary home in Sevenoaks with some of the best views in the country
- Curious Questions: Why do so many animals have bright white bottoms?
- The Grove at Narberth, hotel review: A perfect country house escape in rural west Pembrokeshire
August 16th
- Rolls-Royce launch the Phantom Scintilla private collection, one of its 'most personal vehicles to date'
- The Designer's Room: A sitting room splashed with colour, space and style
- From the Pyrenees to Los Angeles without getting off your sofa. How to shop for property in Virtual Reality
- The tragic tale of Rex Whistler, the brilliant young artist whose time at the Front Line lasted less than 24 hours
August 15th
- 'Although exams are important, they are a limited measure of talent and no guarantee of future success': Or, why you shouldn't take your A-Level results too seriously
- One of Ireland's great estates, once lived in by Fred Astaire's sister, and with salmon fishing on the Blackwater, comes to market
- The ultimate starter: Tempura courgette flowers stuffed with smoked salmon and ricotta
August 14th
- Gather, grow and regenerate at The Newt in Somerset, with star-studded festival lineup announced
- 'Keep thy device clean': Country Life's Tech Commandments
- A thatched cottage in the New Forest where ponies come to your door that's also ridiculously energy efficient
August 13th
- The Last Word: 'Portmeirion’s charm is rooted in eccentricity and this is why I love the place'
- Country Life 14 August 2024
- David Messum: Whimsical tales from the life of one of Britain's greatest art dealers
- 'A wreck' in Herefordshire that's been transformed into a wine-producing mini manoir on the banks of the Frome
- To Oliver Walston: A visionary, a farmer and a friend
August 12th
- A tale of two cities: Former home of Charles Dickens on Hanover Terrace comes up for sale
August 11th
- Five magnificent country homes for sale, from a palatial Georgian masterpiece to an equestrian dream home in Hertfordshire
- The year of the umbellifer: the glorious plant jesters thriving in the summer rain
- Whistle while you work: why the sheepdog still owns the fields and hills of Britain
- 2,000 years of fountains, from Roman Britain to a 300ft modern masterpiece in Gloucestershire
August 10th
- A remarkable Edwardian country house in one of Herefordshire's most enviable locations hits the market for the first time
- Curious Questions: Why do we still love pirate stories, 300 years on from Blackbeard?
- At a home designed by the architect of the Royal Botanical Society, a new garden takes shape
- University Arms, Cambridge, review: The hotel where a book butler comes as standard
August 9th
- A castle folly in Weston-super-Mare from which to relax and enjoy views of the Severn Estuary
- A London townhouse kitchen created for work, rest and play
August 8th
- ‘We nearly drowned a couple of times. I loved it': Meet the royal boat builder who's spent 45 years chasing perfection
- How to make the ultimate posh chicken and chips
August 7th
- The £20,000 watch made from the wing of a Spitfire shot down in the Second World War
- A glorious East Sussex farmhouse in six acres with outstanding period interiors and a big pond
August 6th
- Greatest recipes ever: Heston Blumenthal's chips
- There are 200 chalkstreams in the world, almost all are in England, and they're the most biodiverse freshwater habitat on the planet
- 800 years old and bubblegum pink, take a look inside this Suffolk longhouse
- Country Life 7 August 2024
- 'Water was coming in through the roof, the windows and the stone walls. It caused mushrooms to grow in the bedrooms, and sizeable bits of the ceiling to detach themselves without notice'
August 5th
- A Scottish island with beaches, castle and farmhouse that's for sale at the price of a two-bedroom London flat
- Bay watch: Why laurel leaves have done everything from crown emperors and Olympic champions to flavouring stews
- From Tudors and Georgians to pet monkeys in Roman Britain: Matt Thompson of English Heritage on telling the stories of the past
- 'I can’t look away. I’m captivated': The painter who takes years over each portrait, with the only guarantee being that it won't look like the subject
August 4th
- Seven gorgeous country homes, from £350k to £4.5m, as seen in Country Life
- The case of the disappearing dahlias
- How to deal with a labrador who won't stop barking
- 'The best of all worlds': Francis Terry's Woodford Hill Farm blends 18th, 19th and 21st centuries
August 3rd
- An exquisite, completely refurbished Georgian country house with grandeur, beauty and a brilliant treehouse
- The 1930s eco-warrior who inspired David Attenborough and The Queen, only to be unmasked as a hoaxer and 'pretendian' — but his message still rings true
- The Artist Residence, Penzance, hotel review: Boutique luxury in the heart of Cornwall
- The garden at the Old Rectory, Preston Capes: Happily ever after
August 2nd
- A converted medieval monastery set in 16 acres of Somerset that has a miniature castle as its poolhouse
- Nightjars: The ventriloquist magicians of the bird world which sing 1,900 notes a minute
- The years when Art was part of the Olympics — and the double-gold winning painter who became its greatest champion
August 1st
- What the Monopoly board would look like at 2024 property prices
- A Pembrokeshire hideaway that's a perfect family home, with seven bedrooms, 15 acres, and its own river island
- How to make cherry and pistachio cake that's perfect for a summery afternoon tea
- How to eat seasonally in August, by Tom Parker Bowles