Features Archive | September 2025

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September 30th
- A Dartmoor home with one rather unusual catch: King Charles III has the right to come along and fish in your stream
- James Robinson: A fifth-generation farmer on the ups and downs of 'the most glorious job in the world'
- The origins of the Oxford shoe and why it will never go out of style
- Everything you could ever want to know about growing, eating and cooking plums
- A Georgian country house that's immaculate, unlisted and surrounded by 21 unspoilt acres of Somerset
- Hollywood star Audrey Hepburn, whose early career was formed in London, is to be honoured with a prestigious Blue Plaque
September 29th
- 'There were no fireworks. The art world remained unshaken. Then, this April, a letter arrived... to see it hanging in Tate will be very special': Art dealer John Martin on the piece he'd never part with
- A country house escape where 'legend has it that Shakespeare came to stay' while writing The Tempest
- What is everyone talking about this week? Is this British wine’s best year yet?
September 28th
- The not-so-ugly duckling: What to know about the quirky Irish water spaniel
- Six superb country houses for sale, from an Italian-style palazzo in the Cotswolds to a dramatic home on a Cornish headland
- The roads less travelled: The shapeshifting glories of Britain’s sea paths
- A derelict school turned into a gorgeous home with 'an interior of harmony and visual éclat'
September 27th
- Martin Brudnizki, the face behind almost every five-star hotel interior, on his consuming passions
- A vicarage designed by one of Queen Victoria's favourite architects, exquisitely refurbished to keep every ounce of original character — and even a few cracks and crumbles
- The 'professional hoarders' that have dressed everyone from Helen Mirren to Hugh Grant, and Madonna to Meryl Streep
- Western Europe's oldest capital wears its ancient history and rich heritage lightly: The Country Life guide to Lisbon, Portugal
- 'We want everyone to have a magical time': Life at the smartest flower farm in the Cotswolds
September 26th
- The blissful waterside home for sale that hosted the iconic 'Surrealists in Cornwall' party, where Man Ray, Lee Miller and Henry Moore let down their hair
- 'Top Trumps: British wildlife edition': How do our native animals measure up against one another
- Embrace preserving with Gill Meller and his recipe for bean and apple chutney
- 'You simply would not move unless you had to': All the rumours about what The Budget could do to the property market in Britain — and what they'd mean for buyers and sellers
- Agromenes: Act now for Man’s best friends
September 25th
- A spectacular green oasis that offers a slice of country life in the very heart of one of the busiest places in London
- Nibbling at wild fruit is in our bones, so here's how to harvest the finest hedgerow bounty
- 'It’s always been more about the things than the money': The family crafting silk for Strictly, Highgrove, the House of Commons and Westminster Abbey
- Behind-the-scenes at the French film festival you’ve likely never heard of
September 24th
- A breathtaking home created by a genius architect on one of the most beautiful headlands in Cornwall, on the market for the first time in almost 40 years
- What have the Romans ever done for us? They made the Cotswolds Britain's beating heart
- 'Jammers blocking phone signals are, sadly, illegal in the UK': Sophia Money-Coutts on what to do when your mobile goes off in a theatre
- The proposed National Gallery extension is a ray of light in a stormy sector
September 23rd
- Manolo Blahnik on Margot Robbie, Marie Antoinette, fashion and footwear
- Flying helicopters, rampaging elephants and painting Ronnie Wood: Hannah Shergold on the Country Life Podcast
- ‘The atomic bomb of jewellery’: Why the brooch is back in fashion
- A classic English country house, with charm, croquet lawn and a castle next door, on the market for the first time in almost 60 years
- Lady Bamford's next act: The Cotswold Curated Craft Fair
September 22nd
- Hammocks, streams and kooky charm at this 18th century barn in a hopelessly bucolic spot in the Sussex countryside
- What is everyone talking about this week? Is peated whisky living on borrowed time?
September 21st
- 'I’m here to say: We’re driving. We’re buying. And we’re not going anywhere': Meet the new gatekeepers of the motoring world
- Meet the basset hound: Low-slung in stature, high in charm
- Five charming Cotswolds houses for sale, from a 92-acre mini-estate to an ancient townhouse in one of the most sought-after spots
- They will never go out of stile
- Marble Hill: The house built for a secret lover of the Prince of Wales, with a little help from one of Britain's greatest ever poets
September 20th
- It's already a grey, damp autumn and all of a sudden I'm dreaming of living in one of these palaces in Morocco
- Out of this world: The watches made from million-year-old space rock
- Can you keep a Secret? This new resort in a remote part of the Maldives boasts the big marine five and the world’s first moving villa
- Sophie Conran's garden at Salthrop Manor, and its journey from bare field to Cotswold paradise
September 19th
- This barn that's (probably) made from The Mayflower's salvaged timbers, for sale as part of a £15 million Buckinghamshire estate
- ‘A stone pounding artist — who exclaims in his sleep, “Think of me standing upon a pinnacle of the Andes — or sketching a Fuegian Glacier!!!”’
- Don't blame it on the sunshine, don't blame it on the moonlight, don't blame it on the good times, blame it on the bats
- The eight places touted as the 'New Cotswolds' — and how they match up to the real thing
- Three kilos of gold, 6,462 diamonds and the size of a plate: Is this the world’s most valuable coin?
September 18th
- The Georgian rectory that you've (probably) been waiting for has come on to the market in a bucolic spot just outside Cheltenham
- Alan Titchmarsh: You wouldn't think it, but Surrey is the most wooded of all England's counties — and its Scots pines are as beautiful as any of its trees
- A classic oast house on the outside, a wild architectural fantasy inside, and just down the road from one of Kent's best grammar schools
- Books: In the Footsteps of the Great Artists and the Life and Work of Sir Lawrence Weaver
- Arts & Antiques: Five ways in which we are living in a material world
- Tetrad: Over half a century of timeless good looks
- ‘Lots of books, Scrabble, a pack of cards and James Norton. Oh, and some wine’: Alison Weir’s consuming passions
September 17th
- The Gallivant review: The Camber Sands retreat with show-stopping seafood and a penchant for happiness
- A perfect country house in 'the most beautiful and unspoilt town in the Cotswolds'
- Sophia Money-Coutts: I went to stay with a friend last weekend and my dog killed a chicken. How do I adequately apologise?
- 100 years of the photobooth, the essential piece of party paraphernalia beloved by Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol and Beyoncé
September 16th
- The dream home that never was for one of Britain's greatest film stars, back on the market for the first time in half a century
- ‘City gents in bowler hats beat on our shop windows shouting “immoral!” and “disgusting!”’: The rise (and rise) of the mini skirt
- Five years, 10,400 miles and a boatload of stories: Mark Ashley-Miller on the Country Life Podcast
- Helene Kröller-Müller: The woman who made van Gogh
- A 500-year-old cottage in West Sussex that's as beautiful as you could ever hope to see, with a pool ringed by flowers, stables and a croquet lawn
- From Cornish Gilliflower to Rivers Early Peach: An apple a day keeps Britain’s heritage native fruit from dying out
September 15th
- Goodwood Revival 2025: Pictures from the 'F1 of classic car races'
- Sold, singed and sunk: The sorry tale of Normanton Hall
- A Clarkson's Farm of one's own: Five properties with just enough farmland for you and your family, from under £1 million
- What everyone is talking about this week: What is the right way to propose to someone?
September 14th
- Rust-free romance: hire a classic, not the headaches
- Mastiffs: Gentle giants revered by Shakespeare, feared by thieves, adored by families
- Six superb homes, from chocolate box cottages to grand Tudor mansions, as seen in Country Life
- 'Knowledge, energy, creativity and enthusiasm... He's a sensation': Meet the golden boy of English horticulture
- Fit for a queen: The story of Queen Victoria's state bed at Arundel Castle
September 13th
- A billionaire's thatched cottage is for sale in Surrey, once owned by the oil magnate J. Paul Getty
- (Space) oddities: New David Bowie centre opens at V&A East Storehouse
- Interiors of excellence: all the events and inspiration you can't miss
- Omani tourism is booming and this one-of-a-kind hotel — with exquisite marble swimming pools and dedicated murshid guides — shows why
- What Britain's top garden designers are planting now to create dazzling spring meadows around their homes
September 12th
- Medieval Italian? 19th century French? 16th century German? You're spoilt for choice if you're looking to buy a gorgeous continental castle
- 'The best bulbs are those that give maximum pleasure for minimum effort — and these are the ones which will keep delivering for years'
- ‘You've survived 550 miles with me, how about a few more?’: The NHS doctors who said yes to love while retracing the flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie
- Tom Parker Bowles: The pure poetry of panzanella
- This restoration of a Cliveden garden honours the original vision of Norah Lindsay’s 1930s design
September 11th
- The homes of two 1980s TV icons are both up for sale at the same time
- Keeper’s Cottage at Heckfield Place: When does a hotel not feel like a hotel? When it feels like home
- Living on the edge? A lighthouse for sale on a clifftop on one of the most remote islands in Britain
- 'A phenomenon that has shaped Britain’s landscapes and wildlife for millennia': A five minute guide to mast years
September 10th
- Debo Mitford on her childhood at Asthall Manor, from Nancy's 'coming out' dance to Unity's peach-pinching ways
- Sophia Money-Coutts: What’s the deal with tipping these days, given that literally everything has become more expensive?
- 'This gaff stops you from being depressed. It’s absolutely beautiful, man' — A closer look at this year's RIBA Stirling Prize winner
- Alan Titchmarsh is selling his Hampshire home (and the garden that comes with it): Exclusive pictures and interview
September 9th
- A grand country house tucked away within exquisite gardens, four miles from one of Yorkshire's best beaches
- How one woman cured her fear of horses by making a perfume that smells exactly like them
- Jules Perowne: Where to go in 2026, hotel disasters and podcasting with Richard E. Grant
- 'It was the single most haunting place I have ever been': A voyage to the last major stronghold of the Cathars
- A Lake District escape with views that will make you feel like the king of all you can see
- ‘People would rather buy 20 synthetic jumpers than a woollen one that would last them a lifetime’: The British wool trade today
September 8th
- One of Yorkshire's great houses, burnt to the ground three generations ago, is back on its feet and on the market for the sixth time in a millennium
- The curious world of the penny bun mushroom
- Goodwood Revival and the Scottish sheep farmer who dominated the world of motor racing in 1965
- The Mitford family once called this handsome Cotswolds house a home — and it inspired Nancy's greatest novel
- What everyone is talking about this week: We need to trim school holidays — or give parents a tax break
September 7th
- Bedlington terriers: The rare dog breed that conquered the coal mines and made it to Crufts
- Seven magnificent homes from Cumbria to Devon, as seen in Country Life
- How to make a fig caramel tart with cocoa and almond crust
- 'It is so full of turrets and lofty buildings, spires and towers, it looks not like a town but a city': The glamour of Glamis Castle, from Macbeth to the Queen Mother
September 6th
- The captivating art of the Japanese woodblock
- 'Unquestionably one of the most distinctive and stylish homes in the Cotswolds' is for sale, just across a field from Soho House
- 'Why do I allow the fuchsias in my garden to live on? Because, despite their visual shortcomings, I am a fool for edible pleasure'
- This 300km trail through Sri Lanka's dramatic tea country made the annual 'World's Greatest Places' list. Here's what it's like to hike it
- The best flower borders in Britain, and how they work their magic
September 5th
- 'A world within a world… a community with an identity, a smoothly turning cog in the wheel of royal life': A look behind the stable doors of the Royal Mews
- How shoe designer Penelope Chilvers transformed two adjacent rooms into a spacious kitchen
- The world of super-super prime homes, where £100 million is barely even the starting point
- Some of the city’s finest restaurants are found inside museums. Country Life writers round up the very best
- Elderly Salcombe residents were promised a home for life inside this listed villa — but now the charity it was gifted to want to sell it
September 4th
- Marie Antoinette: How the most fashionable queen in history transformed French style
- Agromenes: Why is our tax money not being spent on British food?
- ‘We couldn’t go around digging holes in existing graveyards for fear of exhuming a real body’: The man who brought The Thursday Murder Club to the big screen
- A 1,000-acre Scottish estate for sale with a 500-year-old tower at its heart
September 3rd
- Gravetye Manor review: The Elizabethan country house hotel surrounded by historic gardens of national importance
- Country-house treasures: A papal seal of approval at Combermere Abbey
- Affordable, sustainable, rural: How a group of volunteers embarrassed the government and built some of the best new homes in the country
- 'At the time, I wanted to move to Mexico and go into witness protection': What to do when you're stalking someone on Instagram and accidentally like a post from six years ago
- Queen Anne architecture with 21st century flair in a country house that's on the market for the first time in almost 70 years
September 2nd
- A fantastical house where the young Lewis Carroll lived is up for sale, complete with endless curious touches that could have come straight from Wonderland
- The enchanting world of Christian Dior’s gardens
- White-tailed eagles: From 'the greatest wildlife crime imaginable' to Nature's most wonderful comeback story
- A feat of clay: How ceramics have taken on the fine art world
- Queen Charlotte's Ball is proof that young women still want to be debutantes
- Five beautiful country homes which show what can be done with a property that escapes the notice of the Listed Building inspectors
September 1st
- The Manot bed that made it from a Herefordshire attic to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, courtesy of Country Life
- The studio Monty Python used at the height of their fame is up for sale — and it's now an astonishing home in Camden
- Country Life's never-before-published photographs of ‘101 Dalmatians’ author Dodie Smith's London flat
- What everyone is talking about this week: The great porpoise panic