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A 500-year-old house with four-poster beds, stables and its own cider orchardIn a pretty hamlet on the border between Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, Pound Farm is a home full of history that's a dream for equestrians.
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Name that decade in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 4, 2026Ten things that happened — but when?
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'We cracked the padlock and found a mountainful of asbestos, so that wasn't ideal': The secret spaces in our finest country housesSecret spaces in country houses continue to thrill and spook us in equal measure.
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Country Life August 5, 2026Country Life August 5, 2026, celebrates Britain's National Parks, looks back at the career of an iconic country house architect and muses on the wonders of clouds.
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The Glovebox: Not even British Leyland can resist the luxury of LunazPlus the world's most expensive helmet, the world's fastest track car and Audi gets lost in the Wilderness.
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A 700-year-old home where ancient stone and timber meets a gazebo and a hot tubThe medieval Burstow Manor offers as intriguing a mix of ancient and modern as you'll ever see.
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From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to T.S Eliot: London Library's most literary members go digitalMembers of the public can now browse the institution's collection online, thanks to the recent digitisation of their membership records.
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Fall in love with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 3, 2026How well do you know your rom-coms? See if you can name the following films from these photographs.
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The British-born designer selling upcycled Hermès beach towels to America’s wealthiest womenLily Clempson breathes new life into the most luxurious of second-hand fabrics. Mary Holland went to speak to her in her Upper East Side showroom. Photographs by Roshni Khatri.
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This remarkable timbered home was preserved for 300 years — and then flattened by a earlLynmore Hall was inextricably linked to the fall and rise of the British monarchy, but it only took a humble earl to finish it off.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Is octopus on the menu in Britain? And more to the point, should it be?Will Hosie questions claims that octopus are too smart to be eaten.
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Fiat Grande Panda: Cheap, cheerful, playful, practicalThe Fiat Panda has been a rural icon for decades, and the latest 'Grande' iteration is a stylish and fitting addition to the genre.
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Five grand country homes, from £750,000 to £14.5 million, as seen in Country LifeThere's something for everyone this week, from a thatched village house in need of a saviour to a grand rural home that's commutable to London.
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'The human equivalent would be able to leap across London's Park Lane': The wonderful world of insectsBe they bioluminescent, possessed of inbuilt violins or builders of Gaudí-esque cathedrals, the insects beneath our feet are worthy of closer inspection, says Charles Harris.
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The architectural evolution of Selwyn College, CambridgeFounded as a hostel for trainee Anglican clergy, Selwyn College became a fully fledged college within Cambridge University with a set of landmark buildings, as Jeremy Musson explains. Photographs by Will Pryce.
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A 1,000-year-old Cotswolds estate for sale, with a Grade II*-listed mansion, 190,000 sq ft and its own deer parkRendcomb Park was originally built as one of the finest houses in Gloucestershire before becoming one of its finest schools. Now, it's set to begin the latest chapter in its story, as Penny Churchill reports.
