Following the success of Dream Acres last year, Country Life is launching Dream House, a seven-part series starting next week (September 1) in which Architectural Editor John Goodall and conservation architect Ptolemy Dean will demystify the architecture of the English country house, and provide readers with ideas about the ways their own homes might be improved. Seven figures from the world of architecture have each been commissioned, with a free rein in terms of building regulations, to redesign a house, from Classical villas to derelict farmhouses.
They are historic-building specialist Hugh Petter (September 1), progressive Classical design specialist Craig Hamilton (September 8), conservation and environmental specialist Jenny Humphreys (September 15), contextual specialist James Gorst (September 22), conservation architect Jane Kennedy (September 29), trainee architect Charles Page (October 6) and acclaimed surveyor Charles Morris (October 13).
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Debo Mitford on her childhood at Asthall Manor, from Nancy's 'coming out' dance to Unity's peach-pinching waysThe Dowager Duchess of Devonshire looks back on her childhood in the Cotswold idyll of Asthall Manor.
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A billionaire's thatched cottage is for sale in Surrey, once owned by the oil magnate J. Paul GettyChestnut Cottage is a joyous little home — albeit one with the most unusual bedrooms to acreage to price balances we've ever seen. Toby Keel takes a look inside.
