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Best country houses for sale this week - Country Life
2 days ago · Buckinghamshire — £1,500,000. Utterly spectacular, this Tudor country house is set in 40 acres of parkland — this sale is not for the whole, but for the 4,283sq ft East Wing. As well as communal gardens with pool and tennis courts, there are separate private gardens with stables. For sale with Michael Graham.
Country crossings: a stile guide - Country Life
Sep 8, 2016 · 2. Step stile The commonest sort these days and reasonably straightforward to cross provided that, first, the structure is in good repair and that, second, there is a good tall post, suitably shaped, chamfered and sanded, to hang onto when the other leg goes over. There are numerous variations on the number and angle of the timber steps.
Issues - Country Life
Country Life 28 August 2024. Country Life 28 August is the 'Horsepower Issue', featuring everything you could want to know about horses or cars, from Stubbs and Burghley, to Aston Martin and the Morris Minor, plus schools, blackberries, foraging and the …
17 beautiful country homes for sale, as seen in Country Life
Sep 4, 2022 · Leicestershire — £650,000. A fabulous four-bedroom detached home offering envious proportions with incredibly deceptive accommodation of over 2,200 sq. ft. For sale with Bentons via OnTheMarket. See more pictures and details for this property.
How Chequers has changed — and stayed the same - Country Life
May 12, 2020 · Mainly built under Elizabeth, it had, as we know from family documents, escaped with scarce any alteration until a hundred years ago much money was spent in obliterating its history and its beauty under a pervading coat of mock medieval frippery, so pleasing to its perpetrators that the unhappy place was described in 1823 as ‘lately fitted up in the Gothic style with exquisite taste.’
The Fens: In celebration of the magic of a landscape that’s …
Apr 29, 2018 · There are, of course, wonderful things to see in this strange, sometimes spooky place. Ely Cathedral, the octagon of which once served as a lighthouse to guide travellers across the Fens, still makes the heart lift with feelings akin to relief, even to car drivers: silhouetted against the sky, its great but delicately shaped bulk promises civilisation and …
‘Unleashed, mad and dangerous’: How Britain’s wild, romantic …
Jun 13, 2020 · But it was an altogether humbler dwelling, a Yorkshire farmhouse, that raised the moorland novel to its peak, in 1847. For some early readers of Wuthering Heights, the landscape’s identification with the star-crossed lovers was too unleashed, mad and dangerous by far.To return to Conan Doyle, these critics would have agreed with the warning sent to Sir Henry Baskerville on his arrival from ...
Seven gorgeous Cotswolds homes for sale at under £500,000
May 9, 2024 · Coates — £485,000. Almost 1,500sq ft, this three-bed semi offers very good space, and large gardens both front and back. Modern within, it’s been well kept and is in a quiet village close to Cirencester, from where it’s a breeze to get anywhere either in the Cotswolds or beyond. And there’s even a summerhouse and greenhouse in the garden.
Houses for sale in Yorkshire - Country Life
The grand country house of the Yorkshire turkey magnate who took on Bernard Matthews comes up for sale. Knapton Hall is a magnificent country house, located in the Derwent Valley that offers just under 50 acres of superb grounds and a church with Norman origins. The latest Houses for sale in Yorkshire articles, galleries and videos from Country ...