The evolution of the English country house from 1939 to 2022. Over the past year our architecture editor John Goodall has illustrated a period in the development of the English great house. In this ...

The result, declared Country Life, was “the finest country-house evocation of this new age of confident, cosmopolitan wealth”. And here, “cosmopolitan” was code for “Jewish”.

Country house owners who might once have been looked up to with a certain awe are now, in the public eye, regarded as weird. No wonder some of them want to present themselves as businesspeople instead ...

The 54-acre estate, which has Broadway ties, also includes a pool and pond, an outdoor kitchen, a wine room, six fireplaces ...

At this contemporary country house an hour west of London, it’s all about going a little wild. Instead of rows of manicured flower beds, the grounds have an appealing air of unruliness.

The Pig hotels avoid all the usual country house folderol: no Michelin-starred restaurants, croquet lawn, poolside champagne or golf courses. Instead, ...

The house and its estate have been the official second home of the serving prime minister for more than100 years. It has 10 bedrooms, a heated indoor swimming pool in the Orangery, a putting green ...

Call it Gummer’s Law, the country house clause, the now-no-more Planning Policy Guidance 7 (PPG7), or even its latest, official title: paragraph 80 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2023*.