Built in the late 1600s for a homesick Italian aristocrat, Newington House brought a taste of Italy to the Oxfordshire ...

Long before it inspired scenes in Netflix's historical drama The Crown, a rambling country house in West Sussex, served as ...

In 1974 the Victoria and Albert Museum held an exhibition called “The Destruction of the Country House.” The director, Roy Strong, noticed that visitors were in tears as they came to terms with all ...

When Elizabeth Smalley and Richard Stone first saw Meavy Barton Farm, a 16th-century home in the English countryside, it seemed like the perfect antidote to hectic London life. The couple bought the ...

A desire for more space and fresh air helped fuel sales of English country homes during the pandemic, but not all buyers are prepared for the expenses of taking one on. “Beware of the running costs,” ...

Everybody loves an English country house, and now there’s a new book called “The English Country House” by James Peill from The Vendome Press, with a foreword by Julian Fellowes and photographs by ...

Tucked high in the Dorset Downs on the U.K.’s Jurassic Coast, Chedington Court is the kind of English country house that makes you do a double-take. On the market for £9.95 million (about $13.5 ...

An almost 300-year-old English country house in Buckinghamshire made from brick and flint and boasting equestrian facilities galore is on the market for £4.6 million (US$6 million). Set at the end of ...

With its chimneys thrusting into the sky, its half-timbered brick façade and vast expanses of leaded glass, the stately structure exemplifies the moment when the English country-house tradition met ...

Foreword -- The House Party -- Everyone Sang -- It Is Ours -- The King's Houses -- Reinstatement -- A New Culture -- Lutyens -- Making Plans -- Home Decorating -- The New Georgians -- The Princess ...

Midway through a three-year project to build an extraordinary, angular modern house in one of England’s most beautiful swaths of countryside, Clinton Dall visited the site to check on progress. He had ...