If you imagine an English country house, you probably picture something like Highclere Castle, where the costume drama “Downton Abbey” was filmed, or Drayton House, location of the 2023 movie ...

A new take on the English country house designed by James Wright of Macdonald Wright Architects and Niall Maxwell of Rural Office has been awarded the RIBA prize for House of the Year. Certainly ...

The country estate that features in the film, known in real-life as Drayton House, is a crenelated manse based in Northamptonshire that has been in the Stopford-Sackville family since 1770.

By the end of the century, one in six country houses were demolished. Even before the Second World War, aristocrats were opening their houses to paying visitors to bring in a new stream of income.

Up to now, the received opinion on the English country house was that it went into rapid decline after World War I, with thousands of smart families losing the means to maintain themselves in the ...

For decades, the English country house hotel relied on chintz and history for their appeal. The earliest ones - including Sharrow Bay in Cumbria - looked back to the Edwardian era and the 1920s ...

A Victorian-era country house overlooking the Exe estuary, with a Michelin-starred restaurant helmed by celebrated chef Michael Caines. Rates from £272 to £868.

A ground-floor apartment in the stately English country house where Andie MacDowell’s Four Weddings and a Funeral character, Carrie, married her Scottish husband Hamish (played by the late Corin ...

It’s thanks to Fowler’s discerning eye and partnership with American heiress Nancy Lancaster, who bought Lady Sibyl’s share of the business in the 1940s, that the English country house ...