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Mottisfont House THE romanticism of an artist modelling ...

The gardens at Bledlow Manor, Bledlow, Buckinghamshire The home of Baron Carrington of Upton

The garden at The Holt, Hampshire The home of Mr and Mrs Edward Wake

The Tower at Vita’s home, Sissinghurst Castle ...

At the magical Goodwood Art Foundation, a pineapple perches on a chalk bank, 16th-century music bathes an ancient copse and Rachel Whiteread’s cast of the underside of stairs climbs Escher-like into the sky. Charlotte Mullins goes exploring

Sue Harragin has a clutch of old black-and-white photographs which, though not in any way exceptional, offer a beguiling glimpse into everyday life at her moorland cottage some 70 years ago. The neat