The current custodians of a Cotswolds manor have rekindled its centuries-old spirit, making a stylish and welcoming home

For antiques dealer Val Foster and her husband Philip, part of the attraction of moving south from Nottinghamshire some five years ago was the prospect of making a new home. ‘We’d found a property whi

Not many people move into a new home only to find enthusiastic strangers routinely turning up looking for a place to stay the night, but if the house in question was once a youth hostel sequestered in

Pass through The Old Rectory’s entrance gate off a country lane and you’ll find yourself travelling along a gently winding drive that’s cradled by stands of evergreen rhododendrons and laurel with can

The acquisition of houses by the National Trust from the 1930s had less to do with the impoverishment of aristocratic families than the industrial wealth of bachelor donors, as Michael Hall reveals

Wrapped in the wild and timeless beauty of North West Wales, its landscape forged by the elemental forces of ice, wind and rain, is an oasis of calm and order. It is the beautiful and unique garden of