Dunster castle

The interior designer Katharine Pooley has taken her father’s mantle as caretaker of their lovingly restored 16 th-century Scottish retreat, Forter Castle

Glamis Castle, Angus, part 2 The seat of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

Home to a marquess and an RAF air crew – and believed to be the birthplace of a Queen – this red-brick Jacobean mansion contains stories spanning centuries

Arundel Castle, West Sussex

Discover how the UK’s country houses defied the odds to survive as historic monuments and cultural centres