Blickling hall

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

Two great houses, rich with fascinating history and beautifully apportioned, put the county on the map

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

Every room in this mock-Tudor-style home in Singapore is a riot of pattern and colour, thanks to the expertise of designer Elizabeth Hay

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