Sparkling with candlelight and full of colour and pattern, the old village vicarage offers a warm welcome to Judith and Jeremy Stocker’s guests at Christmas

Armfuls of festive foliage foraged from the Cornish countryside adorn this handsomely eccentric home, full of Gothic styling and heraldic details

Armfuls of festive foliage foraged from the Cornish countryside adorn this handsomely eccentric home, full of Gothic styling and heraldic details

Barnbarroch House, Barnbarroch, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. A country house with views towards Urr Water estuary with two two-bedroom cottages in the grounds. It has period fireplaces and a kitchen

LOVINGLY RENOVATED BY CLAIRE AND SIMON, THIS YORKSHIRE STONE VILLAGE HOME IS THE PICTURE-PERFECT SETTING TO HOST CELEBRATIONS

There is nothing quite like a barn conversion with its characterful features and nod to an agrarian past to get the pulse racing, so who wouldn’t love one of these distinctive homes magnificently transformed for rural living