Rubble and ruin were all that remained of the early-19th-century Villa Frere and its gardens, planted by the English diplomat John Hookham Frere, until a group of dedicated volunteers came to its ...

The PIG has farrowed and the latest addition in the litter is The PIG-in the Cotswolds. Self professed Pig fan and Country Life’s Editor-in-Chief went to check it out.

The interior designer chose a colour palette inspired by her Hong Kong childhood when she decorated her sitting room in London’s Notting Hill. ‘I have always loved yellow, so the starting point was ...

With lots of people off the sauce, why not head to our list of London's best bars and enjoy them while they're quiet.

Animals, predator or prey, understand the need for silence. The owl flies on noiseless wings (courtesy of special comb-like ...

Big houses and grand spaces leave lots of potential for some strange games. Melanie Cable-Alexander investigates.

Green, pub, church, duck pond and rose-garlanded cottages: did the perfect English village ever exist? The English village. Perhaps the beguiling habitat closest to the English heart, the place in ...

From the artist killed on his first day in the war to a masterpiece once sold for £30, these were our most popular arts ...

We’re more emotionally connected to the robin than any other bird, says Mark Cocker, as he considers why we feel so much ...

Noël Coward’s Suite In Three Keys at the Orange Tree Richmond gave me more pleasure than any other theatre this year. This trilogy was Coward’s final work for the theatre, but the highlight was A Song ...

With the help of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice, Jeremy Musson considers the abiding presence of the ...

Once you are hooked by walnuts and want to grow more varieties, you find an extraordinary amount of choice. Charles ...