Historical Country Houses

With inviting interiors by Annabel Elliot, King Charles’s sixteenth-century house in Cornwall is at the centre of a community regeneration project that includes a sustainably designed plant nursery

Take a look inside the late Queen Mother's Scottish castle with our 1959 archive feature on the house, written by Loelia, Duchess of Westminster

The new occupant of this Wiltshire manor house and its adjoining court house and lock-up – a self-confessed lover of all things Georgian – has recreated in it elements of the early-eighteenth-century interiors of her previous home

Built on the site of a cottage orné in a garden by Capability Brown, Cadland House has evolved through several incarnations into a graceful country house enhanced by its coastal setting

Every day this week we will be publishing an exclusive extract from 'Near and Far', textile designer Lisa Fine's glorious new book which showcases her own houses and those of her friends and fellow creatives, shot by Miguel Flores-Vianna. Here, we take a look at a beautiful Rococo Swedish mansion outside Stockholm.

With every room singing with vivid colour and pattern, the decoration of this Regency villa in the Hampshire countryside is far from the standard country house revival thanks to the shared vision of its new owners and their designer of choice, Ben Pentreath, who relates the extraordinary story of this three-year project

The interiors of Bowhill in the Scottish Borders, one of the seats of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry, have a rich and colourful history, along with one of the most impressive private art collections in the country

Catherine FitzGerald and her husband Dominic West have rescued her family home, Glin Castle in Ireland, from being sold, and made it into a viable commercial concern.

In an archive story from our 2012 Hotels by Design supplement, we revisit Ballyfin in County Laois, which over the twentieth century had deteriorated from being one of Ireland's grandest country houses to a crumbling secondary school, but its recent lengthy restoration and conversion into a luxurious hotel represents a triumphant return to form.

At Pitshill – winner of a Georgian Group Architectural Award last year – Edward Bulmer’s work on the interiors celebrates the sensitively restored period details and makes space for modern life

Samantha Todhunter had already transformed their London house, so when the owners of
this 16th-century Dorset farmhouse asked her to take on its refurbishment, their harmonious working relationship led to impeccable results.

This country house on the Piedmont hill has one of the best gardens ever designed by Russell Page.

Chelsea Textiles founder Mona Perlhagen and her daughter, Jenny, have transformed an eighteenth-century country house into the company design centre and an elegant family home

Bradwell Lodge, a fifteenth century house with an exquisite late-eighteenth-century addition by John Johnson, is the perfect English country house in miniature

In an extract from  'Modern English: Todhunter Earle Interiors', we take a look at a charming Scottish house repaired and restored for a family relocating from Switzerland

In 1997, Gael Boglione and her husband Francesco moved their young family from central London to Richmond. Their new home, Petersham House, overlooked a local plant nursery, which had been carved out of the grounds of their Queen Anne home in the 1970s. In 2004, after extensive restoration works, the nursery re-opened, completely transformed. Over the years the family have steadily nurtured the space in to a beloved lifestyle destination, reflective of their values, love of food and personal collections within their home. Here she tells its story.

This historic eighteenth-century house enters a new chapter as a family home with careful restoration and renovation, sympathetic interiors by Hugh Henry and gardens that open out to the surrounding woods, streams and coast beyond