Stately Homes

Having worked in the music industry internationally, Harry Grafton returned to Suffolk to become the custodian of Euston Hall in 2011 and found the house in need of revival. Since then, he and his wife Olivia have turned it into a family home and founded the Red Rooster festival in the grounds

At Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire – former home of the Mitford sisters – Rosie Pearson has restored the Jacobean house and gardens, which now provide the setting for a biennial celebration of contemporary sculpture. We revisit this archive story from 2020.

Not only is this early 19th-century house in Lancashire the ideal place for designer Mia Reay to display her whimsical and appealing collection of wallpapers (which you can read more about in our June issue, on sale now), but it provided the catalyst for her to launch her eponymous company in the first place.

When Lady Chichester inherited Radbourne Hall, she became the custodian of a jewel in the interior-design crown – a surviving example of an almost complete John Fowler scheme. A decade on and the house has been subtly and sensitively restored to its former glory

In this archive story from 2015, we recount how, thirty years on from a life-changing meeting with the man who was to become her husband, the Scottish-born Amelie, Duchesse de Magenta, remained at the helm of the Château de Sully in Burgundy

The author Vanessa Beaumont and her husband took on his grandfather’s house, Bywell Hall just before lock down. After a period where its future was uncertain the house is now a leading character in their story

With its Robert Adam interiors and Capability Brown landscape, Bowood is the epitome of an eighteenth-century English country house, formed by the taste and vision of previous inhabitants and now adapting gently to the needs of the twenty-first century

For Alice and Julian Kennard, preparing for Christmas at Forde Abbey is a communal activity, as everyone works together to decorate the 900-year-old house with foliage and flowers from the estate

The Sackvilles have inhabited Knole for more than four hundred years. In this extract from Knole: A Private View Of One Of Britain's Great Houses, Robert Sackville-West, the thirteenth generation of the family, takes readers on a personal tour of this “calendar house,” (so called for its legendary 365 rooms, fifty-two staircases and seven courtyards) providing a window into British history.

More than a decade after inheriting their Perthshire estate, James and Caroline Inchyra have realised its full potential, turning this bustling family home into the setting for three thriving business ventures

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

The extraordinary story of Faringdon House: the Palladian gem immortalised in Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love. The eccentric Lord Berners, the inspiration for the character Lord Merlin, unexpectedly left the house to the 25 year old writer Sofka Zinovieff. Here we revisit our April 2016 piece on the extraordinary story of this home as the BBC adaptation hits screens

Thomas Clifford and his wife Clarissa on their tenure at Ugbrooke and its restoration, making use of once-forgotten furniture and rehanging family portraits

After moving from London to Wiltshire, Ed and Polly Nicholson brought this Georgian house to life with eclectic art, antiques and an abundance of flowers from their cutting garden, from which Polly now runs a floristry business

Interior designer Fiona Shelburne's clever mix of contemporary touches and a killer art collection brings freshness to this classic English country-house

As the son of the celebrated artist and sculptor Gerald Laing, Farquhar Ogilvie-Laing is ensuring his family’s legacy lives on, both in the Highland castle home his father saved from ruin and through his prosperous bronze foundry

For former House & Garden retail editor Carole Annett, a passing request for decorating advice from her friend, the interior designer Emma Sims Hilditch, turned into the top-to-bottom redecoration of her Surrey house in time for Christmas

Combining classical proportions and traditional furnishings with the informal elements of family life, this house in Cornwall has proved to be the perfect acquisition for its owners