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Spectacular Scottish castles and estates for sale - Country Life
WEBJun 3, 2024 · Highlands — £7,500,000. A 1,000-acre estate with a red stone castle at its heart. Woodland and pasture are part of the landscape, with deer stalking and scope for a driven shoot. The agents also cite the opportunity to develop further. For sale with Goldsmith & Co.
Alan Titchmarsh: A foolproof guide to growing wisteria
WEBJun 22, 2023 · Do this every year and your plant should not disappoint. Your wall will need some kind of support framework, as wisteria is a twiner, with no sticky pads such as those on Virginia creeper or aerial roots on ivy. Stout horizontal wires fastened to sturdy vine eyes screwed into the wall at intervals of 18in give the most unobtrusive support.
Best country houses for sale this week - Country Life
WEBSep 19, 2024 · Buckinghamshire — £1,500,000. Utterly spectacular, this Tudor country house is set in 40 acres of parkland — this sale is not for the whole, but for the 4,283sq ft East Wing. As well as communal gardens with pool and tennis courts, there are separate private gardens with stables. For sale with Michael Graham.
Who owns Britain: Top ten aristocratic UK landowners
WEBCountry Life November 11, 2010. Prince Charles. 1. Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry. 240,000 acres. Richard Buccleuch, the 10th Duke. of Buccleuch & Queensberry, owns four major estates: Queensberry-complete with magical pink sandstone Drumlanrig Castle Langholm in Dumfriesshire, Bowhill in Selkirkshire, …
Country Life: Get the best out of the countryside
WEBCountry Life's best, worst and funniest adverts of 1923, from Burberry and thinning baths to the SUV of a century ago. From telephone-equipped hotel rooms to cars ‘for lady drivers’, the advertisements featured in Country Life in 1923 captured Britain’s evolution as well as the odd quack remedy. Melanie Bryan takes a look.
Scotland property for sale - Country Life
WEBWhether it’s a farmhouse in the Scottish Borders, an amazing Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh, or a cottage on the stunning west coast, Scotland has a brilliantly varied selection of property for sale. Prices are lower than England – you can buy a castle for the price of a semi-detached three bedroom home in Surrey – and the quality of ...
Beautiful thatched cottages for sale from under £500,000 – …
WEBNov 16, 2023 · Ponsworthy, Devon — £475,000. A tempting sub-£500k price tag for this charming Dartmoor cottage. It’s small — just two bedrooms — but full of charm, with a fabulous open living space at the heart of the house, and a truly rural location. Sadly, the classic sports car parked outside isn’t part of the deal…. For sale with Strutt ...
Gordon Castle named Historic Houses Garden of the Year 2021
WEBToby Keel November 16, 2021. Gordon Castle has become the first Scottish garden ever to win Historic Houses' prestigious Garden of the Year award. The eight-acre walled garden at the castle in Moray, close to the coastline that runs from Aberdeen and Inverness, fought off competition from the likes of Harewood House and Lowther Castle to top ...
Sandringham House: The Norfolk home of The Queen
WEBSep 15, 2022 · When it was acquired in 1862, old Sandringham Hall was a plain, white-stuccoed house, built in 1771 by Cornish Henley, whose wife’s family, the Hostes, had owned the property since 1686. A Victorian ‘Jacobean’ front porch and knobbly carr-stone conservatory had been added by the architect S. S. Teulon.