Cozy yet grand, effortless yet always elegant and totally timeless, there's a reason we all love and covet traditional ...

How M.R. James wove country house architecture into his ghost stories. In his ghost stories, M. R. James had a perceptive eye for architectural detail, ... 1904), the bachelor don speaks through the ...

Completed in 2015 in Tarusa, Russia. Images by Sergey Krasyuk. This country house is located in the historic town of Tarusa. The customer purchased the land with a house on it, built without a ...

In contrast, there is a memorable, if unappealing, modern country house in Tess of the D’Urbervilles, the home of Mrs D’Urberville and her son, Alec. With an alien, modern name, The Slopes, and bright ...

In his new book English House Style From the Archives of Country Life ($95, Rizzoli), author John Goodall surveys the different architectural modes across a number of iconic country homes, pulling ...

Hawkes Architecture has won the green light for more country house clause schemes than any other UK practice. Its other paragraph 84 approvals include a three-bedroom house based on the fuselage of a ...

Beginning some 500 years ago during the Tudor period, the aristocracy of the British Isles began hiring the foremost architects to design for them country homes as retreats from the cities—not ...

Lindeberg’s work found its place in America’s canon of country house architecture. Against the backdrop of the first decades of the twentieth century, Lindeberg’s work found its place in America’s ...

As Compton and Dry’s 1876 Pictorial St. Louis and historical photographs reveal, large country houses once graced many of the farm fields and pastures that are now built-up neighborhoods such as Tower ...

Call it Gummer’s Law, the country house clause, the now-no-more Planning Policy Guidance 7 (PPG7), or even its latest, official title: paragraph 80 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2023*.

Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since 1999, covering everything from architecture and transport design to books, tech and graphic design. He is now the magazine’s Transport and ...

Miro Rivera Architects designed the Hill Country House for a very rural setting. It is independent of the municipal water supply, and provides its own heating and cooling via a geothermal system ...