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 ...

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

The modern visitor to a country house expects to find at least one room furnished with books: the library. However, speaking for myself, whenever I find it, I never expect to take a book off the shelf ...

Our drawings are the largest and most important collection of British architectural drawings in the world, so it's an invaluable resource if you're researching a country house. The collection includes ...

Curtis & Windham chronicle American Country House movement in architecture book. By Diane Cowen, Former Architecture and Home Design Writer Updated Jan 3, 2017 2:17 p.m.

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 ...

The house, which has just been granted planning permission, will be located in a hamlet, neighbouring a Grade II listed manor house. Kent-based Charles Holland Architects' visuals for the 170 ...

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 ...

The Government plans to drive a stake through the heart of modern country house culture by stopping grand new provincial homes from being built on greenbelt land.

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 ...

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 ...

Could Paragraph 134 of the National Planning Policy Framework replace the country house clause as a more reliable way of getting rural one-off houses through planning? Keith Cooper reports. Subscribe.