It began, as many childhood dreams do, with a fairy tale. For beauty entrepreneur Andrea Asquith, the vision of a grand, storybook home took root early – an old house glimpsed in childhood, its stone ...

I travelled to the Church of All Saints in the quiet village of Harby, Nottinghamshire. Pushing open a clanking gate, I ...

Discover National Trust Christmas events in Herefordshire & Worcestershire. Enjoy festive trails, Father Christmas, wreath-making & historic houses from 22 Nov–4 Jan.

For Christmas events in a grand setting, the National Trust offers a range of historic houses and castles beautifully ...

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Discover National Trust Christmas events in Herefordshire & Worcestershire. Enjoy festive trails, Father Christmas, wreath-making & ...

While Sydney's median house price hits $1.7m, French mansions with up to nine bedrooms and historic features are selling for ...

If you walk up the hill in Greenwich Park from the Queen’s House or from Greenwich itself, you may spot the battlements of a small, fortified castle poking above the park wall and wonder what it is.

Reed Watts, working with landscape architect Colvin & Moggridge, has completed a series of improvements at Ightham Mote in Kent The visitor reception and shop at the Grade I-listed medieval manor ...

It seems these days you are a nobody unless you live (or have a bolthole) in the Cotswolds. From Ellen de Generes to Taylor Swift, the A-listers are enamoured. Katy Campbell examines ...

Across County Durham lie traces of forgotten communities, earthworks, chapel ruins, and quiet fields that once saw medieval life. These deserted medieval villages (DMVs) tell the story of changing ...

The structures and buildings that "need help" include the ill Garden Pergola on Hampstead Heath in London, the birthplace of ...