Fans of The Crown can get a little taste of the on-screen grandeur by renting out one of the stunning stately homes that served as a filming location for the fourth series of the hit Netflix show. Hedsor House, in Buckinghamshire, was used as a stand-in for Margaret Thatcher’s (Gillian Anderson) Downing Street and for … Read more
A property believed to be the smallest detached house in Britain which measures just 10ft by 8ft has gone on sale for £250,000. The gatehouse, that stands at the entrance to a grand stately home near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, has a tiny lounge, kitchen area and bathroom in the sunken basement below the surface that … Read more
The National Trust has been criticised for its country houses in recent days, but there are hundreds of others still in private ownership whose families are eager to welcome visitors in the wake of the pandemic. Photographer Dylan Thomas and I have visited a fine selection for our book Old Homes, New Life: The Resurgence … Read more
Over the past few days, I’ve thought often of the opening scene in an episode of Telegoons, the BBC’s less than wholly successful 1960s TV adaptation of the young Prince Charles’s favourite radio programme, The Goon Show. The scene in question begins as night falls with Henry Crun, a puppet voiced by Peter Sellers, lighting the … Read more
Hidden evidence of an English family’s hidden Catholic worship that could have condemned them to death has been discovered in a National Trust property. More than two thousand artefacts owned by the historic Bedingfeld family have been uncovered under the attic floorboards at Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk. Books, manuscripts and musical scores that appear to … Read more
National Trust castles and stately homes across Britain reopen their gardens today… but nearly ALL are already fully booked to visitors Historic stately homes and gardens are reopening to visitors across Britain today Nearly all of the sites are fully booked, and visitors must buy tickets in advance Scotney Castle in Kent, Belton House in … Read more
National Trust bosses will start to reopen some of Britain’s best loved public gardens from next week … but stately homes will stay shut The National Trust said it will be reopening 37 of its public gardens from June 3 But trust houses and shops will stay closed, along with cottages and campsites The Royal … Read more