Country Life UK - January 22, 2025

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Regency revival
The home of Mr Charlie and the Hon Mrs Wood

Charmed, I’m sure
There can barely be a parish that doesn’t play host to a selection of our 12 British finches, notes Mark Cocker, as he admires their tuneful song and thick, stubby beaks, capable of crunching even the toughest nut

My favourite painting Jennifer Francis

'The Migration Series' by Jacob Lawrence

1 min

Regency revival

Brockfield Hall, North Yorkshire The home of Mr Charlie and the Hon Mrs Wood An award-winning restoration project has revived this compact Regency house as a modern family home. John Martin Robinson reports Photographs by Paul Highnam

7 mins

The legacy

Bamber Gascoigne and University Challenge

1 min

Charmed, I'm sure

There can barely be a parish that doesn't play host to a selection of our 12 British finches, notes Mark Cocker, as he admires their tuneful song and thick, stubby beaks, capable of crunching even the toughest nut

7 mins

Squeeze the day

Lift the spirits with a bowl of rosy-red blood oranges or a crate of Sevilles, ready for the preserving pan, says Jane Wheatley

6 mins

Hold on to your bonnets

Hold on to your bonnets Whether comic books and operas or granny knickers and counting orgasms, the legacy of Jane Austen, who would have been 250 this year, may have shocked the author, finds Annunciata Elwes

4 mins

Interiors The designer's room

Luxury bathroom specialist Drummonds added scale and drama to the bathroom of a Grade II-listed manor house in Surrey

1 min

All aboard!

More reliable than Greater Anglia or South Western Railway, there's a cast of commuters bound for the capital that you can’t miss, says Madeleine Silver

4 mins

Those old familiar faces

Former homes of persons of note, including rock royalty, writers and gin pioneers, are as covetable as ever

3 mins

Wedding peace of mind

On your big day, good things happen in The Insurance Emporium

1 min

Coming up roses

The sight of row upon row of roses in bloom at Whartons nurseries in Norfolk is even more magnificent than the tulip fields of Holland. Charles Quest-Ritson looks behind the scenes at our largest rose producer

6 mins

Cold comforts

\"I have never encountered a parsnip on a foreign plate\"

3 mins

Quick on the draw

The skills of John Flaxman, idol of all dilettanti’, brought the classics of literature to life, but also his fellow artists, as art dealer Tom Edwards tells Carla Passino

7 mins

Dark of the sun

Samuel Palmer painted golden landscapes that seem pickled in honey, but his visionary work met with mockery and only found recognition long after his death, as Maev Kennedy discovers

5 mins

Smash hits

The end of last year saw some great sales, as one of the few works by Botticelli still in private hands and a painting by brothers Gustav and Ernst Klimt obliterated their estimates

3 mins

Onwards to Croydon!

A faithful staging of the much-loved Ballet Shoes is a triumph and Sir Simon Russell Beale is outstanding as a melancholy poet in an overdue Stoppard revival

5 mins

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