Richard Collins, property developer who cared as much about design as he did about profits – obituary
Richard Collins, who has died aged 71, was an unusual property developer who put quality of design ahead of profit;...
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Britain’s 10 poshest seaside villages
A home by the sea is the ultimate dream for many of us. During the pandemic, buyers sought to make...
The best private islands in the UK and Ireland you can buy right now
Imagine looking out of your house and everything you see belongs to you: no annoying neighbours, no traffic, no one...
‘People were furious when I started charging to visit my Devon village’
On the north Devon coast there’s a stunningly beautiful, authentic village frozen in time. But while England is not short...
‘There are huge political issues involved with living here’
The approach to the Welbeck estate is detectably ducal. After a row of almshouses, an old hermitage and a community...
Inside artist Henry Fraser’s genius Little Big House
The dramatic aluminium-clad cantilever outside is to protect Henry from the elements (he is unable to regulate his body temperature,...
‘It’s totally nuts that the eldest son inherits the estate – so we scrapped the rules on our 60-room country house’
For 200 years, Cambo House, near St Andrews in Fife, had passed neatly from father to son down the Erskine...
Want a dream home abroad? Here’s what you could actually afford
A shoebox in Mayfair, a castle in Scotland or an island in the Pacific – browsing property websites to see...
Famed for its boarding school but its history goes deeper
For the last century, it has been a world famous boarding school, but Stowe House in Buckingham was once home...
‘We left London for our 230-year-old family estate during lockdown – and never looked back’
Boughton House has been the English home of the Duke of Buccleuch since 1790, and is now one of the...
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