Penny Churchill

1 week ago | countrylife.co.uk | Penny Churchill

Today sees the launch in Country Life of one of Kent’s most illustrious country houses, the striking, Grade I-listed Holwood House, set in 40 acres of historic landscaped gardens and parkland a mile east of the village of Keston, 14 miles from Canary Wharf and two miles from Biggin Hill airport.

1 week ago | countrylife.co.uk | Penny Churchill |James Fisher

Who doesn't love a good old medieval country home? We certainly do. This is basically a magazine built off the back of solid medieval masonry and the Arts-and-Crafts Movement. We will not be stopping now. Especially when they have interiors like these.

2 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Penny Churchill

We continue with our West Country theme this week, as we head to mid Devon. There, Oliver Custance Baker of Strutt & Parker quotes a guide price of ‘excess £2.15m’ for Upcott Barton. Near the village of Poughill, five miles from Crediton and 12 miles from the cathedral city of Exeter, it is set in 25 acres of private and sheltered gardens and surrounded by open farmland.

1 month ago | countrylife.co.uk | Penny Churchill

When the Edwardian professional classes went house-hunting beyond the suburbs, they sought what Mark Rimell of Strutt & Parker’s country-house department describes as ‘their very own Howards End’, referencing the 1910 novel by E. M. Forster. That is ‘[country homes] close to a railway station with trains into the city’.

1 month ago | countrylife.co.uk | Penny Churchill |Toby Keel

One of the joys of making your way down to the south of Cornwall is the array of delightful Cornish names — both old and new — which pop up on the road signs everywhere. As you head from Falmouth down towards Helford, you’ll find Pendennis Castle, Gyllyngvase Beach, Goldenbank, Penryn, Bissom, Penjerrick, Maenporth Beach and many more. It’s already a spectacularly picturesque part of the world, but somehow the linguistic delights make it better still.