Julie Harding
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- 23
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- Sep 17, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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'I rented it from the parents of a friend — they were perfect landlords who charged peppercorn rent': Sir Nicholas Coleridge on his first house in the country (opens the original)
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I rented a stone Cotswold cottage in the village of Notgrove, on a Gloucestershire estate between Bourton-on-the-Water and Northleach It had three bedrooms, a garden large enough for a badminton net and a defunct night storage heater in the kitchen. We were there from 1985–88. I was dating a first-year Oxford student and, being eight years older, my strategy was to lure her out of university for weekends and pack the cottage with friends older than myself, so I appeared more age appropriate. It
A thatched roof, ancient beams and fire-engine-red Rayburn at this picture-perfect thatched cottage in Lincolnshire (opens the original)
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It may be a well-worn cliché, but White Cottage truly is chocolate-box material. Even its location is like something from a storybook: the address is Peppercorn Walk, in the village of Holton le Clay. Thatched, white walled and immaculate, this property — which is on the market through Fine & Country at £350,000 — dates back to the late 1600s, though it has seen plenty of alterations from 1800 onwards. Exposed timbers proliferate, including in the spacious dining kitchen that forms the hub of th
A beachfront Victorian fortress for sale on Alderney that could be in the Caribbean (opens the original)
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For much of the early 19th century, the Channel Islands were considered key to Britain's security — and Alderney in particular. The northernmost of the islands, eight miles from France and 60 miles from the English coast, even Napoleon considered it the key to invasion. Forts and other fortifications were erected on the island — and elsewhere on the Channel Islands — in the mid-to-late 19th century by as part of Lord Palmerston's defence initiative, and among the most striking is Château à l'Eto
'I went out of my way to make it as 1980s as I could. It's now shades of salmon and apricot': Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on his house in the country (opens the original)
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In Cirencester. My first, my only and my last house in the country. We have tried to sell it, but it didn’t want us to and it’s now raising the standard for multi-generational living. There are two independent units, one for myself and [my wife] Jackie and one for [my daughter] Hermione and her family. We’ve also built a house out of a garage block for my other daughter Cecile and her family. We’re all on the same courtyard — rather like a Birmingham back-to-back. It’s an eyecatching, Grade II-l
No pesticides please, we're British: Organic sector swells with wines the winner (opens the original)
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It's long been said that if there was to be a 'positive' of a warming climate, it would be English wine. But it seems that organic English wine is the real winner, with organic viticulture in England is increasing by between 15%– 20% annually, a trend already seen in Europe as growers convert vineyards to contend with extreme weather conditions. As the hot sun beat down relentlessly this summer on the vineyards at Oxney Estate in East Sussex, owner Kristin Syltevik admitted that a warming climat
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