Country Life UK Magazine - January 22, 2025

Country Life UK Magazine - January 22, 2025

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In this issue
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
Country Life UK Magazine Description:
Publisher: Future
Category: Lifestyle
Language: English
Frequency: Weekly
Country Life; architecture, gardens, countryside, property, the very best of British life Published by IPC Media. Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.
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