Picture the scene: a cosy but grand rural retreat. A long mahogany table is dressed for Christmas with evergreen foliage. Flickering flames in a huge stone fireplace reflect off crystal chandeliers, ...

London may be a sprawling metropolis, but it’s also a garden lover’s paradise. With more than 3,000 parks and green spaces, the capital offers everything from manicured royal gardens to secret urban ...

Every February, 120,000 visitors escape the frost to experience a winter warmer like no other --an orchid oasis dripping with colour at the world's best-known botanic garden. Around 5,500 of these ...

The £6.6m restoration of London's Kew Palace, launched in March 2004 by the late Sir Nigel Mobbs, was completed last week when the doors were opened to the public. Mobbs, who was chairman of Slough ...

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No one knows for sure who designed Barnham Court, a recently listed Grade I country house in West Sussex, England. However, Nikolaus Pevsner—art historian and author of the *Pevsner Architectural ...