The Country House Podcast

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The Country House Podcast

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WORKING ESTATES
Living in a country house is a privilege, but it is also a huge responsibility. At a time where envy and ignorance are driving people to wage war upon rural landowners and farmers, we must fight to maintain the rural way of life, but

WOOD HOUSE, TEMPLE GUITING
The Wood House, between Guiting Power and Temple Guiting in the north Cotswolds, is a Grade II listed manor house set in parkland overlooking the Cotswold Escarpment.

Faced in dressed limestone and ashlar, the original Geo

THE TOWER OF THE FIVE ORDERS
Not a country house but one of the finest early examples of the classical orders being utilised in England (as they were later used in so many country houses), the Tower of the Five Orders is the centrepiece of the courty

NEW EPISODE - HAUNTED COUNTRY HOUSES
In our latest episode, out now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other platforms (see link in bio), Geoff and Rory discuss haunted country houses in our Halloween special.

From the ‘Monster of Glamis’ at

UPTON CRESSETT, SHROPSHIRE
The Gatehouse at Upton Cressett Hall - warm red brick with stone mullions, gables, towers, chimney stacks, leaded windows, a neo-Tudor painted ceiling by renowned artist Adam Dant …and a bed slept in by Mrs Thatcher!

AUTUMN WALKS AT CASTLE HOWARD
The sun is shining, the air is chilly and the leaves have turned a gorgeous golden brown. We love walking in the grounds of country houses through the changing seasons, and fewer places look as ravishing in their autumn

CASTLE HOWARD, YORKSHIRE
Castle Howard in North Yorkshire is a magnificent country house built in the English Baroque style. It is celebrated for its palatial architecture and beautiful landscape.

Designed in 1699 by Sir John Vanbrugh, who famously

THE CASINO AT MARINO, IRELAND
Located in Marino, Dublin, the Casino was designed by Scottish architect Sir William Chambers in the late eighteenth-century as a pleasure house for James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont. It is widely acknowledged as t

EILDON HALL, ROXBURGHSHIRE
Following on from yesterday’s post of Jane Montagu Douglas Scott (then Lady Dalkeith, later Duchess of Buccleuch) captured by Slim Aarons in the library at Eildon Hall in 1964, we thought we’d share what Eildon

CHÂTEAU DE CHAMBORD, VAL DE LOIRE
The Château de Chambord, in the Loire Valley, was built by King Francis I in the 16th Century. The building is a stunning example of French Renaissance architecture.

As one of the largest and most famous

COUNTRY HOUSE ICONS - THE DUCHESSES OF BUCCLEUCH & QUEENSBURY BY SLIM AARONS
Slim Aarons was known for capturing socialites, jet-setters and celebrities from Hollywood’s ‘Golden Age’. His favourite spots included Gstaad and Cap

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