Best Properties on the Market: Pretty Thatched Cottages

Mel Bax on designing homes around the people who live in them, embracing colour and character, and why timelessness has little to do with playing it safe. There is no recognisable Studio Mel Bax look. For founder Mel Bax, this is entirely intentional. Rather than developing a signature formula and repeating it from house to...

As Heritage Open Days invites us to step inside some of Britain’s most fascinating buildings, we’ve brought together six historic homes for sale that carry their architectural heritage into the present. From a restored church and working 16th-century mill to a Cornish engine house, Georgian barn and home within Thurland Castle, each has a remarkable...

From Sussex sparkling wine to the vines of North Yorkshire, discover five English vineyards offering tours, tastings and unhurried late summer afternoons. Late summer has a quiet charm of its own. Harvest is close, the pace slows and there’s every reason to linger. A picnic between the rows, a guided tasting, an afternoon in the...