Colin Amery

Rather in the lurch

Will it ever end? The romantic interest in the architecture, history and life lived in the country house is as alive today as it was in 1978, when Mark Girouard wrote his seminal Life in the English Country House.

issue 09 April 2011

  • The Irish Country House

    the Knight of Glin and James Peill, with photographs by James Fennell

    Thames & Hudson, pp. 192

  • The Country House Revealed: A Secret History of the British Ancestral Home

    Dan Cruickshank

    BBC Books, pp. 288

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