Heritage
Event: The Listed Property Show 2016, Olympia London
The Listed Property Show returns to London's Olympia next weekend, with a smorgasbord of info-goodies for anyone interested in maintaining, altering, renovating - or selling - a listed home.
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‘Serviced country house’ fund launches with historic acquisition
An innovative new venture specialising in the development and rental of English country houses has launched with an historic acquisition and major plans to build a portfolio of noteworthy properties in…
Baroness Thatcher’s former home hits the market at £30m
Ultra-prime Leconfield project is one of the house launches of 2016 so far...
Resi revival for Dobson’s Longhirst Hall
An important John Dobson country house in Northumberland is being returned to residential use, eighty years after being requisitioned by the Army
Online agent lists £24m Westminster townhouse
A 12,642 square foot French Renaissance belter on Grosvenor Gardens has become the biggest instruction ever listed with a UK online estate agency.
Grade I Henry VIII mansion up for £12m
An important Grade I listed mansion has hit the market near St Albans.
Five new commissioners brought in to Historic England
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has appointed five new commissioners to the governing body of Historic England.
Vine Living: Award-winning Sussex wine estate hits the market
Venerable champagne house Taittinger made a move into the Garden of England last month, buying up a former apple farm in Kent with a view to creating its first British vineyard
Case Study: A classically-themed reinvention on Chesham Place
Behind the scenes of a highly successful project in Belgravia
Georgian Group Architectural Awards 2015: The Winners
The restoration of Belmont House in Lyme Regis, where John Fowles wrote The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Quinlan and Francis Terry Architects' remarkable Kilboy (below), and Capability Brown’s landscape at …
Major Edinburgh luxury resi scheme gets the green light
JV developers CALA and City & Country have been given the go-ahead by planners for their residential redevelopment of the Donaldson's College building in Edinburgh.
London ‘at risk of being irrevocably damaged’ by raft of new towers
Historic England has decided to update its advice on the planning and design of tall buildings after of a surge of new applications in the capital.