Heritage
Another £100m+ mansion for St James’s?
Forming the glorious northern flank of The Mall, Carlton House Terrace hit the headlines in a big way in 2013, when one of its super-grand stucco-fronted mansions came to the (grey) market in April for…
Here’s why Osborne needs to cut VAT on building repairs
Cutting VAT on housing renovations and repairs could generate a £15.
Stately Progress: Burton/Repton masterpiece comes up for sale in Kent
Some pretty significant estates have hit the market in the UK over the last year, but not many can claim to have been submitted to the United Nations UNESCO Committee to join the likes of Stonehenge and…
Historic hunting lodge comes up for sale… in London
An important Grade II listed Richmond Park hunting lodge - originally built for Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland - has just come up for sale near Barnes, complete with the original stables and tack room
Something in the Air: Shropshire heritage triumphs over the turbine
Double celebrations for William Cash as he celebrates both his recent nuptials and a big win for localism and the Shropshire landscape
Call for listed building owners to have their say
The government has been playing around with listed building consents, introducing a swathe of reforms that are intended to improve the lot of heritage home owners and the properties they care for..
Carter Jonas strengthens Bath office
Carter Jonas has further bolstered its offering in Bath, hiring two experienced surveyors from JLL
Shropshire’s Elizabethan trove to go under the hammer
A rare gamut of Elizabethan and Jacobean furnishings is coming up for auction with Bonhams in Oxford, as a collection from Grade I listed Shropshire mansion Morville Hall is offered on 30th April
Battersea Power Station gears up for launch of next phase
Strap on your helmets; a date's been set for the next Battersea Power Station stampede
House Tales: Somerleyton Hall
With stained glass by Ballantyne of Edinburgh, a carved oak library by Willcox of Warwick, built-in paintings by Landseer and one of the country's finest formal gardens with Paxton-designed hothouses,…
Berkeley bags 42-acre Skindles Hotel site with “enormous potential”
Berkeley Homes and CBRE have come up smiling after tying-up the acquisition of a landmark development site on the banks of the Thames in Taplow, Buckinghamshire in just six days
Case Study: Integrating high-end technology into a listed building
How do you kit out a Grade II listed property in Mayfair with oodles of cutting edge technology, without compromising the building or falling foul of ultra-sensitive planning restrictions? Here's how one…