An editorial journal of remarkable houses
The art of the great house.
Luxury Life Properties celebrates exceptional homes, from Elizabethan prodigy houses to lakeside villas: how they were built, how they are lived in, and why they endure.
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The Estates
Houses with a story to tell
The Prodigy House
More glass than wall, built to be seen for miles: the Elizabethan prodigy house was a statement of wealth written in windows.
The Parkland Seat
A house set at the far end of a great lawn, with battlements that were never meant for battle.
The Cotswold Stone House
Golden stone, steep gables and a garden pressed close to the walls: the quiet luxury of the English village house.
Featured
The Lakeside Pavilion
A colonnade along the water, lit at night and doubled in the lake: architecture designed for its reflection.
Interiors & Living
From the journal
How to Read a Great House Facade
Windows, gables and columns tell you when a house was built and what its owners wanted you to think.
The Library: Heart of the Great House
Once a status symbol, the private library has become the most personal room in the house.
Hearth and Home: The Fireplace Through the Centuries
The fireplace started as the house's only source of heat. It ended up as its centerpiece.
“A great house is never finished. Each generation adds a room, a garden or a story of its own.”
Luxury Life PropertiesMore estates
Stone, water and light
The Gabled Manor
Curving gables, clustered chimneys and great bay windows: the Jacobean manor is all character.
The Lakeside Villa
White walls, a terracotta roof and nothing but water in front: the villa is the simplest kind of luxury.
The Georgian Country House
Order, symmetry and calm: the Georgian country house turned classical rules into a way of life.