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That pool. How can you resist?

Clearly, it would be madness to buy a house just because of the swimming pool... but if ever you were to do so, it'd most likely be a house like Glendon, a Grade II-listed Georgian home. Here, the pool looks like it's stepped out of a film. If ever there were to be a re-make of The Graduate set in Dorset, Glendon —

‘These are objects that are not meant to be displayed as accessories… It’s human heritage. It’s world heritage…’ This is what Professor Sussan Babaie, Iranian historian and Courtauld institute professor made of the 3,000 year old earrings worn by Zendaya at the premiere of Christopher Nolan’s latest epic, The Odyssey.

The backlash to this particular fashion ...

Most of the grand, stately homes ‘lost’ in the 20th century were victims of war, taxes or fire — and occasionally all three. Warter Priory, however, bucked the trend(s).

Situated in the bucolic Yorkshire Wolds, the property that Country Life arrived to photograph in about 1905 was not actually a priory, but a vastly extended 16th-century house.

'Warter...

By all accounts, the dog in the 1968 hit musical film Oliver! belonged to the wrong character. Say ‘bull terrier’ and many will immediately think of Bull’s-eye, the famously unfortunate companion to Oliver Reed’s sinister criminal Bill Sikes, a fierce, brutish dog as feared as his cruel, unforgiving master — but anyone who owns a bull terrier will tell you that thi...