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Houses

Open any issue of House & Garden and you'll find an edit of some of the most beautiful houses in the world. Here you can revisit many of those houses, from historic country houses to smart city flats. Whether your taste runs more to cosy country cottages or expansive new-builds, you'll find plenty to browse here, and don't miss the beautiful houses by our Top 100 Interior Designers.

New York houses

A rare Manhattan apartment with the feel of Provence in the city

Traditional country houses

Country

A charming 16th-century farmhouse in an idyllic setting in Surrey

Country Cottages

A decorator's enchanting Regency cottage in the pretty Shropshire town of Ludlow

Country

From the archive: a Renaissance chateau with a fairytale romance behind it (2015)

Houses by our Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects

The magical Welsh country house of designer Penny Morrison

Quiet interiors

City

A handsome Grade II-listed house in north London that marries practicality and elegance with ease

Flats

An interior designer's effortlessly light and airy basement flat in London

Traditional Houses

A photographer's ancient longhouse in the Welsh hills

City Houses

A pretty flint-fronted cottage on the south coast with elegantly pared-back interiors

Houses by our Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects

Max Rollitt creates a joyful scheme full of warmth and texture for a Hampshire cottage

Victorian houses

Country

A once-ruined neo-Jacobean house in Shropshire transformed by Henri Fitzwilliam-Lay

London Houses

A Victorian house in south London refreshed for the third generation

City

From the archive: an art-filled Kensington house with a bohemian history (2015)

Designers' houses

A classic Shepherd's Bush house with a fresh, youthful take on interior design

Farmhouses

Country

Edward Hurst brings colonial Williamsburg to a farmhouse on Guy Ritchie's Wiltshire estate

Scottish houses

A remote Scottish farmhouse perfectly rooted in its dramatic landscape

Farmhouses

An 18th-century Gloucestershire farmhouse with a simple, relaxed interior

American Houses

An exceptional timber-framed farmhouse in Upstate New York painstakingly renovated by hand

City

A small Georgian villa in south London doubles in size for a growing family

Modern houses

Modern Houses

Hubert Zandberg transforms a 19th-century barn with a masterfully restrained palette of materials

Modern Houses

Sophie Ashby brings new life to a modernist house in south London

Flats

An elegant west London pied-à-terre packed with clever surprises

American Houses

Designer Meta Coleman's deeply individual house in Utah

Houses by the sea

Houses by the sea

A handsome Grade II-listed Regency house on the Norfolk coast reimagined by Veere Grenney

Country

An 18th-century dairy on the Dorset coast becomes an enchanting weekend retreat

Houses by the sea

A spirited 18th-century cottage in the seaside town of Deal

Cottages

The characterful Sussex cottage of knitwear designer Anna Phillips

London Houses

An Edwardian townhouse in London gets an infusion of colour and joy from Kate Guinness

Country conversions

Country Barns

A Cotswold barn becomes a characterful home with a modern take on country style

Country Conversions

A dilapidated stable becomes a tiny, charming guest house in Anna Haines' hands

Houses

The stable block of a grand country house in Somerset, converted into a characterful guest house

Traditional Country

A magical 16th-century Cotswold millhouse full of secret nooks and unexpected colour

Restoration projects

Old houses with contemporary interiors

A ruined medieval castle is brought back to life by an extraordinary modern dwelling

Scottish houses

A 16th-century Scottish house once visited by Mary Queen of Scots

City Conversions

A former brewery store in Chiswick converted into an airy, generous house

Welsh houses and gardens for St David's Day

Our most popular house of 2024: a rare and remote 18th-century Carmarthenshire cottage restored to its authentic form

Flats

A Belle Époque apartment in the elegant heart of Stockholm gets an airy, serene new look

Small houses

Flats

An interior designer's Dulwich flat transformed into a creative family home

Artists at home

A clever, colourful Notting Hill apartment belonging to artist Daisy Sims-Hilditch

Flats

A designer's flat in Battersea packed with clever small space ideas

Houses

A stylist’s enchanting summer retreat in the Swedish forest

Houses by our Top 100

Houses by our Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects

The beautiful 19th-century Chelsea apartment of interior design Hugh Leslie

Houses by our Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects

A Montecito house with unexpectedly rich interiors by VSP Interiors

Georgian

A Georgian cottage in Highgate with expertly layered interiors by Ben Pentreath

Traditional Houses

A grand south London house with a distinctly Italian charm