For almost 120 years, Country Life magazine has been the property bible for anyone looking to buy a grand country house. Jane Treays spent a year visiting cottages, manor houses and castles through the eyes of the magazine - and seeing how people live in them - from a crumbling historic mansion in Oxfordshire and a glorious Scottish estate basking in its £13 million refurbishment to the inherited turrets of Picton Castle in Wales, and the noisy environment of the huntsman's 18th-century kennels and cottage. Show less