ABERDEEN, Wash. — This month marks the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's final studio album, and fans aren't just able to buy a new "super deluxe" box set to celebrate the occasion. They can also buy the childhood home of late frontman Kurt Cobain, complete with his mattress. Cobain's mother, Wendy O'Connor, is putting the tired, 1.5-story bungalow two hours southwest of Seattle on the market this week. To help sell it, the family is offering a glimpse into the early life of its tortured and talented Read more [...]

A house built by Jane Austen's descendants in Horsmonden, Kent, was listed by English Heritage last week, joining around 100,000 protected buildings of its era. But it has been singled out not for its quaint Victoriana, but for what sits on top of it. Floating above the gothic scene, like a spaceship hovering into view in Pride and Prejudice, hangs a long low roof, suspended above a bronze-tinted glass box. From inside this diminutive pavilion, the woodland scenery wraps around in a 360-degree Read more [...]

Penny Churchill finds some outstanding country houses in Yorkshire for sale In his book Yorkshire Greats (Dalesman, 2005), the formidable Sir Bernard Ingham, a Yorkshireman himself, defines ‘grit, persistence and bloody-mindedness' as key elements of the essential Yorkshire character. These qualities are also seen to good effect in the county's rugged stone country houses, four fine examples of which have come to the market, having shrugged off the effects of the wars, persecutions, pestilence Read more [...]