EVER fancied buying a home with bedrooms galore, a bathroom for every day of the week and more acres of land than you’ll ever need? This stunning estate near Mull Of Kintyre is currently on the market with Savills estate agents in Scotland, and is just one of a number of Scotland's most expensive properties . We are sure you will agree, Killean Estate (pictured in the gallery above) offers the epitomy of refined country living with its listed mansion house and portfolio of adjacent estate Read more [...]

06:30 22 October 2015 Rosa McMahon Architects' image of what the proposed Generation Park in Norwich would look like. 2011 Grimshaw Architects Read more [...]

PART of a town has been moved off the critical status for heritage following a 10-year campaign. Whitefield Conservation Area, in Nelson, has been removed from Historic England’s At Risk Register. MORE TOP STORIES: M65 drivers warned over motorway scam often seen down south RIBBLE ROCKS! Simply Red to headline major new three-day music festival at Clitheroe Castle 'WE'LL DO WHAT WE WANT': Group of men ‘forced’ Read more [...]

Just imagine the possibilities. Start with houses. London has a dozen properties listed on the market right now for more than £30m, according to Rightmove. You could buy them all - houses, plots of land, blocks of flats - for the £502m asking price, and barely touch the sides. You might not even notice the stamp duty of £50m or so. Maybe flash cars are your thing. A 1954 Mercedes W196 sold in 2014 for a then-record $29.6m, before it was pipped to the chequered flag by a vintage Ferrari 250 Read more [...]

The house where Bruce Springsteen wrote Born to Run The property in Long Branch, New Jersey – which is new on the market – is a Boss-sized bargain. For just $299,000 (£193,000) – slightly more than surrounding properties – you can own the two-bedroom abode in which the great American rocker wrote the entire Born to Run album. The asking price does not include suicide machines, but gives prospective buyers a rare opportunity to sweat it out on the actual street of a runaway American dream. The Read more [...]

PLANS to bring an historic pin factory site in Leeds back to life have taken a huge step forward. Construction firm Carillion has signed a contract to transform a 1.17 hectare site at Tower Works in Holbeck Urban Village.The site at Leeds’s South Bank will be transformed into 90,000sq ft of office space, 24,000sq ft of retail, restaurant and bar space and a mix of apartments and town houses. It is part of a larger Tower Works development masterplan, which is estimated to Read more [...]

Image copyright Historic England From windswept lighthouses to crumbling mausoleums - with some fierce-looking stone dinosaurs in the mix too - Historic England has published its 2015 list of structures it considers in need of a helping hand. The Heritage at Risk Register is an annual snapshot - and Read more [...]

A pub, a lighthouse, a former poison gas factory and a 1960s concrete church are among the sites that have been added to the national register of historic sites that are at risk. The Historic England register covers houses, places of worship, shipwrecks, parks and gardens, archaeological sites and battlefields. One of the most unusual sites at risk is the national filling factory, hidden in shrubbery close to the M40 motorway near Banbury in Oxfordshire. It was originally built to fill shells with Read more [...]

Restoring Britain's Landmarks is a new six-part series on Channel 4 (Wednesdays at 8pm) that follows The Landmark Trust's restorations of a number of historically important but semi-derelict buildings, including the historic Welsh house, Llwyn Celyn. The second episode of the series, to be aired on Wednesday (October 21), features this ancient medieval hall house and the charity's attempts to save it. Situated in the Black Mountains region of the Brecon Beacons, this Grade I listed building is Read more [...]