Journal
Features on the houses and collections you can visit, and on the curious scheme that keeps them open.
A few streets from Marble Arch, an ordinary-looking townhouse holds watercolours and Old Masters of national importance — and you can knock and be let in.
The register is wildly uneven across the country. What the geography of conditional exemption tells us about land, dynasties and tax.
In association with Irving Scott
Many entries on this register are working family homes. Irving Scott places house managers, butlers, estate managers and private chefs for distinguished families — discreetly, since 2013.