Journal
Notes from the register
Features on the houses and collections you can visit, and on the curious scheme that keeps them open.
The Ford Collection: Old Masters behind a Marylebone front door
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.
Where the treasures are: reading the map of exempt Britain
The register is wildly uneven across the country. What the geography of conditional exemption tells us about land, dynasties and tax.