mansion in the countryside. The more ostentatious you could make it, the bigger the status symbol. Country houses are associated with huge landscape gardens.

"Country House" is a song by British band Blur and is featured on their fourth studio album, The Great Escape. It was released on 14 August, 1995, as the lead single from that album (see 1995 in British music). "Country House" was the first of Blur's singles to reach #1 in the UK Singles Chart (a feat only achieved once more by the band, with "Beetlebum").