They may not feature above the title, but many National Trust houses and gardens have ‘starred’ in the movies and on TV.
This is just a selection of our finest players. Visit them all to see where some of your favourites were made, and then try National Trust star-spotting next time you are at the cinema or in front of the box.
Basildon Park, Berkshire
Basildon Park took a starring role in the 2005 production of 'Pride & Prejudice', as the location for Darcy and Elizabeth’s first meeting at ‘Netherfield’. The house is also the setting for the film’s sumptuous ballroom scenes.
Belton House, Lincolnshire
Belton starred as Rosings, the home of Lady Catherine de Burgh in the celebrated 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’.
The house also featured in the 1997 TV version of ‘Tom Jones’, where it played Lord Connaught’s house.
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
Johnny Depp takes a bath in the Brewhouse in the ‘The Libertine’, a film about the 17th-century John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. A whole street of the East End of London was also constructed here, complete with live pigs.
Claydon House, Buckinghamshire
The ballroom scene in the 1996 film of Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, was filmed here.
Claydon also played the Bad Pumpernickel Hotel in the 1998 BBC adaptation of ‘Vanity Fair’, starring Natasha Little and Nathaniel Parker.
A humorous party scene was filmed at Claydon for 'Piccadilly Jim' in 2004, starring Sam Rockwell and Alison Janney. The film is a Julian Fellows adaptation of a PG Wodehouse story.
Cliveden, Buckinghamshire
This most glamorous and starry of houses has featured in many films and TV, including:
'Carrington' (1995) starring Emma Thompson, Jonathon Pryce, Rufus Sewell and Samuel West.
'Carry on Don’t Lose Your Head' (1966), starring Sid James and the Carry On team.
'Chaplin' (1992) starring Robert Downey Junior.
'Thunderbirds' (2003), where the hotel was Lady Penelope’s house and saw her pink car fly off the driveway.
'An Unsuitable Job for a Woman' (1997), a TV adaptation of the PD James novel starring Helen Baxendale and Annette Crosbie.
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Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire
The exterior of Dyrham featured in the 1993 Merchant Ivory film ‘Remains of the Day’, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
The ‘downstairs’ areas of the house were used to film the 2002 TV series ‘Servants’, with Joe Absolom and Orla Brady.
Dyrham also appeared in the 1999 BBC adaptation of Mrs Gaskell's ‘Wives and Daughters’.
Lyme Park, Cheshire
Lyme is the celebrated location for Mr Darcy’s famous dip in the lake in the BBC adaptation of ‘Pride and Prejudice’, and playing the exterior of his house, Pemberley.
Lyme has also appeared in the ITV adaptation of ‘The Forsyte Saga’, where it played the part of Old Jolyon’s house.
Ham House, Richmond, Surrey
Ham House has the dubious honour of having appeared in ‘Spiceworld, the Movie’.
More recently, it appeared in the BBC TV series ‘Cambridge Spies’ (2002) and the film ‘Cromwell and Fairfax’ (2002), starring Tim Roth and Dougray Scott, where the gardens played the part of an encampment.
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Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire
Lacock’s most famous role is as the Hogwarts School classrooms in ‘Harry Potter, the Movie’, but has also featured in:
'The Moonraker' (1958). A youthful George Baker starred in this costume drama, in his pre-Inspector Wexford days.
'The Grass is Greener' (1960), with Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons and Cary Grant.
'The Mayor or Casterbridge' (2000) with Liam Neeson.
Montacute House, Somerset
Montacute played the part of Cleveland, home of the Palmer family, in the 1995 film adaptation of Jane Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’ with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet.
The house also appeared in the 2000 TV version of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’.
And it appears with Johnny Depp in the film ‘The Libertine’.
Osterley Park, Middlesex
Osterley was in the 1997 film ‘Mrs Brown’, with Judi Dench and Bill Connolly.
Also, perhaps uniquely, the house played another National Trust property, Blickling Hall, in an episode of the BBC’s ‘I’m Still Alan Partridge’.
Stowe Landscape Garden, Buckinghamshire
Stowe was the setting for a funeral scene in the James Bond film, ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’, with Pierce Brosnan, Jonathon Pryce and Teri Hatcher.
It also appeared in the 1998 BBC TV version of ‘Vanity Fair’, playing the role of several London parks.
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