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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Hannah Jane Parkinson

The real Saltburn – and 10 more scene-stealing stately homes from films

Saltburn, actually Drayton House, a baroque mansion is shown against a blue sky. In the foreground teenagers lounge on the grass next to a lake.
A blissful summer at Saltburn? … Drayton House. Photograph: AP

It’s been mooted as “the most divisive film of the year”, with keen discussion among cinema-goers before they’ve even emerged from screening rooms. But one thing we can all agree on about Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn is its true star (OK, aside from Rosamund Pike): Saltburn itself.

The Catton family seat is fictional. But it exists in real life in the form of Drayton House in Northamptonshire, the Grade-I listed, 127-room pile belonging to the Stopford Sackville family (since the 1770s).

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