Kentwell Hall Filming, Photo Shoot, Location at Kentwell Hall | Historic House & Gardens

Other major filming has included the acclaimed BBC serial of The Woman in White which Kentwell provided a stunning 14 locations. These included Hamstead Heath, a Belgravia mansion and a Somerset solicitor's office among other places as well as the principal house of the series. The BBC decorated several rooms in the house for filming and their choice of wallpaper for Billiard Room and Library survives.

The next major film was Terry Jones's The Wind in the Willows and this had everything: the House covered in 'snow' in the hottest August in memory, a new front porch, the Courtyard Maze lost beneath a fountain (and gravel); a terrible thunderstorm with lightening and torrential rain; and an early aircraft flying the Hall.

Kentwell has more often been used anaonymously in recent years when 'doubling' for other locations, such as the Tower of London, Greenwich Palace, Raglan Castle and many lesser places. Film-makers value Kentwell for this as Kentwell is seldom recognized in all its guises and they can return again and again to use the same rooms for different purposes (often in the same film).

Kentwell is an unspoilt location. Little post 16th C intrudes. No TV aerials, telegraph poles, traffic (the nearest main road about a mile away), few aircraft overhead. It has rooms of several periods with its early rooms of 1500 to 1550 particularly useful. No electricty or later intrusions blight them.

Kentwell also has a vast collection of early artefacts so that these rooms can always be correctly dressed for an early period. Kentwell also has Gardens and Grounds offering great potential for just about any period from medieval onwards. It offers unmade up lengthy roads and tracks with no modern contradictions visible.