Lights, camera, action!

Renting your house out for filming can be fun, occasionally alarming, a good revenue stream and might even increase its value, finds Annabel Dixon

Annunciata Elwes

COULD your property secure a starring role in an advert, television production or even on the silver screen? Opening your home to photoshoots and filming could provide a handy fillip to your income, not to mention some interesting tales to tell. Jacobean Mapperton in Dorset, voted the ‘nation’s finest manor house’ by COUNTRY LIFE back in 2006, has featured in blockbusters including Rebecca (2020), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Emma (1996) and Restoration (1995), as well as television shows and photoshoots. ‘We’ve always welcomed film and television productions to Mapperton,’ explains Luke Montagu, 12th Earl of Sandwich. ‘This is partly because I used to work in film (I co-founded the MetFilm School in Ealing Studios), but also because the income is incredibly useful for fixing one of our many…

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Country Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 26, 2025

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