The beautiful countryside house was featured in the wildly popular BBC adaptation with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle
Luckington Court in the Cotswolds was used as Longbourn in the BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice(Image credit: Woolley & Wallis)
Luckington Court in Wiltshire starred as the Bennet family home in the BBC's 1995 TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice featuring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle and is now for sale for £5million.
The Grade II listed building features eight bedrooms and seven bathrooms and was built using local Cotswold stone. It is set in the southern Cotswolds village of Luckington on the Gloucester-Wiltshire county border.
According to local historians, Luckington Court was the site of a manor owned by King Harold II before he was killed in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings.
A rich history dating back to the 1500s
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The home's gardens were used extensively throughout the series(Image credit: Woolley & Wallis)
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(Image credit: Woolley & Wallis)
Luckington Court was first extended and remodelled in the 16th Century or earlier by the Fitzherbert family, who purchased it in 1632 and continued to own until the early 1800s. There were further additions including the service wing to the north in 1921.
It was bought by Lieutenant Colonel Trevor Horn, the first director and course designer of the famous Badminton Horse Trials, in 1947.
There are five cottages, a 17th-century dovecote and traditional farm buildings that include a 19th-century stable block. The gardens, fields and woodlands cover almost 19 acres.
Lt-Col Horn’s daughter returned to Luckington Court in 2003 and since then, has conducted a ‘compassionate programme’ of improvement and modernisation across the whole Estate.
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The house has two sitting rooms, as well as a drawing room. The room pictured above is actually just a hallway(Image credit: Woolley & Wallis)
Luckington Court has two kitchens - one for summer and one for the rest of the year - plus a scullery (Image credit: Woolley & Wallis)
The drawing room with a large open fireplace(Image credit: Woolley & Wallis)
Used as the Bennet family home, inside and out
In 1995, Luckington Court was used in exterior and interior scenes as Longbourn, the Bennet family home, in the BBC’s TV series Pride and Prejudice, which starred Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
Jane Austen fans still tour the site and thrill to the beautiful gardens surrounding the estate, which include a rose garden with a lead dolphin fountain, fruit trees, and a wild flower meadow – and were the backdrop for much of the leads’ verbal sparring.
Nearby Luckington Parish Church set the scene for the televised wedding of Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley, and Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, which was watched by between 10 and 11 million British people in October 1995.
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The home is located near Luckington in the Cotswolds(Image credit: Woolley & Wallis)
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(Image credit: Woolley & Wallis)
(Image credit: Woolley & Wallis)
Pride and Prejudice production designer Gerry Scott, who found the property while out scouting for locations, told Austenprose: “Longbourn can’t be too grand – it mustn’t threaten the social levels we were hoping to establish. It also needed to sit in its own grounds and be from the correct period.
“Even before I knocked on the door I knew I’d found it."
The iconic scene featuring Colin Firth as Mr Darcy emerging dripping wet from a lake was sadly filmed elsewhere.
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The bedroom features a mint green and pink paint scheme on historical panelling(Image credit: Woolley & Wallis)
The main bathroom with freestanding bath and corner shower. The main home has nine bathrooms in total(Image credit: Woolley & Wallis)
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Tall sash windows, a dovecot and the widest tree
There are also five cottages, four of which are let on assured shorthold tenancies (AST’s) with modern interiors. Most have their own enclosed private garden.
The listing on Rightmove reads: “This exemplary English country dwelling house, with its elegant well-proportioned rooms, good ceiling heights, and tall sash windows, provides not only a wonderful home and place to live but also a profitable estate, with expanded farming, residential and commercial income streams.”
The extensive lawns approaching Luckington Court are dominated by a 400 year old Lebanese Cedar, which has one of the largest girths ever recorded in the UK.
The grounds also include the Stable Block, a range of Cotswold stone buildings with ‘huge potential for redevelopment’, subject to planning, a 17th Century dovecote, and a riding school.
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