Drayton House
| Drayton House | |
| Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
 Drayton House | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP96297998 |
| Location: | 52°24’34"N, 0°35’9"W |
| Village: | Lowick |
| History | |
| Built 1328 | |
| By: | William Talman |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Stopford Sackville family |
| Website: | draytonestate.com |
Drayton House is a country house of many periods, a mile south-west of Lowick in Northamptonshire.
The house is a Grade I listed building.[1]
The house is described as Northamptonshire's most impressive mediæval mansion by Nikolaus Pevsner,[2] and as "one of the best-kept secrets of the English country house world" by architectural historian Gervase Jackson-Stops,[3] and (affectionately) "a most venerable heap of ugliness, with many curious bits" by Horace Walpole.[4]
The house is generally held to have been begun in 1328.[5] There have been changes to the house in each century since, including works recorded by John Webb,[1][6], Isaac Rowe, William Talman, Jean Tijou, Tilleman Bobart, Henry Wise, Gerard Lanscroon, John Van Nost, William Rhodes, Alexander Roos, George Devey and John Alfred Gotch.[1] It sits in a park of about 200 acres known as Drayton Park.
The has passed only by inheritance since it was last sold in 1361,[7] although this was itself an arrangement within extended family who had been there for nearly 300 years already. The estate is currently owned by the Stopford Sackville family and has been open by prior written appointment.
In popular culture
The house and gardens were used as the titular Saltburn estate in Emerald Fennell's 2023 film of the same name.[8]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 National Heritage List 1040293: Drayton House (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1961; 1973 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3page 46
- ↑ Jackson-Stops, Gervase (January 1991). Drayton House Revisited. London: Condé Nast. 60. https://archive.architecturaldigest.com/article/1991/1/drayton-house-revisited.
- ↑ Jackson-Stops, Gervase (January 1991). Drayton House Revisited. London: Condé Nast. 61. https://archive.architecturaldigest.com/article/1991/1/drayton-house-revisited.
- ↑ Heward, John; Taylor, Robert (1996). The Country Houses of Northamptonshire. Swindon: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. p. 175. ISBN 978-1873592212.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1001031: Drayton House (Register of Historic Parks and Gardens)
- ↑ Jackson-Stops, Gervase (January 1991). Drayton House Revisited. London: Condé Nast. 64. https://archive.architecturaldigest.com/article/1991/1/drayton-house-revisited.
- ↑ "Saltburn at Drayton House - filming location" (in en-US). https://www.sceen-it.com/sceen/7298/Saltburn/Drayton-House.
