Famous houses in films and TV
76 historic houses that Wikidata records as a filming location (P915) of a film or TV production.
Quick answers
- Which famous houses have been used in films?
- 76 houses on this map are recorded in Wikidata as filming locations of 139 films and TV productions. The most-used is Palace of Versailles (9 productions).
- Which house is Downton Abbey?
- Alnwick Castle, Highclere Castle, Byfleet Manor (Wikidata filming location of Downton Abbey).
All 76 houses and their productions
- Palace of Versailles Versailles
Lady Oscar (1979); Marie Antoinette (2006); Molière (2007); Midnight in Paris (2011); The King's Daughter (2022); Jeanne du Barry (2023); Cat's Eyes; Versailles; Emily in Paris - Hatfield House Hatfield
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984); Batman (1989); Sleepy Hollow (1999); V for Vendetta (2005); Get Him to the Greek (2010); The King's Speech (2010); The Favourite (2018) - Ashridge Buckinghamshire
Birthday Girl (2001); The Descent (2005); Under the Greenwood Tree (2006); The Legend of Tarzan (2016); Harry Potter - Blenheim Palace Blenheim
Barry Lyndon (1975); Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984); Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015); Spectre (2015) - Hampton Court Palace London
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011); Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011); The Theory of Everything (2014); Cinderella (2015) - Château de Champs-sur-Marne Champs-sur-Marne
The President (1961); Dangerous Liaisons (1988); The Last Mitterrand (2004); Versailles - Burghley House St Martin's Without
Pride & Prejudice (2005); D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers (2005); The Da Vinci Code (2006); Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) - Villa Balbianello Tremezzina
A Month by the Lake (1995); Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002); Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005); Casino Royale (2006) - Hôtel Matignon Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin
The President (1961); Is Paris Burning? (1966); De Gaulle, l’éclat et le secret (2020) - Nymphenburg Palace Neuhausen-Nymphenburg
Ein Todesengel (1979); Lohmanns innerer Frieden (1983); Derricks toter Freund (1995) - Playboy Mansion Los Angeles
Madame X (1966); Beverly Hills Cop II (1987); The House Bunny (2008) - Badminton House Badminton
The Remains of the Day (1993); Pearl Harbor (2001); Seven Dials Mystery - Alnwick Castle England
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971); Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001); Downton Abbey - Waddesdon Manor Waddesdon
Our Kind of Traitor (2016); The Infiltrator (2016); The Crown - Château de Ferrières Pontcarré
Papy fait de la résistance (1983); The Ninth Gate (1999); Ma première fois (2012) - Casa Loma Toronto
X-Men (2000); X2 (2003); Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) - Knebworth House Knebworth
Batman (1989); The King's Speech (2010); Paddington 2 (2017) - Drottningholm Palace Ekerö
Release the Prisoners to Spring (1975); Gustavianska tiden (2016) - Munich Residence Munich
Der Mann aus Antibes (1985); Das Abschiedsgeschenk (1998) - Castle Howard Henderskelfe
Barry Lyndon (1975); Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) - Lacock Abbey Lacock
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018); Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light - Bamburgh Castle Bamburgh
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971); Macbeth (2015) - Belvoir Castle Belvoir
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980); The Da Vinci Code (2006) - Highclere Castle Highclere
The Missionary (1982); Downton Abbey - Berkeley Castle Berkeley
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light; Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light - Syon House London
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016); Cranford - Englefield House Englefield
Taken at the Flood (2006); The King's Speech (2010) - Corsham Court Corsham
Barry Lyndon (1975); The Remains of the Day (1993) - Byfleet Manor Byfleet
After the Funeral (2005); Downton Abbey - Windsor Castle Windsor and Maidenhead
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965) - Élysée Palace 8th arrondissement of Paris
De Gaulle, l’éclat et le secret (2020) - 10 Downing Street London
Casino Royale (1967) - Ostend Arrondissement of Ostend
Blinker en de blixvaten (2008) - Buda Castle Budapest District I
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) - Stockholm Palace Stockholm
SOPOR (1981) - Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures (2023) - Villa Tugendhat Brno-sever
The Glass Room (2019) - Würzburg Residence Würzburg
The Three Musketeers (2011) - Trump World Tower Manhattan
The Celebrity Apprentice - New Palace Brandenburger Vorstadt
Barry Lyndon (1975) - Hever Castle Hever
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) - Academy Palace Brussels
The Solitude of Power (2012) - Lido di Ostia Rome
I Vitelloni (1953) - Harewood House Harewood
King Charles III (2017) - Olana State Historic Site Greenport
Alice in Wonderland (1976) - Longleat Horningsham
Barry Lyndon (1975) - Harley Street London
The King's Speech (2010) - Powderham Castle Powderham
The Remains of the Day (1993) - Petworth House Petworth
Barry Lyndon (1975) - Villers Abbey Villers-la-Ville
Sense8 - Knole House Sevenoaks
Burke & Hare (2010) - Lindisfarne Castle Holy Island
Cul-de-sac (1966) - Kedleston Hall Kedleston
The Legend of Tarzan (2016) - Schloss Bullachberg Schwangau
The Snow Paradise (2001) - Audley End House Saffron Walden
Woman of Straw (1964) - Boughton House Weekley
Les Misérables (2012) - Montacute House Montacute
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light - Shirburn Castle Shirburn
Third Girl (2008) - Welbeck Abbey Welbeck
Bronson (2008) - Tredegar House Coedkernew
Rogue (2024) - Broughton Castle Broughton
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light - West Wycombe Park House West Wycombe
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) - Eastnor Castle Eastnor
I Spit on Your Rave (2009) - Basildon Park Basildon
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) - West Horsley Place West Horsley
Ghosts - Barrington Court Barrington
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light - Cringletie Eddleston
Den ofrivillige golfaren (1991) - Parham House Parham
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) - Weald and Downland Living Museum Singleton
Tudor Monastery Farm - Chillington Hall Brewood and Coven
Murder Before Evensong - Layer Marney Tower Layer Marney
The Canterbury Tales (1972) - Stanford Hall Stanford on Soar
Bronson (2008) - Chastleton House Chastleton
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light - Gibson House Museum Boston
Little Women (2019) - Cothay Manor Stawley
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light - Dudmaston Hall Quatt Malvern
Murder Before Evensong
Filming locations from Wikidata (CC0); only items that Wikidata types as a film or TV production. Wikidata is incomplete, so many productions are missing.
Top houses
Windsor CastleElizabeth II · Windsor and Maidenhead
Palace of VersaillesLouis XIV of France · Versailles
Blenheim PalaceWinston Churchill · Blenheim
Élysée PalaceCharles de Gaulle · 8th arrondissement of Paris
10 Downing StreetDavid Cameron · London
Hôtel MatignonJacques Chirac · Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin
OstendJames Ensor · Arrondissement of Ostend
Buda CastleFranz Joseph I of Austria · Budapest District I
Drottningholm PalaceQueen Silvia of Sweden · Ekerö
Stockholm PalaceCharles XIV John of Sweden · Stockholm
Nymphenburg PalaceFranz, Duke of Bavaria · Neuhausen-Nymphenburg
Great YarmouthJohn Fastolf · Great Yarmouth
Playboy MansionHugh Hefner · Los Angeles
Villa TugendhatErnst Tugendhat · Brno-sever
Hampton Court PalaceLondon
Würzburg ResidenceFrederick Charles of Schönborn · Würzburg
Trump World TowerDerek Jeter · Manhattan
New PalaceSophia of Prussia · Brandenburger Vorstadt
Hever CastleThomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire · Hever
Château de Champs-sur-MarneMadame de Pompadour · Champs-sur-Marne
Munich ResidenceMaximilian von Montgelas · Munich
Hatfield HouseRobert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury · Hatfield
Burghley HouseWilliam Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley · St Martin's Without
Castle HowardGeorge Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle · HenderskelfeMore houses
- Academy Palace William II of the Netherlands · Brussels
- Lacock Abbey William Henry Fox Talbot · Lacock
- Lido di Ostia Frank Chamizo · Rome
- Badminton House Princess Alexandra, Lady Ogilvy · Badminton
- Harewood House George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood · Harewood
- Bamburgh Castle Bamburgh
- Olana State Historic Site Frederic Edwin Church · Greenport
- Alnwick Castle England
- Waddesdon Manor James Armand de Rothschild · Waddesdon
- Château de Ferrières Guy de Rothschild · Pontcarré
- Longleat John Thynne · Horningsham
- Belvoir Castle Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland · Belvoir
- Harley Street Campbell Dixon · London
- Powderham Castle A. J. Langer · Powderham
- Casa Loma Toronto
- Highclere Castle Highclere
- Villa Balbianello Giuseppe Arconati Visconti, 6th Marquess of Busto Garolfo · Tremezzina
- Petworth House Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland · Petworth
- Villers Abbey Arnulf of Leuven · Villers-la-Ville
- Knole House Sevenoaks
- Lindisfarne Castle Holy Island
- Knebworth House Cameron Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold · Knebworth
- Berkeley Castle Berkeley
- Syon House London
- Kedleston Hall Kedleston
- Schloss Bullachberg Prince Luitpold of Bavaria · Schwangau
- Audley End House Saffron Walden
- Boughton House John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu · Weekley
- Montacute House Montacute
- Shirburn Castle George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield · Shirburn
- Ashridge John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater · Buckinghamshire
- Welbeck Abbey William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland · Welbeck
- Englefield House Richard Benyon, Baron Benyon · Englefield
- Tredegar House Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar · Coedkernew
- Broughton Castle Broughton
- West Wycombe Park House West Wycombe
- Eastnor Castle Eastnor
- Basildon Park Basildon
- West Horsley Place John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners · West Horsley
- Barrington Court Barrington
- Corsham Court Corsham
- Cringletie James Wolfe-Murray · Eddleston
- Parham House Parham
- Weald and Downland Living Museum Singleton
- Chillington Hall Brewood and Coven
- Byfleet Manor Byfleet
- Layer Marney Tower Layer Marney
- Stanford Hall Julien Cahn · Stanford on Soar
- Chastleton House Chastleton
- Gibson House Museum Boston
- Cothay Manor Stawley
- Dudmaston Hall Quatt Malvern