Bennett's house (Pride and Prejudice 1995) up for sale

[Tiddlywinkly]

I wasn't sure if this is the right place, but I was a huge fan of the series.

Just posting if anyone else was interested
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146991281?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1guDuDQonu6t9aTtE46S-PjcUUfq_FS9AX4ZNE2AcToAW3D_OzMUpFEVM_aem_AUvPLvea5yDF22EuH9MvBfTIDw37dtY5OGYpuHmIsZ6fqv0rimuPxRbhIa0HBr5hlS6GQDOPvBfa3grJYU8LSeoH#/&channel=RES_BUY

Amazing. 20 acres. Stables. As well as rental cottages. Quite a lot for the money!

No sign of Mr Collins I hope.

It's stunning, but the mortgage repayment of £26k a month is a little beyond my means.

It has a Flower Room AND a Loggia, I'm in! Where's that lottery ticket...

Having had to google loggia and parterre I fear I am more suited to the servants' quarters

I think the cottage rentals would cover the upkeep (though not a new roof - wonder when that was last done?)

God, it's not often I feel actual envy but this is...

Isn't it amazing that the Bennets apparently lived in a place as fancy as this, and yet they were looked down upon as not grand enough (and not suitable marriage material), by people like Lady Catherine, Caroline Bingley, even initially Mr Darcy and his cousin (Colonel Fitzwilliam?). Caroline B and her sister were desperate to stop their brother marrying Jane, even though they appeared to be friendly with her.

Meanwhile, of course, most of the population were scraping by living in tiny cottages. Or starving to death of course. What a society!

That house is gorgeous.

Oh I’d snap it up in a heartbeat. If I had the dosh - even with the west facing windows. Unfortunately I don’t!

And some brilliant comments.

Well, the Bingleys were nouveau riches, and their money was from trade, so the women were anxious to bed themselves into UC society (though it’s never entirely clear to me why rich, aristocratic, status-conscious Darcy, who stands very much on his own dignity, is such good friends with Bingley, who is far below him in status…?). The Bennets have only a life interest in Longbourn, and are just getting by — the same horses pull the family carriage as are used on the farm, and the girls will have only tiny incomes after their father’s death. Plus Mr B married down…

It's heavenly, imagine living somewhere so beautiful and with so many rooms and different views to choose from.

Since reading Longbourn I'm confident I could not have endured the life of a servant. Up at the crack of dawn emptying chamber pots, cleaning women's menstrual rags, slog, slog, slogging away.

No thanks.

I'd have set off to London and sought a career as an 'actress'. (and within 6 months ended up as a cautionary tale against a dissolute lifestyle)

Yes I think you're right @Burnfort, though how they all seem to be know the ins and outs of each other's incomes and family circumstances beats me! Just how it was I suppose. @

I would just bloody love a viewing. That would do for me! I love how cosy and warm it looks, so far from the cold austere house it appeared to be in the series. That series is almost 30 years old, and there has never been anything better on telly since. I absolutely adore the thing 😍

And also I do wonder if the makers of the TV shows and films quietly upgrade the houses that the characters live in, just to look impressive on screen.

Wasn't Pemberley filmed at Chatsworth House, or did I get that wrong? Would Mr Darcy's house really have been as grand as that? After all, Mr Darcy and his father were not titled, but the real owner of Chatsworth has always been the Duke of Devonshire, I think.

I'm now wondering if you could put the sheep from the neighbouring farm on the lawn to save on groundsman's wages.

And this is why I achieve nothing.

I think Chatsworth played the exterior of Pemberley in the 2005 version. Lyme Park played it in 1995.

Yes it's been up for sale on and off for ages.

I'll buy it if they can guarantee Mr Bennett and friends are moving in to Netherfield

I suppose it will do for the sort of person who has to buy his own house.

@DriftingDora - “was there no ends to this woman’s talents?”
Well you say that, but she couldn’t play the pianoforte, could she? Even extremely poorly… 😂

Love this.

What a charming drawing room. It puts me in mind of one of the small summer breakfast rooms at Rosings.

I wonder why it isn't selling, it keeps being put on the market but no sale history listed on Rightmove.

😍🤑 I love it. Love a Georgian pile, me. Sadly, the budget doesn't stretch 😭

In the 1995 P&P Belton house in Lincolnshire was Rosings. I can’t remember if it was for all the rooms or just some of them. The Rosings gardens were belton also. Not sure if it’s belton grounds when Mr Darcy delivers Elizabeth the letter. I’ll have to rewatch!

I would have bought it, but the lack of energy certificate has put me right off

still hoping for that lottery win! It’s lovely

Hmmm, expensive , but I could probably buy it for cash after selling my studio in zone 1.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/film-tv/jane-austen-film-and-tv-locations

hoping not a derail!