The Manor Elstree, historically known as Edgwarebury House, is a Tudor-style country house and hotel on Barnet Lane in Elstree, Hertfordshire. Its timbered exterior, formal rooms, and landscaped grounds have made it a long-running screen location, especially for British productions needing a country house, hotel, or upper-class residence close to Elstree and Borehamwood studios.
The Manor Elstree has appeared in productions including School for Scoundrels (1960), The Devil Rides Out (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Stardust (1974), Hot Fuzz (2007), and a range of British television series such as The Avengers (1967–1969), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969), The Protectors (1972), The Professionals (1978), and Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1984).
In School for Scoundrels (1960), The Manor Elstree is used for the tennis club scenes. Its grounds and country-house setting fit the film’s upper-class social world and help establish the environment in which Ian Carmichael’s character is humiliated before turning the tables on Terry-Thomas.
In The Devil Rides Out (1968), The Manor Elstree is used as one of the film’s principal country-house locations. The house and grounds suit the film’s occult storyline particularly well, giving it the kind of isolated English mansion setting needed for its satanic rituals and confrontations.
In A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Manor Elstree is used for material connected to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander. The location is seen in the sequence in which Alex is taken inside and later tortured with Beethoven, making the house part of one of the film’s most disturbing passages.
In Stardust (1974), The Manor Elstree appears in the garden-party sequence. The house and its grounds are used as part of the film’s music-industry world, giving the scene a polished country-house setting.
In Hot Fuzz (2007), The Manor Elstree is used for interior scenes at the Swan Hotel. The check-in desk and dining-room material were filmed here, with the building standing in for part of the Sandford hotel setting.
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
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