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| A Rosamond Pilcher novel was filmed here in the summer of 1998 by a German company. It was called “THE RED DRESS”. Some of the story revolved around a gentleman in a wheelchair and we had to build special ramps for the steps in the Italian Gardens. The house stayed open during the filming but we had to redirect some of the visitors and put up notices imploring “Complete silence please, filming taking place.” |
| We often get asked if the TV series 'NANCHERROW' was filmed at Pencarrow. It was in fact filmed at 5,000 acre Wrotham Park near Barnet in Hertfordshire. And the on-screen struggles of Loveday, played by Katie Ryder-Richardson, to guard her inheritance for future generations are mirrored in the real-life efforts of owner Robert Byng and the owners of many other historic homes, like Pencarrow, across Britain. Mr Byng was handed the 18 bedroom Wrotham Park by his father Julian, a tax barrister, in 1991. Three years later he left his City job in insurance to look after the estate full time. "Nancherrow" was filmed over five weeks in 1998. |
| In 2000 an American company shot some sequences here for a programme on their Learning Channel, called 'Hunt for Amazing Treasures'. It told how a hitherto unknown manuscript by Beethoven was found among the papers at Pencarrow. This manuscript was sold at Sotheby’s in London to raise money for essential roof repairs. |
| In 2001 the BBC borrowed several items for ‘Going for a Song’; among these were a large papier-mache box containing a lovely collection of shells, which is in the Nursery, and also a pair of Minton ‘flower-seller’ candlesticks from the Boudoir. |
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