The Grade II* listed Luckington Court at Luckington in Wiltshire, best known as the Bennet’s house from the 1995 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, is on the market for the first time in 70 years, through Strutt & Parker with a guide price of £9 million.
House and Garden writes:
Luckington Court was the Bennet family home in the BBC’s 1995 cult adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. It is a truth universally acknowledged that there’s nothing quite like a honey-coloured manor house in the Cotswolds. Fans of the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice from 1995 will recognise this particularly lovely example as the Bennet family’s Regency home, Longbourn.
The recently renovated seven-bedroom manor sits in 156 acres of rolling countryside, with springs running down to the River Avon. Sadly the lake doesn’t come with a dishevelled Mr Darcy, but here he is finally declaring his love for our heroine. The scene for Pemberley, the Darcy family home, was of course grander than Luckington Court for the sake of the story. Jane Austen described Pemberley as, ‘a large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills’. For that more imposing house Lyme Park in Cheshire was chosen as the backdrop.
