Siege of Saltburn! Owner of hit movie’s stately residence calls in safety

It is the imposing stately residence that hosts among the most surprising and debauched moments of the hit movie Saltburn.

Now 700-year-old Drayton House has been hit by a special type of unhealthy behaviour – hordes of film followers trespassing on the grounds to take selfies or shoot movies for his or her social media accounts.

The property’s real-life aristocratic proprietor, Charles Stopford Sackville, has expressed regrets to The Mail on Sunday about letting the cameras into his Grade I-listed nation pile – and divulges that he’s needed to lay on safety patrols to maintain tabs on the undesirable guests.

‘I never envisaged the amount of interest there would be. It’s fairly bizarre,’ he mentioned. ‘I don’t take it as flattering. 

Fans of the Saltburn movie on Amazon Prime pose outdoors Drayton House to get selfies

Each weekend brings a whole bunch extra sightseers to the property close to the village of Lowick in Northamptonshire. Barry Keoghan pictured in Saltburn. 

‘How would you’re feeling if folks have been taking photos outdoors your own home? I’d desire the curiosity to blow over however I can’t make it blow over.’

Each weekend brings a whole bunch extra sightseers to the property close to the village of Lowick in Northamptonshire. 

Many movie themselves dancing in entrance of the home to Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Murder On The Dancefloor in tribute to the film scene through which Barry Keoghan’s character Oliver frolics bare across the mansion.

Fans have shared instructions of how one can get to the ‘real Saltburn house’ and how one can entry a public footpath that runs by means of the center of the property. 

One TikTok video detailing the trail’s exact location has 400,000 views.

Mr Stopford Sackville, 63, mentioned employees had been patrolling the property after ‘more than 50’ trespassers strayed off the trail. 

‘Most people are fairly good, but some get a bit inquisitive, let’s say,’ he lamented.

Mr Stopford Sackville can be pals with the mother and father of Saltburn director Emerald Fennell (pictured)

One TikTok video detailing the trail’s exact location has 400,000 views. Pictured, a screengrab from a TikTok video

He admitted the beneficiant price he obtained from the movie’s producers had ‘100 per cent’ swayed his determination in permitting his 127-room mansion for use, including: ‘These houses don’t run on water.’

He can be pals with the mother and father of Saltburn director Emerald Fennell, 38, who mentioned she needed to movie at a property which had by no means been seen on display earlier than. 

As a part of the deal to permit taking pictures, no member of the manufacturing crew was allowed to say the actual location in interviews, however followers have been fast to smell it out, significantly after Saltburn was launched on Amazon Prime Video in December.

Mr Stopford Sackville – who made his fortune in monetary knowledge – inherited the property from his late father Lionel a decade in the past however has resisted any urge to open the property to the general public other than the occasional open day. 

Ms Fennell mentioned she selected Drayton House as ‘a place as unreal as Saltburn had to feel real’ and that such a mansion was a ‘rich and Gothic place to tell a story’.

Saltburn follows Oxford brisker Oliver as he turns into obsessive about aristocratic fellow scholar Felix Catton, performed by Jacob Elordi, who invitations him to spend the summer time at his household’s nation pile. 

The darkish comedy drama has each delighted and disgusted viewers for its graphic intercourse scenes, debauchery and specific nudity.

‘There were bits that I liked and bits that I wouldn’t essentially have put in myself,’ Mr Stopford Sackville mentioned. ‘But it’s not my movie, it’s Emerald’s movie.’