TV & Film

Hopetoun House is the ideal setting for a variety of TV and film locations.

Hopetoun offers a wealth of outdoor and indoor film location options providing everything from sumptuous period rooms to dark cobbled lanes.

The House has a variety of interiors including grand State Apartments with ornate ceilings and period furniture, an oak panelled Parlour with French doors opening onto expansive lawns and fountain, a sweeping staircase with murals and cupola, and a grand ballroom whose entrance hall features tiger mounts. Alternatively there are rooms awaiting renovation that would be suitable for shots requiring less grand or ghostly surroundings.

Externally there are two impressive facades to the building. The imposing Adam façade facing East, and the more intimate Bruce façade facing West. There are over 150 acres of mature parkland with extensive lawned areas, a deer park, woodland, panoramic vistas over the Firth of Forth and the Forth bridges, semi-derelict out buildings and cobbled courtyards and lanes.

Hopetoun is really two houses in one and the marked differences in style between the original Bruce House and the later Adam additions can still be appreciated today. The older, more sedate Bruce House has the look and feel of a comfortable, country house while the Adam House has an altogether more sophisticated feel with the influences of grand European palaces such as Versailles in France very much evidence. Since its completion in the mid 18th century the House has remained substantially unaltered.

Summary of Location Choices

Exterior

Interior

Facilities

Parking for up to 1000 cars
External power available on request
Full catering facilities on site
Rooms for wardrobe and make-up (mirrors, irons/boards and rails not supplied)
External water supply for facilities vehicles and catering
Full office facilities available
Attentive and film friendly, experienced staff

Hopetoun House has had considerable experience in providing a wide range of locations for more than 20 years and the film friendly staff have vast experience in working with and assisting film and television. With the variety that Hopetoun House offers on one site, it is a must for any Location Manager to consider for their next production, whether that be commercials, TV or feature films.

Recent Television and Film productions filmed at Hopetoun are:

‘Shoebox Zoo’
BBC Scotland
October 2003

‘Scotland’s Empire’
Wark Clements and Company Ltd
August 2003

‘Bargain Hunt’
BBC London
May 2003

‘Chopin Piano Recitals’
BBC Wales
April 2003

‘Restoration’
Endemol UK Productions for BBC 2
April 2003

‘The Readers and Writers Roadshow’
Lion TV Scotland
August 2002

‘Great Heroes’
Wark Clements and Company Ltd for Channel 5
March 2002

‘The Mole’
Iddtv Dutch TV
September 2000

‘One Foot in the Past’: Kirsty Wark
BBC London
April 1999

‘Flying through History’
Channel 4
August 1998

‘Watercolour Challenge’
Planet Wild, Liverpool for Channel 4
August 1998

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